Genres: Crime Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Plot: Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime.
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Movies by Genre: Film-Noir
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Allan Dwan
Plot: Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" political candidate Frank Jansen
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Film-Noir
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Plot: Crooks plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Mystery
Director: Bruno VeSota
Plot: A blonde actress is murdered across from a bar.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Andre De Toth
Plot: Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Mystery Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Plot: Nora is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier overseas.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Mystery Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Plot: Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Plot: Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.JHunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Plot: As a man waits at a train station for his girl, he tells us about the recent past and we segue into a long flashback.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir
Director: Joseph Pevney
Plot: Nightclub singer Fran Davis (Shelley Winters) is out to educate her out-of-town friend Phyllis Matthews
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama Thriller
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Plot: A group of escaped convicts take over a suburban home to evade the ongoing police manhunt, making the lives of the family living there a nightmare
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Crime Thriller
Director: Roy Rowland
Plot: Barbara Stanwyck sees a murder through her bedroom window, but no one will believe her.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Horror Thriller
Director: Charles Laughtonmore
Plot: A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Maxwell Shane
Plot: A mobster (Quinn) springs a condemmed murderer (Grainger) because he got his sister (Bancroft) pregnant.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Orson Welles
Plot: Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town.
Genres: Film-Noir Western
Director: Nicholas Ray
Plot: Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Plot: Refusing to give into police investigators' questions of suspicion, due to the seal of confession, a priest becomes the prime suspect in a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Robert Aldrich
Plot: A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir
Director: Nathan Juran
Plot: Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman author and her young secretary.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Peter Godfrey
Plot: A lawyer wins an a acquittal for his client, a woman accused of murder.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Plot: True story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal.
Genres: Comedy Drama Film-Noir
Director: Phil Karlson
Plot: Sherry Conley, a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background, is taken from prison to a hotel
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir
Director: John H. Auer
Plot: During one crowded night, a Chicago cop is tempted into crime.
Genres: Drama Crime Film-Noir
Director: Phil Karlson
Plot: Four college buddies enjoy a night at a Reno casino and overhear a cop saying that robbing the casino
Genres: Film-Noir Drama Thriller
Director: William Wyler
Plot: Glen, Hal and Sam are three escaped convicts who move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
Genres: Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Lewis Allen
Plot: Montreal: the former well-known gangster Joey Victor is fetched from Europe, where he was deported to from USA
Genres: Film-Noir Crime Drama
Director: Frank Tuttle
Plot: A deranged man kidnaps the nubile daughter of a police captain.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir
Director: Phil Karlson
Plot: In this semidocumentary, an Alabama town is run by a crime syndicate that's grown fat on prostitution and crooked gambling
Genres: Film-Noir Crime Thriller Drama
Director: Hugo Fregonese
Plot: Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair
Genres: Drama Film-Noir
Director: Russell Rouse
Plot: Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder, devises a daring plan
Genres: Drama Film-Noir
Director: Fritz Lang
Plot: Engineer Jeff, returning from Korea, falls in Love with his co-worker Carl's wife Vicky, who both commited a murder
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Russell Rouse
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Plot: A locksmith gets caught up in a bank robbery.
Genres: Film-Noir Thriller
Director: John Sturges
Plot: The Stilwins are on vacation to an isolated beach in Mexico.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Action
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Plot: A fugitive is pursued by a lawman who is obsessed with his capture.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Plot: The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir
Director: Lee Sholem
Plot: A disreputable Korean War veteran is suspected of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime Film-Noir Mystery
Director: Hubert Cornfield
Plot: A woman who heads a sportswear manufacturing company is found dead.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Lewis Allen
Plot: In 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.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir
Director: Martin Ritt
Plot: Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes), an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier)
Genres: Action Crime Drama Film-Noir
Director: Phil Karlson
Plot: Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir
Director: Don Siegel
Plot: Two detectives are investigating a robbery in which $300,000 was taken.
Genres: Film-Noir Mystery
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Plot: An amnesiac finally learns his true identity...as a murder suspect.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Phil Karlson
Plot: Eddie Rico has been the book-keeper of an important Mafia boss but now he is an honest merchant and lives with his family in Florida
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Thriller Drama
Director: Irving Lerner
Plot: Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Gerd Oswald
Plot: Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city
Genres: Film-Noir Crime Drama
Director: Roy Rowland
Plot: Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Sport Thriller
Director: Mark Robson
Plot: Down-on-his-luck ex-sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by shady fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable phenom from Argentina.
