Top 22 films in Film-Noir
The Third Man
Directed by Carol Reed | 93 min | 1949
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Sunset Boulevard
Directed by Billy Wilder | 110 min | 1950
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
The Maltese Falcon
Directed by John Huston | 100 min | 1941
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Double Indemnity
Directed by Billy Wilder | 107 min | 1944
An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
The Night of the Hunter
Directed by Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum, Terry Sanders | 92 min | 1955
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Touch of Evil
Directed by Orson Welles | Rated PG-13 | 95 min | 1958
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Notorious
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 101 min | 1946
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Rebecca
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 130 min | 1940
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
A Place in the Sun
Directed by George Stevens | 122 min | 1951
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
Sweet Smell of Success
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick | 96 min | 1957
Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
Laura
Directed by Otto Preminger | 88 min | 1944
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
Brighton Rock
Directed by John Boulting | Rated N/A | 92 min | 1947
Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it to be suicide. ...
Ace in the Hole
Directed by Billy Wilder | 111 min | 1951
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
All the King's Men
Directed by Robert Rossen | 110 min | 1949
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
The Lost Weekend
Directed by Billy Wilder | 101 min | 1945
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout.
The Shanghai Gesture
Directed by Josef von Sternberg | 95 min | 1941
A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy ...
In a Lonely Place
Directed by Nicholas Ray | 94 min | 1950
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts...
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy | 92 min | 1932
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Out of the Past
Directed by Jacques Tourneur | 97 min | 1947
A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.
The Big Sleep
Directed by Howard Hawks | 114 min | 1946
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Dead End
Directed by William Wyler | 93 min | 1937
The Dead End Kids, an unemployed architect, and gangster Baby Face Martin interact with an East Side neighborhood over one day and night.
White Heat
Directed by Raoul Walsh | 114 min | 1949
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn
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