Murderers' Row (1966)

Bataan (1943)

Summary: In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.

Release Date: April 15, 1944

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Tay Garnett

Writers: Robert Hardy Andrews

, Garrett Fort

, Dudley Nichols

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 958,000

Back to Bataan (1945)

Summary: In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.

Release Date: May 31, 1945

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Writers: Ben Barzman

, Richard H. Landau

, Æneas MacKenzie

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, Turner Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,490,000

The Valachi Papers (1972)

Summary: Gangster Joe Valachi is a marked man in the same joint where mob boss Don Vito Genovese is imprisoned and he's forced to co-operate with the DA in exchange for protection.

Release Date: December 07, 1972

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Terence Young

Writers: Stephen Geller

, Peter Maas

, Massimo De Rita

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Euro-France Films

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Mill Creek Entertainment, Twilight Time

Countries: Italy, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Good Guys Wear Black (1978)

Summary: An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.

Genre: Action

Director: Ted Post

Writers: Bruce Cohn

, Mark Medoff

, Joseph Fraley

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Mar Vista Productions, Action 1 Film Partners, Western Film Productions, MarVista Entertainment

Distributor: Cinedigm Entertainment Group, HBO Video, Kino Lorber, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Vestron Video, Video Treasures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

An Eye for an Eye (1981)

Summary: A SFPD undercover narcotics cop aims to avenge his partner's death and destroy a drug-smuggling ring operated by the Chinese Triads.

Release Date: August 14, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Steve Carver

Writers: James Bruner

, William Gray

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Adams Apple Film Company, Major Studio Partners, South Street Films

Distributor: Embassy Home Entertainment, New Line Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, TBS

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,800,000

Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

Summary: The story of a large U.S. Marines invasion task force bound for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942.

Release Date: October 27, 1943

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Lewis Seiler

Writers: Richard Tregaskis

, Lamar Trotti

, Jerome Cady

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Slaughter (1972)

Summary: Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Release Date: September 12, 1974

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Jack Starrett

Writers: Mark Hanna

, Don Williams

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: American International Pictures (AIP), Slaughter Productions

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP), CBS/Fox Video, Orion Home Video, MGM Domestic Television Distribution, MGM Home Entertainment, TGG Direct, Olive Films

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Little Caesar (1931)

Summary: A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.

Release Date: January 25, 1931

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Writers: W.R. Burnett

, Francis Edward Faragoh

, Robert N. Lee

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: First National Pictures

Distributor: Warner Bros., Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Dominant Pictures Corporation, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Summary: A German plot to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.

Release Date: December 25, 1976

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Director: John Sturges

Writers: Tom Mankiewicz

, Jack Higgins

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Associated General Films, ITC Entertainment

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), CBS/Fox, Live Home Video, Artisan Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Magnetic Video, Shout! Factory

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Summary: During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Release Date: October 22, 1967

Genres: Action, Adventure, War

Director: Robert Aldrich

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, Lukas Heller

, E.M. Nathanson

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MKH, MKH, Seven Arts Productions

Distributor: CBS, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Creative Design, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,400,000

Brute Force (1947)

Summary: At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Jules Dassin

Writers: Richard Brooks

, Robert Patterson

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Mark Hellinger Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Distributors Corporation of America (DCA), Screen Gems, The Roan Group, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Kino Video

Country: United States

Language: English

The Avengers (1998)

Summary: Two British Agents team up to stop Sir August de Wynter from destroying the world with a weather-changing machine.

Release Date: August 14, 1998

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik

Writers: Sydney Newman

, Don MacPherson

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Jerry Weintraub Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Image Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 23,384,939

High Sierra (1940)

Summary: After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

Release Date: February 17, 1941

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: John Huston

, W.R. Burnett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Key Video, CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 455,000

Dick Tracy (1990)

Summary: The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Release Date: June 15, 1990

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Warren Beatty

Writers: Chester Gould

, Jim Cash

, Jack Epps Jr.

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV, Mulholland Productions, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Buena Vista Home Video, Showtime Networks, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Home Box Office (HBO), HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 47,000,000

Domestic: $ 103,738,726

International: $ 59,000,000

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Summary: A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Release Date: April 28, 1961

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Writers: Alistair MacLean

, Carl Foreman

Runtime: 2 h 38 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Highroad Productions

Distributor: CBS, Columbia TriStar Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Television, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television International, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Last Man Standing (1996)

Summary: A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

Release Date: September 20, 1996

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Walter Hill

Writers: Ryûzô Kikushima

, Akira Kurosawa

, Walter Hill

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema, Lone Wolf

Distributor: New Line Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 67,000,000

Domestic: $ 18,115,927

International: $ 29,151,074