FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows

Because of You (1952)

IMDb: 6.4
1952

A female ex con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past

Nora Prentiss (1947)

IMDb: 7.1
1947

A doctor spins an ever growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer

The Boss (1956)

IMDb: 6.3
1956

Political corruption is vividly depicted as a ruthless WWI veteran takes almost complete control of a state with the help of a crooked lawyer The film is enhanced by John Paynes persuasive performance as The Boss

A Womans Devotion (1956)

IMDb: 6.0
1956

A newly married American couple vacationing in Mexico is prevented by the police from leaving Acapulco when the husband becomes prime suspect in a local girls homicide

The Unguarded Moment (1956)

IMDb: 6.3
1956

A beautiful teacher is protective of a high school boy who sexually harassed her, and later he becomes a murder suspect

The Docks of New York (1928)

IMDb: 7.5
1928

A blue collar worker on New Yorks depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide

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

Rumble on the Docks (1956)

IMDb: 5.5
1956

Crime drama concerning the coming of age of a Brooklyn born 17 year old whose loyalty is torn between his parents old fashion values and a local gangsters flashy lifestyle

The Chase (1946)

IMDb: 6.5
1946

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman but Chucks involvement with Eddies fearful wife becomes a nightmare

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

They Live by Night (1948)

IMDb: 7.5
1948

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning

Touch of Evil (1958)

IMDb: 8.0
1958

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

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

Too Late for Tears (1949)

IMDb: 7.3
1949

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

Two OClock Courage (1945)

IMDb: 6.5
1945

A confused man with a gash on his head stumbles into the taxi cab of Patty Mitchell He says that he cant recall his own name, any facts about his life or even what he was doing before he got in the cab

Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

IMDb: 5.7
1941

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

Double Indemnity (1944)

IMDb: 8.3
1944

An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murderinsurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator

The Phenix City Story (1955)

IMDb: 7.2
1955

A crime busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town

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

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

Underworld (1927)

IMDb: 7.6
1927

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weeds girlfriend

Vice Squad (1953)

IMDb: 6.6
1953

Police procedural film following a few cases assigned to LAPD captain of detectives Barnie Barnaby

On Dangerous Ground (1951)

IMDb: 7.3
1951

Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case

The Lost Weekend (1945)

IMDb: 7.9
1945

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout

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

Human Desire (1954)

IMDb: 7.1
1954

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co workers wife following a murder on a train where they meet

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

Ruthless (1948)

IMDb: 6.9
1948

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

Girl on the Run (1953)

IMDb: 5.2
1953

Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater

Party Girl (1958)

IMDb: 7.0
1958

Lawyer Tommy Farrell is a defender of crooks Vicki Gaye encourages him to go straight, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise

Cause for Alarm (1951)

IMDb: 6.4
1951

An invalid husband Barry Sullivan wrongly believes his wife Loretta Young and doctor Bruce Cowling are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway

Mysterious Intruder (1946)

IMDb: 6.4
1946

Amid murders and kidnappings, a private detective is hired to find a missing girl whose family inheritance contains two rare collectible song recordings worth a lot of money

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

Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)

IMDb: 5.9
1942

A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress

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

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