The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
A gallery of high-living lowflies will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why – and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre
Director: John Huston
You Only Live Once (1937)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane
Director: Fritz Lang
Scarlet Street (1945)
Drama | Film-Noir
When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Director: Fritz Lang
Stray Dog / Nora inu (1949)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Touch of Evil (1958)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
After a murder is committed in a small town right on the US-Mexico border a rogue cop from the US tries to frame his Mexican counterpart for it.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Dennis Weaver, Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Director: Orson Welles
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
In 1930s rural American South, psychopathic preacher Harry Powell is arrested for a minor offence. His cell mate, Ben Harper, facing the death penalty, confides that he has hidden $10,000 from a bank robbery. When Powell is released, he tracks down Harper's widow and children in an attempt to get his hands on the loot.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Director: Charles Laughton
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Drama | Film-Noir
Sidney Falco is a New York press agent caught up in a complex relationship with the powerful newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker. Falco needs to get his showbiz clients placed in the newspapers, and hangs around Hunsecker hoping to garner a mention in his column. Hunsecker is obsessively protective towards his sister Susan, and his only apparent desire is to see an end to her budding romance with jazz musician Steve Dallas. Thus with Falco growing increasingly desperate, Hunsecker lets him know that the one way he can secure access to the column is to break up Susan and Steve, thereby setting in motion a chain of events which will tear them all apart.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Susan Harrison
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
The Killing (1956)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A gang of greedy petty criminals plan a race track robbery. The plan gets foiled and disaster ensues.
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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