FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows - Page 2

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

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 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

After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity

At Californias Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden

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

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

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wifes lover

A lonely, mentally unbalanced woman invents a fictitious daughter and has the daughter write to a Marine stationed in the South Pacific When the soldier returns to the States, he goes to look up his pen pal and is told by the

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

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

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

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

In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery

A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business He has to battle big city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison

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 man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit

When ruthlessly dedicated postal inspector investigates the murder of a co worker, he finds that the sole witness, a nun, has been targeted by the killers

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

An artist forms an attachment with a woman on holiday in the country As the relationship develops, his behavior and information about his past cause her increasing concern

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

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 After more ghostly manifestatio

An American gangster sent back to his home country falls in love with a widowed countess

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

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

A salt of earth family man needs money for his sick son, and decides to keep a job at a used car lot despite realizing it is selling stolen cars

Vicious hood Red Kluger escapes from Folsom State Prison and follows through on his threats to the detective who arrested him and the D A who convicted him

Failed singer Marian Washburn confesses she shot her friend, successful singer Susan Caldwell, but her manager Luke Jordan and Detective Fowler doubt her story and cannot establish a reasonable motive