Genre: Film-Noir
The Killing
The Killing
After just being released from a five-year stint in prison, Johnny Clay has assembled a five-man ...
House by the River
House by the River
The unsuccessful writer Stephen Byrne tries to force his servant Emily Gaunt sexually while his wife ...
The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai
Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, ...
Cast a Dark Shadow
Cast a Dark Shadow
Clever fortune-hunter Edward Bare (Sir Dirk Bogarde), with a penchant for murder, does in his elderly, ...
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
P.I. Philip Marlowe's hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his daughter, Carmen ...
Cécile est morte!
Cécile est morte!
A woman keeps coming to Quai Des Orfevres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in ...
Scarlet Street
Scarlet Street
A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con ...
Hell Drivers
Hell Drivers
Joe "Tom" Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to start ...
The Naked City
The Naked City
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, ...
Odd Man Out
Odd Man Out
The leader of an Irish separatist group's, been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her ...
Gun Crazy
Gun Crazy
Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his ...
The Big Combo
The Big Combo
Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because ...
Leave Her to Heaven
Leave Her to Heaven
Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train and are attracted to each ...
Dementia
Dementia
As the narrator invites us to explore the horrors of an insane mind, a young woman ...
Thieves’ Highway
Thieves’ Highway
The soldier Nick Garcos returns back home from the war very happy, with gifts for his ...
The Third Man
The Third Man
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided ...
Pickup on South Street
Pickup on South Street
On a crowded subway, Skip McCoy picks the purse of Candy. Among his take, although he ...
Detour
Detour
In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. ...
Gilda
Gilda
Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister ...
Brute Force
Brute Force
At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less ...
Guilty Bystander
Guilty Bystander
Not knowing what else to do, Georgia Thursday contacts her ex-husband, alcoholic Max Thursday, after their ...
Hangmen Also Die!
Hangmen Also Die!
On May 27, 1942 the Nazi Reichsprotector of Bohemia/Moravia, the "Hangman" Reinhard Heydrich, died from the ...
Too Late for Tears
Too Late for Tears
One night on a lonely highway, a man in a speeding car tosses a satchel of ...
The Hidden Room
The Hidden Room
London psychiatrist Clive Riordan, royally fed up with the repeated affairs of his wife Storm, plots ...
The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter
It's the Great Depression. In the process of robbing a bank of $10,000, Ben Harper kills ...
Ace in the Hole
Ace in the Hole
Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job ...
Moonrise
Moonrise
Danny Hawkins, who lives in a psychological shadow because his father died by a hangman's noose, ...
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce
When Mildred Pierce's out-of-work husband leaves her for another woman, Mildred decides to raise her two ...
Angel Face
Angel Face
When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but ...
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon always wanted to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on ...
Dancing with Crime
Dancing with Crime
At the end of World War II, demobilized soldiers Ted Peters (Sir Richard Attenborough) and Dave ...
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place
Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl ...
Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train
Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and ...
Murder by Contract
Murder by Contract
Claude is a young man with a regular job, no history of trouble with the law ...
Sudden Fear
Sudden Fear
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra ...
Out of the Fog
Out of the Fog
In Brooklyn, fishing is the hobby of the workers Jonah Goodwin and Olaf Johnson and they ...
Sweet Smell of Success
Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York, is determined to prevent his sister ...
The Bigamist
The Bigamist
Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses ...
Mr. Arkadin
Mr. Arkadin
From the lips of a dying man at a dimly-lit Italian dock, Guy Van Stratten, the ...
He Ran All the Way
He Ran All the Way
The uptight and dumb small time thief Nick Robey and his partner and only friend Al ...
The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle
When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar ...