Film noir standouts
by RogerTheMovieManiac88 | created - 04 Dec 2022 | updated - 1 day ago | PublicA selection of my favourites
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1. A Grande Cidade ou As Aventuras e Desventuras de Luzia e Seus 3 Amigos Chegados de Longe (1966)
80 min | Crime, Drama
Luzia comes from the backwoods of Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, in search of her fiancé. But soon she'll find out he has turned into a dangerous criminal and is being looked after by the police.
Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: Leonardo Villar, Anecy Rocha, Antonio Pitanga, Joel Barcellos
Votes: 160
2. 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
3. The Inheritance (1947)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Following her father's death, a teenage British heiress goes to live with her guardian uncle--who is broke and schemes to murder her for her inheritance.
Director: Charles Frank | Stars: Jean Simmons, Derrick De Marney, Katina Paxinou, Derek Bond
Votes: 827
4. An Inspector Calls (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo, Brian Worth
Votes: 5,242
5. El muerto falta a la cita (1944)
80 min | Drama
On the eve of his wedding, the groom thinks he has run down a cyclist with his roadster, after he had consumed too many drinks. After postponing his marriage for a while, he and his new bride are threatened by a blackmailer.
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Ángel Magaña, Nélida Bilbao, Sebastián Chiola, Guillermo Battaglia
Votes: 42
6. The Seventh Veil (1945)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Music
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott
Votes: 2,374
7. No me quieras tanto... (1949)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: David Silva, Martha Roth, Arturo Martínez, Joaquín Cordero
Votes: 9
8. The Blue Lamp (1950)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The daily routine of two London Policemen is interrupted by a killer.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Jack Warner, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley, Robert Flemyng
Votes: 2,537
9. Captura recomendada (1950)
90 min | Drama
Three episodes: the one of a band players, the one of a drug trafficker and the hunt of an assailant and murder.
Director: Don Napy | Stars: Julián Bourges, Pedro Buchardo, Margarita Corona, Elda Dessel
Votes: 8
10. The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder after she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker
Votes: 3,848
11. Mystery Junction (1951)
65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Larry Gordon, well-known crime writer, is on a train journey when a scream is heard. Upon investigation, the guard had been mugged and a man murdered. Another man is arrested but the full story is yet to be discovered.
Director: Michael McCarthy | Stars: Sydney Tafler, Barbara Murray, Patricia Owens, Martin Benson
Votes: 476
12. La extraña pasajera (1953)
83 min | Drama, Mystery
During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.
Director: Fernando A. Rivero | Stars: Emilia Guiú, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Tito Junco, Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Votes: 16
13. La delatora (1955)
90 min | Drama
Director: Kurt Land | Stars: Arturo Arcari, Alberto Bacigaluppi, Virgilio Barbatti, Alberto Bello
Votes: 9
14. Guilty? (1956)
93 min | Crime, Drama
A Frenchwoman accused of the murder of her child's father in an English court rejects her defence lawyer. At the request of a Frenchman who saved his life during the war, a family solicitor reluctantly takes on the case.
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: John Justin, Barbara Laage, Donald Wolfit, Norman Wooland
Votes: 119
15. The Big Chance (1957)
59 min | Crime, Drama
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Adrienne Corri, William Russell, Ian Colin, Penelope Bartley
Votes: 155
16. They Won't Believe Me (1947)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable-sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson
Votes: 2,961
17. Niagara (1953)
Not Rated | 92 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter
Votes: 19,732
18. Faces in the Dark (1960)
84 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Businessman and inventor Richard Hammond is determined to develop and market the perfect light-bulb. In a freak lab accident he is blinded and suffers a partial breakdown. His wife, partner... See full summary »
Director: David Eady | Stars: John Gregson, Mai Zetterling, John Ireland, Michael Denison
Votes: 369
19. Hangover Square (1945)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Glenn Langan
Votes: 4,139
20. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer
Votes: 80,911 | Gross: $1.70M
21. Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Film-Noir
A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready
Votes: 1,276
22. So Long at the Fair (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Mystery
Vicky Barton visits Paris with her brother Johnny, only to discover the following morning he has gone missing and the hotel staff have no recollection of his presence.
Directors: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher | Stars: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Honor Blackman
Votes: 2,335
23. Pool of London (1951)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
When their ship docks the crew disembark as usual to pick up their lives in postwar London. For one of them his petty smuggling turns more serious when he finds himself caught up with a robbery in the City.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Earl Cameron
Votes: 1,183
24. La calle sin sol (1948)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
Mauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a pension in Chinatown (today called Raval) and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. ... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Gil | Stars: Amparo Rivelles, Antonio Vilar, Manolo Morán, Alberto Romea
Votes: 116
25. Nada (1947)
76 min | Drama
Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying at her aunt Angustias, along with other ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Conchita Montes, Fosco Giachetti, Maria Denis, María Cañete
Votes: 165
26. Eyes Leave Traces (1952)
100 min | Crime, Drama
Martin, a perfume seller coincide with his former classmate and bright, Roberto, who has left her lover planted tonight. Roberto Martin accompanies her home and meets his wife Berta, which ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Stars: Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Julio Peña, Fernando Fernán Gómez
Votes: 164
27. Barrio (1947)
80 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Milú, Guillermo Marín, Manolo Morán, Fernando Nogueras
Votes: 37
28. La braconne (2013)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Samuel Rondière | Stars: Patrick Chesnais, Rachid Yous, Audrey Bastien, Husky Kihal
Votes: 63
29. Rogue's Yarn (1957)
80 min | Crime, Drama
An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Hugh Latimer
Votes: 190
30. Deep Water (1981)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama
Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.
Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sandrine Kljajic, Éric Frey
Votes: 1,078
31. Heat Wave (2015)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama
In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its corollary, a worrisome lack of water. Everyone is under great pressure, especially the ... See full summary »
Director: Raphaël Jacoulot | Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Grégory Gadebois, Karim Leklou, Carole Franck
Votes: 402
32. Flirting with Fate (1916)
Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy
In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he's hired to end his life.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, Howard Gaye, W.E. Lawrence
Votes: 213
33. Deshonra (1952)
101 min | Crime, Drama
A nurse is framed for murder by negligence. She goes to prison pregnant by her rich boss.
Director: Daniel Tinayre | Stars: Fanny Navarro, Mecha Ortiz, Tita Merello, Jorge Rigaud
Votes: 40
34. 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
35. Confidential (1935)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A federal agent goes undercover to avenge the murder of a friend but one of the gang thinks he seems familiar.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, Warren Hymer, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 134
36. L.A. Confidential (1997)
R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger
Votes: 617,956 | Gross: $64.62M
37. Ruthless (1948)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family, but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet
Votes: 1,409
38. 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
39. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,820 | Gross: $2.24M
40. A Perfect World (1993)
PG-13 | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search for him continues.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther
Votes: 86,943 | Gross: $31.16M
41. Red Rock West (1993)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter is mistaken for a hitman, but when the real hitman arrives, complications ensue.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, Craig Reay
Votes: 25,216 | Gross: $2.50M
42. The Captive City (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A small town newspaperman's investigation into a local bookie operation turns up a web of organized crime.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Marjorie Crossland
Votes: 1,261
43. 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: 1,806
44. The Stranger in Between (1952)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh
Votes: 1,420
45. Panique (1946)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama
After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Émile Drain
Votes: 2,570 | Gross: $0.04M
46. Xue ran hai tang hong (1949)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Feng Yueh | Stars: Guang Bai, Juanjuan Chen, Zhan-Yuan Gao, Qiuxia Gong
Votes: 9
47. Madhumati (1958)
110 min | Fantasy, Musical, Mystery
A young man takes shelter in a mansion when a landslide blocks his route to the railway station. Then, he finds the mansion familiar and soon learns about the story of his previous birth.
Director: Bimal Roy | Stars: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Johnny Walker, Pran Sikand
Votes: 1,581
48. Possession (1944)
80 min | Crime, Drama
The middle-aged manufacturer Jens Steen is on his way to his summer house by the sea to rest for a few days. All alone. At the same time, the 20-year-old Else Petersen is out on the road ... See full summary »
Director: Bodil Ipsen | Stars: Johannes Meyer, Berthe Qvistgaard, Aage Fønss, Poul Reichhardt
Votes: 56
49. Kala Pani (1958)
164 min | Crime, Musical, Romance
Based on A.J.Cronin's 'Beyond This Place', this movie narrates the story of an untiring crusade for justice. A young man, learning about his father's wrongful implication in a ... See full summary »
Director: Raj Khosla | Stars: Dev Anand, Madhubala, Nalini Jaywant, Agha
Votes: 357
50. Rakkauden risti (1946)
99 min | Drama, Romance
The daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she finds herself selling herself in the streets, until a painter finds her as an ideal model for his next painting.
Director: Teuvo Tulio | Stars: Regina Linnanheimo, Oscar Tengström, Ville Salminen, Rauli Tuomi
Votes: 234
51. Tragic Hunt (1947)
89 min | Action, Drama
Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.
Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi, Carla Del Poggio, Vittorio Duse
Votes: 266
52. Closed Door (1939)
105 min | Drama
Nina Miranda leaves after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth. He remembers the boyfriend who chose his love ... See full summary »
Directors: John Alton, Luis Saslavsky | Stars: Libertad Lamarque, Angelina Pagano, Agustín Irusta, Ángel Magaña
Votes: 51
53. Lights in the Dusk (2006)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Drama
In Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Janne Hyytiäinen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Maria Heiskanen, Ilkka Koivula
Votes: 7,874 | Gross: $0.01M
54. 8MM (1999)
R | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare
Votes: 142,756 | Gross: $36.66M
55. La corona negra (1951)
106 min | Drama, Mystery
An amnesiac woman discovers her past was that of criminal.
Director: Luis Saslavsky | Stars: María Félix, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman, José María Lado
Votes: 129
56. Express Train from Andalucía (1956)
80 min | Crime
The handsome Andrade, the undergraduate Miguel and a street vendor called 'El Rubio' plan to steal a shipment of jewelry traveling aboard the express train of Andalusia. But to carry out ... See full summary »
Director: Francisco Rovira Beleta | Stars: Jorge Mistral, Marisa de Leza, Mara Berni, Vicente Parra
Votes: 116
57. Delo N. 306 (1956)
81 min | Crime, Mystery
While investigating a regular traffic accident, detectives find evidence of foreign intelligence involvement.
Director: Anatoli Rybakov | Stars: Boris Bityukov, Mark Bernes, Tatyana Piletskaya, Konstantin Nassonov
Votes: 115
58. Az se vrátís (1948)
87 min | Crime, Drama
Gloomy gallery tenement house in the suburbs is crowded with people, discontent with their fate. Symbol of better life is for them a worn-out bag of old lady Sachová, and they think their ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Krska | Stars: Otýlie Benísková, Václav Voska, Jaromír Spal, Jirina Stránská
Votes: 17
59. Sapphire (1959)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Paul Massie
Votes: 2,308
60. Ölüm pesimizde (1960)
93 min | Crime, Drama
Burhan works as a driver in the factory where his father works. At the same time, he is in preparation for marriage with Zehra, one of the factory workers. Zehra's older brother Hüsnü plans a robbery with Namik, the factory's accountant.
Director: Memduh Ün | Stars: Ayhan Isik, Fatma Girik, Nilüfer Sezer, Reha Yurdakul
Votes: 27
61. A Dama do Cine Shanghai (1987)
115 min | Crime, Mystery
Real estate broker and former boxer enters an old cinema in the decadent downtown São Paulo and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much alike the leading lady of the film. He ... See full summary »
Directors: Guilherme de Almeida Prado, Sara Silveira | Stars: Maitê Proença, Antônio Fagundes, José Lewgoy, Jorge Dória
Votes: 292
62. Dark Waters (1944)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A woman returns to the USA after a German U-boat sank her ship, and finds out that someone wants to kill her for her inheritance.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter
Votes: 1,095
63. Call Northside 777 (1948)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker
Votes: 10,241
64. Tightrope (1984)
R | 114 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer, but when he gets too close the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.
Directors: Richard Tuggle, Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood
Votes: 19,187 | Gross: $48.14M
65. Una mujer cualquiera (1949)
89 min | Crime, Drama
A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.
Director: Rafael Gil | Stars: María Félix, Antonio Vilar, Mary Delgado, Juan Espantaleón
Votes: 57
66. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Votes: 97,375 | Gross: $0.65M
67. The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued after the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
Votes: 3,962
68. 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: 11,090
69. Odd Man Out (1947)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick
Votes: 11,420
70. Non coupable (1947)
95 min | Crime, Drama
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Michel Simon, Jany Holt, Jean Wall, Georges Bréhat
Votes: 283
71. La diosa arrodillada (1947)
PG | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A artist model who leads the ever hapless Arturo de Córdova away from the arms of his innocent, blue-eyed wife and down, down, down into the ecstatic depths of degradation which include a stop at seedy Panamanian nightclub.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: María Félix, Arturo de Córdova, Rosario Granados, Fortunio Bonanova
Votes: 362
72. Vagabunda (1950)
86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Tired of working in seedy places, a stripper turns to prostitution in the streets.
Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Antonio Badú, Leticia Palma, Luis Beristáin, Irma Dorantes
Votes: 33
73. Lady in Distress (1940)
59 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A passerby witnesses a murder through the windows of a passing train, then tries to track down the killer.
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sally Gray, Paul Lukas, Hartley Power
Votes: 390
74. Black Patch (1957)
Passed | 82 min | Western
In a New Mexico town, two former pals from the Civil War meet again but one is the town marshal and the other is a wanted bank robber.
Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman, Leo Gordon
Votes: 331
75. Prime Cut (1972)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins
Votes: 5,860 | Gross: $0.52M
76. The Lost Moment (1947)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet to find his lost love letters.
Director: Martin Gabel | Stars: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring
Votes: 1,332
77. El deseo (1944)
Director: Carlos Schlieper | Stars: Roberto Airaldi, Dario Cossier, Homero Cárpena, Delfy de Ortega
Votes: 26
78. I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a spy for Germany.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard
Votes: 1,761
79. The Man Between (1953)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smuggler.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Geoffrey Toone
Votes: 2,526
80. Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes elsewhere.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison
Votes: 3,123
81. Ardh Satya (1983)
130 min | Crime, Drama
A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Shafi Inamdar
Votes: 2,043
82. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama
After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats
Votes: 12,204
83. Forbidden (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Thriller
An ex-serviceman plans to escape his faithless wife.
Director: George King | Stars: Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Patricia Burke, Garry Marsh
Votes: 216
84. Beware, My Lovely (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mentally disturbed handyman on the run, for reasons even he doesn't understand, takes a job at the house of a lonely war widow in 1918.
Director: Harry Horner | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting
Votes: 2,347
85. El hombre que debía una muerte (1955)
80 min | Drama, Thriller
A young woman receives a stranger in her home who has an accident, they both get married and she inherits a fortune due to the death of her uncle. Later, she will discover that there is a connection between the events.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Amelia Bence, Carlos Cores, Nelly Panizza, Héctor Méndez
Votes: 32
86. Blood on the Moon (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
Unemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan
Votes: 3,496
87. The Fugitive (1939)
76 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard, Romney Brent, Mary Clare
Votes: 312
88. 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: 167,485 | Gross: $5.72M
89. I Walk Alone (1947)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey
Votes: 3,291
90. Hell's Half Acre (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An American woman goes to Hawaii to search for her husband, MIA since the war, but he's a fugitive from the law and involved in a private feud against his former crime syndicate partners.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor
Votes: 627
91. Frantic (1988)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Djiby Soumare
Votes: 57,816 | Gross: $17.64M
92. The October Man (1947)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Mystery
When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh
Votes: 1,500
93. Town on Trial (1957)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
At a local tennis club in a posh London suburb, an attractive but flirty young woman is murdered, prompting a Scotland Yard investigation.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates, Derek Farr
Votes: 849
94. The Long Memory (1953)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released from prison after twelve years, a wrongfully convicted British man seeks revenge on the witnesses who lied at his trial.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh
Votes: 1,286
95. Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 582
96. 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: 166,601 | Gross: $2.11M
97. 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: 90,532 | Gross: $6.54M
98. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 236,494
99. Port of Shadows (1938)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur
Votes: 9,963 | Gross: $0.03M
100. Daïnah la métisse (1932)
51 min | Drama
Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation... See full summary »
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Charles Vanel, Habib Benglia, Gaston Dubosc, Lucien Guérard
Votes: 275
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