FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows - Page 3

Calling Dr Death (1943)

IMDb: 6.1
1943

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

The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)

IMDb: 6.9
1951

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

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

The Scarlet Hour (1956)

IMDb: 6.9
1956

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

The Woman in the Window (1944)

IMDb: 7.7
1944

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

Ride the Pink Horse (1947)

IMDb: 7.3
1947

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

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

IMDb: 7.2
1946

An ex bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife

Dark Passage (1947)

IMDb: 7.5
1947

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence

The Big Sleep (1946)

IMDb: 7.9
1946

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

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

IMDb: 8.0
1955

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

The Glass Key (1942)

IMDb: 7.1
1942

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

House of Strangers (1949)

IMDb: 7.4
1949

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

Highway Dragnet (1954)

IMDb: 6.3
1954

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

The Violent Years (1956)

IMDb: 3.4
1956

Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents who cant seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all girl gang who rob and rape young men

Crime Wave (1953)

IMDb: 7.3
1953

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

The Third Man (1949)

IMDb: 8.1
1949

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime

Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

IMDb: 7.6
1945

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

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

IMDb: 7.9
1950

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel

Brute Force (1947)

IMDb: 7.6
1947

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power mad chief guard

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

The Killer Is Loose (1956)

IMDb: 6.6
1956

An unhinged, deceptively mild mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle

Ace in the Hole (1951)

IMDb: 8.1
1951

A frustrated former big city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out of control circus

Woman in Hiding (1950)

IMDb: 6.9
1950

After her father is killed in an accident, mill heiress Deborah Chandler marries the plant manager, Selden Clark, but his motives are suspicious

Nobody Lives Forever (1946)

IMDb: 7.0
1946

Ex GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts

I Became a Criminal (1947)

IMDb: 7.2
1947

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black market smugglers thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policemans murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge

Lady in the Lake (1946)

IMDb: 6.6
1946

The lady editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder

The Houston Story (1956)

IMDb: 6.1
1956

In Houston, a man working as an oil driller comes up with a scheme for stealing millions of dollars worth of oil from the fields He insinuates himself with a local mobster in order to get financing for his scheme

Dead End (1937)

IMDb: 7.3
1937

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum

Slightly Scarlet (1956)

IMDb: 6.7
1956

An urban wheeler dealer gets involved in organized crime, corrupt city politics and graft while falling in love with the fiancee of the newly elected mayor

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

IMDb: 7.1
1949

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

The Accused (1949)

IMDb: 6.8
1949

A beautiful psychology professor tries to hide a self defense killing

Thunderbolt (1929)

IMDb: 6.6
1929

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolts girl Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution

Step by Step (1946)

IMDb: 6.3
1946

Johnny, an ex Marine, and Evelyn, a chance acquaintance, find themselves caught up in a plot involving Nazi spies in California

Johnny Eager (1941)

IMDb: 7.1
1941

The step daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned

The Brothers Rico (1957)

IMDb: 6.8
1957

A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities