The best Sylvia Sidney’s crime movies

Sylvia Sidney

Sylvia Sidney

09/08/1910- 01/07/1999
Today we present the best Sylvia Sidney’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 Sylvia Sidney’s movies.
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Dead End

Dead End
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/08/1937
  • Character: Drina Gordon
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

Fury

Fury
7.8/10
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

God Told Me To

God Told Me To
6.2/10
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."

Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1955
  • Character: Elsie Braden
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1937
  • Character: Joan Graham
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Copkiller

Copkiller
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 15/03/1983
  • Character: Margaret Smith
A New York policeman imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment

An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy
6.4/10
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

City Streets

City Streets
7/10
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

Behind the High Wall

Behind the High Wall
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/07/1956
  • Character: Hilda Carmichael
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.

You and Me

You and Me
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1938
  • Character: Helen Dennis
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Pick Up

Pick Up
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/03/1933
  • Character: Mary Richards
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.

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