FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows

Whirlpool (1950)

IMDb: 6.7
1950

A woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her Soon afterwards, shes found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence

Woman on the Run (1950)

IMDb: 7.2
1950

Frank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder Hes pursued around San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the killer

The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)

IMDb: 6.0
1945

A scientist who has found a way to prolong life he is 120 years old finds himself in a dilemma he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered that if he doesnt get new glands, he will die

Womens Prison (1955)

IMDb: 6.5
1955

A sadistic prison warden takes out her sexual frustration on her women inmates While a caring physician tries to improve the jails brutal atmosphere, a pair of rebellious inmates take matters into their own hands

Not as a Stranger (1955)

IMDb: 6.7
1955

An ego driven, aspiring physician, intolerant of the weaknesses of others, especially those closest to him, comes to grips with his own imperfections

Thunder on the Hill (1951)

IMDb: 6.7
1951

Convicted murderess Valerie Carns Ann Blyth is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital Nurse Sister Mary Claudette Colbert becomes convinced of her innocence and

Girl on the Run (1953)

IMDb: 5.2
1953

Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater

He Ran All the Way (1951)

IMDb: 7.0
1951

Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manh

The Fearmakers (1958)

IMDb: 6.2
1958

A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D C only to discover his business partner had died and their public research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth

Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

IMDb: 5.7
1941

Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

IMDb: 8.2
1932

Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him

Black Tuesday (1954)

IMDb: 6.6
1954

Gangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair

The Return of the Whistler (1948)

IMDb: 6.3
1948

On the eve of his marriage, a young mans fiance disappears He hires a private detective to help him track her down, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of lies, intrigue and murder revolving around his fiances dead ex hus

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

IMDb: 6.8
1945

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises hap

Saigon (1947)

IMDb: 6.3
1947

After WW2, two army buddies, one of them terminally ill, embark on a series of adventures in South East Asia and run across a dangerous criminal and his pretty secretary

A Womans Vengeance (1948)

IMDb: 6.8
1948

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected

Pickup on South Street (1953)

IMDb: 7.7
1953

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring

Lady on a Train (1945)

IMDb: 6.8
1945

In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder

One Way Street (1950)

IMDb: 6.5
1950

After stealing a gangsters money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico

Cornered (1945)

IMDb: 6.6
1945

Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina

The Power of the Whistler (1945)

IMDb: 6.3
1945

A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets

The Man I Love (1946)

IMDb: 6.7
1946

A homesick, no nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast Eventually she falls in love with a down and out ex jazz pianist

Conflict (1945)

IMDb: 7.1
1945

An engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister

A Night of Adventure (1944)

IMDb: 6.2
1944

A wealthy lawyer begins to suspect that his inattention to his wife is making her cheat on him When he discovers the truth hes charged with murder

Violent Saturday (1955)

IMDb: 6.9
1955

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly

The Desperate Hours (1955)

IMDb: 7.5
1955

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household

Fallen Angel (1945)

IMDb: 7.1
1945

A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for

Man in the Dark (1953)

IMDb: 6.2
1953

Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

IMDb: 7.6
1947

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs Bannister, seaman Michael OHara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot

Touch of Evil (1958)

IMDb: 8.0
1958

A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town

The Unfaithful (1947)

IMDb: 6.8
1947

A Los Angeles socialite kills a man while home alone one night and claims he was an intruder she did not know It seems like a clear case of self defense until the story hits the papers and people connected to the dead man come forwa

CrackUp (1946)

IMDb: 6.5
1946

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck which never happened Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot

Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

IMDb: 6.9
1954

An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld

The Glass Web (1953)

IMDb: 6.6
1953

A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed

Temptation (1946)

IMDb: 6.2
1946

In a flashback, late Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcee with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies Bored, Ruby undertakes to recover a friends

The Night Runner (1957)

IMDb: 5.9
1957

A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood Realizing that he cant handle the pressures of big city life, and not wanting to com