A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.
The Set-Up
1949
7.4/10
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
7.5/10
Force of Evil
1950
6.6/10
Nightmare Alley
1947
7.2/10
Plunder Road
1957
7.0/10
Nightfall
1956
6.9/10
The Sting
1973
8.0/10
5 Against the House
1955
5.9/10
His Kind of Woman
1951
6.8/10
The Big Combo
1955
7.0/10
Ocean's Eleven
1960
6.4/10
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
7.0/10
They Live by Night
1949
6.8/10
Johnny O'Clock
1947
6.3/10
Cry of the City
1948
6.7/10
Family Plot
1976
6.8/10
Ocean's Thirteen
2007
6.7/10
The Good Thief
2003
6.1/10
Dick Tracy
1990
6.2/10
Hollow Triumph
1948
6.6/10
Black Gravel
1961
7.1/10
