Readers Guide To Film Noir
by karljhickey14 | created - 22 Jan 2018 | updated - 24 Jan 2018 | PublicFilm Noir listed by the books , plays , and stories that they were adapted from . Authors name underneath , the title is added if different .
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1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre
Votes: 166,485 | Gross: $2.11M
Dashiell Hammett
2. The Glass Key (1942)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, Bonita Granville
Votes: 7,395
Dashiell Hammett
3. The Dain Curse (1978)
360 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Private eye investigates diamond theft, and becomes involved with an ancient family curse.
Stars: Tom Bower, David Canary, Malachy McCourt, Hattie Winston
Votes: 357
Dashiell Hammett
4. Roadhouse Nights (1930)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
A boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 127
Dashiell Hammett , Red Harvest . see also Yojimbo , Last Man Standing etc
5. No Good Deed (2002)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgård, Doug Hutchison
Votes: 7,830 | Gross: $0.18M
Dashiell Hammett , aka The House On Turk Street
6. The Big Sleep (1946)
Passed | 114 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers
Votes: 90,458 | Gross: $6.54M
Raymond Chandler
7. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
R | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
Director: Dick Richards | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles
Votes: 9,583 | Gross: $4.36M
Raymond Chandler
8. The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Detective Philip Marlowe encounters a variety of characters while checking on why Leslie Murdock stole a rare doubloon from his mother.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts
Votes: 1,382
Raymond Chandler
9. Lady in the Lake (1946)
Passed | 105 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
The lady editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.
Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully
Votes: 6,329
Raymond Chandler
10. The Long Goodbye (1973)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell
Votes: 37,133 | Gross: $0.96M
Raymond Chandler
11. Marlowe (1969)
PG | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman from Kansas hires LA private detective Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno
Votes: 4,011
Raymond Chandler , The Little Sister
12. Poodle Springs (1998 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama
An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail and murder amongst the elite social set in 1963.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: James Caan, Dina Meyer, David Keith, Tom Bower
Votes: 993
Raymond Chandler , with Robert B. Parker
13.
Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode:
Red Wind
(1995)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pearl necklace. He must also deal with a racist cop that's investigating the murders.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Danny Glover, Kelly Lynch, Dan Hedaya, Ron Rifkin
Votes: 46
14.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
Blackmailers Don't Shoot
(1986)
PG | Action, Crime, Mystery
The woman Marlowe was hired to protect and who happens to be the girlfriend of a notorious mobster has been kidnapped.
Director: Allan King | Stars: Powers Boothe, Melody Anderson, Allan Royal, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 69
15.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
Spanish Blood
(1986)
Action, Crime, Mystery
Marlowe's friend called Spanish has been murdered and Marlowe suspects that the district attorney the man was running against might be behind the hit.
Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Powers Boothe, Helen Shaver, Mavor Moore, Dixie Seatle
Votes: 42
16.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
Pickup on Noon Street
(1986)
Action, Crime, Mystery
Marlow is investigating the murder of a young girl. A night club cigarette girl called Token Ware might know more. The club's owner and a shady actor stand in his way. He also gets framed for extortion.
Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Powers Boothe, Robin Givens, Kate Trotter, Christopher Newton
Votes: 45
17.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
Guns at Cyrano's
(1986)
60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Marlowe is hired to protect a young boxer who's being pressured to take a dive.
Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Powers Boothe, Roxanne Hart, Cec Linder, Mark Humphrey
Votes: 42
18.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
Trouble Is My Business
(1986)
Action, Crime, Mystery
Marlowe is hired to try and get a naive young man in love, who happens to be the nephew of a millionaire, to break it off with his girlfriend, after his uncle begins to suspect that she's with him just for his money.
Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Powers Boothe, Kate Reid, Jennifer Dale, Booth Savage
Votes: 43
19.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
The Pencil
(1983)
Action, Crime, Mystery
Philip Marlow, a one time cop and with an unfortunate habit of being too honest and too broke for his own good, takes the job of protecting a former mob accountant on the run. When two hit ... See full summary »
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Powers Boothe, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Billy Kearns, David Healy
Votes: 48
20.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
The King in Yellow
(1983)
Action, Crime, Mystery
King Leopardi was a big celebrity and an even bigger ladykiller, but when he winds up dead in a singer's boudoir all the evidence points to her. Marlowe is hired to find the real killers ... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Powers Boothe, Billy Kearns, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lise Hilboldt
Votes: 43
21.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
Finger Man
(1983)
60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Marlowe is subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the mob murder of a district attorney he was hired to bodyguard. Throw in a femme fatale and Marlowe has his hands full ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Powers Boothe, Billy Kearns, Gayle Hunnicutt, Ed Bishop
Votes: 41
22.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
Nevada Gas
(1983)
Action, Crime, Mystery
Mops Parisi is out of the joint and out for revenge. First on the list is his crooked lawyer, Hugo Candless, then the ex-cop who arrested him, one Philip Marlowe. It comes as a surprise ... See full summary »
Director: David Wickes | Stars: Powers Boothe, Kathryn Leigh Scott, John Terry, Billy Kearns
Votes: 40
23.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
Smart Aleck Kill
(1983)
Action, Crime, Mystery
Marlowe finds himself in grave danger when he discovers that a popular young Hollywood actor he was hired to protect has been murdered and the movie studio that the guy worked for wants to cover it up.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Powers Boothe, Michael Shannon, Liza Ross, Vickery Turner
Votes: 39
24. The Thin Man (1934)
TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 32,505
25. Mister Dynamite (1935)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Jean Dixon, Victor Varconi, Esther Ralston
Votes: 78
26. Woman in the Dark (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama
A paroled prisoner hits a man who's attacking a woman, then runs away, scared that he killed the man (he did not). From the book "Woman in the Dark" by Dashiell Hammett.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Melvyn Douglas, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 602
27.
Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode:
Fly Paper
(1995)
29 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1929, a famed shamus known as the Continental Op is on the trail of a well-known socialite, who ran away with a notorious gangster and is now missing. The case takes the Continental Op to blackmail and murder.
Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Christopher Lloyd, Laura San Giacomo, Peter Berg, Michael Rooker
Votes: 73
28.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
Two Sharp Knives
(1949)
59 min | Drama
A small-town police chief captures a man wanted for murder in Philadelphia. But something stinks about the murder rap, the wanted poster and everything else.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Stanley Ridges, Wynne Gibson, Theodore Newton, Peggy French
Votes: 106
29.
Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode:
I'll Be Waiting
(1993)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Eve Cressy hides in a fancy hotel awaiting the return of her vengeful gangster ex-lover from prison. She meets Tony Reseck, the hotel dick, whose attempt to protect her ends in violence.
Director: Tom Hanks | Stars: Bruno Kirby, Marg Helgenberger, Jon Polito, Dan Hedaya
Votes: 49
30. Double Indemnity (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr
Votes: 167,311 | Gross: $5.72M
31. Mildred Pierce (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Votes: 28,622
32. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Passed | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn
Votes: 22,848 | Gross: $8.33M
33. Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An urban wheeler-dealer gets involved in organized crime, corrupt city politics and graft while falling in love with the fiancée of the newly elected mayor.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, Kent Taylor
Votes: 1,288
34. Serenade (1956)
Approved | 121 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. He debuts at Lardelli's Italian restaurant in San Francisco, where he is ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Vincent Price
Votes: 601
35. Butterfly (1981)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
In 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine.
Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton
Votes: 1,555
36. She Made Her Bed (1934)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But, she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, but ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Richard Arlen, Sally Eilers, Robert Armstrong, Grace Bradley
Votes: 23
37. Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero
Votes: 250
38. When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 752
39. Money and the Woman (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
The City Trust and Savings Bank sends Vice President Dave Bennett to a branch office to check on a Charles Patterson. Charlie has greatly increased the amount of money in savings and is ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Jeffrey Lynn, Brenda Marshall, John Litel, Lee Patrick
Votes: 96
40. Girl in the Cadillac (1995)
R | 89 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Mandy, a modern teenage "Lolita" with a wild sense of adventure and a burning desire to taste life, buys a ticket out of her one-horse town of Paint Rock, Texas, hitting the road to love, life and self-discovery.
Director: Lucas Platt | Stars: Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Michael Lerner, Bud Cort
Votes: 263
41. Convicted (1938)
Approved | 58 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Police Detective Burns (Charles Quigley) is helping Jerry Wheeler (Rita Hayworth), a night-club singer, track down the killer of a gold-digger, for which crime her brother, "Chick," (Edgar ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Barsha | Stars: Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, George McKay
Votes: 182
42. Street of Chance (1942)
Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After an accident, a New York man with amnesia finds out the ugly truth about his real identity and past by interacting with people who seem to know him well.
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 740
43. The Leopard Man (1943)
Approved | 66 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller
A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 5,955
44. Phantom Lady (1944)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda
Votes: 5,743
45. Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
After a woman he meets is murdered, a soon-to-ship-out sailor has until dawn to find the killer, aided by a weary dance hall girl.
Directors: Harold Clurman, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 2,133
46. Black Angel (1946)
Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir
When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 3,947
47. The Chase (1946)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 2,640
48. Fall Guy (1947)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tom Cochrane (Leo Penn'), full of dope (cocaine) and covered with blood, is picked up by the police and then questioned by detectives Shannon (Douglas Fowley) and Taylor (Harry Strang), but... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Teala Loring, Robert Armstrong, Leo Penn, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 213
49. The Guilty (1947)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Two guys sharing an apartment meet twin girls (both Bonita Granville). One's sweet, the other a major piece of bad news. The nice one is murdered and her boyfriend is accused of the crime. The wrong man/wrong victim plot strikes again.
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, John Litel
Votes: 762
50. Fear in the Night (1946)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.
Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Kay Scott, Ann Doran
Votes: 1,800
51. I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Don Castle, Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey, Charles D. Brown
Votes: 874
52. Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce
Votes: 1,735
53.
Actor's Studio (1948–1950)
Episode:
Three O'Clock
(1949)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Steven Hill, Frances Reid, Philip Bourneuf
54. The Window (1949)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
Votes: 4,851
55.
The Silver Theatre (1949–1950)
Episode:
Silent as the Grave
(1949)
Drama, Romance
Stars: Conrad Nagel, George Reeves, Marsha Hunt
56.
The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse (1949)
Episode:
The Night Reveals
(1949)
Drama
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Boris Karloff, George Gunn
57. No Man of Her Own (1950)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter
Votes: 2,900
58.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Revenge
(1949)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman tries to escape her gangster husband by running away to Cuba with her new love.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Eddie Albert, Margo, Rex Marshall
59.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
The Man Upstairs
(1949)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman complains about the man upstairs, but no one has ever seen him.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Mildred Natwick, Anthony Ross
60.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
After Dinner Story
(1949)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Otto Kruger, Rex Marshall
61.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Post Mortem
(1949)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Following the sudden death of her husband, Josie marries Doc Archer, the man named beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy. Investigator Westcott is suspicious after learning the... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Peggy Conklin, Richard Coogan, Julian Noa
Votes: 51
62.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Goodbye New York
(1949)
Not Rated | 26 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Ray Gardner is deep in debt and can't find work due to his ruthless ex-boss. Desperate and angry, he kills his boss and steals some money. His loyal wife Mary stands by him and the two make... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Gage Clarke, Philip Coolidge, Meg Mundy, Rex Marshall
Votes: 74
63.
Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950–1951)
Episode:
I Won't Take a Minute
(1950)
Drama
Director: Marc Daniels | Star: Dane Clark
65. El pendiente (1951)
72 min | Thriller
When a woman goes to see an ex-boyfriend who blackmails her, she leaves behind an earring and when she returns to retrieve it, she finds that he has been murdered.
Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Graciliano Batista, María Esther Buschiazzo, Héctor Calcaño, Carlos Campagnale
Votes: 38
66. If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
73 min | Thriller
The plot centers on Lucio Santana, a lovable prankster and class clown whose dad happens to be a detective working on the serial killings of local children. When Lucho makes friends with a ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene, Homero Cárpena
Votes: 267
67. Never Open That Door (1952)
85 min | Mystery, Thriller
Two separate episodes that have in common the door which separates good from evil. In the first segment, "Alguien al teléfono", Ángel Magaña tries to avenge the death of his sister, a girl ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Ángel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Nicolás Fregues, Diana de Córdoba
Votes: 277
68.
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1955)
Episode:
Wait for Me Downstairs
(1953)
30 min | Drama
Director: John English | Stars: Arlene Dahl, Tol Avery, Virginia Brissac, George Chandler
69.
The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953)
Episode:
Lullaby
(1953)
30 min | Drama
A mother disapproves of her son's new fiancee.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Agnes Moorehead, Tom Drake, Betty Lynn, Lee Marvin
Votes: 10
70.
The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953)
Episode:
Summer Dance
(1953)
30 min | Drama
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Barbara Bates, John Gallaudet, Don Garner, Tim Graham
71.
The Mask (1954– )
Episode:
Framed for Murder
(1954)
Drama, Crime
Stars: Audrey Christie, Betty Garde, Russell Hardie, Brian Keith
72. Rear Window (1954)
PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 521,574 | Gross: $36.76M
73. Obsession (1954)
100 min | Crime, Drama
A diabolic suspense which never gives the viewer any respite....Shall Helene save her husband? But it may mean sending an innocent man to the guillotine..
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Raf Vallone, Marthe Mercadier, Jean Gaven
Votes: 150
74.
Stage 7 (1955–1956)
Episode:
Debt of Honor
(1955)
Drama
Detective Clinton Sturges learns Murray Forman is a wanted man. Clint feels he owes the criminal for saving daughter Barbara from drowning and is torn between doing his job or assisting the fugitive.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Charles Bronson, Kasey Rogers, Wendy Winkelman
Votes: 6
75.
The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode:
Husband
(1955)
30 min | Drama
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Ralph Dumke, Frank Hanley, Jonathan Hole, Mala Powers
76.
The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode:
The Blue Ribbon
(1955)
30 min | Drama
The wife of a prizefighter promises her dying husband that their son will be a fighter.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Stanley Adams, Gene Barry, Scott Brady, Marilyn Buferd
77.
Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955–1958)
Episode:
Once Upon a Nightmare
(1956)
30 min | Drama
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Jane Wyman, Vivi Janiss, David Kasday, Emile Meyer
78. El ojo de cristal (1956)
92 min | Crime, Drama
With the intention of stealing the compensation for a work accident, Enrique kills an old man. However, it turns out that he had not yet collected it, so he will try, then, to falsify the ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Santillán | Stars: Carlos López Moctezuma, Armando Moreno, Beatriz Aguirre, Carolina Jiménez
Votes: 121
79.
Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956)
Episode:
The Listener
(1956)
30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Sheila and her brother engineer a gas leak to kill her husband so they can split the insurance money. Overhearing the plot is the husband's invalid father, but it's no concern because he ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: Ida Lupino, Ralph Moody, Walter Coy, Richard Lupino
Votes: 30
80.
Climax! (1954–1958)
Episode:
Sit Down with Death
(1956)
Unrated | Drama
A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Dan Barton, Ralph Bellamy, Vicki Cummings, Charles Davis
81.
Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode:
Rendezvous in Black
(1956)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by killing the loved ones of the passengers on the flight.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Richard Joy, Franchot Tone, Laraine Day, Boris Karloff
82.
Studio 57 (1954–1958)
Episode:
You Take Ballistics
(1957)
30 min | Drama, Family
A detective is convinced a man is guilty of murder despite ballistics tests to the contrary.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Joel Aldrich, Arthur Batanides, Lee Marvin, Ralph Neff
83.
General Electric Theater (1953–1962)
Episode:
Cab Driver
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama
A female taxicab driver finds a dead man in the back seat of her cab, and a persistent suitor in the person of the detective who investigates the case.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Harry Bartell, Imogene Coca, Joe Downing
84. Escapade (1957)
105 min | Adventure
Some gangsters use a young girl to get to a recently released convict who hid $10 million from a robbery just before he was caught.
