Film-Noir Movies
Dementia

Dementia

Dementia
IMDb: 6.7
56

Shot entirely without dialogue and filled with suggestive violence and psycho-sexual imagery, it’s like a skid row expressionist thriller following the nocturnal prowling of a young woman haunted by homicidal…

Kennwort 777

Kennwort 777

Kennwort 777
IMDb: 7.3
111

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank’s mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O’Neal to look into the…

Um Haaresbreite

Um Haaresbreite

Um Haaresbreite
IMDb: 7.7
71

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s widow on a tense train ride.

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not
IMDb: 7.9
100

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

In a Lonely Place

In a Lonely Place

In a Lonely Place
IMDb: 7.9
94

An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.

Who Done It?

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
IMDb: 7.5
77

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder…

Crime Wave

Crime Wave

Crime Wave
IMDb: 6.8
73

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into…

Backfire

Backfire

Backfire
IMDb: 6.8
91

When he’s discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a…

The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios
IMDb: 6.1
95

A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.

Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph
IMDb: 7.1
83

A film noir drama in which a sophisticated con man, who has just stolen from the mob, is forced to impersonate a psychiatrist who looks just like him, going so…

Stage Fright

Stage Fright

Stage Fright
IMDb: 7.1
110

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he’s accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.

Deadline – U.S.A.

Deadline – U.S.A.

Deadline – U.S.A.
IMDb: 7.2
87

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

The Third Man

The Third Man

The Third Man
IMDb: 8.2
105

Set in postwar Vienna, Austria, “The Third Man” stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, who arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry…

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce
IMDb: 8.0
111

After her unfaithful husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful. However winning the approval of her spoiled daughter proves a greater challenge.

Sunset Blvd.

Sunset Blvd.

Sunset Blvd.
IMDb: 8.5
110

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends
IMDb: 7.6
95

Tough NYC police detective Dixon misses out on a promotion because of his record of roughing up suspects. When he accidentally kills a suspect in a murder case he plants…

Possessed

Possessed

Possessed
IMDb: 7.2
108

A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she’s taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital….

Night and the City

Night and the City

Night and the City
IMDb: 8.0
101

A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.

Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train
IMDb: 8.0
101

A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder…a theory that he plans to implement.

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
IMDb: 8.0
116

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and…

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil
IMDb: 8.1
95

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When…

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces
IMDb: 8.0
97

In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where…

Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet
IMDb: 7.6
95

Detective Philip Marlowe is hired by hulking Moose Malloy to locate his old girlfriend that he lost track of while serving time in prison. With each lead he follows, Marlowe…

Out of the Past

Out of the Past

Out of the Past
IMDb: 8.1
97

Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, CA. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a…

Laura

Laura

Laura
IMDb: 8.1
88

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying
IMDb: 6.8
94

Bud Corliss (Wagner) is an ambitious student who is wooing Dorothy Kingship (Woodward) purely for her father’s mining fortune. When he discovers that Dorothy is pregnant with his child, he…

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon
IMDb: 8.1
100

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter
IMDb: 8.0
93

In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

The Killers

The Killers

The Killers
IMDb: 7.8
105

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called “the Swede”. When the killers find the Swede, he’s expecting them and doesn’t put up a fight. Since…

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
IMDb: 8.3
107

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners…

The Hitch-Hiker

The Hitch-Hiker

The Hitch-Hiker
IMDb: 7.0
71

Ray and Gilbert’s fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He’s killed before,…

Witness to Murder

Witness to Murder

Witness to Murder
IMDb: 6.7
83

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

Gilda

Gilda

Gilda
IMDb: 7.7
110

Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on…

The Naked City

The Naked City

The Naked City
IMDb: 7.6
96

The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with…

The Big Clock

The Big Clock

The Big Clock
IMDb: 7.7
95

Stroud, a crime magazine’s crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth…

White Heat

White Heat

White Heat
IMDb: 8.2
114

A psychopathic criminal (Cagney) with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events…

99 River Street

99 River Street

99 River Street
IMDb: 7.5
83

A former boxer –now taxi driver– gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

Wild Calendar

Wild Calendar

Wild Calendar
IMDb: 7.1
88

It was Leonora Eames’ childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about…

Whirlpool

Whirlpool

Whirlpool
IMDb: 6.9
98

The wife of a psycho-analyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by…

Plunder Road

Plunder Road

Plunder Road
IMDb: 6.9
72

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.