Readers Guide To Film Noir
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101.
Histoires insolites (1974– )
Episode:
Tu comprends ça, soldat?
(1979)
58 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Laurent Malet, Valérie Mairesse, Jacques Frantz, Serge Sauvion
102. Union City (1980)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A man is so obsessed with finding the person responsible for stealing his milk bottles that he ignores his beautiful young wife, who has other ideas on her mind.
Director: Marcus Reichert | Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Debbie Harry, Sam McMurray, Terry Walsh
Votes: 464
103. I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
When Amy turns an ancient Aztec priest's cloak into a dress, she discovers it's cursed and whoever wears it comes under its evil influence.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Mädchen Amick, Corey Parker, Daisy Hall, R. Lee Ermey
Votes: 908
104.
Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode:
Murder, Obliquely
(1993)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Annie, in true noir fashion, fatalistically falls in love with a millionaire who is quite bewitched by another lover and is not afraid to show it. In flashback narrative Annie explains that... See full summary »
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Laura Dern, Alan Rickman, Diane Lane, Robin Bartlett
Votes: 117
105.
Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode:
A Dime a Dance
(1995)
37 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A serial killer is preying on dance hall girls. One of them, Ginger, falls for a charming young police detective who's working on the case.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Jennifer Grey, Eric Stoltz, Richard Portnow, Wayne Grace
Votes: 53
106.
Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode:
The Black Bargain
(1995)
32 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An embattled mob boss whose gunsels have just been massacred by a rival, hides out in a hotel room waiting for assistance promised by an out-of-town hood. In the meantime, he tries to hold ... See full summary »
Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Miguel Ferrer, Lucinda Jenney, Grace Zabriskie, Peter Berg
Votes: 48
107. Laura (1944)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
Votes: 51,466 | Gross: $4.36M
108. Bedelia (1946)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Bedelia, a newly remarried beautiful widow, is on honeymoon in Monte Carlo. A painter approaches her inquiring about her past. When she and her husband go back to England the artist will soon be there. Danger, crime and truth will follow.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes, Anne Crawford
Votes: 448
109. Little Caesar (1931)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr.
Votes: 14,540
110. The Iron Man (1931)
73 min | Drama, Romance
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong, Jean Harlow, John Miljan
Votes: 344
111. High Sierra (1940)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 19,243
112. Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson
Votes: 1,873
113. Accused of Murder (1956)
Approved | 74 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
Police detective falls for singer, gets involved with gangster killing.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Grey
Votes: 394
114.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
Thanks for Tomorrow
(1959)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crime syndicate hires a gambler to layoff racetrack bets to out-of-state bookies to keep the odds from diving. The go-between Lonnie Drew is an old pal of Jeff Spencer, whose help is needed... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich Jr. | Stars: Roger Smith, Edd Byrnes, Louis Quinn, Jacqueline Beer
Votes: 56
115. The Westland Case (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Carol Hughes, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 150
116. The Lady in the Morgue (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Preston Foster, Patricia Ellis, Frank Jenks, Thomas E. Jackson
Votes: 172
117. The Last Warning (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Kay Linaker, E.E. Clive
Votes: 50
118. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond
Votes: 2,463
119. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
M | 129 min | Drama
The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young
Votes: 20,861 | Gross: $12.60M
120. Un linceul n'a pas de poches (1974)
125 min | Crime, Drama
Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals. One day, he is killed but who is the killer?
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Jean Carmet, Michel Constantin, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin
Votes: 246
121. No Hands on the Clock (1941)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery
The first of three Pine-Thomas productions for Chester Morris finds him as wise-cracking private detective Humphrey Campbell who impresses his boss, Oscar Flack, no end by not only finding ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Rose Hobart, Dick Purcell
Votes: 238
122. Crime by Night (1944)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Detective Sam Campbell and his perky sidekick Robby Vance are called in on a routine child support dispute. Things take an unexpected turn when the client's ex-father-in-law, head of a chemical plant, is the victim of an axe murder.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Jane Wyman, Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Charles Lang
Votes: 583
123. Out of the Past (1947)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
Votes: 40,939
124. Dark Passage (1947)
Passed | 106 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 21,984
125. Section des disparus (1956)
85 min | Crime
The love affair of an ex-convict with a showgirl, unleashes the jealousy of his wife, a wealthy and unbalanced forty.
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Nicole Maurey, Maurice Ronet, Inda Ledesma, Ubaldo Martínez
Votes: 58
126. Nightfall (1956)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith, Jocelyn Brando
Votes: 4,568
127.
Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Ceylon Treasure
(1952)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Jay Jackson, Ronald Long, Audrey Meadows, Edmond O'Brien
128. The Burglar (1957)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Dan Duryea and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers, Peter Capell
Votes: 1,932
129. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier
Votes: 20,635
130. ...And Hope to Die (1972)
PG | 99 min | Crime, Drama
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray
Votes: 864
131. The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
R | 137 min | Drama
He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together... or do they?
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Bertice Reading
Votes: 1,538
132. Barbarous Street (1984)
107 min | Crime, Drama
Daniel Chetman is tired of the violent neighborhood, and takes on the local gangster Mathias Hagen and his tugs.
Director: Gilles Béhat | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Christine Boisson, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michel Auclair
Votes: 538
133. Descent Into Hell (1986)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A famous writer and his young wife struggle with their their marriage while on vacation in Haiti.
Director: Francis Girod | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau, Betsy Blair, Hippolyte Girardot
Votes: 702
134. Street of No Return (1989)
93 min | Action, Drama, Crime
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, reclaims his forgotten past after viewing a music video and seeks revenge against the mobster who maimed him.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Keith Carradine, Valentina Vargas, Bill Duke, Andréa Ferréol
Votes: 598
135. The Edge (1989)
25 min | Drama, Thriller
A three-part anthology suspense program in which men and women face life's ultimate danger zone. Each episode is introduced by a mysterious figure known as The Watcher (Barry Sattels), who ... See full summary »
Stars: Barry Sattels, Rutger Hauer, Christian Slater, Brad Davis
Votes: 65
136.
Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode:
The Professional Man
(1995)
31 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Johnny is a lift boy by day and a cold-hearted hitman for an unhinged gay gangster called Charn by night. He's also in a gay relationship with Paul, a bartender from Charn's gay club. Jealous of Johnny, Charn orders him to kill Paul.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Bruce Ramsay, Peter Coyote, Bernard Hocke
Votes: 105
137. The French Key (1946)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Returning to their hotel room, private detective Johnny Fletcher and his partner Sam Cragg find a dead man clutching a gold coin and they try to solve this case involving murder and gold smuggling.
Director: Walter Colmes | Stars: Albert Dekker, Evelyn Ankers, Mike Mazurki, John Eldredge
Votes: 93
138. Accomplice (1946)
Approved | 68 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Private Eye Simon Lash is hired by an old flame to find her missing husband.
Director: Walter Colmes | Stars: Richard Arlen, Veda Ann Borg, Tom Dugan, Archie Twitchell
Votes: 210
139. Man in the Vault (1956)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A locksmith gets caught up in a bank robbery.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: William Campbell, Karen Sharpe, Anita Ekberg, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 464
140. Twenty Plus Two (1961)
Passed | 102 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A famous movie star's fan-club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill, Jacques Aubuchon
Votes: 554
141. Crack-Up (1946)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which may not have actually happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a wicked plot?
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins
Votes: 1,627
142.
Wire Service (1956–1957)
Episode:
The Deep End
(1956)
60 min | Drama
A reporter suspects that Johnny, the star football player at the local high school, is actually a cold-blooded killer. He soon finds himself being stalked by Johnny, and the souped-up hot rod Johnny's driving makes it even more dangerous.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: George Brent, Margaret Hayes, Larry Pennell, S. John Launer
143. Screaming Mimi (1958)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Virginia Wilson saw a man get shot right after he tried to kill her, so she goes to psychiatrist Dr. Greenwood. He falls in love with her and takes over her life, but she insists on continuing her career as a stripper.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Anita Ekberg, Philip Carey, Gypsy Rose Lee, Harry Townes
Votes: 773
144.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Cream of the Jest
(1957)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Broken-down actor Charles Gresham, who has a weakness for booze, demands that playwright Wayne Campbell give him a part. When Campbell refuses, Gresham resorts to blackmail.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Rains, James Gregory, Paul Picerni
Votes: 623
145.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Night the World Ended
(1957)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A newsman plays a joke on a homeless man by showing him a fake article that says the world is going to end that night, but the prank has deadly results.
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Russell Collins, Harold J. Stone, Edith Barrett
Votes: 706
146.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Dangerous People
(1957)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Two men wait at a train station. A wailing siren periodically reminds them that a maniac has escaped from the local mental hospital.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Albert Salmi, Robert H. Harris, Ken Clark
Votes: 653
147.
Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode:
Knock Three-One-Two
(1960)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A man in need of money enlists the help of a serial killer to get the money from his wife.
Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Boris Karloff, Joe Maross, Beverly Garland, Charles Aidman
Votes: 194
148. Old Rascal (1992)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
Darius Caunes is a modest printer flanked by a cantankerous spouse ;he finally does away with her and becomes friends with the lieutenant in charge of the investigation ...who does not ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Jourd'hui | Stars: Michel Serrault, Anna Galiena, Pierre Richard, Jean-Pierre Bouvier
Votes: 328
149. Ça ne se refuse pas (1998)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Marthe, an aging queen of the night, roams the streets of a city haunted by the presence of an invisible murderer in search of money to pay a large gambling debt.
Director: Eric Woreth | Stars: Isabelle Renauld, Jean-Marc Barr, Stéphane Rideau, Julie Gayet
Votes: 27
150. La bête de miséricorde (2001)
88 min | Comedy, Crime
After a car accident, Jean Mardet ends the agony of his wife with a rock. Mardet then keeps killing because he believes that God himself has entrusted a mission to him: kill the unfortunate souls.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Bernard Menez, Jackie Berroyer, Patricia Barzyk, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Votes: 38
151. The Big Clock (1948)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready
Votes: 9,539
152.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Three Wives Too Many
(1964)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
One of a bigamist's four wives takes it upon herself to track down and kill the other three women.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Teresa Wright, Dan Duryea, Linda Lawson
Votes: 455
153.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
The Hospital
(1952)
60 min | Drama
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Victor Jory, Leslie Nielsen, George Mathews, Nancy Marchand
Votes: 15
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