Genres: Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Plot: A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Thriller
Director: William A. Seiter
Plot: Crystal 'Chris' Benson, a single mother in a small New Mexico town, senses a shadowy menace stalking her in the night
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama Romance
Director: Roger Corman
Plot: A delinquent girls' gang pursues a nice ingenue linked romantically to the male leader of a rival gang, and apparently to the murder of one of their members.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Crime
Director: R.G. Springsteen
Plot: Gannon is an imprisoned racketeer kingpin who tries to manipulate his young cellmate into staging a riot and prison break
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir
Director: Lewis Allen
Plot: After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drink, and acquires a criminal clientele.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Mark Stevens
Plot: Violent ex-cop Vic Barron comes to Ketchikan, Alaska seeking revenge on an old enemy.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir
Director: Laslo Benedek
Plot: Songwriter falls in love with a crippled man's wife.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Joseph Pevney
Plot: Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir
Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara
Genres: Drama Film-Noir
Director: Fritz Lang
Plot: Death of media magnat Amos Kyne is causing power struggle between his executives.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Budd Boetticher
Plot: An unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife.
Genres: Film-Noir Mystery Thriller
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Plot: What to do about a suspected murderess who can't be convicted?
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Crime
Director: Samuel Fuller
Plot: Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.SArmy Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
Genres: Film-Noir Crime Drama
Director: Sidney Salkow
Plot: An honest union official named Blane is framed for the murder of another union official.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Hubert Cornfield
Plot: On a dark night of pelting rain, five men stage a well-planned train robbery and get away with a 10,000,000 dollar
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Crime Thriller
Director: Abner Biberman
Plot: The co-owner of a racetrack discovers that his partner has sold out to a gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Mystery
Director: Howard W. Koch
Plot: A party girl is murdered, and everyone at a Utah motel is a suspect.
Genres: Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Richard Quine
Plot: An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangsterThis forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama
Director: Harold D. Schuster
Plot: An ex-con goes undercover for the government to "finger" the crime boss who made his sister a drug addict.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Plot: Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Thriller
Director: Gerd Oswald
Plot: Exotic dancer Virginia Wilson sees a man get shot moments after he tries to knife her in a shower, so she goes to Dr
Genres: Drama Film-Noir
Plot: Made by the same production set-up on the same lot that was producing the 1953-54 "China Smith/Captain
Genres: Film-Noir Crime Drama
Director: Jerry Hopper
Plot: Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir
Director: Howard W. Koch
Plot: A vicious cop kills a bookie's runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse.
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Director: Russell Rouse
Plot: A blonde floozy drifts into town and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar.
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Director: Jules Dassin
Plot: Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes
Genres: Drama Film-Noir See »
Director: Jack Arnold
Plot: After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Drama See »
Director: Norman Panama
Plot: Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti
Genres: Drama Film-Noir See »
Director: Russell Birdwell
Plot: Unscrupulous con woman gets involved in murder.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir See »
Director: Ida Lupino
Plot: Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir See »
Director: Robert Aldrich
Plot: Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir See »
Director: Abner Biberman
Plot: A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors
Genres: Drama Film-Noir See »
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Plot: Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir See »
Director: Montgomery Tully
Plot: An American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Film-Noir Thriller See »
Director: Jacques Becker
Plot: An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
Genres: Crime Drama Film-Noir Thriller See »
Director: Jules Dassin
Plot: Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes
Genres: Biography Film-Noir See »
Director: William Witney
Plot: In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West
Genres: Drama Film-Noir See »
Director: Nicholas Ray
Plot: Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials.
Genres: Crime Film-Noir Mystery Romance Thriller
Director: Gerd Oswald
Plot: A ruthless college student resorts to murder in a futile attempt to marry an heiress.
Genres: Drama Film-Noir Romance Thriller
Director: Maxwell Shane
Plot: A musician was hypnotised in order to commit a crime When he wakes up he tries to find the truth with the help of his brother-in-law who is a police officer.
Genres: Film-Noir Thriller Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Genres: Film-Noir Horror Mystery
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot