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
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.
Danger Signal (1945)
A very romantic murderer has plans to seduce, marry and kill a beautiful woman for her wealth, but finds her younger sister to be even better prey.
Laura (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
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.
Stage Fright (1950)
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.
Experiment Perilous (1944)
In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family.
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
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.
Repeat Performance (1947)
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.
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?
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 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.
Touch of Evil (1958)
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Berlin Express (1948)
A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.
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.
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.
The Killing (1956)
Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five man team to plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.
Angel Face (1953)
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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.
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.
Spellbound (1945)
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Gilda (1946)
A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
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.
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.
Murder Is My Beat (1955)
A police detective helps a singer heading to prison for the murder of a man she claims is still alive.
The Wrong Man (1956)
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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.
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.
Born to Kill (1947)
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.
Sudden Fear (1952)
After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
The Killers (1946)
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
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.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
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 Phenix City Story (1955)
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
High Wall (1947)
After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.
The Burglar (1957)
Dan Duryea and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City.
The Underworld Story (1950)
The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.
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.
Tight Spot (1955)
A female inmate is whisked out of prison and into a police guarded hotel until the district attorney can convince her to testify against the mob in the upcoming trial.
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.
This Gun for Hire (1942)
When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
Niagara (1953)
As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Cry Terror! (1958)
Duped by former army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time-bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb-threats to extort money from airlines.
High Sierra (1941)
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
The Big Heat (1953)
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.