Film-Noir (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
Popularity▲ A-Z User Rating Number of Votes US Box Office Runtime Year Release Date Date of Your Rating Your Rating
The Third Man (1949)
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Niagara (1953)
As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Caged (1950)
A naive 19-year-old widow becomes coarsened and cynical when she is sent to a women's prison and is exposed to hardened criminals and sadistic guards.
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator.
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Touch of Evil (1958)
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
All the King's Men (1949)
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
Notorious (1946)
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Experiment Perilous (1944)
In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family.
The Killing (1956)
Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five man team to plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.
The Harder They Fall (1956)
An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.
To Have and Have Not (1944)
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Crossfire (1947)
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?
The Big Sleep (1946)
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Mildred Pierce (1945)
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Gilda (1946)
A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
Spellbound (1945)
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Act of Violence (1948)
An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
Fury (1936)
When a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous.
Scarface (1932)
An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
Laura (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
Suspicion (1941)
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
5 Against the House (1955)
Four vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime.
In a Lonely Place (1950)
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
The Killers (1946)
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.
House of Strangers (1949)
After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective.
The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
In 1940, an American former Republican prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick, is determined to find the killer of NYPD Lieutenant Louie Lepetino, who had helped him escape.
Ace in the Hole (1951)
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
Key Largo (1948)
A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
The Stranger (1946)
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Another Man's Poison (1951)
A mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married. But her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both, and everyone else around them.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
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 Big Heat (1953)
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Detour (1945)
Chance events trap hitchhiking nightclub pianist Al Roberts in a tightening net of death, deception and blackmail.
The Woman in the Window (1944)
A conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
I Want to Live! (1958)
A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.