FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows

Born to Kill (1947)

IMDb: 7.2
1947

A calculating divorcee risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesnt love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister

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

Johnny Angel (1945)

IMDb: 6.3
1945

When a New Orleans merchant ship captain finds his fathers sister ship derelict at sea, he investigates the crews mysterious disappearance amid rumors of a smuggled gold cargo

Possessed (1947)

IMDb: 7.2
1947

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there

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

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

Death of a Scoundrel (1956)

IMDb: 6.9
1956

The New York police investigates the murder of a Czech immigrant whose rags to riches story is told by his secretary to homicide detectives

The Sleeping City (1950)

IMDb: 6.8
1950

In New York, the murder of a Bellvue Hospital intern prompts the police to send an undercover detective to investigate

Abandoned (1949)

IMDb: 6.6
1949

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

Murder by Contract (1958)

IMDb: 7.3
1958

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer until he finds his next target is a woman

Six Bridges to Cross (1955)

IMDb: 6.9
1955

The emotional story of a lifelong friendship between a Boston rookie cop and a young street wise delinquent

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

Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

IMDb: 6.9
1954

An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld

The Stranger (1946)

IMDb: 7.4
1946

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi

The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

IMDb: 6.6
1941

In Shanghai, dragon lady Mother Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out of business

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 Web (1947)

IMDb: 7.1
1947

An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employers life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered

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

Midnight (1934)

IMDb: 5.5
1934

The foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion On the night of the execution, his actions come back to haunt him

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

The Guilty (1947)

IMDb: 6.2
1947

Two guys, sharing an apartment, meet twin girls both Bonita Granville Ones sweet, the other a major piece of bad news The nice one is murdered and her boyfriend is accused of the crime The wrong man wrong victim plot strikes

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

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

One Way Street (1950)

IMDb: 6.5
1950

After stealing a gangsters money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico

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

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 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

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

The Desperate Hours (1955)

IMDb: 7.5
1955

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household

Call Northside 777 (1948)

IMDb: 7.4
1948

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

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

Body and Soul (1947)

IMDb: 7.6
1947

A talented boxers young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him

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

Escape in the Fog (1945)

IMDb: 5.9
1945

During WW2, an army nurse on RampR in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G man by Nazi agents

Nightfall (1956)

IMDb: 7.2
1956

Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers