Thriller, Crime
A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Nightmare Alley
Mystery Street
Sudden Fear
A Man Escaped
Murder by Contract
D.O.A.
Night and the City
Johnny O'Clock
Thunder Road
Over-Exposed
Out of the Fog
Walk a Crooked Mile
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Buried
The Poppy Girl's Husband
Chase a Crooked Shadow
The Big Combo
La Chienne
Conflict
Nobody Lives Forever
SIMILAR MOVIES
Nightmare Alley
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 1947
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.Mystery Street
IMDB 6.7 | Jun , 1950
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.Sudden Fear
IMDB 7.2 | Aug , 1952
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?A Man Escaped
IMDB 7.9 | Nov , 1956
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.Murder by Contract
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 1958
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.D.O.A.
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1949
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.Night and the City
IMDB 7.5 | Jun , 1950
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.Johnny O'Clock
IMDB 6.3 | Jan , 1947
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.Thunder Road
IMDB 6 | May , 1958
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.Over-Exposed
IMDB 5.1 | Apr , 1956
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.Out of the Fog
IMDB 6.3 | Jun , 1941
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.Walk a Crooked Mile
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1948
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?Night Has a Thousand Eyes
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 1948
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.Buried
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2010
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.The Poppy Girl's Husband
IMDB 1 | Mar , 1919
A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and married the man who sent him to prison. Worse yet, she fears he will want to exact revenge, so she sets up her new husband to frame her first husband, so he will be sent back to prison!Chase a Crooked Shadow
IMDB 7 | Jan , 1958
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.The Big Combo
IMDB 7 | Feb , 1955
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.La Chienne
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 1931
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.Conflict
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 1945
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.Nobody Lives Forever
IMDB 6.3 | Nov , 1946
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.