FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows - Page 8

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

Undercurrent (1946)

IMDb: 6.5
1946

Middle aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her

World for Ransom (1954)

IMDb: 5.8
1954

In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder

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

Split Second (1953)

IMDb: 6.9
1953

Two escaped killers take hostages and hide in a Nevada mining ghost town knowing that an atom bomb is scheduled to be tested there the next morning

The Breaking Point (1950)

IMDb: 7.5
1950

An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat

Private Hell 36 (1954)

IMDb: 6.7
1954

When 2 detectives steal 80,000 from a dead robber, one of them suffers from a guilty conscience which could lead to murder

The Lost Weekend (1945)

IMDb: 7.9
1945

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout

Rope of Sand (1949)

IMDb: 6.8
1949

A man abused by a sadistic mining company cop before he could tell where on their desert property hed found diamonds decides to steal them instead

D.O.A. (1949)

IMDb: 7.3
1949

Frank Bigelow, told hes been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why

The Desperate Hours (1955)

IMDb: 7.5
1955

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household

Sirocco (1951)

IMDb: 6.3
1951

A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation

No Mans Woman (1955)

IMDb: 6.3
1955

The police investigates five possible suspects in the murder of a greedy and scheming woman who wronged them

The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

IMDb: 6.4
1950

Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware shes the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier

Murder, My Sweet (1944)

IMDb: 7.6
1944

After being hired to find an ex cons former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit

Cry of the City (1948)

IMDb: 7.2
1948

Police Lieut Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop killer Martin Rome

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

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

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

IMDb: 7.8
1943

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

Double Indemnity (1944)

IMDb: 8.3
1944

An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murderinsurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator

Scarlet Street (1945)

IMDb: 7.8
1945

A man in mid life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiance persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses

The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)

IMDb: 5.4
1957

A party girl is murdered, and everyone at a Utah motel is a suspect

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

Criss Cross (1949)

IMDb: 7.5
1949

An armored truck driver and his ex wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route

Panic in the Streets (1950)

IMDb: 7.3
1950

A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague

Lured (1947)

IMDb: 7.0
1947

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops

Female on the Beach (1955)

IMDb: 6.3
1955

Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives

Pitfall (1948)

IMDb: 7.2
1948

Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result

Phantom Lady (1944)

IMDb: 7.2
1944

A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didnt murder his selfish wife

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

IMDb: 6.8
1945

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises hap

Kiss of Death (1947)

IMDb: 7.4
1947

Nick Bianco is caught during a botched jewellery heist The prosecution offer him a more lenient sentence if he squeals on his accomplices but he doesnt roll over on them Three years into the sentence an event changes his mind

In a Lonely Place (1950)

IMDb: 8.0
1950

A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him However, she soon starts to have her doubts

So Dark the Night (1946)

IMDb: 6.3
1946

Paris police detective Cassin has a well needed vacation at a rural inn, where the owners adult daughter shows interest in him but she has a jealous boyfriend Will Cassin need his skills