Director: Ralph Habib | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Dany Carrel, Roger Hanin, Lise Delamare
Votes: 30
85.
The Web (1957)
Episode:
Added Attraction
(1957)
30 min | Drama
While taking in a movie with his girlfriend, a police detective recognizes a fellow patron in the theater as being a dangerous criminal who is a fugitive from justice. After he leaves to ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: William Boyett, William Bryant, Thomas Coley, Maxine Cooper
86.
The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957– )
Episode:
The Night I Died
(1957)
30 min | Mystery
Nice guy Ben Cook, goaded by his scheming common-law wife, fakes his own suicide and moves to another town-all to trick his life insurance company into making a large payout. No one en ... See full summary »
Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: George Sanders, Scotty Beckett, Paul Gary, Ted Jacques
87.
Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode:
Bluebeard's Seventh Wife
(1958)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
A disappointed suitor is accused of playing cop when he voices doubts about a former girlfriend's choice of a husband.
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Phyllis Avery, Pat Colby, Robert Ellenstein, Jackie Loughery
88.
Suspicion (1957–1958)
Episode:
Four O'Clock
(1957)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Paul Steppe, a watch repairman, suspects his wife is cheating on him while he tends to his store every afternoon. Consumed with jealousy, he devises a time bomb set to go off at four o' ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Nancy Kelly, E.G. Marshall, Richard Long, Tom Pittman
Votes: 239
89.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Big Switch
(1956)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, George Mathews, Beverly Michaels, George E. Stone
Votes: 1,052
90.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Momentum
(1956)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Richard Paine decides to steal money from his boss that he has owed him for months, and it turns into an unnecessary and ironic murder.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Skip Homeier, Joanne Woodward, Ken Christy
Votes: 735
91.
Moment of Fear (1960–1965)
Episode:
Fire by Night
(1960)
60 min | Drama
A proficient insurance investigator doggedly pursues the perpetrator of a series of deliberately set local fires. His investigation suddenly becomes one of professional and domestic turmoil... See full summary »
Stars: Phyllis Hill, Peter Mark Richman, Fay Spain
92.
Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode:
Papa Benjamin
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A composer in need of inspiration turns to Voodoo melodies, but finds himself the victim of a Voodoo curse by Papa Benjamin.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Boris Karloff, John Ireland, Jeanne Bal, Robert H. Harris
Votes: 163
93.
Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode:
Late Date
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A brother helps his brother cover up the murder of his philandering wife by framing her lover.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Boris Karloff, Larry Pennell, Edward Platt, Jody Fair
Votes: 174
94.
Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode:
Guillotine
(1961)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Horror
France, 1875. A condemned man learns of a legal loophole allowing him to be pardoned if the executioner dies before his execution. He then enlists his wife in a scheme to make sure that this improbable scenario comes to pass.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Boris Karloff, Robert Middleton, Danielle De Metz, Alejandro Rey
Votes: 190
95. The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Unrated | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner
Votes: 10,140 | Gross: $0.55M
96. Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
R | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière
Votes: 7,206 | Gross: $0.03M
97.
Journey to the Unknown (1968– )
Episode:
Jane Brown's Body
(1968)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
A doctor's newly discovered serum restores the life of a female suicide who cannot recall how she was driven to such despair.
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Stefanie Powers, David Buck, Alan MacNaughtan, Sarah Lawson
Votes: 53
98. Martha (I) (1974 TV Movie)
116 min | Drama, Thriller
After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman - Helmut. The cruel and torturous nature of their relationship leads Martha to believe Helmut might be trying to kill her.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel
Votes: 3,006
99. La pupa del gangster (1975)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
Director: Giorgio Capitani | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Maccione, Pierre Brice
Votes: 361
100.
Histoires insolites (1974– )
Episode:
Une dernière fois Catherine
(1979)
58 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Pierre Grimblat | Stars: Elisabeth Huppert, Marc Porel, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Darras
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