FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows - Page 5

Caught (1949)

IMDb: 7.0
1949

An L A department store ambitious young model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isnt always a happy one

Smooth as Silk (1946)

IMDb: 6.4
1946

An attorney, engaged to an actress, gains acquittal for a wealthy playboy accused of manslaughter The actress, anxious to play the lead in a production backed by the uncle of the playboy, neglects her fiancee in favor of the playboy

The Turning Point (1952)

IMDb: 6.7
1952

Jerry McKibbon is a tough, no nonsense reporter, mentoring special prosecutor John Conroy in routing out corrupt officials in the city, which may even include Conroys own police detective father as a suspect

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

His Kind of Woman (1951)

IMDb: 7.1
1951

A deported gangsters plan to re enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle

The Big Combo (1955)

IMDb: 7.3
1955

A police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr Brown because he hasnt been able to get any hard evidence against him He goes after Browns girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead

Accused of Murder (1956)

IMDb: 5.6
1956

Police detective falls for singer, gets involved with gangster killing

Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)

IMDb: 6.6
1949

US Treasury agent George Morton persuades convicted criminal Johnny Evans to help him destroy a drug smuggling ring in exchange for early parole

The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

IMDb: 6.9
1949

Assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunts estate

High Tide (1947)

IMDb: 6.3
1947

A fast moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles It overturns and its occupants, Tim Slade, Newspaper man turned private investigator, and Hugh Fresney, managing editor of the Los Ange

Illegal (1955)

IMDb: 7.0
1955

After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientele

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

Flamingo Road (1949)

IMDb: 7.1
1949

A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer

Blonde Ice (1948)

IMDb: 6.0
1948

A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances

Raw Deal (1948)

IMDb: 7.2
1948

Joe Sullivan Dennis OKeefe has taken the rap for Rick Raymond Burr who double crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him

Violated (1953)

IMDb: 5.1
1953

Psycho stalks the streets of Greenwich Village, killing and scalping his victims

Step Down to Terror (1958)

IMDb: 6.1
1958

A killer on the lam takes refuge in his childhood home where his mother and widowed sister in law are ignorant of his criminal past

Girls in Prison (1956)

IMDb: 5.2
1956

Anne Carson, meeting the seamy side of prison life, finds that everyone thinks she knows where unrecovered bank loot is

Terror on a Train (1953)

IMDb: 6.0
1953

After a terrorist plants a bomb on board a train, the police call in an army bomb disposal expert to find and dismantle it, but once it has been made safe, he has another shock in store

The Underworld Story (1950)

IMDb: 7.0
1950

The story of the fight of a small town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces

The Prowler (1951)

IMDb: 7.2
1951

After Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly If only her husband wasnt in the way

The Burglar (1957)

IMDb: 6.6
1957

Dan Duryea and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City

Quicksand (1950)

IMDb: 6.6
1950

After taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control

Follow Me Quietly (1949)

IMDb: 6.5
1949

An obsessed cop tracks an elusive serial killer who strangles his victims on rainy nights

The Girl in the Kremlin (1957)

IMDb: 5.4
1957

In 1953, Soviet dictator Stalin fakes his own death, undergoes plastic surgery and vanishes but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe

Hot Cars (1956)

IMDb: 6.4
1956

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

Western Pacific Agent (1950)

IMDb: 5.9
1950

Detectives for the Western Pacific Railroad investigate several murders, including one of a railroad payroll agent

World in My Corner (1956)

IMDb: 6.4
1956

Up and coming ambitious boxer Tommy Shea must choose between making dishonest money with crooked promoter Harry Cram or honestly winning a title, as advised by his manager Dave Bernstein

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

A Bullet for Joey (1955)

IMDb: 6.0
1955

In Montreal Canada, a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress, are all involved

Voice of the Whistler (1945)

IMDb: 6.3
1945

The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, The Whistler, finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long vacation Heading for the Great Lakes, he becom

The Unseen (1945)

IMDb: 5.9
1945

A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl Strange occurrences and the governesss curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door

Mr. Arkadin (1955)

IMDb: 7.2
1955

An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold war European landscape

Beware, My Lovely (1952)

IMDb: 6.6
1952

A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely war widow

The Big Knife (1955)

IMDb: 6.8
1955

Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover up to protect his valuable career

The Big Heat (1953)

IMDb: 8.0
1953

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate