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Film Noir

The Bigamist

The Bigamist

Never sappy or sentimental. The Bigamist pursues its painful, plausible path towards the heartbreaking denouement, related primarily through Edmond O’ Brien’s eyes who’s striving to avoid hurting one person. Director Ida Lupino was a genius and way before her time.

Duration : 1h 19m
Maturity Level : all

Fear In The Night

Fear In The Night

Eerie mystifying and frightening film about an innocent man who thinks that he murdered someone. Very unusual movie for the time about mind manipulation that comes off very well. Starring Deforest Kelly in his movie debut.

Duration : 1h 11m
Maturity Level : all

Johnny Cool

Johnny Cool

Intense, powerful crime drama is strange and unforgettable. Set over two or three days it’s the life of a ruthless contract killer sent from Italy to America to seek revenge. Considered quite violent in its day and even now has some pretty nasty action. Starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Telly Savalas.

Duration : 1h 41m
Maturity Level : all

Panic In The Streets

Panic In The Streets

In New Orleans a hood feels sick and leaves a poker game. Jack Palance is incredibly creepy as the hood Blackie. His antagonist, Richard Widmark as the Navy doctor is a stoic contrast. A finely polished and expertly paced thriller. Oscar Winner

Duration : 1h 36m
Maturity Level : all

Woman On The Run

Woman On The Run

A wonderfully written, gritty, very exciting, well-acted and directed. It is not a famous noir film but among the best. Ann Sheridan is wonderful as the snappy talking wife, and there is much more to it..... much more.

Duration : 1h 18m
Maturity Level : all

5 Against The House

5 Against The House

A stylish noir that involves four Korean War Veterans and the girlfriend of one of them in a heist against a Reno casino. A very competent thriller and extremely exciting and easy of the eye with the seductive Kim Novak.

Duration : 1h 23m
Maturity Level : all

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number

Unparalleled forties thriller. Nail biting suspense, excellently structured climactic noir thriller with all the hallmarks of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Barbara Stanwyck is superb as the spoiled rich woman trapped in her bedroom by illness, Burt Lancaster the compromised husband under her thumb.

Duration : 1h 28m
Maturity Level : all

Five Minutes To Live Johnny Cash

Five Minutes To Live Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash gives a raw and disturbing performance as a twisted killer involved in a bank robbery. Suspenseful, with snappy and tongue-in-cheek dialog and some unexpected twists along the way. Classic trashy gritty crime movie.

Duration : 1h 14m
Maturity Level : all

Snowbound

Snowbound

Very enjoyable and underrated thriller from the golden age of British movie-making. An interesting story about lost Nazi gold, set at an Italian ski-lodge populated with a mixed bunch of folk, most of whom are pretending to be something they are not. A sinister atmosphere with great cast.

Duration : 1h 24m
Maturity Level : all

Pick Up On South Street

Pick Up On South Street

A pickpocket, Richard Widmark, accidentally lifts a microfilm with vital government secrets, becoming a pawn in a Cold War espionage game. Blends crime with political commentary and forcing him to choose between money and something more meaningful - Candy played by Jean Peters. Award winner

Duration : 1h 20m
Maturity Level : all

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Superb from start to finish that greed and lust corrupt in this great noir story. The chemistry between John Garfield and Lana Turner is electric, to the point where they had a brief affair in filming. Moral of the story if you trust too much it could cost you big time.

Duration : 1h 52m
Maturity Level : all

Midnight Lace

Midnight Lace

A wealthy American woman living in London with her husband hears a disembodied voice threatening her life. More menacing phone calls follow and strange things start happening around her-making her fear for her safety and sanity. But here’s the twist, no one else hears the voice. Exceptional.

Duration : 1h 43m
Maturity Level : all

Pitfall

Pitfall

Staring Dick Powell arguably one of greatest noir actors, plays an insurance adjuster who’s tired of his job and the drudgery of daily life’s. This changes when he gets involved in a situation with Lizabeth Scott, some jewels a fur coat and a speed boat. Striking and authentic.

Duration : 1h 25m
Maturity Level : all

Impact

Impact

Brian Donlevy turns in a great performance as the loving husband and successful industrialist who discovers his beloved wife is scheming with a lover to kill him. Helen Walker, who plays his wife is a hissable villain that will fight to the bitter end. Excellent melodramatic Noir full of twists.

Duration : 1h 50m
Maturity Level : all

The Dammed Don’t Cry

The Dammed Don’t Cry

Joan Crawford plays a role allegedly modelled after Bugsy Siegel’s mistress. Working-class mom son gets killed, she leaves her oafish husband, ends up as a two-bit model and takes clients out for a good time and stop at nothing to get to the top. Slick, fast-moving noir

Duration : 1h 43m
Maturity Level : all

Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear

Everything a good thriller should be. An inventive use of the recorder, the "revenge is a dish best eaten cold", the "flash forwards”, the "accidents” masterfully treated. Joan Crawford is wealthy lady thinking she’s found true love in a disturbing Jack Palance with Gloria Grahame at her bitchiest.

Duration : 1h 50m
Maturity Level : all

The Stranger

The Stranger

Investigator, Edward G. Robinson of the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous criminal, Orson Welles who may be hiding out in a small town, in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter. Outstanding performances of screen giants.

Duration : 1h 33m
Maturity Level : all

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

Edward G. Robinson is a family man with an orderly life. When his wife takes the kids away for a week holiday his entire life changes. He admires the stunning portrait of a woman in the window of an art gallery, as he gazes at the portrait the model herself appears beside him! Stunning thriller.

Duration : 1h 39m
Maturity Level : all

Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears

What happens when chance throws a fortune into the lap of a woman devoured by greed. Said to be best unknown American film noir. Lizabeth Scott is tremendous as the cunning, seductive and vicious femme fatale in this wicked tale of $60,000, greed and bloodlust. Morality is easy with no temptation

Duration : 1h 40m
Maturity Level : all

Screaming Mimi

Screaming Mimi

Murder and madness hound the very sensual exotic dancer Anita Ekberg and a macabre statuette she fetishizes... A strangely compelling story. The beginning of the film inspired infamous Psycho scene we all know. Genuinely entertaining with some gleefully perverse overtones. With stripper Gypsy Rose.

Duration : 1h 18m
Maturity Level : all

The Killers

The Killers

Debut for Burt Lancaster who has given up on life after “he did something wrong...once” Ava Gardner is stunning with an evasive mysterious quality. One of the few movies that truly manages to keep you on the edge of your seat all the way through. Adaption from Ernest Hemingway.

Duration : 1h 42m
Maturity Level : all

The Prowler

The Prowler

Very tense film noir with Van Heflin doing a remarkable job as the sinister and creepy ’prowler’ cop on-the-make with Evelyn Keyes. He insinuates himself into her life is masterful, she’s vulnerable and vaguely dissatisfied with her less than exciting husband. A down and dirty masterpiece.

Duration : 1h 32m
Maturity Level : all

Hell’s Island

Hell’s Island

Well composed and intriguing tropical noir about a PI in hunt for a missing invaluable ruby lost in an air crash on this unidentifiable Caribbean island full of mysteries. Leading lady, a former mistress of the PI is the spider in the web of the mysteries with a husband locked up on another island.

Duration : 1h 20m
Maturity Level : all

Shack Out on 101

Shack Out on 101

Minimalist masterpiece of Cold War unconventional noir set in an isolated diner on California’s 101 highway near a military facility. Lee Marvin steals the movie, where we get an early glimpse of what’s to come. Over 50 years later one of Hollywood’s strangest concoctions.

Duration : 1h 20m
Maturity Level : all