FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows - Page 2

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 step by step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York

Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I

A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious great whatsit

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs Her drive to advance Bills career soon takes her down a dangerous path

When a San Francisco priest is murdered, a policeman, whos a close friend, starts an investigation

A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the Merry Widow killer sought by the authorities

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

When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket

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

The arrival in Las Vegas of a businessman and his glamorous wife creates a complex web of murder and deceit

In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation

Johnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way Will Johnny be next in line

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

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

The story of a cafe singer who buys a gambling casino, and the men who fall in love with her

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

War hero recovers from amnesia amp is confronted by his criminal past

While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead frie

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother

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

A doctor is not sure if he murdered his beautiful but wicked wife, and has his attractive nurse try to find the truth by hypnotizing him

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

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

An engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister

An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill fated jewelry heist

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids

When a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, hes plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder

WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family Before the complex case is over, hes seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love

A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the 10,000 hed stolen in a robbery

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re election campaign

After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective

Wrongly accused of killing a bar girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter

A writer falls in love with a young socialite and theyre soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them