# List of crime films of the 1940s

This is a list of crime films released in the 1940s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes |
| 1940 |||||
| The Bank Dick | Edward F. Cline | W. C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel | United States | Crime comedy |
| The Fatal Hour | William Nigh | Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds | United States | |
| The House Across the Bay | Archie Mayo | George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan | United States | |
| 1941 |||||
| High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy | United States | |
| Invisible Ghost | Joseph H. Lewis | Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young, John McGuire | United States | |
| 1942 |||||
| Gang Busters | Noel Smith, Ray Taylor | Robert Armstrong, Joseph Crehan | United States | Film serial |
| Larceny, Inc. | Lloyd Bacon | Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford | United States | |
| Moontide | Fritz Lang, Archie Mayo | Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell | United States | Crime drama |
| This Gun for Hire | Frank Tuttle | Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar | United States | |
| 1943 |||||
| The Chance of a Lifetime | William Castle | Chester Morris, Erik Rolf, Jeanne Bates | United States | |
| G-Men vs The Black Dragon | William Witney | Hooper Atchley, Harry Burns, Rod Cameron | United States | |
| It Happened at the Inn | Jacques Becker | Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy | France | Crime drama |
| Ossessione | Luchino Visconti | Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Juan de Landa | Italy | Crime drama |
| 1944 |||||
| Bluebeard | Edgar G. Ulmer | John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther | United States | |
| Delinquent Daughters | Albert Herman | Fifi D'Orsay, Teala Loring, Mary Bovard | United States | |
| Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson | United States | |
| The Woman in the Window | Fritz Lang | Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey | United States | Crime drama |
| 1945 |||||
| Crime, Inc. | Lew Landers | Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Martha Tilton | United States | |
| Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake | United States | |
| Federal Operator 99 | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Yakima Canutt, Wallace A. Grissell | | United States | |
| Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz | Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott | United States | Crime drama |
| Pillow of Death | Wallace W. Fox | Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, Clara Blandick | United States | |
| Scarlet Street | Fritz Lang | Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea | United States | |
| 1946 |||||
| The Blue Dahlia | George Marshall | Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix | United States | Crime thriller |
| Copie conforme | Jean Dréville | Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Annette Poivre | France | Crime comedy |
| The Dark Mirror | Robert Siodmak | Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell | United States | Crime thriller |
| Just Before Dawn | William Castle | Charles Arnt, Robert Barrat | United States | |
| The Killers | Robert Siodmak | Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien | United States | |
| Panic (Panique) | Julien Duvivier | Michel Simon, Viviane Romance, Paul Bernard | France | Crime drama |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway | United States | |
| 1947 |||||
| Boomerang | Elia Kazan | Dana Andrews, E.J. Ballantine, Jane Wyatt | United States | Crime drama |
| Born to Kill | Robert Wise | Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak | United States | |
| Brute Force | Jules Dassin | Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford | United States | Prison film |
| The Devil Thumbs a Ride | Felix E. Feist | Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie | United States | |
| Kiss of Death | Henry Hathaway | Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Long Night | Anatole Litvak | Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price | United States | Crime drama |
| Monsieur Verdoux | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Ada-May, Marjorie Bennett | United States | Crime comedy |
| Nightmare Alley | Edmund Goulding | Tyrone Power, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell | United States | Crime drama |
| Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas | United States | |
| Quai des Orfèvres | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair | France | Crime drama |
| Ride the Pink Horse | Robert Montgomery | Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Rita Conde | United States | |
| T-Men | Anthony Mann | Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Charles McGraw | United States | |
| They Won't Believe Me | Irving Pichel | Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Rita Johnson | United States | |
| The Web | Michael Gordon | Vincent Price, Ella Raines, Edmond O'Brien | United States | |
| 1948 |||||
| Au-delà des grilles | René Clément | Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi | France Italy | Crime drama |
| Brass Monkey | Thornton Freeland | Avril Angers. Henry Edwards, Carroll Levis | United Kingdom | |
| Cry of the City | Robert Siodmak | Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark | United States | |
| Dedee d'Anvers | Yves Allégret | Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero, Bernard Blier | France | Crime drama |
| Drunken Angel | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Reizaburo Yamamoto | Japan | Crime drama |
| Force of Evil | Abraham Polonsky | John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor | United States | Crime drama |
| He Walked by Night | Alfred L. Werker | Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts | United States | Crime thriller |
| Hollow Triumph | Steve Sekely | Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz | United States | |
| Key Largo | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Monte Blue | United States | |
| Noose | Edmond T. Gréville | Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, Derek Farr | United Kingdom | |
| Raw Deal | Anthony Mann | Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt | United States | |
| Road House | Jean Negulesco | Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde | United States | Crime drama |
| The Naked City | Jules Dassin | Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart | United States | Crime drama |
| 1949 |||||
| The Bribe | Robert Z. Leonard | Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton | United States | |
| Criss Cross | Robert Siodmak | Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea | United States | |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | Robert Hamer | Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson | United Kingdom | |
| The Devil's Henchman | Seymour Friedman | Warner Baxter, Al Bridge, Ken Christy | United States | |
| Entre onze heures et minuit | Henri Decoin | Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Robinson, Monique Melinand | France | |
| The File on Thelma Jordon | Robert Siodmak | Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly | United States | |
| Johnny Stool Pigeon | William Castle | Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea | United States | |
| Port of New York | Laslo Benedek | Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens | United States | |
| The Reckless Moment | Max Ophüls | James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks | United States | Crime drama |
| Red Light | Roy Del Ruth | George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr | United States | |
| They Live by Night | Nicholas Ray | Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva | United States | Crime drama |
| Too Late for Tears | Byron Haskin | Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea | United States | |
| Under Capricorn | Alfred Hitchcock | Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding | United Kingdom | Crime drama |
| Une si jolie petite plage | Yves Allégret | Gérard Philipe, Madeleine Robinson, Jean Servais | France | Crime drama |
| White Heat | Raoul Walsh | James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien | United States | |