Movies by Lists - 250 Quintessential Noir Films (251 [251]) 
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| 99 River StreetA former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was having an affair with. | 1953 | Phil Karlson (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.4 (2.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| 711 Ocean DriveAn electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path. | 1950 | Joseph M. Newman | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Accused, TheA beautiful psychology professor tries to hide a self-defense killing. | 1949 | William Dieterle (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (871 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Ace in the HoleA frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. | 1951 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.1 (34.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Act of ViolenceAn embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp. | 1948 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.5 (5K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Among the LivingA mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother. | 1941 | Stuart Heisler | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (595 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Angel FaceAmbulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne. | 1953 | Otto Preminger (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (7.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Armored Car RobberyA well-planned robbery goes awry, with tough cop Cordell in pursuit. | 1950 | Richard Fleischer | Action, Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (2.7K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Asphalt Jungle, TheA major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel. | 1950 | John Huston (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (26K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Behind Locked DoorsA well-known judge has become a fugitive from the police, with a large reward on his head. A reporter believes that the judge is hiding in a private sanitarium, so she seeks out a private investigator and asks him to pretend to be in | 1948 | Budd Boetticher | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (895 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Berlin ExpressA multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot. | 1948 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (3.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Beware My LovelyA psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely war widow. | 1952 | Harry Horner | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.9K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Beyond a Reasonable DoubtA novelist aided by his future father-in-law conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban capital punishment. | 1956 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.9 (5.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Beyond the ForestResentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman. | 1949 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (2.5K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Big Clock, TheA magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself. | 1948 | John Farrow | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (8.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Big Combo. TheA police lt. is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown, because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He then goes after Brown's girlfriend who despises him, for information instead. | 1955 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.4 (7.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Big Heat, TheTough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate. | 1953 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (26K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Big Knife, TheHollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career. | 1955 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.8 (3.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Big Sleep, ThePrivate detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. | 1946 | Howard Hawks (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (83.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Black AngelWhen Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband. | 1946 | Roy William Neill | Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir, Music, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (3.1K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Black TuesdayGangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair. | 1954 | Hugo Fregonese | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (372 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Blue Dahlia, TheAn ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife. | 1946 | George Marshall (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (8.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Blue Gardenia, TheA telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess. | 1953 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (5.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Body and SoulA talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him. | 1947 | Robert Rossen (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport | 7.6 (4.8K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Boomerang!The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder. | 1947 | Elia Kazan (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.2 (4.4K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Border IncidentMexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California. | 1949 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (2.4K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Born to KillA calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister. | 1947 | Robert Wise (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.2 (5.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Brasher Doubloon, TheDetective Philip Marlowe encounters a variety of characters while checking on why Leslie Murdock stole a rare doubloon from his mother. | 1947 | John Brahm | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Breaking Point, TheAn 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. | 1950 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.5 (3.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Brute ForceAt a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard. | 1947 | Jules Dassin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.6 (10K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Burglar, TheDan Duryea and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City. | 1957 | Paul Wendkos | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.6 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Call Northside 777Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case. | 1948 | Henry Hathaway | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.4 (8.7K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Cape FearA lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail. | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (28.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Captive City, TheA small town newspaperman's investigation into a local bookie operation turns up a web of organized crime. | 1952 | Robert Wise (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| CaughtAn ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one. | 1949 | Max Ophüls (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.0 (3.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Cause for AlarmAn invalid husband wrongly believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway. | 1951 | Tay Garnett | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (2.2K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| ChampionBoxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people. | 1949 | Mark Robson | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport | 7.4 (4.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Chase, TheChuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare. | 1946 | Arthur Ripley | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (2K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Christmas HolidayA young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel. | 1944 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.6 (1.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| City That Never SleepsJohnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty. | 1953 | John H. Auer | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (1.4K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Clash By NightMae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl. | 1952 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.1 (6.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Confidential ReportAn elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape. | 1955 | Orson Welles (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (8.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| ConflictAn engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister. | 1945 | Curtis Bernhardt | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (3.8K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| CorneredCanadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina. | 1945 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.7 (2.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Crack-UpArt curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot? | 1946 | Irving Reis | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.5 (1.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Crime of PassionKathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path. | 1956 | Gerd Oswald | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (2.2K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Crime Wave {The City is Dark}Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. | 1953 | André De Toth | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (3.8K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Crimson Kimono, TheTwo detectives seek a stripper's killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship. | 1959 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (2.7K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Criss CrossAn armored truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route. | 1949 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.5 (8.4K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| CrossfireA man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why? | 1947 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 7.3 (8.4K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Cry DangerEx-con Rocky Mulloy seeks the real culprit in the crime for which he was framed in a night world of deceptive dames and double crosses. | 1951 | Robert Parrish, Dick Powell | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (2.4K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Cry of the CityPolice Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome. | 1948 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.2 (2.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| D O AFrank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why. | 1949 | Rudolph Maté | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (11.7K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Damned Don't Cry, TheA New York socialite climbs the ladder of success man by man until a life among rich gangsters gives her what she thought she always wanted. | 1950 | Vincent Sherman | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (2.9K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Danger SignalA very romantic murderer has plans to seduce, marry and kill a beautiful woman for her wealth, but finds her younger sister to be even better prey. | 1945 | Robert Florey | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.6 (971 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Dark CityGamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them. | 1950 | William Dieterle (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 6.7 (2.3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Dark Corner, TheA secretary tries to help her boss who's been framed for murder. | 1946 | Henry Hathaway | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.1 (4.4K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Dark Mirror, TheA man is found murdered, and witnesses are sure about the woman they saw leaving his apartment. However, it becomes apparent that the woman has a twin, and finding out which one is the killer seems impossible. | 1946 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (4.9K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Dark PassageA man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence. | 1947 | Delmer Daves | Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.5 (19.2K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Dark Past, TheAn escaped psychopathic killer who takes the family and neighbors of police psychologist hostage reveals a recurring nightmare to the doctor. | 1948 | Rudolph Maté | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.3 (1.7K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Dark WatersA woman returns to the USA after a German U-boat sank her ship, and finds out that someone wants to kill her for her inheritance. | 1944 | André De Toth | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (973 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Dead ReckoningA soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow. | 1947 | John Cromwell | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (7.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Deadline at DawnWhen a woman he meets is murdered, a soon-to-ship-out sailor has until dawn to find the killer, aided by a weary dance hall girl. | 1946 | Harold Clurman, William Cameron Menzies | Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.8 (1.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| DesperateA young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge. | 1947 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2.1K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Desperate Hours, TheThree escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household. | 1955 | William Wyler (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.5 (9.7K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Destination MurderWhen Laura Mansfield's father is killed by a delivery man, the police has few clues and the investigation drags on but Laura decides to find the killer on her own. | 1950 | Edward L. Cahn | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.1 (944 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Detective StoryOn one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod. | 1951 | William Wyler (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.6 (8.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| DetourChance events trap hitchhiking nightclub pianist Al Roberts in a tightening net of death, deception and blackmail. | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.4 (16.9K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Double IndemnityA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator. | 1944 | Billy Wilder (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (152.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Drive a Crooked RoadAn upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld. | 1954 | Richard Quine | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Edge of DoomA mentally unbalanced young man kills a priest. One of the priest's colleagues sets out to find the killer. | 1950 | Mark Robson | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.4 (717 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Enforcer, TheA crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc. | 1951 | Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (4.9K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Fallen AngelA slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for. | 1945 | Otto Preminger (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 7.1 (5.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Fear in the NightA man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real. | 1946 | Maxwell Shane | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (1.5K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| File on Thelma Jordan, TheAssistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt's estate. | 1949 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.9 (2.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Follow Me QuietlyAn obsessed cop tracks an elusive serial killer who strangles his victims on rainy nights. | 1949 | Richard Fleischer | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Force Of EvilAn unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket. | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (6.6K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| FramedMike Lambert, seeking a mining job, instead becomes the patsy for a femme-fatale's schemes. | 1947 | Richard Wallace | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 7.0 (1.8K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| GildaA small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover. | 1946 | Charles Vidor (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (31.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Glass Key, TheA crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign. | 1942 | Stuart Heisler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (6.3K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Guilty BystanderAn alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son. | 1950 | Joseph Lerner | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (858 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Gun CrazyTwo disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree. | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (13K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Hangover SquareA promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory. | 1945 | John Brahm | Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller | 7.4 (3K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| He Ran All the WayNick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manh | 1951 | John Berry | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (2.4K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| He Walked By NightThis film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop. | 1948 | Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (5.8K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| High SierraAfter being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort. | 1941 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.5 (16.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| High WallAfter a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence. | 1947 | Curtis Bernhardt | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.0 (1.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| His Kind of WomanA deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle. | 1951 | John Farrow, Richard Fleischer | Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (4.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Hitch-Hiker, TheTwo fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over. | 1953 | Ida Lupino (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (8.6K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Hollow Triumph [The Scar]Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity - with unfortunate results. | 1948 | Steve Sekely, Paul Henreid | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2.7K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| House By The RiverA deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, causing unexpected problems for both of them. | 1950 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (3.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| House of StrangersAfter years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective. | 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (3.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| House on 92nd Street, TheBill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a Nazi spy ring. | 1945 | Henry Hathaway | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller, War | 6.7 (2.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Human Desire [La bête humaine]A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet. | 1954 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.1 (5.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| I Wake Up ScreamingWhy is Inspector Ed Cornell trying to railroad Frankie Christopher for the murder of model Vicky Lynn? | 1941 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (4.7K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| I Walk AloneFrankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business. | 1947 | Byron Haskin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.1 (2.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red. | 1951 | Gordon Douglas | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (800 votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
| I, the JuryDectective Mike Hammer is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead, so he follows clues that lead to a beautiful, seductive woman. | 1953 | Harry Essex | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.1 (404 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| ImpactA unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy. | 1949 | Arthur Lubin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (3.7K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| In a Lonely PlaceA potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts. | 1950 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.0 (30.2K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| JeopardyA family vacationing on the coast of Mexico have to cope with multiple threats to their safety. | 1953 | John Sturges (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Johnny AngelWhen a New Orleans merchant ship captain finds his father's sister ship derelict at sea, he investigates the crew's mysterious disappearance amid rumors of a smuggled gold cargo. | 1945 | Edwin L. Marin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (970 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Johnny O'ClockA high-class crook gets in trouble with the law. | 1947 | Robert Rossen (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Journey Into FearAn American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board. | 1943 | Norman Foster, Orson Welles | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (4.2K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Kansas City ConfidentialAn ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits. | 1952 | Phil Karlson (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.4 (6.9K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Key LargoA man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other. | 1948 | John Huston (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.8 (39.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Killer Is Loose,TheAn unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle. | 1956 | Budd Boetticher | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.6 (1.8K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Killer That Stalked New York, ThePolice seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier. | 1950 | Earl McEvoy | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.4 (1.5K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Killer's KissReady to catch a train to his hometown, a washed-up boxer tells us about the strange and twisty events that happened to him the past couple of days. | 1955 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.6 (23.2K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Killers, TheHit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins. | 1946 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 7.8 (20.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Killing, TheCrook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery. | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (87.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Me DeadlyA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit". | 1955 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (20K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Of DeathNick Bianco is caught during a botched jewellery heist. The prosecution offer him a more lenient sentence if he squeals on his accomplices but he doesn't roll over on them. Three years into the sentence an event changes his mind. | 1947 | Henry Hathaway | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.4 (8.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Kiss The Blood Off My HandsFugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment. | 1948 | Norman Foster | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Tomorrow GoodbyeStarting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him. | 1950 | Gordon Douglas | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Lady from Shanghai, TheFascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot. | 1947 | Orson Welles (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (29.5K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Lady In The LakeThe lady editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder. | 1946 | Robert Montgomery | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (5.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Lady Without Passport, ADuring the 1950s, an undercover U.S. Immigration investigator travels to Cuba to bust a crime ring that smuggles illegal-aliens into the USA but he falls in-love with a smuggled woman. | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.2 (836 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| LauraA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating. | 1944 | Otto Preminger (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 8.0 (46.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Leave Her to HeavenA writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them. | 1945 | John M. Stahl | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (12.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Letter, TheThe wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing. | 1940 | William Wyler (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 7.6 (12.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Lineup, TheIn San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers. | 1958 | Don Siegel (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (3.7K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Loan SharkAt the request of factory owners and union leaders, a tough ex-con infiltrates a gang of loan sharks who are preying on financially desperate factory workers. | 1952 | Seymour Friedman | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.3 (571 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Locket, TheJust before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced. | 1946 | John Brahm | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.2 (2.6K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Lodger, TheA landlady suspects her new lodger is Jack the Ripper. | 1944 | John Brahm | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (3.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Long Night, ThePolice surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation. | 1947 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 6.6 (1.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Lost Weekend, TheThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. | 1945 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.9 (36K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| MIn this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious killer who preys on small children. | 1951 | Joseph Losey (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| MacaoNick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson? | 1952 | Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer, Nicholas Ray, Robert Stevenson | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (3.4K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Maltese Falcon, TheSan Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. | 1941 | John Huston (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 8.0 (155.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Cheated Himself, TheA veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his newly-minted detective brother assigned to the case alongside him. | 1950 | Felix E. Feist | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.8 (2.2K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Mask of Dimitrios, TheMystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued when the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus. | 1944 | Jean Negulesco | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 7.2 (3.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Mildred PierceA hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter. | 1945 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 8.0 (25K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Ministry of FearStephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot, and tries to stop it. | 1944 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (7.7K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Mob, TheJohnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force. In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way. Will Johnny be next in line? | 1951 | Robert Parrish | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| MoonriseDanny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death. | 1948 | Frank Borzage (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (2.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Murder By ContractClaude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman. | 1958 | Irving Lerner | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (3.5K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Murder My SweetAfter being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit. | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (13K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| My Name is Julia RossJulia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency, with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. 2 days later, she awakens - in a different house, in different clothes, and with a new identity | 1945 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (3K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Mystery StreetA small-town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor after the discovery of a human skeleton on a Massachusetts beach. | 1950 | John Sturges (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (3.1K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Naked City, TheA step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York. | 1948 | Jules Dassin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (13.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Naked Kiss, TheKelly's path towards happiness is thrown amiss when she witnesses a shocking event, which threatens not just her happiness, but her mental health as well. | 1964 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.3 (7.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Narrow Margin, TheA woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles. | 1952 | Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (7.6K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| NiagraAs two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder. | 1953 | Henry Hathaway | Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (16.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Night and the CityA small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter. | 1950 | Jules Dassin | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Sport, Thriller | 7.9 (13.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Night Has a Thousand EyesAfter phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity. | 1948 | John Farrow | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (1.3K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Night of the HunterA religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. | 1955 | Charles Laughton (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (87K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| NightfallThrough a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers. | 1956 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (3.9K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| NightmareA New Orleans musician has a nightmare about killing a man in a strange house but he suspects that it really happened. | 1956 | Maxwell Shane | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (717 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Nightmare AlleyThe rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall. | 1947 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.8 (10.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Nobody Lives ForeverEx-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts. | 1946 | Jean Negulesco | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| NocturneIn 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure. | 1946 | Edwin L. Marin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Nora PrentissA nightclub singer inspires a doctor to fake his own murder, leading to plenty of complications. | 1947 | Vincent Sherman | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| NotoriousThe daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 8.0 (98.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Odds Against TomorrowDave Burke hires two very different debt-burdened men for a bank robbery. Suspicion and prejudice threaten to end their partnership. | 1959 | Robert Wise (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (4.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| On Dangerous GroundRough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case. | 1951 | Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (6.9K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| One Way StreetAfter stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico. | 1950 | Hugo Fregonese | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.7 (474 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Out of the PastA private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames. | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 8.0 (36K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Panic In The StreetsA doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague. | 1950 | Elia Kazan (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (7.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Party GirlLawyer Tommy Farrell is a defender of crooks. Vicki Gaye encourages him to go straight, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise. | 1958 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.0 (3.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Phantom LadyA devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife. | 1944 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 7.2 (4.9K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Phenix City Story, TheA crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town. | 1955 | Phil Karlson (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.2 (2.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Pickup on South StreetA pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. | 1953 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (14.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| PitfallMarried insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result. | 1948 | André De Toth | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.2 (3.6K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Plunder RoadFive men rob a train in Utah of 10 million dollars in gold and head to Los Angeles in 3 trucks hoping to meet up with their beautiful accomplice, and leave the country. | 1957 | Hubert Cornfield | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| PossessedAfter being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there. | 1947 | Curtis Bernhardt | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (5.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Postman Always Rings Twice, TheA married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband. | 1946 | Tay Garnett | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (20.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Private Hell 36When 2 detectives steal $80,000 from a dead robber, one of them suffers from a guilty conscience which could lead to murder. | 1954 | Don Siegel (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.5K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Prowler, TheAfter Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way. | 1951 | Joseph Losey (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.2 (3.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| PushoverUndercover cop falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run and together they plan to double-cross the hood and the cops. | 1954 | Richard Quine | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (3.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Racket, TheIn New York, two honest cops try to hinder a crime syndicate from moving into the precinct and also to prevent the mob's plan of electing a corrupt prosecutor to a judgeship. | 1951 | John Cromwell, Mel Ferrer, Tay Garnett, Nicholas Ray, Sherman Todd | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.7 (3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Railroaded!A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man. | 1947 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Raw DealJoe Sullivan has taken the rap for Rick who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him. | 1948 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.2 (4.6K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Reckless Moment, TheAfter discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal. | 1949 | Max Ophüls (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.1 (4.8K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Red House, TheAn 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. | 1947 | Delmer Daves | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (3.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Red LightThe former employee of a trucking company, currently in prison for embezzlement, plans his eventual revenge against his former boss. | 1949 | Roy Del Ruth | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.4 (1K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Ride the Pink HorseWW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble. | 1947 | Robert Montgomery | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Road HouseA night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him. | 1948 | Jean Negulesco | Action, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (2.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| RoadblockHonest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane. | 1951 | Harold Daniels | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.2K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Rogue CopAfter witnessing a murder, honest cop Eddie Kelvaney is silenced by gangster Dan Beaumonte, prompting Eddie's brother, Detective Chris Kelvaney, to search for the killer. | 1954 | Roy Rowland | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.7 (908 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| RuthlessA poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder. | 1948 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.9 (1.2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Scandal SheetThe editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself. | 1952 | Phil Karlson (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (2.5K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Scarlet StreetA man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses. | 1945 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.8 (16.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Second Woman, TheIn flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. | 1950 | James V. Kern | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (1.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Secret Beyond The DoorWhen a lovely woman and her new husband settle in an ancient mansion on the East coast, she discovers that he may want to kill her. | 1947 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.8 (4.9K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Set-Up, TheExpecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter. | 1949 | Robert Wise (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Sport | 7.9 (8.6K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Shadow of a DoubtA teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.8 (63.8K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Shanghai Gesture, TheIn Shanghai, dragon-lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out-of-business. | 1941 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 6.6 (2.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| ShockA psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder. | 1946 | Alfred L. Werker | Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.3 (2.7K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Side StreetA struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals money from the office of a shady lawyer - with catastrophic consequences. | 1950 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (2.8K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Sleeping City, TheIn New York, the murder of a Bellvue Hospital intern prompts the police to send an undercover detective to investigate. | 1950 | George Sherman | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.7 (573 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Slightly ScarletAn urban wheeler-dealer gets involved in organized crime, corrupt city politics and graft while falling in-love with the fiancée of the newly elected mayor. | 1956 | Allan Dwan | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Sniper, TheA sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant. | 1952 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (3.2K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| So Dark the NightParis 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? | 1946 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.3 (1.3K votes) | 71 | 20220414 |
| Somewhere in the NightGeorge Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million. | 1946 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 7.1 (2.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Sorry, Wrong NumberWhile on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and attempts to prevent it. | 1948 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (11K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Sound of Fury, TheA man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal. | 1950 | Cy Endfield | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.2 (1.7K votes) | 91 | 20220414 |
| Southside 1-1000The US secret service goes after a counterfeit ring, whose engraver Eugene Deane has covertly constructed his plates while serving a life sentence in San Quentin. In order to infiltrate the gang, federal agent John Riggs poses as an | 1950 | Boris Ingster | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.4 (211 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| SpellboundA psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (47.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, TheBachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises hap | 1945 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.8 (1.7K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Strange IllusionPaul, a young man whose father was once lieutenant Governor of California before his untimely death, has a strange, recurring dream in which his mother falls in love with a dangerous man (Brett Curtis), a dream which also contains th | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.2 (983 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Strange Love of Martha Ivers, TheA man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier. | 1946 | Lewis Milestone | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.4 (9.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Stranger On The Third FloorAn aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself. | 1940 | Boris Ingster | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.8 (3.9K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Stranger, TheAn investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi. | 1946 | Orson Welles (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (26K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Strangers on a TrainA psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (131K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Street of ChanceAfter an accident, a New York man with amnesia finds out the ugly truth about his real identity and past by interacting with people who seem to know him well. | 1942 | Jack Hively | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.3 (434 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Street With No Name, TheA covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums. | 1948 | William Keighley | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (2.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Strip, TheDrummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder. | 1951 | László Kardos | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Music | 6.0 (625 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Sudden FearAfter 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. | 1952 | David Miller | Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.5 (6.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| SuddenlyIn the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA. | 1954 | Lewis Allen | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (6.5K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Sunset BlvdA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. | 1950 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.4 (214.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Suspect, TheAn unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action. | 1944 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (2.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| SuspenseThe proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins | 1946 | Frank Tuttle | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.4 (718 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| SuspicionA shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her. | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (37.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Sweet Smell of SuccessPowerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician. | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.0 (30.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Talk About a StrangerIn an idyllic setting, a likable but dangerously volatile twelve-year-old boy tries to settle a score with his disagreeable, mysterious neighbor. | 1952 | David Bradley | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.2 (660 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Tattoo [Tetoviranje]Early one morning in a New York City park, a passerby walking his dog discovers who ends up being a Jane Doe shot dead in the front passenger seat of a parked car. Homicide Chief Captain Lundquist assigns longtime Homicide Detective, | 1950 | Edward Montagne | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 6.1 (961 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Tattooed Stranger, TheEarly one morning in a New York City park, a passerby walking his dog discovers who ends up being a Jane Doe shot dead in the front passenger seat of a parked car. Homicide Chief Captain Lundquist assigns longtime Homicide Detective, | 1950 | Edward Montagne | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 6.1 (961 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| TensionA meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover. | 1949 | John Berry | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.3 (2.9K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| They Live by NightAn 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. | 1948 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.5 (8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| They Won't Believe MeOn trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death. | 1947 | Irving Pichel | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.2 (2.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Thief, TheA chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run. | 1952 | Russell Rouse | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.7 (1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Thieves HighwayA war veteran turned truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw. | 1949 | Jules Dassin | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.6 (5.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Third Man, ThePulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. | 1949 | Carol Reed (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (167.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| This Gun For HireWhen assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies. | 1942 | Frank Tuttle | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.4 (9.1K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| T-MenTwo US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring. | 1947 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.9 (3.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Too Late For TearsThrough a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder. | 1949 | Byron Haskin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (4.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Touch of EvilA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. | 1958 | Orson Welles (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (102.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Turning Point, TheJerry McKibbon is a tough, no nonsense reporter, mentoring special prosecutor John Conroy in routing out corrupt officials in the city, which may even include Conroy's own police detective father as a suspect. | 1952 | William Dieterle (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.7 (997 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Undercover Man, TheTreasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains. | 1949 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| UndercurrentMiddle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her. | 1946 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Underworld USAA teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing. | 1961 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (3.4K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Union StationA sharp-eyed woman spots a man with a gun on a train and her alert to the railroad police helps them in their search for a ruthless gang who have kidnapped a blind heiress. | 1950 | Rudolph Maté | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2.5K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Unknown Man, TheAn attorney successfully defends a young hoodlum charged with murder but later has doubts about his client's innocence and starts investigating his background and associations. | 1951 | Richard Thorpe | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.5 (419 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Unsuspected, TheThe secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears. | 1947 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (3.1K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| VickiThe untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm. | 1953 | Harry Horner | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Web, TheAn attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer's life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered. | 1947 | Michael Gordon | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| When Strangers MarryA naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer. | 1944 | William Castle | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 6.6 (1K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Where Danger LivesA young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman, becomes involved in the death of her husband, and has to flee with her to the Mexican border. | 1950 | John Farrow | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2.9K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Where the Sidewalk EndsDet. Sgt. Mark Dixon wants to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. Will Dixon's vicious nature get the better of him? | 1950 | Otto Preminger (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.6 (8.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| While the City SleepsA 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. | 1956 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| WhirlpoolA woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence. | 1950 | Otto Preminger (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.8 (4.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| White HeatA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. | 1949 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8.1 (32K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Window, TheTo avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him. | 1949 | Ted Tetzlaff | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.4 (3.8K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Witness To MurderA woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window. | 1954 | Roy Rowland | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.7 (3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Woman in the Window, TheA conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder. | 1944 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (15.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Woman on Pier 13, TheSuccessful, newly married Brad Collins once belonged to the Communist Party of the USA, and now the Party will stop at nothing to use him. | 1949 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.0 (1.1K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Woman on the Beach, TheA Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter. | 1947 | Jean Renoir (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.4 (2.2K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Woman on the RunFrank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder. He's pursued around San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the killer. | 1950 | Norman Foster | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (3.7K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| World for RansomIn Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder. | 1954 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 5.8 (495 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Wrong Man, TheIn 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber. | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.4 (27.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |