FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows

Shakedown (1950)

IMDb: 7.1
1950

Unscrupulous and opportunistic San Francisco news media photographer Jack Early steps on and uses folks to get ahead, but in the end he tangles with the wrong people

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

Street of Chance (1942)

IMDb: 6.3
1942

After an accident, a New York man with amnesia finds out the ugly truth about his real identity and past by interacting with people who seem to know him well

Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

IMDb: 6.8
1939

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm His love for the foremans daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older mans death due to a weak hea

Moonrise (1948)

IMDb: 7.1
1948

Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death

Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)

IMDb: 6.1
1957

During the 1950s Madrid, an American veteran pilot with a gambling problem is forced to accept a high paying dangerous smuggling job

Thieves Highway (1949)

IMDb: 7.5
1949

A war veteran turned truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw

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

City Streets (1931)

IMDb: 7.0
1931

Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison

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

The Chase (1946)

IMDb: 6.5
1946

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman but Chucks involvement with Eddies fearful wife becomes a nightmare

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

The Secret of the Whistler (1946)

IMDb: 6.3
1946

An artist married to a wealthy but ill woman begins an affair with one of his models, who is after him solely for his money His wife discovers the affair and threatens to cut him out of her will In order to be able to keep both

The Thirteenth Hour (1947)

IMDb: 6.4
1947

In the 7th of Columbias Whistler series, truck firm owner Steve Reynolds gets involved in a feud with a rival firm, and shortly thereafter is slugged by a masked assailant who steals the truck he is driving The assailant runs

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

Moontide (1942)

IMDb: 6.8
1942

In California, Bobo and his mooching pal Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery

Act of Violence (1948)

IMDb: 7.5
1948

An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his mens planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp

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

Tight Spot (1955)

IMDb: 6.6
1955

A female inmate is whisked out of prison and into a police guarded hotel until the district attorney can convince her to testify against the mob in the upcoming trial

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Dark Mirror (1946)

IMDb: 7.1
1946

A man is found murdered, and witnesses are sure about the woman they saw leaving his apartment However, it becomes apparent that the woman has a twin, and finding out which one is the killer seems impossible

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)

IMDb: 6.5
1950

Prowl car cops on night duty romance a reluctant young lady while in danger from a vengeful racketeer

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

Witness to Murder (1954)

IMDb: 6.7
1954

A womans sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window

Crashout (1955)

IMDb: 7.0
1955

The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot