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This is a list of crime films released before 1930.
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Genre/Notes
|
| 1895
|
| The Arrest of a Pickpocket |
Birt Acres |
|
United Kingdom |
Short film
|
| 1900
|
| Sherlock Holmes Baffled |
Arthur Marvin |
|
United States |
Short film
|
| 1902
|
| Bluebeard |
Georges Méliès |
Georges Méliès, Jeanne d'Alcy |
France |
Short film
|
| 1912
|
| The Musketeers of Pig Alley |
D.W. Griffith |
Alfred Paget, Walter Miller, Jack Pickford |
United States |
Short film
|
| 1913
|
| Fantômas |
Louis Feuillade |
René Navarre, Edmond Breon, Georges Melchior, Renee Carl |
France |
Film serial
|
| Traffic in Souls |
George Loane Tucker |
Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner |
United States |
Crime drama[1]
|
| 1915
|
| Les Vampires |
Louis Feuillade |
Jean Aymé, Marcel Lévesque, Musidora, Stacia Napierkowska |
France |
Film serial
|
| Regeneration |
Raoul Walsh |
Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, James A. Marcus, Carl Harbaugh |
United States |
Crime drama
|
| 1920
|
| The Penalty |
Wallace Worsley |
Ethel Grey Terry, Milton Ross, Lon Chaney |
United States |
Crime drama
|
| 1922
|
| Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler |
Fritz Lang |
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel |
Germany |
Master criminal film
|
| 1923
|
| Bulldog Drummond |
Oscar Apfel |
Carlyle Blackwell, Evelyn Greeley |
United Kingdom |
|
| The Street |
Karl Grune |
Aud Egede-Nissen |
Germany |
Crime drama
|
| White Tiger |
Priscilla Dean |
|
United States |
|
| 1925
|
| Bulldog Drummond's Third Round |
|
|
United Kingdom |
|
| The Pleasure Garden |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty |
United Kingdom |
|
| 1927
|
| Chicago |
Frank Urson |
Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Bradford |
United States |
|
| The Return of Boston Blackie |
Harry Hoyt |
|
United States |
|
| Underworld |
Josef von Sternberg |
George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent |
United States |
Crime drama, Gangster film
|
| 1928
|
| The Big City |
Tod Browning |
Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Betty Compson |
United States |
|
| The Dragnet |
Josef von Sternberg, Helen Lewis |
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell |
United States |
Crime drama
|
| Ladies of the Mob |
William Wellman |
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Helen Lynch, Carl Gerard |
United States |
Crime drama
|
| Lights of New York |
Bryan Foy |
Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Gladys Brockwell |
United States |
|
| Me, Gangster |
Raoul Walsh |
Don Terry, June Collyer, Anders Randolf |
United States |
|
| The Racket |
Lewis Milestone |
Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim |
United States |
Crime drama, Gangster film
|
| 1929
|
| Alibi |
Roland West |
Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch |
United States |
|
| The Last Warning |
Paul Leni |
Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Mack Swain, Roy D'Arcy |
United States |
|
| Thunderbolt |
Josef von Sternberg, William Wyler |
George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen |
United States |
Crime drama, Prison film
|
