Film-Noir movies

The Dark Mirror (1946)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Olivia de Havilland | Lew Ayres | Thomas Mitchell | Richard Long | Charles Evans | Garry Owen | Lela Bliss | Lester Allen | Rodney Bell | Lane Chandler | Jack Cheatham | Ben Erway | Jack Gargan | William Halligan
Directors: Robert Siodmak
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A man is murdered, and several witnesses can place Ruth Collins at the scene of the crime. But Ruth has a twin sister, Terry, who has been diagnosed as a psychotic. When Ruth falls for the psychiatrist who evaluates the two sisters, will Terry strike again?

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Edmond O'Brien | Frank Lovejoy | William Talman | José Torvay | Sam Hayes | Wendell Niles | Jean Del Val | Clark Howat | Natividad Vacío | Gordon Barnes | Rodney Bell | Orlando Beltran | Wade Crosby | Joe Dominguez | Henry A. Escalante
Directors: Ida Lupino
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Two friends on a fishing trip pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be a psychotic escaped convict. This sociopath has already murdered other good Samaritans in his efforts to evade authorities. He sadistically taunts and threatens the two men and perversely delights in telling them that he has them both marked for death sometime before the end of the trip. His destination is a ferryboat in Baja, California, which he hopes will help him get to the mainland. The hostages hope to stay alive long enough to escape or be rescued by Mexican authorities.

The Third Man (1949)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Alida Valli | Orson Welles | Trevor Howard | Bernard Lee | Paul Hörbiger | Ernst Deutsch | Siegfried Breuer | Erich Ponto | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Hedwig Bleibtreu | Harold Ayer | Harry Belcher | Leo Bieber | Paul Birch
Directors: Carol Reed
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An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend’s involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.

Possessed (1947)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Joan Crawford | Van Heflin | Raymond Massey | Geraldine Brooks | Stanley Ridges | John Ridgely | Moroni Olsen | Erskine Sanford | Peter Miles | Jakob Gimpel | Isabel Withers | Lisa Golm | Douglas Kennedy | Monte Blue | Don McGuire
Directors: Curtis Bernhardt
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A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she’s taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David as a result of borderline personality disorder which ultimately leads to murder.

A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Wagner | Jeffrey Hunter | Virginia Leith | Joanne Woodward | Mary Astor | George Macready | Robert Quarry | Howard Petrie | Bill Walker | Molly McCart | Marlene Felton | Robert Ivers
Directors: Gerd Oswald
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Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It’s his child, too, of course; but this ruins everything. Her moralistic father will disown her and will certainly never accept him. It seems he’s trapped. Bud’s mother knows something is troubling her son, but he won’t talk to her about it. All she knows is that Bud doesn’t want to turn out like his father, with holes in his shoes. He doesn’t have to worry. As his mother says, when he turns his mind to something, he does it. Unknown to her, his thoughts have turned to murder.

Journey Into Fear (1943)

Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Dolores del Rio | Ruth Warrick | Agnes Moorehead | Jack Durant | Everett Sloane | Eustace Wyatt | Frank Readick | Edgar Barrier | Jack Moss | Stefan Schnabel | Hans Conried | Robert Meltzer | Richard Bennett
Directors: Norman Foster
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L’ingegnere Graham e sua moglie stanno viaggiando attraverso la Turchia. Una notte subiscono un apparente attentato. Il colonnello Haki, capo della polizia segreta turca, consiglia ai due di lasciare immediatamente il paese. Sulla nave su cui sta viaggiando Graham incontra strani e misteriosi personaggi. Sfuggito a vari attentati alla sua vita, sfugge agli agenti nazisti e raggiunge la moglie. Banat, un agente nazista, vorrebbe uccidere l’ingegnere, ma Haki lo salva, lanciando il nazista gi? dal cornicione del palazzo dove si sono scontrati all’ultimo sangue.

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ralph Meeker | Albert Dekker | Paul Stewart | Juano Hernandez | Wesley Addy | Marian Carr | Maxine Cooper | Cloris Leachman | Gaby Rodgers | Nick Dennis | Jack Lambert | Jack Elam | Jerry Zinneman | Leigh Snowden | Percy Helton
Directors: Robert Aldrich
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Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer’s car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike’s policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story—meaning big money for him—because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed.

Cry Danger (1951)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Dick Powell | Rhonda Fleming | Richard Erdman | William Conrad | Regis Toomey | Jean Porter | Jay Adler | Joan Banks | Gloria Saunders | Hy Averback | Renny McEvoy | Lou Lubin | Benny Burt | Robert Bice | Ralph Brooks
Directors: Robert Parrish
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“Rocky” Mulloy is framed for a murder and a holdup he didn’t commit and pulls a five year stretch in prison. He is finally pardoned when a friend returns from overseas to corroborate his testimony in court. “Rocky” then goes hunting for the real culprits so this his prison buddy, believed to be innocent, can also be pardoned. Nancy Morgan, wife of his friend, falls in love with him along the way, and he also has a few bullets fired at him by an oily character. “Rocky” finds the guilty party in a place he didn’t think about looking.

The Narrow Margin (1952)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Charles McGraw | Marie Windsor | Jacqueline White | Gordon Gebert | Queenie Leonard | David Clarke | Peter Virgo | Don Beddoe | Paul Maxey | Harry Harvey | Peter Brocco | Ivan Browning | George Chandler | James Conaty
Directors: Richard Fleischer
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When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he’s coming to trial she has to be escourted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.

They Live by Night (1948)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cathy O'Donnell | Farley Granger | Howard Da Silva | Jay C. Flippen | Helen Craig | Will Wright | Marie Bryant | Ian Wolfe | William Phipps | Harry Harvey | Will Lee | Jim Nolan | Teddy Infuhr | Byron Foulger | Guy Beach
Directors: Nicholas Ray
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In the ’30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after “Bowie the Kid” harder than ever.