Category: Film-Noir
Posted on May 20, 2013 |
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The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's law partner, en route. Bannister has a wife, Rosalie, who seems to like Michael much better than she likes her husband. After they dock in Sausalito, Michael goes along with Grisby's weird plan to fake his (Grisby's) murder so he can disappear untailed. He wants the $5000 Grisby has offered, so he can run off with Rosalie. But Grisby turns up actually murdered, and Michael gets blamed for it. Somebody set him up, but it is not clear who or how. Bannister (the actual murderer?) defends Michael in court.
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia
Director: Orson Welles
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Posted on May 16, 2013 |
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Mildred Pierce (1945)
Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance
From James M. Cain's classic novel, where a woman's ambitions for her daughter change her life. What Veda wants, her mother Mildred Pierce provides. Even if Mildred must end her middle-class marriage, climb atop the male-dominated business world and marry a wealthy man she doesn't love. "I'll do anything," Mildred says in explaining her love for her selfish daughter. But will "anything" include her total ruin?
Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Butterfly McQueen
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Posted on May 11, 2013 |
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High Sierra (1941)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with the police and an angry press hot on his tail he eventually takes refuge among the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, where a tense siege ensues. But will the Police make him regret the attachments he formed with two women during the brief planning of the robbery.
Starring: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Jerome Cowan
Director: Raoul Walsh
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Tags: Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Jerome Cowan, Joan Leslie, Raoul Walsh
Posted on May 11, 2013 |
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Dark Passage (1947)
Film-Noir | Thriller
Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a Bogart's-eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he's really after is revenge.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea
Director: Delmer Daves
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Posted on May 11, 2013 |
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Gaslight (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Paula's aunt Alice Alquist, a famous entertainer, is murdered in her home. Paula, who lives with her aunt finds the body. Police fail to find the killer and Paula is sent away to school. Ten years later, Paula returns to London with her new husband. They take up residence in her aunt's house, which she has inherited. However, he has a secret which he will do anything to protect.
Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest
Director: George Cukor
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Tags: Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Charles Boyer, Dame May Whitty, George Cukor, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Posted on April 27, 2013 |
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Ace in the Hole (1951)
Drama | Film-Noir
Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in an old Indian dwelling. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth – until things go terribly wrong.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady, Richard Benedict, Ray Teal
Director: Billy Wilder
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Posted on April 27, 2013 |
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart
Director: Nicholas Ray
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Posted on April 25, 2013 |
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Out of the Past (1947)
Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Starring: Rhonda Fleming, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Posted on April 15, 2013 |
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Ministry of Fear (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War 2 in England when he stumbles on a deadly Nazi spy plot by accident, and tries to stop it.
Starring: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Dan Duryea, Hillary Brooke, Alan Napier
Director: Fritz Lang
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Tags: Alan Napier, Carl Esmond, Dan Duryea, Fritz Lang, Hillary Brooke, Marjorie Reynolds, Ray Milland
Posted on March 31, 2013 |
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The Third Man (1949)
Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime–and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene's razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker's dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Paul Hoerbiger
Director: Carol Reed
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Posted on March 25, 2013 |
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Sunset Blvd. / Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Drama | Film-Noir
Noir-comic classic about death and decay in Hollywood. Joe Gillis, a handsome but bankrupt screenwriter, is hired by washed-up silent screen star Norma Desmond to pen her a comeback star vehicle. Gillis has had his latest screenplay rejected by the studios, and, desperate, takes up Desmond's offer to write Salome for her. She demands that he stay with her while he writes, and soon he becomes a virtual prisoner of the actress and her gloomy house.
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough
Director: Billy Wilder
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Posted on March 15, 2013 |
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The Captive City (1952)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
A small town newspaperman's investigation into a local bookie operation turns up a web of organized crime.
Starring: John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Marjorie Crossland, Victor Sutherland
Director: Robert Wise
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Posted on February 26, 2013 |
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The Desperate Hours (1955)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house in a well-to-do suburb of Indianapolis in which to hide out. The home belongs to the Hilliard family, Dan and Ellie who live there with their 19-year old daughter Cindy and their young son Ralph. They plan on staying only until midnight as Griffin is awaiting his girlfriend who will meet them with some money he had stashed away. When she doesn't arrive, their stay stretches out to several days. Dan Hilliard plays their game knowing that if he makes any attempt to contact the police, his family could be caught in the crossfire.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young
Director: William Wyler
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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The Dark Mirror (1946)
Film-Noir | Thriller
A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder, a psychiatrist is called in to assist a detective in solving the case. Through a series of tests, he discovers which twin actually committed the crime and in the course of his investigation he falls in love with the normal twin.
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans
Director: Robert Siodmak
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Posted on February 8, 2013 |
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Laura (1944)
Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance
A detective investigating a murder falls in love with a dead woman's portrait — only to find that she wasn't the woman who was murdered.
Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson
Director: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
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Posted on February 2, 2013 |
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Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery
Hard-hitting film noir where Joe Rolfe s an ex-con who's trying to go straight with a job as a deliveryman for a florist company. Unfortunately, a gang of thugs led by a criminal mastermind have arranged a bank robbery using a van that looks just like the one driven by Rolfe–and the deliveryman takes the fall for the heist. This leads to Rolfe's search for the real thieves, a trail that leads to Mexico and an unexpected love affair with the gang leader's daughter.
Starring: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand
Director: Phil Karlson
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Posted on January 3, 2013 |
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Union Station (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Secretary Joyce Willecombe grows suspicious of two men boarding her train and is referred to 'Tough Willy' Calhoun, head of the Union Station police. The all-seeing, no-nonsense Calhoun is initially skeptical, but the men (who escape) prove to be involved in a kidnap case. Calhoun calls in equally tough police Inspector Donnelly, but the ruthless kidnapper's precision planning stays one jump ahead of them. Most of the action centers around bustling Union Station.
Starring: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald, Lyle Bettger, Jan Sterling
Director: Rudolph Maté
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Posted on December 24, 2012 |
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Appointment with Danger (1951)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. He must find the nun who witnessed the murder, then infiltrate the gang by convincing them he is a postal inspector gone bad.
Starring: Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling, Jack Webb
Director: Lewis Allen
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Posted on December 10, 2012 |
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Dark City (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance
Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that isn't his…then hangs himself. But it seems Winant had a shadowy, protective elder brother who believes in personal revenge. And each of the card players in turn feels a faceless doom inexorably closing in. Dark streets and sexy torch-singer Fran lend ambience.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger
Director: William Dieterle
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Posted on November 19, 2012 |
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Two complete strangers, Bruno Anthony, a psychotic mother's boy and Guy Haines, a professional tennis player meet on a train and begin discussing a theory on how the two of them could commit the perfect crime. Guy thinks they are joking, while Anthony is serious, and is about to take their convertation a step too far.
Starring: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Farley Granger, Leo G. Carroll, Marion Lorne, Patricia Hitchcock, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
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