The best Robert Ryan’s crime movies

Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

11/11/1909- 11/07/1973
Today we present the best Robert Ryan’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Robert Ryan’s movies.
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The Set-Up

The Set-Up
7.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/03/1949
  • Character: Stoker
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

The Outfit

The Outfit
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/10/1973
  • Character: Mailer
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

The Racket

The Racket
6.7/10
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.

Crossfire

Crossfire
7.3/10
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground
7.2/10
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow
7.4/10
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Executive Action

Executive Action
6.7/10
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

Golden Gloves

Golden Gloves
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/08/1940
  • Character: Pete Wells
An amateur boxer's (Richard Denning) girlfriend (Jean Cagney) inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.

Inferno

Inferno
7/10
When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two of them are really lovers who are leaving Carson to die in the heat. Slowly, Carson realizes he is on his own and vows revenge on the traitorous couple. Having had a privileged life, Carson must now use his wits to stay alive.

House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/07/1955
  • Character: Sandy Dawson
Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

Beware, My Lovely

Beware, My Lovely
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/08/1952
  • Character: Howard Wilton
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.

Alaska Seas

Alaska Seas
6/10
A crooked salmon fisherman (Robert Ryan) tries to steal his best friend's (Brian Keith) fiancee (Jan Sterling) and put him out of business.

And Hope to Die

And Hope to Die
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/09/1972
  • Character: Charley
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

Queen of the Mob

Queen of the Mob
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/06/1940
  • Character: Jim
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die

A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
6.3/10
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.

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