| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Genre/Notes |
| 1920 |
| The Penalty |
Wallace Worsley |
Ethel Grey Terry, Milton Ross, Lon Chaney |
 |
Crime drama |
| 1921 |
| 1922 |
| Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler |
Fritz Lang |
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel |
 |
Master criminal film |
| 1923 |
| Bulldog Drummond |
Oscar Apfel |
Carlyle Blackwell, Evelyn Greeley |
 |
|
| The Street |
Karl Grune |
Aud Egede Nissen |
|
Crime drama |
| 1924 |
| 1925 |
| Bulldog Drummond's Third Round |
|
|
|
|
| The Pleasure Garden |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty |
|
|
| 1926 |
| 1927 |
| Chicago |
Frank Urson |
Phyllis Haver, [[Victor Varconi], Eugene Pallette, Virginia Bradford |
|
|
| The Return of Boston Blackie |
Harry Hoyt |
|
|
|
| Underworld |
Josef von Sternberg |
George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent |
|
Crime drama, Gangster film |
| 1928 |
| The Big City |
Tod Browning |
Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Betty Compson |
|
|
| The Dragnet |
Josef von Sternberg, Helen Lewis |
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell |
|
Crime drama |
| Ladies of the Mob |
William Wellman |
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Helen Lynch, Carl Gerard |
|
Crime drama |
| The Racket |
Lewis Milestone |
Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim |
|
Crime drama, Gangster film |
| 1929 |
| The Last Warning |
Paul Leni |
Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Mack Swain, Roy D'Arcy |
|
|
| Thunderbolt |
Josef von Sternberg, William Wyler |
George Bancroft, Fay Wray, [[Richard Arlen] |
|
Crime drama, Prison film |
