FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows

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

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

Flamingo Road (1949)

IMDb: 7.1
1949

A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer

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

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

Shockproof (1949)

IMDb: 6.5
1949

A parole officer falls in love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and hes determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend

The Fearmakers (1958)

IMDb: 6.2
1958

A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D C only to discover his business partner had died and their public research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth

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 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

Mr. Arkadin (1955)

IMDb: 7.2
1955

An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold war European landscape

Beware, My Lovely (1952)

IMDb: 6.6
1952

A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely war widow

Spellbound 1945

IMDb: 7.5
1945

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory

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

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

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

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

He Walked by Night (1948)

IMDb: 7.1
1948

This film noir piece, told in semi documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop

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

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

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

Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)

IMDb: 6.5
1950

An ex hood hopes to start a new life under an assumed name in a small town but his past catches up with him when an old crime buddy asks him to help with a casino heist

The Red House (1947)

IMDb: 6.8
1947

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods

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

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

Notorious (1946)

IMDb: 8.0
1946

A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them

City That Never Sleeps (1953)

IMDb: 6.8
1953

Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty

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

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

Human Desire (1954)

IMDb: 7.1
1954

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co workers wife following a murder on a train where they meet