Movies by Lists - Greatest Femmes Fatales in Classic Film Noir (45 [45]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DecoyA mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash. | 1946 | Jack Bernhard | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (1.6K votes) | 76 | 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 |
| Don't Bother to KnockAfter being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous. | 1952 | Roy Ward Baker | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (6.8K votes) | 76 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| High School Confidential!A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang. | 1958 | Jack Arnold | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (1K votes) | 85 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| One Girl's ConfessionAnother of the "Fate and Irony" films from director-writer-producer-actor Hugo Haas but this one has less hair-shirt torment than most of his offerings, although his camera, as usual, lingers provocatively on the contours of the lead | 1953 | Hugo Haas | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.5 (482 votes) | 74 | 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 |
| Paradine Case, TheA happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending. | 1947 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (11K votes) | 125 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Revolt of Mamie Stover, TheSet in the early '40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though her prospects look good when she falls in love | 1956 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Drama | 6.4 (805 votes) | 92 | 20220414 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| VertigoA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.3 (389.4K votes) | 128 | 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 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 |