FILM-NOIR Movies and Tvshows - Page 4

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

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

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

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

Follow Me Quietly (1949)

IMDb: 6.5
1949

An obsessed cop tracks an elusive serial killer who strangles his victims on rainy nights

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 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

The Threat (1949)

IMDb: 6.7
1949

Vicious hood Red Kluger escapes from Folsom State Prison and follows through on his threats to the detective who arrested him and the D A who convicted him

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

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

IMDb: 7.6
1955

A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious great whatsit

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

The Desperate Hours (1955)

IMDb: 7.5
1955

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household

Highway Dragnet (1954)

IMDb: 6.3
1954

Wrongly accused of killing a bar girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model

Crime Wave (1953)

IMDb: 7.3
1953

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

IMDb: 7.8
1943

A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the Merry Widow killer sought by the authorities

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

You Only Live Once (1937)

IMDb: 7.3
1937

The public defenders secretary and an ex convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control

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

Pitfall (1948)

IMDb: 7.2
1948

Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result

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

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

Pickup on South Street (1953)

IMDb: 7.7
1953

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring

Crashout (1955)

IMDb: 7.0
1955

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

Storm Fear (1955)

IMDb: 6.4
1955

After being wounded by a bullet, bank robber Charlie Blake seeks shelter with his gang at his brothers mountain retreat There he rekindles his romance with his brothers wife and reconnects with the boy he believes is his son

They Live by Night (1948)

IMDb: 7.5
1948

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning

Shack Out on 101 (1955)

IMDb: 6.3
1955

An isolated diner on Californias 101 highway provides the backdrop of the story involving nuclear secrets, foreign spies and federal agents

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

IMDb: 8.0
1957

Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J J Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sisters romance with a jazz musician

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

IMDb: 7.6
1947

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs Bannister, seaman Michael OHara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot

While the City Sleeps (1956)

IMDb: 7.0
1956

A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the first of his senior executives who can get the earliest scoops on the case

Deception (1946)

IMDb: 7.1
1946

After marrying her long lost love, a musician finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her

The Tijuana Story (1957)

IMDb: 5.2
1957

In Tijuana, a brave Mexican newspaper editor tries to expose the mob and the local official corruption at his own risk

Hollywood Story (1951)

IMDb: 6.7
1951

During the 1950s Hollywood, an independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms when he decides to make a movie about the 1929 unsolved murder of a famous silent film director