Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson

December 12, 1893

Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-born American actor and political activist. Although he played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar (1931). R…

Known For

39 titles
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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

1944 · 1h 47m · Movie

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

8.3
2
The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

1956 · 3h 40m · Movie

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

7.9
3
Soylent Green

Soylent Green

1973 · 1h 37m · Movie

A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.

7.0
4
Key Largo

Key Largo

1948 · 1h 40m · Movie

A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.

7.7
5
The Stranger

The Stranger

1946 · 1h 35m · Movie

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.

7.3
6
Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

1945 · 1h 42m · Movie

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

7.7
7
The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

1944 · 1h 47m · Movie

A reserved professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder.

7.6
8
The Cincinnati Kid

The Cincinnati Kid

1965 · 1h 42m · Movie

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

7.2
9
Little Caesar

Little Caesar

1931 · 1h 19m · Movie

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

7.2
10
Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold

1969 · 2h 8m · Movie

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

6.7
11
Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · 2h 34m · Movie

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

6.7
12
Robin and the 7 Hoods

Robin and the 7 Hoods

1964 · 2h 3m · Movie

In Prohibition-era Chicago, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.

6.4
13
The Prize

The Prize

1963 · 2h 14m · Movie

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

6.8
14
The Red House

The Red House

1947 · 1h 40m · Movie

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

6.7
15
The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf

1941 · 1h 40m · Movie

After being fished out of the sea by a sailing ship, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore, and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.

7.5
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Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots

1936 · 1h 22m · Movie

When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.

7.0
17
The Violent Men

The Violent Men

1955 · 1h 36m · Movie

A bitter land dispute causes a Civil War veteran to take extreme action.

6.9
18
The Whole Town's Talking

The Whole Town's Talking

1935 · 1h 33m · Movie

A meek milquetoast clerk is mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.

7.3
19
A Hole in the Head

A Hole in the Head

1959 · 2h 0m · Movie

Widower Tony is trying to keep a small Miami hotel afloat while raising a 12-year-old son. He's forced to ask his harried brother Mario for help, but he'll only bail Tony out if he quits his bohemian lifestyle and marries a sensib...

6.2
20
A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder

1938 · 1h 25m · Movie

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

7.0
21
Illegal

Illegal

1955 · 1h 28m · Movie

After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.

7.0
22
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

1945 · 1h 45m · Movie

A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.

7.6
23
Smart Money

Smart Money

1931 · 1h 21m · Movie

A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.

6.8
24
Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

6.7
25
Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

1948 · 1h 21m · Movie

After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.

7.0
26
Seven Thieves

Seven Thieves

1960 · 1h 42m · Movie

A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.

6.5
27
Manpower

Manpower

1941 · 1h 44m · Movie

Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.

6.6
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Grand Slam

Grand Slam

1967 · 2h 1m · Movie

To pull off a daring diamond heist in Rio during Carnival, a retired schoolteacher hires four professionals who must contend with a revolutionary alarm system and a taciturn secretary.

6.8
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A Bullet for Joey

A Bullet for Joey

1955 · 1h 25m · Movie

In Montreal, a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to abduct a nuclear physicist, with American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress all involved.

6.0
30
Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy

1943 · 1h 34m · Movie

An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.

6.9
31
Nightmare

Nightmare

1956 · 1h 29m · Movie

A New Orleans musician has a nightmare about killing a man in a strange house but he suspects that it really happened.

6.4
32
Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday

1954 · 1h 20m · Movie

Gangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair.

6.7
33
Never a Dull Moment

Never a Dull Moment

1968 · 1h 39m · Movie

Actor Jack Albany, who plays gangsters on TV, is mistaken for notorious hit-man Ace, and is hired by mob boss Leo Smooth to pull a heist, but Jack must find a way out of it.

6.1
34
Vice Squad

Vice Squad

1953 · 1h 28m · Movie

Police procedural film following a few cases assigned to LAPD captain of detectives Barnie Barnaby.

6.6
35
The Man with Two Faces

The Man with Two Faces

1934 · 1h 12m · Movie

A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.

6.4
36
Silver Dollar

Silver Dollar

1932 · 1h 23m · Movie

Yeats and Sarah Martin are barely getting by running a grocery store in a Colorado boom town.

6.3