Film-Noir Movies

Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.

This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.

In Tijuana, a brave Mexican newspaper editor tries to expose the mob and the local official corruption at his own risk.

Thunder Road is a movie starring Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, and Jacques Aubuchon. A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are...

Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.

When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.

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.

Black Legion is a movie starring Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, and Dick Foran. A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners...

A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

The Violent Years is a movie starring Jean Moorhead, Barbara Weeks, and Art Millan. Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents who don't seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all girl...

Slightly Scarlet is a movie starring John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, and Arlene Dahl. An urban wheeler-dealer gets involved in organized crime, corrupt city politics and graft while falling in-love with the fiancée of the newly elected...

A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. He meets the sister of a local mob leader, and she soon draws him into the gang's activities. When he finds himself being drawn into a murder plot

The Price of Fear is a movie starring Merle Oberon, Lex Barker, and Charles Drake. The co-owner of a dog track is framed for two crimes: the shotgun killing of his ex-partner and the hit-and-run death of an elderly man.

While the City Sleeps is a movie starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, and George Sanders. A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the first of...

An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.

The Killing is a movie starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, and Vince Edwards. Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is a movie starring Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, and Sidney Blackmer. A novelist aided by his future father-in-law conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban...

The Boss is a movie starring John Payne, William Bishop, and Gloria McGehee. Political corruption is vividly depicted as a ruthless WWI veteran takes almost complete control of a state with the help of a crooked lawyer. The film is...

A terrified wife tries to escape from her insanely jealous husband who is bent on killing her.

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

The Strange One is a movie starring Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, and Peter Mark Richman. Students faced with an ethical dilemma about the dehumanization associated with the tradition of hazing, at a military college in the Southern...

The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.

Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

The Female Animal is a movie starring Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, and Jan Sterling. An aging film star and her alcoholic daughter compete for a handsome extra.

Machine-Gun Kelly is a movie starring Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, and Morey Amsterdam. The criminal exploits of Public Enemy number 1, George 'Machine-Gun' Kelly, during the 1930s.

The Man Who Died Twice is a movie starring Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, and Mike Mazurki. Nightclub owner T.J. Brennon dies in a car accident and two narcotics agents are killed in his apartment, prompting an investigation by the...

The Lineup is a movie starring Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, and Richard Jaeckel. In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

I Want to Live! is a movie starring Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, and Virginia Vincent. A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.