Tag Archives: film noir

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the ...

A London accountant (Herbert Lom) forms six gangs into a syndicate which he tries to control with a killer (Sean Connery).

A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his ...

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn’t commit.

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can’t remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go ...

In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man’s memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a ...

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the ...

Paula Consodine comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko, investigating on Paula’s behalf, discovers ...

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called “the Swede”. When the killers find the Swede, he’s expecting them and ...

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a ...

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, ...

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to ...

In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

LEE Kang-hee, an editorialist of the influential conservative newspaper puts a congressman, JANG Pil-woo to the position of a leading candidate ...

A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take ...

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, ...

The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the ...

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they’re holding hostage.

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar “Doc” Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a ...

Al Roberts, a New York nightclub pianist, hitch-hikes to Hollywood to meet his girlfriend Sue. The gambler he’s riding with, Charles, ...

Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a ...

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend’s wife, all the while ...

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly ...