Hell Drivers / Hard Drivers (1957)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Ex-con trucker tries to expose his boss's rackets.
Starring: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Sidney James
Director: Cy Endfield
T-Men (1947)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
Starring: Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart, Charles McGraw
Director: Anthony Mann
The Wrong Man (1956)
Drama | Film-Noir
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper, John Heldabrand
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Odd Man Out / Gang War (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick, William Hartnell, Fay Compton
Director: Carol Reed
Night and the City (1950)
Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Sport | Thriller
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom
Director: Jules Dassin
I Wake Up Screaming / Hot Spot (1941)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Why is Inspector Ed Cornell trying to railroad Frankie Christopher for the murder of model Vicky Lynn?
Starring: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, William Gargan, Alan Mowbray
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Whilst on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a plot to murder her.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson, William Conrad
Director: Anatole Litvak
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, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell
Director: Nicholas Ray
Criss Cross (1949)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A man tries to save his fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Percy Helton, Alan Napier
Director: Robert Siodmak
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
George 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.
Starring: John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson, Fritz Kortner, Sheldon Leonard
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
House of Bamboo (1955)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
Starring: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter, Sessue Hayakawa, DeForest Kelley
Director: Samuel Fuller
The Big Sleep (1946)
Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen
Director: Howard Hawks
I Confess (1953)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
Refusing to give into police investigators' questions of suspicion, due to the seal of confession, a priest becomes the prime suspect in a murder.
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O.E. Hasse, Roger Dann
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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, Victor Sutherland, Ray Teal, Martin Milner, Geraldine Hall
Director: Robert Wise
The Chase / Stakeout / Harikomi (1958)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
When a team of detectives losees the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect's ex-lover, who is trapped in an oppresive marriage.
Starring: Minoru Ôki, Takahiro Tamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Hideko Takamine, Kin Sugai, Masao Shimizu
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Orson Welles directs, produces, writes and stars in this maritime film noir. When unemployed Irishman Michael O'Hara (Welles) saves Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) from some thugs, she obtains him a position on her invalid lawyer husband Arthur's (Everett Sloane) yacht, as a deckhand. It soon becomes clear that Elsa now has designs on O'Hara, and also wants her husband out of the way. O'Hara, although resisting Elsa's advances, finds himself becoming embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. The famous hall of mirrors sequence is considered to be one of the greatest scenes in film history.
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford
Director: Orson Welles
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
In the bordertown of San Pablo, preparing for an annual 'Mexican Fiesta,' arrives Gagin: tough, mysterious and laconic. His mission: to find the equally mysterious Frank Hugo, evidently for revenge; or is it blackmail? FBI agent Retz is also after the elusive Hugo. Everyone in town is enigmatic, especially Pila, a mystical teenager who follows Gagin around and has premonitions of his death. Also involved are a classic femme fatale and an antique carousel with a pink horse…
Starring: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Rita Conde, Iris Flores, Wanda Hendrix, Grandon Rhodes
Director: Robert Montgomery
The Killers / A Man Alone (1946)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer's beneficiary.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Vince Barnett
Director: Robert Siodmak
Possessed / The Secret (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A married woman's passion for a former love drives her mad.
Starring: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
The Naked City (1948)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence.
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Don Taylor, Ted de Corsia, Dorothy Hart
Narrator: Mark Hellinger
Director: Jules Dassin
