Film Noir
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1. For You I Die (1947)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young convict,Johnny Coulter, serving as a trustee and with only a year remaining on his sentence, is forced to participate in a prison break by one of the hardened criminals. They ... See full summary »
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Cathy Downs, Paul Langton, Mischa Auer, Roman Bohnen
Votes: 285
2. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 11,081
3. The Big Bluff (1955)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Rosemarie Stack
Votes: 608
4. Parole, Inc. (1948)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Parole officers fight against gangsters trying to infiltrate the parole system.
Director: Alfred Zeisler | Stars: Michael O'Shea, Turhan Bey, Evelyn Ankers, Virginia Lee
Votes: 422
5. X Marks the Spot (1942)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
In 1942, rubber is a valuable commodity during WWII. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the Army, but also a private detective. Eddie swings into action, when his father, ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Neil Hamilton, Jack La Rue
Votes: 290
6. The Stranger (1946)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Votes: 28,701
7. Detour (1945)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald
Votes: 19,693 | Gross: $0.02M
8. The Hoodlum (1951)
PG | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Paroled sociopath and career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his family's trust when he masterminds a complex armored car robbery.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan, Lisa Golm
Votes: 1,161
9. The Great Flamarion (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Steve Barclay
Votes: 1,453
10. Whispering City (1947)
98 min | Crime, Drama
When a nagging wife commits suicide, her husband is threatened with a murder frame by his lawyer, unless he kills a certain female reporter for him.
Director: Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Helmut Dantine, Mary Anderson, Paul Lukas, John Pratt
Votes: 395
11. The Red House (1947)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun
Votes: 4,947
12. The Limping Man (1953)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American WWII veteran goes back to England after the war only to discover that his wartime sweetheart has got mixed up with a dangerous spy ring.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley, Leslie Phillips
Votes: 719
13. Please Murder Me! (1956)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A lawyer suffers a guilt complex after getting a murder acquittal for his client, and then finding out she did commit the crime.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran, John Dehner
Votes: 1,621
14. The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay
Votes: 10,512
15. Impact (1949)
Passed | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker
Votes: 4,714
16. Time Table (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Arizona, a train's baggage car is robbed of a large payroll, prompting an investigation led by a railroad official-insurance investigator team.
Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr, Marianne Stewart
Votes: 914
17. The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gang's plans for a St. Louis bank robbery are complicated when the sister of one of the thieves starts voicing her well-founded suspicions.
Directors: Charles Guggenheim, John Stix | Stars: Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, James Dukas
Votes: 1,703
18. Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand
Votes: 8,135
19. A Life at Stake (1955)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir
An unemployed architect meets a married woman with a business proposition. The architect soon suspect her interest isn't just financial - and might be deadly.
Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglass Dumbrille, Claudia Barrett
Votes: 982
20. Too Late for Tears (1949)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Film-Noir
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 5,685
21. Inner Sanctum (1948)
Approved | 62 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery
A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Charles Russell, Mary Beth Hughes, Billy House, Dale Belding
Votes: 1,164
22. Jigsaw (1949)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy investigates a series of murders and uncovers an extremist group.
Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence
Votes: 974
23. The Big Combo (1955)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 8,617
24. Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A prosecutor trying a case where a husband shot his adulterous wife begins to suspect that his own wife is having an affair, and starts to have his own thoughts about killing her.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Warren William, Gail Patrick, Ralph Morgan, William Lundigan
Votes: 532
25. The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A theatre critic (Dave O'Brien) teams up with a cop (Jack Mulhall) to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge, Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks
Votes: 404
26. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt's estate.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel
Votes: 3,172
27. The Second Woman (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house.
Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates
Votes: 1,425
28. The Amazing Mr. X (1948)
Passed | 78 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf; then meets a tall dark man Alexis, who seems to know all about such things.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson
Votes: 2,208
29. D.O.A. (1949)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Garland
Votes: 13,076
30. The Strange Woman (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.
Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 2,449
31. Walk the Dark Street (1956)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A big-game hunter seeks revenge upon the Army officer whom he believes caused the death of his brother.
Director: Wyott Ordung | Stars: Chuck Connors, Don Ross, Regina Gleason, Vonne Godfrey
Votes: 287
32. Strange Illusion (1945)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Paul dreams that his father's fatal accident actually was murder. When details of his dream repeat themselves in reality he seeks the help of psychiatrist Dr. Vincent, and they attempt to solve the riddle - with dangerous consequences.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Jimmy Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William, Regis Toomey
Votes: 1,132
33. The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his newly-minted detective brother assigned to the case alongside him.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Lisa Howard
Votes: 2,854
34. Scarlet Street (1945)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 19,157
35. 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: 2,643
36. I Love Trouble (1948)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
P.I. Stu is hired to investigate the past of a millionaire Johnson's wife who is missing. Stu finds that the wife had left her home town with an actor, went to college using a stolen identity and purloined $40,000 from a night club.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter, Adele Jergens
Votes: 1,040
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