| The Public Defender (1931) | Richard Dix | Pike Winslow | leading man, vigilante, suspect | [none] |
| Rockabye (1932) | Constance Bennett | Judy Carroll | leading lady, actress, suspect | [none] |
| Ladies of the Jury (1932) | Jill Esmond | Mrs. Yvette Gordon | leading lady, suspect, chorus girl | [none] |
| Men of America (1932) | William Boyd | Jim Parker | leading man, suspect, farmer | [none] |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Robert Armstrong | Barry Costello | lawyer, murderer, suspect | [none] |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Mae Clarke | Gwen Parker | leading lady, suspect | [none] |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Donald Cook | Philip Seymour | love interest, suspect | [none] |
| Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Clarence Wilson | Bertrand B. Hemingway | suspect | [none] |
| State’s Attorney (1932) | Mary Duncan | Nora Dean | suspect | [none] |
| The Roadhouse Murder (1932) | Eric Linden | Chick Brian | leading man, reporter, suspect | [none] |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Ann Harding | Vergie Winters | leading lady, love interest, suspect, victim | Lullaby |
| Dangerous Corner (1934) | Virginia Bruce | Ann Peel | suspect, friend | [none] |
| Dangerous Corner (1934) | Conrad Nagel | Robert Chatfield | suspect, friend | [none] |
| Dangerous Corner (1934) | Melvyn Douglas | Charles Stanton | suspect, friend, thief | [none] |
| Dangerous Corner (1934) | Erin O'Brien-Moore | Freda Chatfield | suspect, friend | [none] |
| Dangerous Corner (1934) | Betty Furness | Betty | suspect, friend | [none] |
| Dangerous Corner (1934) | Henry Wadsworth | Gordon | suspect, friend | [none] |
| Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | John Beal | Jerry Hutchins | love interest, suspect | [none] |
| The Informer (1935) | Donald Meek | Peter Mulligan | suspect | Peter Mulligan |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | William Powell | Clay 'Dal' Dalzell | leading man, sleuth, suspect, lawyer | [none] |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | Paul Kelly | Jimmy Kinland | criminal, suspect | [none] |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | Gene Lockhart | Horatio Swayne | butler, suspect | [none] |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | Ralph Morgan | Roger Classon | murderer, suspect | [none] |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | Leslie Fenton | Tim Winthrop | suspect | [none] |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | Vivien Oakland | Jerry Classon | suspect | [none] |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | John Garfield | Johnnie | leading man, boxer, victim, suspect, fugitive | The Fugitive, On the Make |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | John Garfield | Joe Bell | leading man, suspect, convict, husband | Dust Be My Destiny |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | James Cagney | Frank Ross | leading man, reporter, prisoner, suspect | Frank |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Paul Muni | Dr. David Newcome | leading man, father, doctor, suspect, victim | Surprise Symphony, Celebre Romance |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Jane Bryan | Leni Krafft | leading lady, friend, suspect, victim, love interest, nanny | Frohe Botschaft, I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside, Celebre Romance |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Bette Davis | Stanley Timberlake | leading lady, sister, criminal, suspect, murderer | Stanley, Stanley B, Stanley Introduction, South American Way |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Ernest Anderson | Parry Clay | friend, suspect, victim | Minerva and Parry |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Joan Crawford | Mildred Pierce | leading lady, heroine, suspect, mother | Mildred, Mildred B, Work, It Can't Be Wrong |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Jack Carson | Wally Fay | leading man, friend, suspect | [none] |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bruce Bennett | Bert Pierce | husband, ex-husband, suspect | Bert |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Lauren Bacall | Vivian Rutledge | leading lady, suspect, love interest, daughter | Vivian, Sternwood |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | John Ridgely | Eddie Mars | criminal, suspect, victim | [none] |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Martha Vickers | Carmen Sternwood | femme fatale, suspect, daughter, murderer | Carmen, Sternwood |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Louis Jean Heydt | Joe Brody | criminal, victim, suspect | [none] |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Ann Sheridan | Chris Hunter | leading lady, victim, criminal, suspect | Chris, Chris 2, Unfaithful |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Bette Davis | Rosa Moline | leading lady, murderer, suspect, wife, crazy person | Rosa, Chicago, Running, Hurrying |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Joan Crawford | Lane Bellamy | leading lady, love interest, wife, suspect | Flamingo Road, If I Could Be With You, Lane, Lute Mae |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Richard Todd | Richard Trevelyan | leading man, suspect, love interest, husband | Menace, Trev, Shelly and Trev |
| Mara Maru (1952) | Errol Flynn | Gregory Mason | leading man, suspect, diver, captain | Gregory, Underwater |
| Mara Maru (1952) | Georges Renavent | Ortega | suspect, victim, martyr | Ortega |
| Illegal (1955) | Nina Foch | Ellen Miles | leading lady, love interest, assistant, victim, suspect, prisoner | Ellen, Ellen 2, Ellen B |
| Illegal (1955) | Jay Adler | Joseph Carter | suspect | [none] |
| Illegal (1955) | DeForest Kelley | Edward Clary | victim, suspect | [none] |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | George Sanders | Clementi Sabourin | leading man, criminal, seducer, thief, suspect, murderer, victim | Clementi A, Clementi B, Clementi C, Death 1 |