FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows - Page 6

Code of Scotland Yard (1947)

IMDb: 6.7
1947

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

The Hoodlum (1951)

IMDb: 6.2
1951

Paroled sociopath and career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his familys trust when he masterminds a complex armored car robbery

Whiplash (1948)

IMDb: 6.5
1948

A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoters night club singing sister

San Quentin (1937)

IMDb: 6.5
1937

An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate

An Act of Murder (1948)

IMDb: 7.0
1948

A hard line judge is tempted toward mercy killing by his wifes terminal cancer

Nightmare Alley (1947)

IMDb: 7.8
1947

The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall

The Mob (1951)

IMDb: 7.0
1951

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

M (1951)

IMDb: 6.8
1951

In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious killer who preys on small children

Ransom! (1956)

IMDb: 7.0
1956

After the child of wealthy parents gets abducted, the police and a member of the press intervene to assist the parents in their search but end up complicating their impending decisions

The Price of Fear (1956)

IMDb: 6.3
1956

The co owner of a dog track is framed for two crimes the shotgun killing of his ex partner and the hit and run death of an elderly man

Jeopardy (1953)

IMDb: 6.8
1953

A family vacationing on the coast of Mexico have to cope with multiple threats to their safety

Abandoned (1949)

IMDb: 6.6
1949

Newspaperman helps girl find her sisters illegitimate baby, gets mixed up in baby adoption racket

Screaming Mimi (1958)

IMDb: 5.8
1958

Exotic dancer Virginia Wilson sees a man get shot moments after he tries to knife her in a shower, so she goes to Dr Greenwood a psychiatrist for therapy He falls in love with her and takes over her life, although she insists on co

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)

IMDb: 6.8
1948

Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment

Tokyo Joe (1949)

IMDb: 6.3
1949

An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities

The Last Crooked Mile (1946)

IMDb: 6.2
1946

After a bank robbery, the loot disappears and is sought after by an insurance investigator, the police and the surviving robbers

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

IMDb: 6.8
1940

An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a cafe owners throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself

All the Kings Men (1949)

IMDb: 7.5
1949

The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal

Crossfire (1947)

IMDb: 7.3
1947

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar But which one And why

They Wont Believe Me (1947)

IMDb: 7.2
1947

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death

The Face Behind the Mask (1941)

IMDb: 7.2
1941

A disfigured watch maker with a grudge against society embarks on a life of crime

I Wouldnt Be in Your Shoes (1948)

IMDb: 6.5
1948

A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer

Rogue Cop (1954)

IMDb: 6.7
1954

After witnessing a murder, honest cop Eddie Kelvaney is silenced by gangster Dan Beaumonte, prompting Eddies brother, Detective Chris Kelvaney, to search for the killer

Loan Shark (1952)

IMDb: 6.3
1952

At the request of factory owners and union leaders, a tough ex con infiltrates a gang of loan sharks who are preying on financially desperate factory workers

Flame of the Islands (1955)

IMDb: 6.0
1955

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

Chicago Syndicate (1955)

IMDb: 6.5
1955

An ex military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda

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

Pushover (1954)

IMDb: 7.1
1954

Undercover cop falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run and together they plan to double cross the hood and the cops

Fury (1936)

IMDb: 7.9
1936

When a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder

Girl on the Run (1953)

IMDb: 5.2
1953

Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater

Clash by Night (1952)

IMDb: 7.1
1952

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae Mae marries Jerry and has a baby she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerrys friend Earl

Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)

IMDb: 6.4
1948

During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign nuclear spy ring operating in the USA and the UK

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

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

IMDb: 6.9
1956

A novelist aided by his future father in law conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban capital punishment

I Walk Alone (1947)

IMDb: 7.1
1947

Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex partner But Prohibition bootlegging didnt prepare Frankie for Big Business

Born to Be Bad (1950)

IMDb: 6.7
1950

A womans attempt to appear innocent and sweet clashes with her lover who sees through her act and the wealthy man she tries to trick into marrying her