title: List of crime films before 1930
text: # List of crime films before 1930
  
  This is a list of crime films released in the before 1930.
  
  | Title | Director | Cast | Country | Genre/Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1895 |||||
  | The Arrest of a Pickpocket | Birt Acres | | United Kingdom | Short film |
  | 1900 |||||
  | Sherlock Holmes Baffled | Arthur Marvin | | United States | Short film |
  | 1902 |||||
  | Bluebeard | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès, Jeanne d'Alcy | France | Short film |
  | 1912 |||||
  | The Musketeers of Pig Alley | D.W. Griffith | Alfred Paget, Walter Miller, Jack Pickford | United States | Short film |
  | 1913 |||||
  | Fantômas | Louis Feuillade | René Navarre, Edmond Breon, Georges Melchior, Renee Carl | France | Film serial |
  | Traffic in Souls | George Loane Tucker | Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner | United States | Crime drama |
  | 1915 |||||
  | Les Vampires | Louis Feuillade | Jean Aymé, Marcel Lévesque, Musidora, Stacia Napierkowska | France | Film serial |
  | Regeneration | Raoul Walsh | Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, James A. Marcus, Carl Harbaugh | United States | Crime drama |
  | 1920 |||||
  | The Penalty | Wallace Worsley | Ethel Grey Terry, Milton Ross, Lon Chaney | United States | Crime drama |
  | 1922 |||||
  | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | Fritz Lang | Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel | Germany | Master criminal film |
  | 1923 |||||
  | Bulldog Drummond | Oscar Apfel | Carlyle Blackwell, Evelyn Greeley | United Kingdom | |
  | The Street | Karl Grune | Aud Egede-Nissen | Germany | Crime drama |
  | White Tiger | Priscilla Dean | | United States | |
  | 1925 |||||
  | Bulldog Drummond's Third Round | | | United Kingdom | |
  | The Pleasure Garden | Alfred Hitchcock | Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty | United Kingdom | |
  | 1927 |||||
  | Chicago | Frank Urson | Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Bradford | United States | |
  | The Return of Boston Blackie | Harry Hoyt | | United States | |
  | Underworld | Josef von Sternberg | George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent | United States | Crime drama, Gangster film |
  | 1928 |||||
  | The Big City | Tod Browning | Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Betty Compson | United States | |
  | The Dragnet | Josef von Sternberg, Helen Lewis | George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell | United States | Crime drama |
  | Ladies of the Mob | William Wellman | Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Helen Lynch, Carl Gerard | United States | Crime drama |
  | Lights of New York | Bryan Foy | Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Gladys Brockwell | United States | |
  | Me, Gangster | Raoul Walsh | Don Terry, June Collyer, Anders Randolf | United States | |
  | The Racket | Lewis Milestone | Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim | United States | Crime drama, Gangster film |
  | 1929 |||||
  | Alibi | Roland West | Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch | United States | |
  | The Last Warning | Paul Leni | Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Mack Swain, Roy D'Arcy | United States | |
  | Thunderbolt | Josef von Sternberg, William Wyler | George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen | United States | Crime drama, Prison film |
  