피 묻은 손을 애정으로 씻어다오 (1948)

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.

1947년 영국의 한 휴양도시 브라이튼을 배경으로 실제 갱단 두목의 이야 기를 그린 (브라이튼 룩)은 차가운 시선을 가진 갱스터영화의 고전이다. 특히 롤러코스터에서의 끔찍한 살인을 아무런 주관적인 감정을 넣지 않고그려내, 묘한 서스펜스를 느끼게 해준다. 그렇지만 더욱 놀라운 것은 이 두목이 어른이 아닌 어린 나이의 청소년이라는 점이다. 우리에게 (간디)로 익숙한 리처드 아텐보로는 양심이라고는 찾아 볼 수 없는 냉혈한 캐릭터의 어린 갱두목 핑키 역을 훌륭하게 소화해내 주목을 끌었다.데일리 메신서의 대표 키버는 카드를 숨겨두고 이것을 찾는 자에게 상금 을 주겠다고 말한다. 어린 갱 두목 핑키는 놀이 동산에서 카드를 가지고 있던 프레드를 무자비하게 살해한다. 그리고 이 카드를 스파이서에게 숨겨두라고 명령한다.

A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.

John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

IRA 지도자였던 조니(Johnny McQueen: 제임스 메이슨 분)는 감옥을 탈출한 뒤 동료들과 함께 지하 조직의 운영자금을 벌기 위해 북아일랜드, 벌패스트에 있는 어느 공장의 금전 출납부를 털 계획을 세운다. 그러나 동료들과 함께 공장의 금전 출납부를 털고 나오던 중, 조니는 뒤쫓아온 사람에게 붙잡히고 만다. 그와 몸싸움을 벌이던 중 총기오발로 그 사람을 살해하고 자신도 왼쪽 어깨에 심한 부상을 입은 조니는 혼자서 도망가게 된다. 그때부터 조니는 심한 불안감에 시달린다. 조니는 자신을 팔아넘기려는 사람과 자신을 도우려는 많은 사람들을 만나게 된다. 한편 조니의 연인이었던 캐드린(Kathleen: 캐서린 라이안 분)은 사방팔방으로 조니를 찾아 헤매고 경찰은 그런 캐드린의 뒤를 집요하게 추적한다. 여러 곳을 헤매다니던 조니는 정신이상증세를 보이는 미친 화가에게 붙잡히게 되고, 화가는 조니에게 자신이 그림을 완성할 때까지 포즈를 취해 줄 것을 강요한다. 그러나 정작 부두에서 그들을 기다리는 것은 죽음, 조니와 함께 죽음을 결심한 캐드린은 경찰이 다가오는 것을 보고 준비해 놓은 권총을 꺼내 경찰을 향해 발포한다. 조니가 대항한다고 생각한 경찰은 조니와 캐드린을 향해 무차별 사격을 가하고 하얗게 눈이 내리던 그날 밤, 조니와 캐드린은 목숨을 잃고 마는데...

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.

A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.

Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol (Elizabeth Sellars), is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.

When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.

An orphan wrecks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.