List of crime films before 1930
A list of crime films released in the before 1930.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Genre/Notes |
| 1902 |
| Bluebeard | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès, Jeanne d'Alcy |  | Short film |
| 1912 |
| The Musketeers of Pig Alley | D.W. Griffith | Alfred Paget, Walter Miller, Jack Pickford |  | Short film |
| 1913 |
| Fantômas | Louis Feuillade | René Navarre, Edmond Breon, Georges Melchior, Renee Carl | | Film serial |
| 1915 |
| Les Vampires | Louis Feuillade | Jean Aymé, Marcel Lévesque, Musidora, Stacia Napierkowska | | Film serial |
| 1920 |
| The Penalty | Wallace Worsley | Ethel Grey Terry, Milton Ross, Lon Chaney | | Crime drama |
| 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 |
| White Tiger | Priscilla Dean | | | |
| 1925 |
| Bulldog Drummond's Third Round | | | | |
| The Pleasure Garden | Alfred Hitchcock | Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty | | |
| 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 |
| Lights of New York | Bryan Foy | Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Gladys Brockwell | | |
| The Racket | Lewis Milestone | Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim | | Crime drama, Gangster film |
| 1929 |
| Alibi | Roland West | Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch | | |
| 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 |
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