Film-Noir Movies
Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!
IMDb: 7.5
134

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal “Hangman of Europe”, Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his…

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street
IMDb: 7.9
103

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman after rescuing her from an attack. She believes he is rich and her boyfriend persuades her to con him out of…

Spellbound

Spellbound

Spellbound
IMDb: 7.6
111

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses…

Notorious

Notorious

Notorious
IMDb: 8.0
103

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they…

The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai
IMDb: 7.7
87

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole
IMDb: 8.2
111

A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career, but the situation quickly…

Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
The Big Heat

The Big Heat

The Big Heat
IMDb: 8.0
89

Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague’s suicide and…

Niagara

Niagara

Niagara
IMDb: 7.1
92

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area….

Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11
IMDb: 7.0
80

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man
IMDb: 7.5
105

True story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal.

Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy
IMDb: 7.7
86

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After…

Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday
IMDb: 6.9
90

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle
IMDb: 7.9
112

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar “Doc” Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big…

Private Hell 36

Private Hell 36

Private Hell 36
IMDb: 6.7
81

Two LA detectives get in over their heads when they get involved with a nightclub singer who holds the key to the missing loot from a New York elevator robbery….

The Burglar

The Burglar

The Burglar
IMDb: 6.7
90

Burglar Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune — including a renowned emerald necklace — from…

Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears
IMDb: 7.4
99

One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer’s back seat. Alan wants to turn it…

Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street
IMDb: 7.8
80

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

No Man’s Woman

No Man’s Woman

No Man’s Woman
IMDb: 6.3
70

A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead–among them a rich…

Ride the Pink Horse

Ride the Pink Horse

Ride the Pink Horse
IMDb: 7.4
101

In the border town of San Pablo, preparing for an annual ‘Mexican Fiesta,’ the tough, mysterious and laconic Gagin arrives. His mission is to find the equally mysterious Frank Hugo,…

Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out
IMDb: 7.8
116

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman (James Mason) wounded in a daring robbery.

Key Largo

Key Largo

Key Largo
IMDb: 7.9
100

A hurricane swells outside, but it’s nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up – and holds at gunpoint hotel…

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!
IMDb: 7.5
120

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older…

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success
IMDb: 8.2
96

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can’t control is his younger sister, Susan, who…

Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall
IMDb: 7.6
109

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant,…

Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear
IMDb: 7.6
110

Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson’s new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn’t look like a “romantic leading man.” On…

Detective Story

Detective Story

Detective Story
IMDb: 7.6
103

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod (Douglas), leads a precinct of…

Deception

Deception

Deception
IMDb: 7.3
110

Davis and Rains shine in a romantic melodrama set in the world of concert music. Davis is a pianist torn between her wealthy, jealous patron and her cellist husband.

Dragnet

Dragnet

Dragnet
IMDb: 6.7
88

Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster’s brutal murder.

The Red Menace

The Red Menace

The Red Menace
IMDb: 4.8
81

A couple try to leave the Communist party after a murder by the group they were once loyal to.

The Glass Key

The Glass Key

The Glass Key
IMDb: 7.1
85

During the campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associating to the respectable reformist…

The Scarlet Claw

The Scarlet Claw

The Scarlet Claw
IMDb: 7.5
74

A woman is found dead — with her throat torn out. Villagers blame a supernatural source but Holmes has other ideas.

Woman on the Run

Woman on the Run

Woman on the Run
IMDb: 7.4
77

Frank Johnson, sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation….

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number
IMDb: 7.5
89

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is…

House of Strangers

House of Strangers

House of Strangers
IMDb: 7.4
101

Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons, refuse to help their father stay out of prison…

Criss Cross

Criss Cross

Criss Cross
IMDb: 7.6
88

Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their…

Somewhere in the Night

Somewhere in the Night

Somewhere in the Night
IMDb: 7.2
110

George Taylor returns from the WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a…

Don’t Bother to Knock

Don’t Bother to Knock

Don’t Bother to Knock
IMDb: 6.9
76

Jed, an airline pilot, (Widmark) is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell (Monroe), a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better…

The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point
IMDb: 7.5
97

Based on the Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not. A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
IMDb: 7.9
104

After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a…

He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night
IMDb: 7.2
79

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