FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows

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 Girl in the Kremlin (1957)

IMDb: 5.4
1957

In 1953, Soviet dictator Stalin fakes his own death, undergoes plastic surgery and vanishes but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe

Western Pacific Agent (1950)

IMDb: 5.9
1950

Detectives for the Western Pacific Railroad investigate several murders, including one of a railroad payroll agent

Cause for Alarm (1951)

IMDb: 6.4
1951

An invalid husband Barry Sullivan wrongly believes his wife Loretta Young and doctor Bruce Cowling are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway

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

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 Wrong Man (1956)

IMDb: 7.4
1956

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel Manny Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Detour (1945)

IMDb: 7.4
1945

Chance events trap hitchhiking nightclub pianist Al Roberts in a tightening net of death, deception and blackmail

Hollow Triumph (1948)

IMDb: 6.8
1948

Pursued by the big time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity with unfortunate results

Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

IMDb: 6.7
1954

An FBI agent investigates the murder of his partner by taking over the 3 cases he was working on, determined to find his killer

A Womans Face (1941)

IMDb: 7.2
1941

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman

Champion (1949)

IMDb: 7.4
1949

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

The Miami Story (1954)

IMDb: 6.2
1954

Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city

Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)

IMDb: 6.4
1955

After 5 years in prison, ex cop Steve Rollins is paroled and searches for the San Francisco mobsters who framed him for manslaughter

Big House, U.S.A. (1955)

IMDb: 6.7
1955

Gerry Barker finds a lost boy whose rich father is extorted into paying a ransom for his return but the boy accidentally dies and Jerry goes to prison

Desert Fury (1947)

IMDb: 6.7
1947

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyones efforts to separate them

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)

IMDb: 7.1
1950

Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him