Best Crime movies of 1960

Actors : Tony Louis, Marilyn O'Connor, Jeanne Baird, Doug Wilson,
Directors : Charles Davis,

In this obscure B potboiler, a longtime criminal returns to his native Los Angeles, determined to avenge his brother's murder.

Actors : Debra Paget, Bert Freed, Juli Reding, Terry Moore,
Directors : Roy Del Ruth,

Debra Paget commits a murder for which Terry Moore (as club singer Lois King) is arrested, tried, and condemned to die. The story line wanders through the trial and Miss King's final hours ...

Actors : David McCallum, Jill Ireland, Brian Weske, Kenneth Cope,
Directors : Charles Saunders,

Terry Collins mugs an old man, who subsequently dies. Joe Lucas finds out about it and blackmails him, threatening to turn him in to the police if he doesn't give him money. Terry then ...

Actors : Barry Newman, John Ericson, Joan Harvey, Roy Fant,
Directors : Herbert J. Leder,

Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been ...

Actors : Dorothy Dandridge, Edmund Purdom, Michael Hordern, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Laslo Benedek,

A jewel thief pulls off a big heist, stabs his partner in crime in the back, dumps his girlfriend and goes on the run with the loot. The ex-partner and the girlfriend team up to go after him.

Actors : Micheline Presle, Martha Hyer, Wolfgang Preiss, Carlos Thompson,

Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military ...

Actors : Olga San Juan, Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London,
Directors : Hubert Cornfield,

Marion Forbes is the secretary, the lover and the creator of the financial fortunes of Harry Chapman, but Chapman falls in love with Francis and decides to marry her. The revenge of Marion ...

Actors : Raymond Burr, Ken Scott, Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer,
Directors : William F. Claxton,

Lonnie Wilson, the son of a toothless sharecropper, Zuba Wilson, returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an ...

Actors : Achala Sachdev, Rajendra Kumar, Ulhas, Mala Sinha,

Rajan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Basantpur along with his mom; dad, Dindayal; a semi-senile paternal uncle, Bholey; and a widowed paternal aunt. During his childhood, while lighting ...

Actors : Elsa Prawitz, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Birgitta Pettersson, Nils Asther,
Directors : Arne Mattsson,

Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the ...

Actors : John Wilder, James Brown, Robert Karnes, Walter Coy,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Matt Wade escapes from prison and tries to persuade his brother Bill, a reformed gunslinger, to participate in a hold-up. Billy refuses but Matt frames him and he is forced to ride off with...

Actors : Peter Cushing, Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen,

UK scientists find a cure for plague but their government, fearing its military-biological potential, keeps the discovery secret until a scientist is duped into giving it to a foreign power.

Actors : Robert Lansing, Kathy Carlyle, Douglas Rodgers, Felice Orlandi,
Directors : Gene Milford,

A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss' daughter.

Actors : Grant Richards, Russ Conway, Nico Minardos, Barbara Eden,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Based on the Saturday Evening Post serial "Set Up For Murder" by Richard Stern, 12 Hours to Kill traces the problems of a young Greek national (Nico Minardos) who, after ogling a murder, is...

Actors : Felicity Young, Spencer Teakle, Dorinda Stevens, Martin Benson,
Directors : Charles Saunders,

On his first burglary, a locksmith finds himself on the run after his accomplice is run down by another band of thugs after the haul. Realising that his girlfriend has double-crossed him ...

Actors : Richard Chamberlain, Jeff Richards, Peter Falk, Margia Dean,
Directors : William Witney,

After Robert Christopher and his ship mysteriously disappear in the Caribbean, his two brothers -- Mark and Dean -- travel to St. Kitts to begin their own investigation.

Actors : José Canalejas, Javier Armet, Ana Castor, Lina Canalejas,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Two girl detectives known as "Labios Rojos" ("Red Lips") outwit both criminals and a bumbling police inspector.

Actors : Claude Titre, Hénia Suchar, Louisa Colpeyn, Régine André,
Directors : Max Pécas,

A young artist ,an occasional gigolo ,marries an older woman for her dough;however, he has not broken with his younger lover.

Actors : Ferdy Mayne, Miriam Karlin, George Murcell, Anthony Oliver,
Directors : Gerry Anderson,

PC Don Ross suspects that a gang of lorry hijackers, operating from a transport café, is behind a series of vehicle thefts. When his suspicions are dismissed by his superiors, Ross decides ...

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Mako Sanjô, Yôko Mihara, Shigeru Amachi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women.