FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows - Page 9

Ladies in Retirement (1941)

IMDb: 7.1
1941

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results

Blues in the Night (1941)

IMDb: 6.7
1941

Jigger Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger Character Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play blues music The dedication

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

Gilda (1946)

IMDb: 7.6
1946

A small time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employers new wife is his former lover

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

Call Northside 777 (1948)

IMDb: 7.4
1948

Chicago reporter P J McNeal re opens a decade old murder case

Thunder Road (1958)

IMDb: 6.6
1958

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

Somewhere in the Night (1946)

IMDb: 7.1
1946

George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3 year old murder case and a hunt for a missing 2 million

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

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

IMDb: 7.6
1950

Det Sgt Mark Dixon wants to be something his old man wasnt a guy on the right side of the law Will Dixons vicious nature get the better of him

Champion (1949)

IMDb: 7.4
1949

Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame mainly by stepping on other people

5 Against the House (1955)

IMDb: 5.9
1955

Four college buddies enjoying a night at a Reno casino are told by a cop that robbing the casino "cannot be done." That gets the brainiest rich kid among them thinking up a plan for the perfect robbery. He convinces the others to join in when they he

A Blueprint for Murder (1953)

IMDb: 6.7
1953

Whitney Cameron suspects his sister in law has poisoned his brother and niece, but without proof how does he prevent the murder of his nephew

Bait (1954)

IMDb: 5.9
1954

A beautiful blonde leads a man down the road to ruin

The Shadow on the Window (1957)

IMDb: 6.2
1957

Three young thugs rob a farmhouse, kill the owner and take his stenographer hostage but the womans estranged husband, a police detective, starts investigating her disappearance

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

Jeopardy (1953)

IMDb: 6.8
1953

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

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

Gorilla at Large (1954)

IMDb: 5.3
1954

At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla or someone in a gorilla suit

Pillow of Death (1945)

IMDb: 6.1
1945

An unfaithful attorney is suspected of murdering his wife

Dead Mans Eyes (1944)

IMDb: 6.1
1944

When an artist is blinded, his fiancees father offers an operation to restore his sight When the benefactor suddenly dies, the artist becomes a suspect

The Window (1949)

IMDb: 7.4
1949

To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9 year old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him

The Accused (1949)

IMDb: 6.8
1949

A beautiful psychology professor tries to hide a self defense killing

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

A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)

IMDb: 5.5
1954

After crashing their small plane in the wilderness, a sheriff deputy and his prisoner take shelter at an isolated farm

Outside the Law (1956)

IMDb: 6.4
1956

An ex con is given the chance to redeem himself, and revenge the murder of an old army buddy, by going undercover in Germany and helping the authorities break up a ring of international counterfeiters who will stop at nothing, includ

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

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

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

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

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

Dead Reckoning (1947)

IMDb: 7.1
1947

A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow

Sudden Fear (1952)

IMDb: 7.5
1952

After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her

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

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

IMDb: 7.1
1945

Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency, with a wealthy widow, Mrs Hughes, and goes to live at her house 2 days later, she awakens in a different house, in different clothes, and with a new identity