Category: Film-Noir
Posted on June 29, 2013 |
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Detective Story (1951)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation of the law and doesn't believe in turning the other cheek. The current object of his zealousness is Karl Schneider, an abortionist responsible for the death of several young women. Schneider's lawyer tells the precinct lieutenant that McLeod has his own personal reasons for going after his client. It turns out that his wife was a patient before they met, although Jim knew nothing of it. His world suddenly turned upside down, McLeod is too late in re-evaluating his priorities.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready
Director: William Wyler
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Posted on June 16, 2013 |
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White Heat (1949)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran, John Archer, Fred Clark
Director: Raoul Walsh
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Tags: Edmond O'Brien, Fred Clark, James Cagney, John Archer, Raoul Walsh, Steve Cochran, Virginia Mayo
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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Tags: Agnes Moorehead, Bruce Bennett, Delmer Daves, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Tom D'Andrea
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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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 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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Tags: Arthur Kennedy, Dewey Martin, Fredric March, Gig Young, Humphrey Bogart, Martha Scott, William Wyler
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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Posted on November 10, 2012 |
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband… but even once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions.
Starring: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Alan Reed
Director: Tay Garnett
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Posted on September 24, 2012 |
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A Double Life (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. When he's playing comedy, he's the most enjoyable person in the world, but when he's playing drama, it's terrible to be around him. That's the reason why his wife Brita divorced him; although she still loves him and works with him, she couldn't stand living with him anymore. So when Anthony accepts to play Othello, he devotes himself entirely to the part, but it soon overwhelms him and with each day his mind gets filled more and more with Othello's murderous jealousy.
Starring: Ronald Colman, Edmond O'Brien, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters, Ray Collins, Millard Mitchell
Director: George Cukor
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Posted on July 31, 2012 |
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Body and Soul (1947)
Drama | Film-Noir | Sport
Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he wins fight after fight, but soon an unethical promoter named Roberts begins to show an interest in Charley, and Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Starring: John Garfield, Joseph Pevney, Lilli Palmer, Anne Revere, Hazel Brooks
Director: Robert Rossen
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Posted on June 15, 2012 |
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Spellbound (1945)
Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature. When the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes becomes the new chief of staff at her institution, it is soon discovered that he has difficulty with remembering things as he is a troubled amnesiac–who could also be a killer. The bookish and detached psychiatrist plummets into a whirlwind of romance, tangled identities and psychological fever with a captivating dream sequence by Surrealist icon Salvador Dalí.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Leo G. Carroll, Leo G. Carroll
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on June 10, 2012 |
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Notorious (1946)
Film-Noir | Romance | Thriller
At the end of World War II, U.S. military intelligence drafts a beautiful woman with a tainted past to infiltrate a band of nefarious Germans who are in Brazil. She is teamed with Devlin, a dashing but chilly agent with whom she falls deeply in love. In order to have better access to information she agrees to marry the ringleader of the Germans. The marriage touches off an intricate downward spiral of deceit and betrayal, leaving Bergman trapped in the home of an enemy. If her husband ever discovers the truth about her mission, her life will be in mortal danger.
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on June 3, 2012 |
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The Big Heat (1953)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster's moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Starring: Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando, Gloria Grahame
Director: Fritz Lang
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