Film noir

Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...

 is not a clearly defined type, so composition of this list may be disputed. See film noir

Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...

 for details on the characteristics of the genre

Genre

Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...

. The terms used here to describe various periods and variations of film noir are not definitive, and are included as an aid to navigating the list rather than as critical argument.

1900s–1920s

• 1909
  • In the Watches of the Night—one-reeler
    Short subject
    A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
    
    
  • Through the Breakers—one-reeler
  • The Restoration—one-reeler
• 1912
  • The Musketeers of Pig Alley
    The Musketeers of Pig Alley
    The Musketeers of Pig Alley is a 1912 American short drama film credited as the first gangster film in history. It is directed by D. W. Griffith and written by Griffith and Anita Loos. It is also credited for its early use of follow focus, a fundamental tool in cinematography.The film was released...
    
    —two-reeler
    Short subject
    A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
    
    
• 1914
  • The Escape
    The Escape (1914 film)
    The Escape is a 1914 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Donald Crisp. It is now considered to be a lost film.-Cast:* Donald Crisp as 'Bull' McGee* Edna Foster as Crippled girl* Earle Foxe* Robert Harron as Larry Joyce...
    
    
• 1927
  • Underworld
    Underworld (1927 film)
    Underworld is a 1927 silent crime film directed by Josef von Sternberg.-Plot:Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.-Cast:* George Bancroft as "Bull" Weed* Evelyn Brent as "Feathers"...
    
    
• 1928
  • The Docks of New York
    The Docks of New York
    The Docks of New York is a silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson and Baclanova. It tells the story of a prostitute who tries to rise above her life on the docks by finding love...
    
    
  • The Racket
    The Racket
    The Racket is an American crime film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone...
    
    
• 1929
  • Thunderbolt
    Thunderbolt (1929 film)
    Thunderbolt is a 1929 proto-noir which tells the story of a criminal, facing execution, who wants to kill the man in the next cell for being in love with his girlfriend. It stars George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie Besserer....
    
    

1930s

• 1931
  • Blonde Crazy
    Blonde Crazy
    Blonde Crazy is a 1931 film by Roy Del Ruth, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Ray Milland, and Guy Kibbee famous for Cagney's line, "That dirty, double-crossin' rat!"- Plot :...
    
    
  • City Streets
    City Streets (film)
    City Streets is a 1931 Pre-Code crime film based upon a story written by Dashiell Hammett, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, and starring Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas and Guy Kibbee.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Five Star Final
    Five Star Final
    Five Star Final is a 1931 American film about crime and the excesses of tabloid journalism. It was written by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan from the play by Louis Weitzenkorn, and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The movie stars Edward G. Robinson and features H. B...
    
    
  • Little Caesar
    Little Caesar (film)
    Little Caesar is a 1931 Warner Bros. Pre-Code crime film. It tells the story of a hoodlum who ascends the ranks of organized crime until he reaches its upper echelons. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, the film stars Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. The story was adapted by Francis Edward...
    
    
  • The Maltese Falcon
    The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
    The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American Warner Bros. Pre-Code crime film based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The movie was directed by Roy Del Ruth and stars Bebe Daniels in the role of Ruth Wonderly and Ricardo Cortez as private detective Sam Spade.Maude Fulton, Brown Holmes,...
    
     (aka Dangerous Female)
  • The Public Enemy
    The Public Enemy
    The Public Enemy is a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman. The film relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in prohibition-era urban America...
    
    
• 1932
  • The Beast of the City
    The Beast of the City
    The Beast of the City is a 1932 pre-Code gangster movie featuring cops as vigilantes and known for its singularly vicious ending. Written by W.R...
    
    
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a Pre-Code crime/drama film starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted convict on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott Burns's autobiography, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain...
    
    
  • Scarface
    Scarface (1932 film)
    Scarface is a 1932 American gangster film starring Paul Muni and George Raft, produced by Howard Hughes, directed by Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson, and written by Ben Hecht based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Armitage Trail...
    
    
  • 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
    20,000 Years in Sing Sing
    20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 American black-and-white drama film set in Sing Sing Penitentary, the notorious maximum security prison in New York State. This movie was directed by Michael Curtiz, and it starred the noted actors Spencer Tracy as the main convict, and Bette Davis as his...
    
    

• 1933
  • Private Detective 62

• 1934
  • Midnight
    Midnight (1934 film)
    Midnight is a 1934 film noir directed by Chester Erskine and starring Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull, Margaret Wycherly, and Humphrey Bogart. The film was re-released as Call It Murder after Bogart became a movie star. His credit was enlarged to a guest star status although Bogart was...
    
    
  • The Thin Man
    The Thin Man (film)
    The Thin Man is a 1934 American comic detective film starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease. Nick is a hard drinking retired detective and Nora a wealthy heiress...
    
    

• 1935
  • Bordertown
    Bordertown (1935 film)
    Bordertown is a 1935 American drama film directed by Archie Mayo. The screenplay by Laird Doyle and Wallace Smith is based on Robert Lord's adaptation of the 1934 novel Border Town by Carroll Graham....
    
    
  • The Florentine Dagger
  • The Glass Key
    The Glass Key (1935 film)
    -Cast:*George Raft as Ed Beaumont*Edward Arnold as Paul Madvig*Claire Dodd as Janet Henry*Guinn Williams as Jeff*Ray Milland as Taylor Henry-External links:...
    
    
  • The Scoundrel
    The Scoundrel
    The Scoundrel is a drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and starring Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, and Lionel Stander. It was Coward's film debut, aside from a bit role in a silent film...
    
    

• 1936
  • Bullets or Ballots
    Bullets or Ballots
    Bullets or Ballots is a 1936 gangster film starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane and Humphrey Bogart. Robinson plays a police detective who infiltrates a crime gang.-Cast:*Edward G...
    
    
  • Fury
    Fury (1936 film)
    Fury is a 1936 American drama film which tells the story of an innocent man who narrowly escapes being lynched and the revenge he seeks. Directed by Fritz Lang, the film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney and Bruce Cabot and features Walter Abel, Edward...
    
    
  • Great Guy
    Great Guy
    Great Guy is a crime film starring James Cagney and Mae Clarke. An honest inspector for the New York Department of Weights and Measures takes on corrupt merchants and politicians.-Cast:*James Cagney as Johnny Cave*Mae Clarke as Janet Henry...
    
    
  • The Petrified Forest
    The Petrified Forest
    The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film, starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. A precursor of film noir, it was adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's 1936 stage play of the same name...
    
    
  • Satan Met a Lady
    Satan Met a Lady
    Satan Met a Lady is a 1936 American detective film directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis.The screenplay by Brown Holmes is a loose adaptation of the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, which previously was filmed in 1931 under its original title.-Plot:Private...
    
    

• 1937
  • Marked Woman
    Marked Woman
    Marked Woman is a crime melodrama film released by Warner Bros. in 1937. It was directed by Lloyd Bacon, and stars Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, with featured performances by Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell, Rosalind Marquis, Mayo Methot, Jane Bryan, Eduardo Ciannelli and Allen Jenkins...
    
    
  • San Quentin
    San Quentin (1937 film)
    San Quentin is a 1937 Warner Bros. drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart and Ann Sheridan. It was shot on location at San Quentin State Prison.-Plot summary:...
    
    
  • You Only Live Once
  • Dead End
    Dead End
    Dead End is a 1937 crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney...
    
    
• 1938
  • The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
    The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
    The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 American crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart. It was directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros. and written by John Wexley and John Huston, based on the first play written by short-story writer Barré Lyndon, which ran for...
    
    
  • Angels with Dirty Faces
    Angels with Dirty Faces
    Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft...
    
    
• 1939
  • Each Dawn I Die
    Each Dawn I Die
    Each Dawn I Die is a 1939 gangster film featuring James Cagney and George Raft in their only movie together as leads, although Raft had made an unbilled appearance in a 1932 Cagney vehicle called Taxi! in which he won a dance contest against Cagney, after which he and Cagney brawl...
    
    
  • King of the Underworld
    King of the Underworld
    King of the Underworld is a 1952 British crime film directed by Victor M. Gover and starring Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr and Tucker McGuire. A master criminal is hunted by the police after committing a series of crimes. It was followed by a sequel Murder at Scotland Yard...
    
    
  • The Roaring Twenties
    The Roaring Twenties
    The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 crime thriller starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart and Gladys George. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh, and written by Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay and Robert Rossen based on the story "The World Moves On" by Mark Hellinger...
    
    
  • They Made Me a Criminal
    They Made Me a Criminal
    They Made Me a Criminal is a 1939 American Warner Bros. drama crime film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids. It is a remake of the 1933 film The Life of Jimmy Dolan. The film was later featured in an episode of Cinema Insomnia.-Plot:Johnnie...
    
    

Non-American

• Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (1930) (Germany)
• La Chienne (1931) (France)
• M
  M (1931 film)
  M is a 1931 German drama-thriller directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou. It was Lang's first sound film, although he had directed more than a dozen films previously....
  
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• Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht (1931) (Germany)
• Voruntersuchung (1931) (Germany)
• La nuit du carrefour (Night at the Crossroads) (1932) (France)
• Quick (1932) (Germany)
• Stürme der Leidenschaft (1932) (Germany)
• Brennendes Geheimnis (The Burning Secret) (1933) (Germany)
• Cargaison blanche (Traffic in Souls) (1937) (France)
• Mollenard (1937) (France)
• La Serpiente roja (1937) (Cuba)
• Pépé le Moko
  Pépé le Moko
  Pépé le Moko is a 1937 French film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin. It depicts an infamous gangster, Pépé le Moko who tries to escape the police by hiding in the casbah of the city of Algiers...
  
   (1937) (France)
• La Bête humaine
  La Bête humaine
  La Bête Humaine is an 1890 novel by Émile Zola. The story has been adapted for the cinema on several occasions. It is based around the railway between Paris and Le Havre in the 19th century and is a tense, psychological thriller....
  
   (1938) (France)
• Quai des brumes
  Port of Shadows
  Port of Shadows is a 1938 French film directed by Marcel Carné. It stars Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Michèle Morgan. The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. The music score was by Maurice Jaubert. It is a notable example of the poetic realism genre...
  
   (Port of Shadows) (1938) (France)
• Le Dernier tournant (1939) (France)
• Le Jour se lève
  Le Jour se lève
  Le Jour se lève is a 1939 French film directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert, based on a story by Jacques Viot. It is considered one of the principal examples of the French film movement known as poetic realism....
  
   (1939) (France)
• Pièges (Snares) (1939) (France)

1940s

• 1940
  • Angels Over Broadway
    Angels Over Broadway
    Angels Over Broadway is a 1940 drama film in which a hustler, a showgirl, and an alcoholic playwright try to help an embezzler win enough money to return what he stole before it is too late....
    
    
  • Stranger on the Third Floor
    Stranger on the Third Floor
    Stranger on the Third Floor is a film noir thriller, featuring Peter Lorre, co-written by Nathaniel West, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The picture was directed by Boris Ingster....
    
    
  • They Drive by Night
    They Drive by Night
    They Drive by Night is a black-and-white film noir starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart, and directed by Raoul Walsh. The picture involves a pair of embattled truck drivers and was released in the UK under the title The Road to Frisco. The film was based on A. I...
    
    
• 1941
  • Among the Living
    Among the Living (film)
    Among the Living is a horror suspense film with Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, and Frances Farmer.-Plot:Albert Dekker plays two twin brothers, John and Paul. Paul was supposed to have died when he was 10 years old, but actually went insane and was shut up in a secret room in his parents' mansion...
    
    
  • Blues in the Night
    Blues in the Night (1941 film)
    Blues in the Night is a 1941 American musical drama film released by Warner Brothers, directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorf, Betty Field, Lloyd Nolan, Elia Kazan, and Jack Carson...
    
    
  • Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Many critics consider it the greatest American film of all time, especially for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles' first feature film...
    
    
  • Crossroads
    Crossroads (1942 film)
    Crossroads is a 1942 mystery film directed by Jack Conway, starring William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor and Basil Rathbone. Powell plays a diplomat whose amnesia about his past comes back to trouble him...
    
    
  • The Face Behind the Mask
  • The Glass Key
    The Glass Key (1942 film)
    The Glass Key is a 1942 film noir, directed by Stuart Heisler and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The story had previously been adapted for film in 1935.-Plot:...
    
    
  • High Sierra
  • I Wake Up Screaming
    I Wake Up Screaming
    I Wake Up Screaming is a 1941 film noir. It is based on the novel of the same name by Steve Fisher, who co-wrote the screenplay with Dwight Taylor...
    
    
  • Out of the Fog
    Out of the Fog (film)
    Out of the Fog is a 1941 film noir directed by Anatole Litvak, starring John Garfield, Ida Lupino and Thomas Mitchell. A gangster falls in love with the daughter of one of the fisherman from whom he extorts "protection" money...
    
    
  • Johnny Eager
    Johnny Eager
    Johnny Eager is a 1941 film noir starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner. Van Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.The film is featured in the comedy spoof Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid .-Plot:...
    
    
  • Kid Glove Killer
    Kid Glove Killer
    Kid Glove Killer is a 1942 crime film starring Van Heflin as a criminologist investigating the murder of a mayor. The B film was the feature-length directorial debut of Fred Zinnemann.-Cast:*Van Heflin as Gordon McKay*Marsha Hunt as Jane Mitchell...
    
    
  • Ladies in Retirement
    Ladies in Retirement
    Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 film starring Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward. It is based on a 1940 Broadway play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy which starred Flora Robson in the lead role....
    
    
  • The Maltese Falcon
    The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
    The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 Warner Bros. film based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett and a remake of the 1931 film of the same name...
    
    
  • Moontide
    Moontide
    Moontide is a 1942 drama film about a man who fears he has committed a murder when he was drunk. It stars Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, and Thomas Mitchell. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Willard Robertson.Charles G...
    
    
  • Rage in Heaven
    Rage in Heaven
    Rage in Heaven is a 1941 psychological thriller about the destructive power of jealousy. It was directed by W.S. Van Dyke and based on the novel by James Hilton. It stars Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, and George Sanders.-Plot summary:...
    
    
  • The Shanghai Gesture
    The Shanghai Gesture
    The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American United Artists film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson....
    
    
  • Street of Chance
  • This Gun for Hire
    This Gun for Hire
    This Gun for Hire is a 1942 film noir, directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene. The film stars Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd.-Plot:...
    
    
  • A Woman's Face
    A Woman's Face
    A Woman's Face is a 1941 drama film directed by George Cukor, starring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt. It tells the story of Anna Holm, a facially disfigured blackmailer, who because of her appearance despises everyone she encounters...
    
    
• 1943
  • The Fallen Sparrow
    The Fallen Sparrow
    The Fallen Sparrow is a 1943 spy film starring John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, and Walter Slezak. It was based on the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes. An American returns home to find out who murdered his friend.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Journey into Fear
  • Meshes of the Afternoon
    Meshes of the Afternoon
    Meshes of the Afternoon is a short experimental film directed by wife and husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The film's narrative is circular, and repeats a number of psychologically symbolic images, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a...
    
    
  • The Seventh Victim
    The Seventh Victim
    The Seventh Victim is a 1943 horror and film noir starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter , and Hugh Beaumont, directed by Mark Robson, and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures...
    
    
  • Whispering Footsteps
    Whispering Footsteps
    Whispering Footsteps is an American crime film noir directed by Howard Bretherton. The drama features John Hubbard, Rita Quigley, Joan Blair.-Cast:* John Hubbard as Marcus Aurelius 'Mark' Borne* Rita Quigley as Brook Hammond...
    
    
• 1944
  • Bluebeard
    Bluebeard (1944 film)
    Bluebeard is a 1944 film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine in the title role. After the film's release, it became a favorite of horror movie fans and still later, a cult classic. It would also be registered as a film in thepublic domain...
    
    
  • Christmas Holiday
    Christmas Holiday
    Christmas Holiday is a 1944 American drama film directed by Robert Siodmak. The black-and-white film noir is loosely based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Producer Felix Jackson chose this project as a dramatic vehicle for Deanna Durbin. The screenplay was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz, who...
    
    
  • Dark Waters
    Dark Waters (1944 film)
    Dark Waters is a 1944 Gothic horror film based on the novel of the same name by Francis and Marian Cockrell. It was directed by André De Toth and starred Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone and Thomas Mitchell.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Double Indemnity
  • Experiment Perilous
    Experiment Perilous
    Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama set at the turn of the 20th century. The film is based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, and Claude E. Carpenter were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art...
    
    
  • Guest in the House
    Guest in the House
    Guest in the House is an American film noir directed by John Brahm. The drama features Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon, among others.-Cast:* Anne Baxter as Evelyn Heath* Ralph Bellamy as Douglas Proctor* Aline MacMahon as Aunt Martha...
    
    
  • Laura
    Laura (1944 film)
    Laura is a 1944 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel of the same title by Vera Caspary....
    
    
  • The Lodger
    The Lodger (1944 film)
    The Lodger is a 1944 horror film about Jack the Ripper, based on the novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes. It stars Merle Oberon, George Sanders and Laird Cregar, features Sir Cedric Hardwicke and was directed by John Brahm from a screenplay by Barré Lyndon.Lowndes' story had previously...
    
    
  • The Mark of the Whistler
    The Mark of the Whistler
    The Mark of the Whistler is a 1944 American crime film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler. It was directed by William Castle and features Richard Dix and Janis Carter, among others. It is the second of eight Whistler films starring Richard Dix produced in the 1940s.-Synopsis:A drifter...
    
    
  • The Mask of Dimitrios
    The Mask of Dimitrios
    The Mask of Dimitrios is an American film noir directed by Jean Negulesco and written by Frank Gruber, based on the 1939 novel of the same name written by Eric Ambler . Ambler is known as a major influence on writers and an inventor of the modern thriller genre...
    
    
  • Ministry of Fear
    Ministry of Fear
    Ministry of Fear is a 1944 film noir directed by Fritz Lang. Based on a novel by Graham Greene, the film tells the story of a man just released from a mental asylum who finds himself caught up in an international spy ring in London during the Blitz, pursued by foreign agents and incriminated for...
    
    
  • Murder, My Sweet
    Murder, My Sweet
    Murder, My Sweet is a 1944 American film noir directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, and Anne Shirley. The film was released in the United Kingdom under the title Farewell, My Lovely, which is the title of the 1940 Raymond Chandler novel it is based on, and also the...
    
     (aka Farewell, My Lovely)
  • Phantom Lady
    Phantom Lady (1944 film)
    Phantom Lady is a 1944 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, his first Hollywood noir. It was also a first for producer Joan Harrison, Universal Pictures' first female executive and Alfred Hitchcock's former screenwriter...
    
    
  • The Suspect
    The Suspect
    The Suspect is a 1944 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, set in Victorian times. It is based on the novel This Way Out, by James Ronald. Released by Universal Pictures, it tells the story of Philip Marshall , a kind but henpecked bank teller who strikes up an innocent friendship with a young...
    
    
  • Voice in the Wind
    Voice in the Wind
    Voice in the Wind is a 1944 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley and written by Friedrich Torberg, based on a story written by Arthur Ripley. The drama features Francis Lederer, Sigrid Gurie, J...
    
    
  • When Strangers Marry
    When Strangers Marry
    When Strangers Marry is a 1944 suspense film directed by William Castle and featuring Dean Jagger and Kim Hunter. The film, re-released under the title Betrayed, was called "the finest B-picture ever made" by film historian Don Miller.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Whistler
    The Whistler
    The Whistler was an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. It was sponsored by the Signal Oil Company: "That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." The program was adapted into a film noir series by Columbia Pictures in...
    
    
  • The Woman in the Window
    The Woman in the Window
    The Woman in the Window is a film noir directed by Fritz Lang that tells the story of psychology professor Richard Wanley who meets and becomes enamored with a young femme fatale....
    
    
• 1945
  • Bewitched
    Bewitched (1945 film)
    Bewitched is an American film noir directed and written by Arch Oboler. The drama features Phyllis Thaxter and Edmund Gwenn.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Circumstantial Evidence
  • Conflict
    Conflict (film)
    Conflict is a black-and-white suspense film noir made by Warner Brothers. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt, produced by William Jacobs with Jack L. Warner as executive producer from a screenplay by Arthur T. Horman and Dwight Taylor, based on the story The Pentacle by Alfred Neumann and Robert...
    
    
  • Cornered
    Cornered (film)
    Cornered is a film noir starring Dick Powell and directed by Edward Dmytryk. This is the second teaming of Powell and Dmytryk .Many scenes shot by cinematographer Harry J. Wild and Dmytryk stand out as classic film noir...
    
    
  • Criminal Court
    Criminal Court (film)
    Criminal Court is a 1945 crime drama directed by Robert Wise. It stars Tom Conway and Martha O'Driscoll.-Cast:*Tom Conway as Steve Barnes*Martha O'Driscoll as Georgia Gale*June Clayworth as Joan Mason*Robert Armstrong as Vic Wright...
    
    
  • Danger Signal
    Danger Signal
    Danger Signal is a 1945 film noir starring Faye Emerson and Zachary Scott. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Phyllis Bottome.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Detour
    Detour (1945 film)
    Detour is a film noir thriller that stars Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake and Edmund MacDonald. The movie was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney from Goldsmith's novel of the same name and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer...
    
    
  • Escape in the Fog
    Escape in the Fog
    Escape in the Fog is an American film noir directed by Budd Boetticher. The drama features Otto Kruger and Nina Foch.-Cast:* Otto Kruger as Paul Devon* Nina Foch as Eileen Carr* William Wright as Barry Malcolm* Konstantin Shayne as Schiller...
    
    
  • Fallen Angel
    Fallen Angel (1945 film)
    Fallen Angel is a 1945 black-and-white film noir directed by Otto Preminger, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle, who had also worked with Preminger on Laura a year before. The film features Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Charles Bickford. It was the last film Faye made as a major...
    
    
  • Hangover Square
    Hangover Square (film)
    Hangover Square is a film noir directed by John Brahm, based on the novel Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon who made a number of changes to the novel, including the transformation of George Harvey Bone into a classical composer-pianist and filming the...
    
    
  • The House on 92nd Street
    The House on 92nd Street
    The House on 92nd Street is a 1945 black-and-white spy film directed by Henry Hathaway. The film, shot mainly in New York City, was released shortly after the end of World War II. The House on 92nd Street was made with the full cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , and its head, J....
    
    
  • Jealousy
    Jealousy
    Jealousy is a second emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, particularly in reference to a human connection. Jealousy often consists of a combination of presenting emotions...
    
    
  • Johnny Angel
    Johnny Angel
    Johnny Angel is a film noir directed by Edwin L. Marin, written by Frank Gruber and Steve Fisher from the novel Mr. Angel Comes Aboard by Charles Gordon Booth. The movie features George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, and Hoagy Carmichael....
    
    
  • Mildred Pierce
    Mildred Pierce (film)
    Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American drama film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Eve Arden in a film noir about a long-suffering mother and her ungrateful daughter. The screenplay by Ranald MacDougall, William Faulkner, and Catherine Turney was based upon the 1941...
    
    
  • My Name is Julia Ross
    My Name is Julia Ross
    My Name is Julia Ross is a film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis, based on the novel The Woman in Red by Anthony Gilbert. This drama is the first in a series of film noirs directed by Lewis and features Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready.-Plot:In London, Julia Ross goes to a new...
    
    
  • Scarlet Street
    Scarlet Street
    Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on the French novel La Chienne by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne by director Jean Renoir.The principal actors Edward G...
    
    
  • The Spider
    The Spider (film)
    The Spider is an American crime film noir directed by Robert D. Webb. The drama features Richard Conte, Faye Marlowe, and Kurt Kreuger.-Cast:* Richard Conte as Chris Conlon* Faye Marlowe as Delilah 'Lila' Neilsen, alias Judith Smith...
    
    
  • The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
    The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
    The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry is a 1945 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, starring George Sanders as an aging bachelor who looks after his two sisters, one of whom tries to sabotage his romance with his co-worker...
    
    
  • Strange Illusion
    Strange Illusion
    Strange Illusion is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. According to noir historian Spencer Selby the film is, "A stylish cheapie by the recognized master of stylish cheapies."-Plot summary:...
    
     (aka Out of the Night)
  • Two O'Clock Courage
    Two O'Clock Courage
    Two O'Clock Courage is an American film noir directed by Anthony Mann and written by Robert E. Kent, based on story written by Gelett Burgess...
    
    
  • The Unseen
    The Unseen (1945 film)
    The Unseen is a 1945 film directed by Lewis Allen. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording , and is based on the novel Midnight House by Ethel Lina White. The film was Paramount's follow-up to the film The Uninvited .-Cast:...
    
    
  • Voice of the Whistler
    Voice of the Whistler
    Voice of the Whistle is a 1945 American crime film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler. It was directed by William Castle and features Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, and Rhys Williams.-Plot:...
    
    
• 1946
  • The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep (1946 film)
    The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as the female lead in a film about the "process of a criminal investigation, not its...
    
    
  • Black Angel
    Black Angel
    Black Angel is a 1946 film noir, based on the novel The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich. The film was director Roy William Neill's last film.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Blue Dahlia
    The Blue Dahlia
    The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir, directed by George Marshall and written by Raymond Chandler. The film marks the third pairing of stars Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Chase
    The Chase (1946 film)
    The Chase is an American film noir, shot in black and white, directed by Arthur Ripley. The screenplay is based on the Cornell Woolrich novel The Black Path of Fear...
    
    
  • Cloak and Dagger
  • Crack-Up
    Crack-Up (1946 film)
    Crack-Up is a film noir directed by Irving Reis, remembered for directing many "Falcon" movies of the early 1940s including The Falcon Takes Over. The drama is based on "Madman's Holiday", a story written by mystery writer Fredric Brown...
    
    
  • The Dark Corner
    The Dark Corner
    The Dark Corner is a 1946 film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens and Clifton Webb. The film is an example of a classic film noir and features a rare dramatic role for Ball.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Dark Mirror
  • Deadline at Dawn
    Deadline at Dawn
    Deadline at Dawn is a 1946 film noir, the only film directed by stage director Harold Clurman. It was written by Clifford Odets and based on a novella by Cornell Woolrich . The RKO Radio Picture was the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former Group Theatre associate,...
    
    
  • Deception
  • Decoy
    Decoy (film)
    Decoy is a 1946 American film noir. Directed by Jack Bernhard, the film stars Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard and Marjorie Woodworth...
    
    
  • Dressed To Kill
    Dressed to Kill (1946 film)
    Dressed to Kill , is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson....
    
    
  • Fear
    Fear (1946 film)
    Fear is a low-budget film noir released in 1946 and directed by Alfred Zeisler. The film is considered a loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Gilda
    Gilda
    Gilda is a 1946 American black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor. It stars Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in her signature role as the ultimate femme fatale. The film was noted for cinematographer Rudolph Mate's lush photography, costume designer Jean Louis' wardrobe for Hayworth , and...
    
    
  • The Killers
    The Killers (1946 film)
    The Killers is a 1946 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak. It is based in part on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film features Burt Lancaster in his screen debut, as well as Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, and Sam Levene...
    
    
  • The Locket
    The Locket
    The Locket is a suspense film directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and released by RKO Radio Pictures...
    
    
  • The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
    The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
    The Mysterious Mr. Valentine is an American crime film noir directed by Philip Ford. The drama features William Henry, Linda Stirling, and Virginia Christine.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Night Editor
    Night Editor
    Night Editor is a B-movie film noir directed by Henry Levin and based on a popular radio program of the same name. The script for the film was based on a previous radio program episode "Inside Story."...
    
    
  • Nobody Lives Forever
    Nobody Lives Forever (1946 film)
    Nobody Lives Forever is a 1946 black-and-white crime film based on the novel I Wasn't Born Yesterday by W.R. Burnett. It starred John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Nocturne
    Nocturne (1946 film)
    Nocturne is a black-and-white film noir starring George Raft and Lynn Bari. The film was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison, scripted by Jonathan Latimer, and directed by Edwin L. Marin.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film)
    The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1946 drama-film noir based on the 1934 novel of the same name by James M. Cain. This adaptation of the novel is the best known, featuring Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, and Audrey Totter...
    
    
  • Shadowed
    Shadowed
    Shadowed is a 1946 film directed by John Sturges....
    
    
  • Shadow of a Woman
    Shadow of a Woman
    Shadow of a Woman is an American drama film noir directed by Joseph Santley. The drama features Helmut Dantine and Andrea King. The film is based on the novel He Fell Down Dead written by Virginia Perdue.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Shock
    Shock (1946 film)
    -Plot:The film tells the story of a psychiatrist, Dr. Cross , who is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart , who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. It also stars Lynn Bari as Dr...
    
    
  • So Dark the Night
    So Dark the Night
    So Dark the Night is an American crime film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and written by Dwight V. Babcock, Martin Berkeley, based on a story written by Aubrey Wisberg...
    
    
  • Somewhere in the Night
  • The Spiral Staircase
  • Strange Impersonation
  • The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a black-and-white film noir released in the United States in 1946, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut. The movie is based on the short story "Love Lies Bleeding" by playwright John Patrick, using the...
    
    
  • The Strange Woman
    The Strange Woman
    The Strange Woman is an American film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Hedy Lamarr, and released by United Artists. The film is now in the public domain.- Cast :*Hedy Lamarr as Jenny Hager*George Sanders as John Evered...
    
    
  • The Stranger
    The Stranger (1946 film)
    The Stranger is an American film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. The film was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas. Sam Spiegel was the film's producer, and the film's musical score is by Bronisław Kaper...
    
    
  • Suspense
    Suspense (1946 film)
    Suspense is a film noir directed by Frank Tuttle. The ice-skating-themed movie starred Barry Sullivan and former Olympic skater Belita , who would team up again in 1947 for the film, The Gangster. It was also the last film appearance of actor Eugene Pallette...
    
    
  • Temptation
    Temptation (1946 film)
    Temptation is an American drama film noir directed by Irving Pichel. The drama features Merle Oberon and George Brent. The film was based on Robert Smythe Hichens's novel Bella Donna....
    
    
  • Three Strangers
    Three Strangers
    Three Strangers is a Warner Bros. crime drama, starring Peter Lorre, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Sydney Greenstreet, featuring Joan Lorring and Alan Napier. It was directed by Jean Negulesco from a script by John Huston and Howard Koch.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Tomorrow Is Forever
    Tomorrow Is Forever
    Tomorrow Is Forever is a 1946 black-and-white film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Irving Pichel, starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent. The music score is by Max Steiner...
    
    
  • Undercurrent
  • The Verdict
    The Verdict (1946 film)
    The Verdict is a 1946 film-noir drama directed by Don Siegel and written by Israel Zangwill and Peter Milne, based on Zangwill's novel The Big Bow Mystery. The film stars Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in one of their nine film pairings, as well as Joan Lorring and George Coulouris. Ian Wolfe...
    
    
  • Wife Wanted
    Wife Wanted (1946 film)
    Wife Wanted is an American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson. The drama features Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh and Robert Shayne...
    
    
• 1947
  • Backlash
    Backlash (1947 film)
    Backlash is an American crime film noir directed by Eugene Forde. The drama features Jean Rogers, Larry J. Blake, John Eldredge and Richard Travis.-Cast:* Jean Rogers as Catherine Morland* Richard Travis as Richard Conroy...
    
    
  • Blackmail
    Blackmail (1947 film)
    Blackmail is an American crime film noir directed by Lesley Selander. The drama features William Marshall, Adele Mara and Ricardo Cortez.-Plot:A shamus is approached by an entertainment executive to stop a blackmail plot against him.-Cast:...
    
    
  • Blind Spot
    Blind Spot (film)
    Blind Spot is a 1958 British drama film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Robert MacKenzie, Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson, John Le Mesurier and Michael Caine in an early screen appearance....
    
    
  • Body and Soul
    Body and Soul (1947 film)
    Body and Soul is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of a boxer who becomes involved with crooked promoters. It stars John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere and William Conrad....
    
    
  • Boomerang
    Boomerang (1947 film)
    Boomerang! is a 1947 film based on the true story of a vagrant who was accused of murder, only to be found innocent through the efforts of the prosecutor...
    
    
  • Born to Kill
    Born to Kill (1947 film)
    Born to Kill is a 1947 film noir starring Lawrence Tierney and directed by Robert Wise. It was the first film noir to be directed by Wise, who later directed The Set-Up , The Captive City , and Odds Against Tomorrow...
    
    
  • The Brasher Doubloon
    The Brasher Doubloon
    The Brasher Doubloon is a 1947 film noir based on the novel The High Window by Raymond Chandler....
    
    
  • Brute Force
    Brute Force (1947 film)
    Brute Force is a brooding, brutal film noir, starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn and Charles Bickford. It was directed by Jules Dassin, with a screenplay by Richard Brooks and the cinematography by William H. Daniels....
    
    
  • Bury Me Dead
    Bury Me Dead
    Bury Me Dead is an American film noir directed by Bernard Vorhaus. The drama features Cathy O'Donnell, June Lockhart, and Hugh Beaumontd.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Calcutta
    Calcutta (1947 film)
    Calcutta is an American crime film noir directed by John Farrow, and written and produced by Seton I. Miller. The drama features Alan Ladd, Gail Russell and William Bendix.-Cast:* Alan Ladd as Neale Gordon* Gail Russell as Virginia Moore...
    
    
  • Crossfire
    Crossfire (film)
    -External links:* review at DVD Savant by Glenn Erickson* film trailer at YouTube...
    
    
  • Daisy Kenyon
    Daisy Kenyon
    Daisy Kenyon is a 20th Century Fox feature film starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, and Dana Andrews in a story about a post-World War II romantic triangle. The screenplay by David Hertz was based upon a 1945 novel by Elizabeth Janeway. The film was directed and produced by Otto Preminger. Daisy...
    
    
  • Dark Passage
  • Dead Reckoning
    Dead Reckoning (1947 film)
    Dead Reckoning is a 1947 Columbia Pictures film noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott and featuring Morris Carnovsky. It was directed by John Cromwell and written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. Garrett based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams and Sidney Biddell...
    
    
  • Desert Fury
    Desert Fury
    Desert Fury is a 1947 Paramount Pictures color film noir drama film starring Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak and Burt Lancaster, with Mary Astor and Wendell Corey....
    
    
  • Desperate
    Desperate (film)
    -Plot:Steve Randall is an independent trucker who is hired by an old friend to haul some freight. Only when Steve arrives at the warehouse, does he realize that what he has been hired to haul away is stolen goods. A cop is killed when they bust in during the delivery.Later, after kidnapping Steve,...
    
    
  • The Devil Thumbs a Ride
    The Devil Thumbs a Ride
    The Devil Thumbs a Ride is a 1947 suspense film, considered to be film noir, starring Lawrence Tierney.-Plot:Steve Morgan , a charming but utterly sociopathic criminal who has just robbed and killed a cinema cashier, gets a ride with unsuspecting Jimmy 'Fergie' Ferguson , who does not know that...
    
    
  • A Double Life
    A Double Life
    A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso...
    
    
  • Fall Guy
    Fall Guy (1947 film)
    Fall Guy is an American crime film noir directed by Reginald Le Borg. The drama features Leo Penn, Robert Armstrong and Teala Loring...
    
    
  • Fear in the Night
    Fear in the Night (1947 film)
    Fear in the Night is a low budget black-and-white film noir directed by Maxwell Shane and starring Paul Kelly and DeForest Kelley . It is based on the Cornell Woolrich story "And So to Death" . Woolrich is credited under pen name William Irish...
    
    
  • Framed
  • The Gangster
    The Gangster
    The Gangster is an American crime film noir directed by Gordon Wiles. The drama features Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring and Akim Tamiroff...
    
    
  • The Guilty
  • High Tide
  • High Wall
    High Wall
    High Wall is a film noir, starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole, based on a play by Alan R...
    
    
  • Johnny O'Clock
    Johnny O'Clock
    Johnny O'Clock is an American crime film noir written and directed by Robert Rossen, based on a story by Milton Holmes. The drama features Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, and Lee J. Cobb.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Kiss of Death
    Kiss of Death (1947 film)
    Kiss of Death is a 1947 film noir movie directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer from a story by Eleazar Lipsky. The story revolves around the film's protagonist, a former robber, and the antagonist, the ruthless, violent Tommy Udo...
    
    
  • Lady in the Lake
    Lady in the Lake
    Lady in the Lake is a 1947 American film noir that marked the directorial debut of Robert Montgomery, who also stars in the film. The picture also features Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames and Jayne Meadows...
    
    
  • Lighthouse
  • The Long Night
    The Long Night (1947 film)
    The Long Night is a 1947 film noir directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by RKO. It is a remake of Le Jour se lève by Marcel Carné. The drama features Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, and others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Lured
    Lured
    Lured is the title of a film noir released by United Artists, directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Man I Love
    The Man I Love (film)
    The Man I Love is a noir film made in 1947, based on the novel Night Shift by Maritta M. Wolff.-Plot:Visiting her two sisters and brother, singer Petey Brown lands a job at small-time-hood Nicky Toresca's nightclub...
    
    
  • Moss Rose
    Moss Rose (film)
    Moss Rose is a 1947 period thriller film starring Peggy Cummins and Victor Mature.-Plot:Set in Victorian London the story concerns a music hall chorus girl who blackmails a gentleman after seeing him leave the house where another dancer was found murdered. Instead of accepting money she demands to...
    
    
  • Nightmare Alley
    Nightmare Alley (1947 film)
    Nightmare Alley is a 20th Century Fox film noir starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, and directed by Edmund Goulding. The movie rights for the 1946 novel of the same name, written by William Lindsay Gresham, were bought by Power, who planned on starring in the film...
    
    
  • Nora Prentiss
    Nora Prentiss
    Nora Prentiss is a 1947 black-and-white drama film. It is shot in the film noir style. The film, considered by some to be a "woman's noir", was directed by Vincent Sherman, who bought the story for $2500 ,. Sherman also directed leading lady Ann Sheridan in another 1947 film noir, The Unfaithful...
    
    
  • Out of the Past
    Out of the Past
    Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring , with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and James M...
    
    
  • The Paradine Case
    The Paradine Case
    The Paradine Case is a 1947 American courtroom drama film, set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick. The screenplay was written by Selznick and an uncredited Ben Hecht, from an adaptation by Alma Reville and James Bridie of the novel by Robert Smythe Hichens...
    
    
  • Possessed
    Possessed (1947 film)
    Possessed is a 1947 Warner Bros. film starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, and Raymond Massey in a tale about an unstable woman's obsession with her ex-lover. The screenplay by Ranald MacDougall and Silvia Richards was based upon a story by Rita Weiman. The film was directed by Curtis Bernhardt and...
    
    
  • The Pretender
    The Pretender (film)
    The Pretender is an American crime film noir directed by W. Lee Wilder and written by Don Martin, with additional dialogue by Doris Miller. The drama features Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig, Charles Drake, among others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Railroaded!
    Railroaded!
    Railroaded! is a 1947 black-and-white film noir directed by Anthony Mann.-Plot:The innocent owner of a car used in a back-room bookie operation robbery is "railroaded" for the killing of a cop during the getaway...
    
    
  • The Red House
    The Red House (1947 film)
    The Red House is a 1947 psychological thriller starring Edward G. Robinson. It is adapted from the novel The Red House by George Agnew Chamberlain, published in 1943 by Popular Library...
    
    
  • Ride the Pink Horse
    Ride the Pink Horse
    Ride the Pink Horse is a 1947 American crime film noir produced by Universal Studios. It was directed by the actor Robert Montgomery from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, which was based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes. The drama features Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King,...
    
    
  • Shoot to Kill
    Shoot to Kill (1947 film)
    Shoot to Kill is a 1947 black-and-white film noir 1947 American film directed by William Berke.- Plot summary :A former gangster who ss framed by a corrupt district attorney...
    
    
  • They Won't Believe Me
    They Won't Believe Me
    They Won't Believe Me is a 1947 drama film starring Susan Hayward. The black-and-white film noir was directed by Irving Pichel. The film was produced by Alfred Hitchcock's longtime assistant and collaborator, Joan Harrison.-Plot:...
    
    
  • T-Men
    T-Men
    T-Men is a semidocumentary style 1947 film noir shot in black-and-white. The film was directed by Anthony Mann with cinematography by noted noir cameraman John Alton....
    
    
  • The Two Mrs. Carrolls
    The Two Mrs. Carrolls
    The Two Mrs. Carrolls is a 1947 film noir made by Warner Brothers. It was directed by Peter Godfrey and produced by Mark Hellinger, with Jack L. Warner as executive producer, from a screenplay by Thomas Job based on the play by Martin Vale...
    
    
  • The Unfaithful
    The Unfaithful
    The Unfaithful is a 1947 film noir based on the W. Somerset Maugham penned 1940 Bette Davis movie The Letter. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman.-Plot:Chris Hunter stabs a man in her home one night while her husband Bob is out of town...
    
    
  • The Unsuspected
    The Unsuspected
    The Unsuspected is a film noir starring Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, and Joan Caulfield. The black-and-white film was directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the novel written by Charlotte Armstrong, and released by Warner Brothers.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Violence
    Violence (film)
    Violence is an American drama film noir directed by Jack Bernhard. The drama features Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea and Sheldon Leonard.-Plot:Ann Mason ,an undercover reporter, develops amnesia after infiltrating a neo-fascist group....
    
    
  • The Web
    The Web (film)
    The Web is a black-and-white 1947 thriller film starring Vincent Price. The film, directed by Michael Gordon, is considered film noir. It also features amongst its cast the science fiction/horror writer Fritz Leiber as Leopold Kroner.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Whispering City
    Whispering City
    Whispering City is a black-and-white film directed by Fyodor Otsep. The movie was filmed on location in Quebec City and Montmorency Falls, Québec, Canada in both English and French. A French language version La Forteresse, with different actors, was made simultaneously...
    
    
  • The Woman on the Beach
    The Woman on the Beach
    The Woman on the Beach is a film noir directed by Jean Renoir, released by RKO Radio Pictures, and starring Robert Ryan, Joan Bennett, and Charles Bickford.-Overview:...
    
    
• 1948
  • The Amazing Mr. X
    The Amazing Mr. X
    The Amazing Mr. X, also known as The Spiritualist is a film noir directed by Bernard Vorhaus with cinematography by John Alton. Like Nightmare Alley , this film tells the story of a phony spiritualist racket...
    
     (aka The Spiritualist)
  • Assigned to Danger
    Assigned to Danger
    Assigned to Danger is an American crime film noir directed by Budd Boetticher. The drama features Gene Raymond, Noreen Nash and Robert Bice.-Plot:A group of former prisoners pull off a heist...
    
    
  • Behind Locked Doors
    Behind Locked Doors
    Behind Locked Doors is a 1948 black-and-white B-movie starring Lucille Bremer. The movie, directed by Budd Boetticher, runs a scant 63 minutes. The film also stars Richard Carlson and features Tor Johnson as 'The Champ'.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Berlin Express
    Berlin Express
    Berlin Express is a black-and-white drama film directed by Jacques Tourneur. Thrown together by chance, a group of people search a city for a kidnapped peace activist. Set in Allied-occupied Germany, it was shot on location in post-World War II Frankfurt-am-Main and Berlin...
    
    
  • The Big Clock
    The Big Clock (1948 film)
    The Big Clock is a 1948 film noir thriller directed by John Farrow, adapted by renowned novelist-screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from the novel of the same name by Kenneth Fearing....
    
    
  • Blonde Ice
    Blonde Ice
    - Cast :*Robert Paige as Les Burns*Leslie Brooks as Claire Cummings Hanneman*Russ Vincent as Blackie Talon, the Pilot*Michael Whalen as Stanley Mason, Attorney*James Griffith as Al Herrick*Emory Parnell as Police Capt. Bill Murdock*Walter Sande as Hack Doyle...
    
    
  • Bodyguard
    Bodyguard (1948 film)
    Bodyguard is an American semi-documentary crime film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Fred Niblo Jr.and Harry Essex, based on a story written by George W. George and Robert Altman, who would on to direct MASH and other notable films...
    
    
  • Call Northside 777
    Call Northside 777
    Call Northside 777 is a documentary-style film noir directed by Henry Hathaway. It is based on the true story of a Chicago reporter who proved that a man, who had been in prison for murder, was wrongly convicted 11 years before....
    
    
  • Canon City
    Canon City (film)
    Canon City is an American film noir written and directed by Crane Wilbur. The drama features Scott Brady, Jeff Corey, Whit Bissell and others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Cry of the City
    Cry of the City
    Cry of the City is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Robert Siodmak based on the novel by Henry Edward Helseth, The Chair for Martin Rome. Veteran film noir-writer Ben Hecht worked on the film's script, but is not credited...
    
    
  • The Dark Past
    The Dark Past
    The Dark Past is a psychological thriller film directed by Rudolph Maté, and starring William Holden, Nina Foch, and Lee J. Cobb. The film, released by Columbia Pictures is a remake of Blind Alley , also released by Columbia, and based on a play by American playwright James Warwick.-Plot:A...
    
    
  • Force of Evil
    Force of Evil
    Force of Evil is a 1948 film noir directed by Abraham Polonsky who had already achieved a name for himself as a scriptwriter, most notably for the gritty boxing film Body and Soul . Like Body and Soul, the film starred John Garfield...
    
    
  • He Walked by Night
    He Walked by Night
    He Walked by Night is a black-and-white police procedural film noir, crediting Alfred L. Werker as director. The film, shot in semidocumentary tone, was loosely based on newspaper accounts of the real-life actions of Erwin "Machine-Gun" Walker, a former Glendale police department employee and...
    
    
  • Hollow Triumph
    Hollow Triumph
    Hollow Triumph, also known as The Scar in the United Kingdom, is a film noir released in 1948. It was directed by Steve Sekely and stars Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett.-Plot:...
    
     (aka The Scar)
  • The Hunted
  • I Love Trouble
    I Love Trouble (1948 film)
    I Love Trouble is a film noir written by Roy Huggins from his first novel The Double Take, directed by S. Sylvan Simon, and starring Franchot Tone as Stuart Bailey. The character of Stuart Baily was later portrayed by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr...
    
    
  • I Walk Alone
    I Walk Alone
    I Walk Alone is a 1948 film noir starring Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, and Kirk Douglas. It was the directorial debut of Byron Haskin....
    
    
  • I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
  • Key Largo
    Key Largo (film)
    Key Largo is a 1948 film noir directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor...
    
    
  • Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
    Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
    Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 film noir, directed by Norman Foster. It stars Burt Lancaster, Joan Fontaine and Robert Newton.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Lady from Shanghai
    The Lady from Shanghai
    The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, his estranged wife Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Money Madness
    Money Madness
    - Plot summary :Steve Clark rides on a Los Angeles-bound bus and gets off in a small town on the way. He first hides a large amount of cash he had been carrying in his suitcase. Then, he obtains a job, which leads him to a chance encounter with Julie Saunders , a local woman in her twenties. Julie...
    
    
  • The Naked City
    The Naked City
    The Naked City is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Jules Dassin. The movie, shot partially in documentary style, was filmed on location on the streets of New York City, featuring landmarks such as the Williamsburg Bridge the Whitehall Building and an apartment building on West 83rd...
    
    
  • Night Has a Thousand Eyes
    Night Has a Thousand Eyes
    Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 film noir, starring Edward G. Robinson and directed by John Farrow. The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Pitfall
    Pitfall (1948 film)
    Pitfall is a black-and-white 1948 film noir drama directed by André De Toth. The film was based on a novel of the same name by Jay Dratler, and was titled Tragedia a Santa Monica for its Italian release...
    
    
  • Race Street
    Race Street
    Race Street is an American crime film noir directed by Edwin L. Marin. The drama features George Raft, William Bendix and Marilyn Maxwell.-Cast:* George Raft as Daniel J. 'Dan' Gannin* William Bendix as Lt...
    
    
  • Raw Deal
    Raw Deal (1948 film)
    Raw Deal is a 1948 film noir directed by Anthony Mann and shot by cinematographer John Alton.-Plot:Prisoner Joe Sullivan , who has "taken the fall" for an unspecified crime, breaks jail with the help of his girl, Pat...
    
    
  • Road House
    Road House (1948 film)
    For the 1989 film, see Road House .Road House is a film noir drama directed by Jean Negulesco, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle. The picture features Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, among others....
    
    
  • Rope
    Rope (film)
    Rope is a 1948 American thriller film based on the play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions...
    
    
  • Ruthless
    Ruthless (film)
    Ruthless is a drama film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Zachary Scott and Louis Hayward.-Plot:Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case...
    
    
  • Secret Beyond the Door
  • Sleep, My Love
    Sleep, My Love
    Sleep, My Love is a feature film directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings and Don Ameche.-Plot:Alison Courtland, a wealthy New Yorker, hasn't a clue how she ended up on a train bound for Boston...
    
    
  • So Evil My Love
    So Evil My Love
    So Evil My Love is a 1948 British psychological thriller film, directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd and Geraldine Fitzgerald. The film is a period drama set in the Victorian era, and shot in film noir style in the late-1940s sub-genre often referred to as "Gaslight noir"...
    
    
  • Sorry, Wrong Number
    Sorry, Wrong Number
    Sorry, Wrong Number is a 1948 American suspense film noir directed by Anatole Litvak. It tells the story of a woman who overhears a plot for murder. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson and William Conrad.The film was adapted by Lucille...
    
    
  • The Street with No Name
    The Street with No Name
    The Street with No Name is a black-and-white film noir. The movie, a follow up to The House on 92nd Street , tells the story of an undercover FBI agent, Gene Cordell , who infiltrates a deadly crime gang. Cordell's superior, FBI Inspector George A. Briggs also appears in The House on 92nd Street...
    
    
  • They Live by Night
    They Live by Night
    They Live by Night is a film noir, based on Edward Anderson's Depression era novel Thieves Like Us. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray and starred Farley Granger as "Bowie" Bowers and Cathy O'Donnell as "Keechie" Mobley...
    
    
  • To the Ends of the Earth
    To the Ends of the Earth (film)
    To the Ends of the Earth is an American crime film noir directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Sidney Buchman and Jay Richard Kennedy. The drama features Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, and others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Walk a Crooked Mile
    Walk a Crooked Mile
    Walk a Crooked Mile is an American film noir directed by Gordon Douglas. The drama features Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe and Louise Allbritton.-Plot:...
    
    
• 1949
  • Abandoned
    Abandoned (1949 film)
    Abandoned is a 1949 American crime film noir directed by Joseph M. Newman. The drama features Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, and others.-Plot:...
    
     (aka Abandoned Woman)
  • The Accused
    The Accused (1949 film)
    The Accused is an American film noir directed by William Dieterle and written by Ketti Frings, based on Be Still, My Love, a novel written by June Truesdell...
    
    
  • Act of Violence
    Act of Violence (1948 film)
    Act of Violence is a 1948 film noir directed by Fred Zinnemann and adapted for the screen by Robert L. Richards from a story by Collier Young, featuring performances by Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, and Janet Leigh.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Beyond the Forest
    Beyond the Forest
    Beyond the Forest is a 1949 American film, representative of the film noir genre. It was nominated for an Academy Award for best score.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Big Steal
    The Big Steal
    The Big Steal is a 1949 black-and-white film noir/comedy reteaming Out of the Past stars Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer. The film was directed by Don Siegel, based on the short story "The Road to Carmichael's" by Richard Wormser.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Border Incident
    Border Incident
    Border Incident is a film noir directed by Anthony Mann. The MGM film was written by John C. Higgins and George Zuckerman. The film was shot by cinematographer John Alton who used shadows and lighting effects to involve an audience despite the fact that the film was shot on a low budget...
    
    
  • The Bribe
    The Bribe
    The Bribe is an American crime film noir directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Marguerite Roberts, based on a story written by Frederick Nebel...
    
    
  • Caught
    Caught (film)
    Caught is an American dramatic film starring James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan, directed by Max Ophuls, and based on a novel by Libbie Block. Caught has been released on DVD in France and the UK....
    
    
  • Champion (1949 film)
    Champion (1949 film)
    Champion is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by...
    
    
  • Chicago Deadline
  • City Across the River
  • The Clay Pigeon
    The Clay Pigeon
    The Clay Pigeon is an American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Carl Foreman, based on a true story. The drama features Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine, and others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Criss Cross
    Criss Cross (1949 film)
    Criss Cross is a 1949 film noir, directed by Robert Siodmak from a novel of the same name by Don Tracy. This black-and-white film was shot partly on location in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles. The film was written by Daniel Fuchs. Franz Planer's cinematography creates a black-and-white...
    
    
  • The Crooked Way
    The Crooked Way
    The Crooked Way is a black-and-white film noir directed by Robert Florey. The film was based on a radio play No Blade Too Sharp and features John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, and others...
    
    
  • A Dangerous Profession
    A Dangerous Profession
    A Dangerous Profession is a 1949 American film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff and written by Warren Duff and Martin Rackin. The drama features George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O'Brien, among others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Flamingo Road
  • Flaxy Martin
    Flaxy Martin
    Flaxy Martin is a film noir directed by Richard L. Bare. The crime thriller features Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, among others...
    
    
  • Follow Me Quietly
    Follow Me Quietly
    Follow Me Quietly is a semidocumentary film noir directed by Richard Fleischer, with support from Anthony Mann in an uncredited position. The drama features William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey, and others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Gun Crazy
    Gun Crazy
    Gun Crazy is a 1950 film noir feature film starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. The film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank King and Maurice King...
    
     (aka Deadly Is the Female)
  • House of Strangers
    House of Strangers
    House of Strangers is a film noir, and is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's novel I'll Never Go There Anymore, each scripted by Phillip Yordan...
    
    
  • Impact
    Impact (1949 film)
    Impact is a 1949 film noir starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines. It was filmed entirely in California and included scenes at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. The film was based on a story by film noir writer Jay Dratler.-Plot:...
    
    
  • I Married a Communist
    I Married a Communist (film)
    I Married a Communist is a 1949 film drama produced by RKO Radio Pictures. Due to audience resistance to the title, RKO re-released the film as The Woman on Pier 13 and Beautiful But Dangerous.-Plot:...
    
     (aka The Woman on Pier 13)
  • Johnny Allegro
  • Johnny Stool Pigeon
    Johnny Stool Pigeon
    Johnny Stool Pigeon is a 1949 black-and-white film noir directed by William Castle. Tony Curtis, who made his movie debut that same year appearing in Criss Cross, has a non-speaking role as a mob gang member...
    
    
  • Knock on Any Door
    Knock on Any Door
    Knock on Any Door is an American court-room trial film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart. The picture introduced John Derek to film and was based on the novel of the same name by Willard Motley.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Manhandled
    Manhandled
    Manhandled is a 1949 film noir produced by Paramount Pictures and its B-unit Pine-Thomas. The film stars Dorothy Lamour, Dan Duryea, and Sterling Hayden and is based on the novel The Man Who Stole a Dream by L. S. Goldsmith.-Featured cast:...
    
    
  • Moonrise
    Moonrise (film)
    -Plot:Dane Clark plays Danny Hawkins, the son of a murderer who was hanged for his crimes. Haunted by his father's past, the young man is tormented by the young people of the small southern town in which he lives. Hawkins' only friend is Gilly Johnson , a girl who is quickly falling in love with...
    
    
  • Port of New York
  • The Reckless Moment
    The Reckless Moment
    The Reckless Moment is a film noir melodrama directed by Max Ophüls, produced by Walter Wanger, and released by Columbia Pictures with Burnett Guffey as cinematographer. Starring Joan Bennett and James Mason, the film is based on The Blank Wall , a novel written by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding...
    
    
  • Red Light
    Red Light
    Red Light is a 1949 film noir, directed and produced by Roy Del Ruth. It is based on the story "This Guy Gideon" by Don "Red" Barry, and features strong religious overtones.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Scene of the Crime
    Scene of the Crime (1949 film)
    Scene of the Crime is a 1949 film noir starring Van Johnson as a Los Angeles police detective.-Plot:Detective Mike Conovan investigates when a former partner is found murdered and carrying $1,000 in cash....
    
    
  • The Set-Up
    The Set-Up (1949 film)
    For 2011 Set Up see hereThe Set-Up is an American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and featuring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 poem written by Joseph Moncure March. The film is about the boxing underworld.-Plot:Stoker Thompson ...
    
    
  • Shockproof
    Shockproof
    Shockproof is a 1949 movie starring Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight.The director of Shockproof, Douglas Sirk, said he took the assignment because the movie dealt with one of his favorite themes: the price of flouting taboos....
    
    
  • Tension
    Tension (film)
    Tension is a crime thriller film noir directed by John Berry, and written by Allen Rivkin, based on a story written by John D. Klorer. The drama features Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, and others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Third Man
    The Third Man
    The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...
    
    
  • The Threat
    The Threat
    The Threat is a 1949 American film noir directed by Felix E. Feist and starring Charles McGraw. The film features Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, among others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Thieves' Highway
    Thieves' Highway
    Thieves' Highway is a 1949 film noir directed by Jules Dassin. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides, based on his novel Thieves' Market.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Too Late for Tears
    Too Late for Tears
    Too Late for Tears is a 1949 black-and-white film noir directed by Byron Haskin and starring Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea. The screenplay was written by Roy Huggins, drawn from a serial he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post. The film was reissued as Killer Bait in 1955...
    
    
  • Trapped
    Trapped (1949 film)
    Trapped is a semidocumentary film noir directed by Richard Fleischer, written by George Zuckerman and Earl Felton. The drama features Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, and others....
    
    
  • The Undercover Man
    The Undercover Man
    The Undercover Man is a crime drama film noir starring Glenn Ford. This one of a number of noirs directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Gun Crazy and The Big Combo. The drama features Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, among others.-Plot:Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to...
    
    
  • Whirlpool
    Whirlpool (1949 film)
    Whirlpool is a thriller film noir directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt, adapted from Guy Endore's novel Methinks the Lady. The film Stars Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford and Constance Collier in her final film role.The drama combines...
    
    
  • White Heat
    White Heat
    White Heat may refer to:In film:* White Heat , a British film directed by Thomas Bentley* White Heat , an American film* White Heat, a 1949 film starring James CagneyIn music:...
    
    
  • The Window
    The Window
    The Window is a 1949 American black-and-white suspense film noir, based on the short story "The Boy Cried Murder" by Cornell Woolrich. The film, which was a critical success, was produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr. for $210,000 but earned much more, making it a box office hit for RKO Pictures...
    
    
  • A Woman's Secret
    A Woman's Secret
    A Woman's Secret is a 1949 film noir. It was based on the novel Mortgage on Life by Vicki Baum. It was directed by Nicholas Ray and starred Maureen O'Hara, Gloria Grahame and Melvyn Douglas.-Plot summary:...
    
    
  • Undertow
    Undertow (1949 film)
    Undertow is a 1949 thriller film directed by William Castle, starring Scott Brady, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett, Dorothy Hart and John Russell. It is the story of an ex-con, a former Chicago mobster, who is accused of the murder of a high ranking Chicago boss...
    
    

1950s

• 1950
  • Armored Car Robbery
    Armored Car Robbery
    Armored Car Robbery is a 1950 American film noir shot in a semi-documentary style, directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charles McGraw. The movie was filmed on location in Los Angeles, California....
    
    
  • The Asphalt Jungle
    The Asphalt Jungle
    The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 film noir directed by John Huston. The caper film is based on the novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett and stars an ensemble cast including Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, and, in a minor but key role, Marilyn Monroe, an unknown...
    
    
  • Backfire
    Backfire (1950 film)
    Backfire is a thriller and crime film in the film noir style directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Viveca Lindfors, and Dane Clark. It was written by Larry Marcus, Ben Roberts, and Ivan Goff. It is notable for launching the film noir careers of its...
    
    
  • Between Midnight and Dawn
  • Black Hand
  • Born to Be Bad
    Born to Be Bad (1950 film)
    Born to Be Bad is a 1950 melodrama starring Joan Fontaine as a manipulative young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. It was based on the novel All Kneeling by Anne Parrish.-Cast:*Joan Fontaine as Christabel Caine Carey...
    
    
  • The Breaking Point
  • Caged
    Caged (1950 film)
    Caged is a 1950 film released by Warner Bros. It tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery...
    
    
  • Convicted
  • The Damned Don't Cry!
    The Damned Don't Cry!
    The Damned Don't Cry! is a 1950 Warner Bros. drama film starring Joan Crawford, David Brian, and Steve Cochran tells of a woman's involvement with an organized crime boss and his subordinates. The screenplay by Harold Medford and Jerome Weidman was based on a story by Gertrude Walker. The plot...
    
    
  • Dark City
    Dark City (1950 film)
    Dark City is a 1950 film noir. The casting of Charlton Heston—in his first Hollywood film appearance—as a petty hood is unusual in light of his subsequent career. The film also features Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, who both went on to co-star in Dragnet. The musical score was composed by Franz...
    
    
  • Deported
  • Destination Murder
    Destination Murder
    Destination Murder is an American crime film noir directed by Edward L. Cahn. The drama features Joyce Mackenzie, Stanley Clements and Hurd Hatfield.-Cast:* Joyce Mackenzie as Laura Mansfield* Stanley Clements as Jackie Wales...
    
    
  • Dial 1119
    Dial 1119
    Dial 1119 is a 1950 film noir starring Marshall Thompson as a deranged escaped killer holding the customers of a bar hostage. It was directed by Gerald Mayer, nephew of Louis B. Mayer.-Cast:*Marshall Thompson as Gunther Wyckoff*Virginia Field as Freddy...
    
    
  • D.O.A.
    D.O.A. (1950 film)
    D.O.A. , a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, is considered a classic of the genre. The frantically paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies.Leo C...
    
    
  • Edge of Doom
    Edge of Doom
    Edge of Doom is a 1950 film noir shot in black and white. The film was directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay was written by Philip Yordan . The film is based on a novel by Leo Brady...
    
    
  • The File on Thelma Jordon
    The File on Thelma Jordon
    The File on Thelma Jordon is a 1950 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak from a screenplay by Ketti Frings. It stars Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell Corey.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Gambling House
  • Guilty Bystander
    Guilty Bystander
    Guilty Bystander is a 1950 independent film production, considered film noir, starring Zachary Scott and Faye Emerson. The film was the last film appearance for character actor Mary Boland.-Reaction:...
    
    
  • Highway 301
    Highway 301 (film)
    Highway 301 was a 1950 crime drama/film noir directed and written by Andrew L. Stone.- Plot :A gang of robbers are terrorizing and robbing banks and payrolls in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. The gang's leader, George, seems to take particular delight in "bumping off" women who cross him...
    
    
  • House by the River
    House by the River
    House by the River is a 1950 film directed by Fritz Lang. The Gothic crime story is considered film noir. The film was released by Republic Pictures.-Plot:...
    
    
  • In a Lonely Place
    In a Lonely Place
    In a Lonely Place is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, produced for Bogart's Santana Productions. The script was adapted by Edmund North from the 1947 novel In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes.Bogart stars in the film as Dixon Steele, a...
    
    
  • The Killer That Stalked New York
    The Killer That Stalked New York
    The Killer That Stalked New York is a 1950 film noir starring Evelyn Keyes. The film, shot on location and in a semi-documentary style, is about diamond smugglers who unknowingly start a smallpox outbreak in the New York City of 1947. It is based on the real threat of a smallpox epidemic in the...
    
    
  • Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  • A Lady Without Passport
    A Lady Without Passport
    A Lady Without Passport is a suspense film directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Shot in semidocumentary style, it is considered film noir.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Man Who Cheated Himself
    The Man Who Cheated Himself
    The Man Who Cheated Himself is an American crime film, released on December 26, 1950.-Plot summary:Socialite Lois Faaaaarazer wants a divorce from her wealthy husband, but he's not ready to let her go so easy. Suspecting that he intends to murder her, she calls Lieutenant Ed Cullen, with whom...
    
    
  • Mystery Street
    Mystery Street
    Mystery Street is a black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by famed lensman John Alton. The film stars Ricardo Montalban, Bruce Bennett, and Elsa Lanchester....
    
    
  • No Man of Her Own
    No Man of Her Own
    No Man of Her Own is a 1950 drama starring Barbara Stanwyck.It was the second she made with director Mitchell Leisen. It was based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, I Married a Dead Man. Woolrich is credited as William Irish in the film's opening credits.The film was later remade in 1996 as Mrs....
    
    
  • No Way Out
    No Way Out (1950 film)
    No Way Out is a black-and-white film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, and Sidney Poitier...
    
    
  • One Way Street
    One Way Street
    One Way Street is a 1950 film directed by Hugo Fregonese that stars James Mason. The black-and-white crime film, considered to be film noir, takes place mainly in Mexico.Rock Hudson appears as a truck driver, but is uncredited.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Panic in the Streets
    Panic in the Streets (film)
    Panic in the Streets is a 1950 film noir directed by Elia Kazan. It was shot exclusively on location in New Orleans, Louisiana and features numerous New Orleans citizens in speaking and non-speaking roles....
    
    
  • Quicksand
    Quicksand (1950 film)
    Quicksand is a United Artists film noir starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre in a story about a garage mechanic's descent into crime. The film has been described as "film noir in a teacup.....
    
    
  • The Second Woman
    The Second Woman
    The Second Woman is a black-and-white film noir melodrama directed by James V. Kern-Plot:This psychological thriller tells the story of Jeff Cohalan . He's a successful architect who is tormented by the fact that his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding...
    
    
  • The Secret Fury
    The Secret Fury
    The Secret Fury is a 1950 American black-and-white drama film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Mel Ferrer.-Plot:A wealthy classical pianist, Ellen, is accused of already being married when she attempts to take her wedding vows; the wedding guests are shocked...
    
    
  • 711 Ocean Drive
    711 Ocean Drive
    711 Ocean Drive is an American crime film noir directed by Joseph M. Newman. The drama features Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru and Otto Kruger.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Shakedown
  • Side Street
  • The Sleeping City
    The Sleeping City
    The Sleeping City is a 1950 film noir, shot in semidocumentary style, starring Richard Conte. Set in and shot at New York's Bellevue Hospital, it was directed by George Sherman....
    
    
  • The Sound of Fury(aka Try and Get Me)
  • Southside 1-1000
    Southside 1-1000
    Southside 1-1000 is a 1950 semidocumentary-style film, considered film noir. The film stars Don DeFore, Andrea King and Gerald Mohr as the off-screen narrator.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Strangers on a Train
    Strangers on a Train (film)
    Strangers on a Train is an American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith. It was shot in the autumn of 1950 and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman,...
    
    
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Tattoed Stranger
  • The Underworld Story
    The Underworld Story
    The Underworld Story is a 1950 American film noir starring Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, and Gale Storm. Howard Da Silva plays the loud-mouthed gangster Carl Durham, one of his last roles before becoming blacklisted....
    
    
  • Union Station
    Union Station (film)
    Union Station is a film noir, directed by Rudolph Maté. The drama features William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, and Nancy Olson, among others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Walk Softly, Stranger
    Walk Softly, Stranger
    Walk Softly, Stranger is a 1950 film that tells the story of a small-time crook on the run who later becomes reformed by the love of a crippled woman. This would be the last RKO credit for famed film producer Dore Schary, who would leave the studio soon after the completion of the film. Privately,...
    
    
  • Where Danger Lives
    Where Danger Lives
    Where Danger Lives is a 1950 film noir thriller directed by John Farrow. The film stars Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue , and Claude Rains. At the time, Domergue was the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends
    Where the Sidewalk Ends
    Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1950 American film noir directed and produced by Otto Preminger. The screenplay for the film was written by Ben Hecht, and adapted by Robert E. Kent, Frank P. Rosenberg, and Victor Trivas. The screenplay and adaptations were based on the novel Night Cry by William L....
    
    
  • Woman in Hiding
  • Woman on the Run
    Woman on the Run
    Woman on the Run is a 1950 black-and-white film noir directed by Norman Foster.- Plot :As the film opens, a man, Frank Johnson , is walking his dog in the city at night. He witnesses a man in a car talking about a crime. The man then gets shot. But whoever shot that man then sees Frank and shoots...
    
    
• 1951
  • Ace in the Hole
    Ace in the Hole (1951 film)
    Ace in the Hole is a 1951 American drama film starring Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who stops at nothing to try to regain a job on a major newspaper....
    
     (aka The Big Carnival)
  • Appointment with Danger
    Appointment with Danger
    Appointment with Danger is an American crime film noir directed by Lewis Allen and written by Richard L. Breen and Warren Duff. The drama features Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, among others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Big Night
    The Big Night
    The Big Night is a 1951 black-and-white film drama starring John Drew Barrymore . The film, directed by Joseph Losey, is considered to be film noir.- Reception :...
    
    
  • Cause for Alarm!
  • Cry Danger
    Cry Danger
    Cry Danger is a 1951 film noir thriller shot in twenty-two days in Los Angeles, including the Bunker Hill section of the city. The film was directed by Robert Parrish, a former child star and later editor in his debut as a director.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Detective Story
  • The Enforcer
    The Enforcer (1951 film)
    The Enforcer is a black-and-white 1951 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart. Based on the Murder, Inc. trials, the film is largely a police procedural directed by Bretaigne Windust with uncredited help from Raoul Walsh, who shot most of the film's suspenseful moments, including the ending...
    
     (aka Murder, Inc.)
  • He Ran All the Way
    He Ran All the Way
    He Ran All the Way is a 1951 crime drama, considered a film noir, starring John Garfield and Shelley Winters. The film was Garfield's last, as accusations of his involvement with the Communist Party and a refusal to name names while testifying before the HUAC led to his blacklisting in Hollywood...
    
    
  • His Kind of Woman
    His Kind of Woman
    His Kind of Woman is a black-and-white 1951 film noir starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. The film features supporting roles by Vincent Price, Raymond Burr, and Charles McGraw...
    
    
  • Hollywood Story
  • The Hoodlum
    The Hoodlum
    The Hoodlum is a 1951 American film directed by Max Nosseck.- Cast :*Lawrence Tierney*Allene Roberts*Marjorie Riordan*Lisa Golm*Edward Tierney*Stuart Randall*Angela Stevens*John De Simone*Tom Hubbard*Eddie Foster*O.Z. Whitehead*Richard Barron...
    
    
  • The House on Telegraph Hill
    The House on Telegraph Hill
    The House on Telegraph Hill is a film noir starring Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, and William Lundigan, directed by Robert Wise, and released by Twentieth Century Fox. Parts of the film were filmed on location in the Telegraph Hill area of San Francisco...
    
    
  • I Was a Communist for the FBI
    I Was a Communist for the FBI
    I Was a Communist for the FBI is the name of a series of stories written by Matt Cvetic that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The stories were later turned into a best-selling book, an American espionage thriller radio series and motion picture in the early 1950s.The story follows Cvetic, who...
    
    
  • The Killer That Stalked New York
    The Killer That Stalked New York
    The Killer That Stalked New York is a 1950 film noir starring Evelyn Keyes. The film, shot on location and in a semi-documentary style, is about diamond smugglers who unknowingly start a smallpox outbreak in the New York City of 1947. It is based on the real threat of a smallpox epidemic in the...
    
    
  • M
    M (1951 film)
    M is a 1951 American remake of Fritz Lang's film of the same name, shifting the action from Berlin to Los Angeles and changing the killer's name from Hans Beckert to Martin W. Harrow. The remake, directed by Joseph Losey with David Wayne playing Peter Lorre's role, was not well received by critics...
    
    
  • The Man with My Face
    The Man with My Face (film)
    The Man with My Face is a 1951 American United Artists film noir crime/thriller motion picture starring Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews, Lynn Ainley, John Harvey, Jim Boles, and Jack Warden. The film marks Jack Warden's movie debut....
    
    
  • The Medium
    The Medium
    The Medium is a short two-act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by Columbia University, its first performance was there on 8 May 1946. The opera's first professional production was presented on a double bill with Menotti's The Telephone at the Heckscher...
    
    
  • The Mob
    The Mob (film)
    The Mob is a 1951 crime thriller film, considered film noir, starring Broderick Crawford as a hard-nosed cop who infiltrates the Mob in order to bust their illegal dockyard activities. Actor Charles Bronson makes one of his first film appearances as a longshoreman...
    
    
  • The People Against O'Hara
    The People Against O'Hara
    The People Against O'Hara is a 1951 film noir based on Eleazar Lipsky's novel. The movie stars Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, and James Arness, and is directed by John Sturges, who also directed the The Great Escape.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Pickup
  • The Prowler
    The Prowler (1951 film)
    The Prowler is a 1951 black-and-white thriller film directed by Joseph Losey. It stars Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes. Considered film noir, it was produced by Sam Spiegel .- Plot :...
    
    
  • The Racket
    The Racket (1951 film)
    The Racket is a 1951 remake of the the 1928 film The Racket. This film noir-style black-and-white film was directed by John Cromwell with uncredited directing help from Nicholas Ray and Mel Ferrer. The police crime drama is based on a popular Bartlett Cormack play. The Racket is a 1951 remake of...
    
    
  • The Raging Tide
    The Raging Tide
    The Raging Tide is an American crime film noir directed by George Sherman and written by Ernest K. Gann, based on his novel Fiddler's Green. The drama features Shelley Winters, Richard Conte, among others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Roadblock
    Roadblock (1951 film)
    Roadblock is an American film noir starring Charles McGraw and Joan Dixon. The 73-minute crime thriller was shot on location in Los Angeles, California. The film was directed by Harold Daniels and the cinematography is by Nicholas Musuraca.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Scarf
  • Strangers on a Train
    Strangers on a Train (film)
    Strangers on a Train is an American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith. It was shot in the autumn of 1950 and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman,...
    
    
  • The Strip
  • The 13th Letter
    The 13th Letter
    The 13th Letter is a 1951 film directed by Otto Preminger. The film is a remake of Le Corbeau directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Tomorrow Is Another Day
  • Under the Gun
  • The Unknown Man
    The Unknown Man
    -Plot:Defense attorney Dwight Bradley Masen is successful in seeking the acquittal of a young man, Rudi Walchek, accused of knifing to death the 19-year-old son of a local locksmith, but when Rudi lets a comment slip after the trial, Masen realizes he has defended a guilty man...
    
    
• 1952
  • Affair in Trinidad
    Affair in Trinidad
    Affair in Trinidad is a film produced by Hayworth's Beckworth Corporation, released by Columbia Pictures, and starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. It is notable as Hayworth's "comeback" film after four years away from Columbia, as a re-teaming of the Gilda co-stars, and for a fiery opening...
    
    
  • Angel Face
  • Beware, My Lovely
    Beware, My Lovely
    Beware, My Lovely is a suspense film produced by Collier Young/Ida Lupino's production company The Filmakers.-Plot:The film is set in 1919 or 1920 in an unnamed small town. A widow impulsively hires handyman to look after her house...
    
    
  • Breakdown (1952 film)
  • The Captive City
    The Captive City
    The Captive City is a 1952 film, considered film noir, directed by Robert Wise.John Forsythe plays a crusading small city newspaper editor in a semidocumentary depiction of corruption and vice in paranoid post-World War II America. This is one of several 1950s films to have storylines influenced by...
    
    
  • Clash by Night
    Clash by Night
    Clash by Night is a black-and-white drama with some film noir aspects, directed by Fritz Lang and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe and Robert Ryan. The movie was based on the play by Clifford Odets, adapted by writer Alfred Hayes...
    
    
  • Don't Bother to Knock
    Don't Bother to Knock
    Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 American thriller film starring Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark, directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Daniel Taradash. Monroe is featured as a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where a pilot, played by Widmark, is staying...
    
    
  • Kansas City Confidential
  • The Las Vegas Story
    The Las Vegas Story (film)
    The Las Vegas Story is a 1952 suspense film noir directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Robert Sparks and Howard Hughes with Samuel Bischoff as the executive producer. The screenplay was by Paul Jarrico, Earl Felton, and Harry Essex from a story by Jay Dratler. The music score was by Leigh...
    
    
  • Loan Shark
  • Macao
    Macao (film)
    Macao is a 1952 black-and-white film noir adventure film directed by Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray. Producer Howard Hughes fired director von Sternberg during filming and hired Nicholas Ray to finish it...
    
    
  • The Narrow Margin
    The Narrow Margin
    The Narrow Margin is a 1952 American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Earl Felton, based on an unpublished story written by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard. Writers Goldsmith and Leonard were nominated for an Academy Award for their story.The picture stars Charles McGraw,...
    
    
  • Night Without Sleep
    Night Without Sleep
    Night Without Sleep is a 1952 mystery film directed by Roy Ward Baker.-Plot:A composer, Richard Morton experiences blackouts and cannot account for his actions. He seems to recall a woman's screams and a conversation with his wife, Emily, but it's all a blur.Morton goes to see his friend John...
    
    
  • On Dangerous Ground
    On Dangerous Ground
    On Dangerous Ground is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the novel Mad with Much Heart, by Gerald Butler...
    
    
  • Scandal Sheet
  • The Sniper
    The Sniper (1952 film)
    The Sniper is a black-and-white film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by Harry Brown, and based on a story by Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt. The film features Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, among others....
    
    
  • Strange Fascination
  • Sudden Fear
    Sudden Fear
    Sudden Fear is a 1952 RKO Radio Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance in a noir-ish tale about a successful woman who marries a murderous man. The screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee and Robert Smith was based upon the novel by Edna Sherry. Sudden Fear was directed by David...
    
    
  • Talk About a Stranger
    Talk About a Stranger
    Talk About a Stranger is an American film noir released in 1952 and directed by David Bradley. The drama features George Murphy, Nancy Davis, Billy Gray, and others.The motion picture was shot by noted cinematographer John Alton, A.S.C.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Thief
    The Thief (1952 film)
    The Thief is a 1952 American black-and white Cold War spy film directed by Russell Rouse. The film is unusual because there is no dialog spoken throughout the film.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Turning Point
    The Turning Point (1952 film)
    The Turning Point is a 1952 crime syndicate drama starring Edmond O'Brien. It's based on Horace McCoy's novel "Storm in the City" and inspired by the Kefauver Committee hearings.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Without Warning
• 1953
  • The Big Heat
    The Big Heat
    The Big Heat is a 1953 film noir directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin. It is about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city after the brutal murder of his beloved wife. The film was written by former crime reporter Sydney Boehm based on a...
    
    
  • The Blue Gardenia
    The Blue Gardenia (1953 film)
    The Blue Gardenia is a 1953 black-and-white film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on a story by Vera Caspary. The first of Lang's "newspaper noir" movie trio -- with While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- The Blue Gardenia criticizes newspaper coverage of a sensational murder...
    
    
  • A Blueprint for Murder
    A Blueprint for Murder
    A Blueprint for Murder is a thriller film starring Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and Gary Merrill, and directed and written by Andrew L. Stone.-Plot:...
    
    
  • City That Never Sleeps
    City That Never Sleeps
    City That Never Sleeps is a film noir produced and directed by John H. Auer with cinematography by John L. Russell.-Plot:Johnny Kelly is a Chicago cop from a long line of police officers. He's grown tired of the job and his married life. He plans on leaving his wife for exotic dancer Sally...
    
    
  • Count the Hours
    Count the Hours
    -Cast:*Macdonald Carey as Doug Madison* Teresa Wright as Ellen Braden*John Craven as George Braden*Jack Elam as Max Vern*Edgar Barrier as D.A Jim Gillespie...
    
    
  • Cry of the Hunted
    Cry of the Hunted
    Cry of the Hunted is an American crime film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis. The drama features Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan and Polly Bergen.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Dangerous Crossing
  • The Glass Wall
    The Glass Wall
    The Glass Wall is a black-and-white 1953 film directed by Maxwell Shane. The film was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Glass Web
    The Glass Web
    -Plot:"The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits theguys she dates. While blackmailing the marriedDon with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secretaffair with Henry, who works as researcher forthe weekly authentic TV show "Crime of the Week",...
    
    
  • The Hitch-Hiker
    The Hitch-Hiker (1953 film)
    The Hitch-Hiker is a film noir directed by Ida Lupino about two fishing buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker during a trip to Mexico....
    
    
  • I Confess
    I Confess (film)
    I Confess is a drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Montgomery Clift as Fr. Michael William Logan, a Catholic priest, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue. This was the only film Hitchcock made with these three actors...
    
    
  • I, the Jury
    I, the Jury (1953 film)
    I, the Jury is a mystery-thriller film from 1953, based on the novel I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane. It was directed by Harry Essex, produced by Victor Saville's company, Parklane Pictures and released through United Artists....
    
    
  • Inferno
    Inferno (1953 film)
    Inferno is a 1953 American film noir drama/thriller directed by Roy Ward Baker, shot in Technicolor and shown in 3-D Dimension and stereophonic sound on prints for the few theaters equipped for that sound system in 1953.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Jeopardy
    Jeopardy (1953 film)
    Jeopardy is a 1953 suspense film directed by John Sturges. The black-and-white film stars Ralph Meeker as an escaped killer. The film was based on a 22 minute radio play, "A Question of Time."-Plot:...
    
    
  • Niagara
    Niagara (1953 film)
    Niagara is a 1953 thriller-film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and introducing Marilyn Monroe. Unlike other film noirs of the time, Niagara was shot in Technicolor on location and was one of 20th Century Fox's biggest box-office hits of the year.-Plot:Ray...
    
    
  • 99 River Street
    99 River Street
    99 River Street is a 1953 film noir, starring John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, and Peggie Castle.The film was directed by Phil Karlson, produced by Edward Small, with cinematography by Franz Planer.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Pickup on South Street
    Pickup on South Street
    Pickup on South Street is writer-director Samuel Fuller's film noir released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter....
    
    
  • Second Chance
    Second Chance (1953 film)
    Second Chance is a 1953 American color film noir, directed by Rudolph Maté. The picture, shot on location in Mexico in 3-Dimension, features Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, and Jack Palance...
    
    
  • Split Second
    Split Second (1953 film)
    Split Second is a 1953 thriller film about escaped convicts and their hostages holed up in a ghost town, unaware of the grave danger they are in. It starred Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, and Keith Andes.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The System
  • Vicki
    Vicki (film)
    Vicki is a film noir directed by Harry Horner and based on the novel I Wake Up Screaming, written by Steve Fisher. The picture is a remake of the 1941 film I Wake Up Screaming also released by 20th Century Fox.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Wicked Woman
    Wicked Woman
    Wicked Woman is a 1953 low-budget film noir starred "bad-girl" Beverly Michaels. Co-starring in the film were Richard Egan, Percy Helton, and Evelyn Scott....
    
    
• 1954
  • Black Tuesday
    Black Tuesday (1954 film)
    Black Tuesday is a 1954 film noir starring Edward G. Robinson. The film is a return of Robinson playing evil gangster types like he did in early Warner Bros. films. The crime melodrama also stars Peter Graves in one of his early film roles. The film also starred Jean Parker...
    
    
  • Black Widow
    Black Widow (1954 film)
    Black Widow is a 1954 mystery color film noir, written, produced and directed by Nunnally Johnson and starring Van Heflin, Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, and George Raft.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Crime Wave
    Crime Wave (1954 film)
    Crime Wave is a 1954 film noir, directed by André De Toth. It was adapted from a short story which originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post - Criminal Mark by John and Ward Hawkins.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Cry Vengeance
  • Dangerous Mission
    Dangerous Mission
    Dangerous Mission is a 1954 American dramatic color film noir thriller starring Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price and William Bendix. The movie was produced by Irwin Allen, directed by Louis King and released by RKO Pictures...
    
    
  • Down Three Dark Streets
    Down Three Dark Streets
    Down Three Dark Streets is a 1954 documentary-style film noir, starring Broderick Crawford and directed by Arnold Laven. The screenplay was written by Gordon and Mildred Gordon, based on their novel Case File FBI.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Drive a Crooked Road
    Drive a Crooked Road
    Drive a Crooked Road is an American crime film noir directed by Richard Quine and featuring Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, and Jack Kelly...
    
    
  • Female Jungle
    Female Jungle
    Female Jungle is a 1955 black-and-white B-movie notable for being Jayne Mansfield's first film; one of Lawrence Tierney's last before his comeback and the only American International Pictures entry into film noir.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Hell's Half Acre
    Hell's Half Acre (film)
    Hell's Half Acre is a 1954 film noir set in Hawaii.The film is directed and produced by John H. Auer and stars Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes and Elsa Lanchester. -Plot:...
    
    
  • Human Desire
    Human Desire
    Human Desire is a black-and-white film noir directed by Fritz Lang, and based on the novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola. The story was filmed twice before: La Bête humaine directed by Jean Renoir and Die Bestie im Menschen .-Plot:Railroad supervisor Carl Buckley gets fired from his job...
    
    
  • The Long Wait
    The Long Wait
    -Plot:Johnny McBride is badly hurt while hitch hiking and loses his memory when the car he is riding in crashes. Two years later, a clue leads him to his old home town, where he finds he is a murder suspect. Johnny tries to clear his name of the presumed murder charges...
    
    
  • Loophole
    Loophole (1954 film)
    Loophole is a black-and-white B-movie film noir crime drama. The film was directed by editor turned director Harold D. Schuster. Actress Mary Beth Hughes plays the movie's femme fatale.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Make Haste to Live
    Make Haste to Live
    Make Haste to Live is an American suspense film released by Republic Pictures.- Plot :'Chris' Crystal Benson is a single mother living in a small town in New Mexico. One night she feels a man is stalking. She grabs a gun and makes a series of arrangements anticipating his own death...
    
    
  • Naked Alibi
    Naked Alibi
    Naked Alibi is a 1954 black-and-white film starring Sterling Hayden. Portions of the film, considered film noir, were shot in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Other Woman
    The Other Woman
    The Other Woman , is a 1995 made-for-TV movie that follows dying mother Tessa Bryan's attempts to gain the acceptance of her two young daughters Lara and Kate of her husband Michael's second wife Carolyn. To do so, she takes them on a trip across the country to their father's ranch...
    
    
  • Private Hell 36
    Private Hell 36
    Private Hell 36 is a black-and-white film noir, directed by Don Siegel. It features Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, among others....
    
    
  • Pushover
    Pushover (film)
    Pushover is a film noir notable for being the first film to feature Kim Novak in a starring role. Directed by Richard Quine, the Columbia Pictures film also stars Fred MacMurray. It was adapted from two novels, The Night Watch by Thomas Walsh and Rafferty by William S...
    
    
  • Rogue Cop
    Rogue Cop
    Rogue Cop is a film noir directed by Roy Rowland, based on the novel by William P. McGivern , and starring Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, and George Raft.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Shield for Murder
  • Suddenly
    Suddenly (1954 film)
    Suddenly is an American film noir  directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale. The drama features Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates, among others....
    
    
  • Witness to Murder
    Witness to Murder
    Witness to Murder is a 1954 suspense film starring Barbara Stanwyck.-Plot:A woman, while looking out her bedroom window, witnesses a young woman being strangled to death. The woman reports the killing to the police, but no one believes her. In fact, the body can't even be found...
    
    
  • World for Ransom
    World for Ransom
    World for Ransom is an American film directed by Robert Aldrich, who was uncredited for his work.Many of the actors and sets used in the film were from the Dan Duryea television show China Smith. Duryea, Patric Knowles, Gene Lockhart, Reginald Denny, and Nigel Bruce starred in the film...
    
    
• 1955
  • Bad Day at Black Rock
    Bad Day at Black Rock
    Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 thriller film directed by John Sturges that combines elements of Westerns and film noir. It tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man...
    
    
  • Cell 2455 Death Row
  • Crashout
    Crashout
    -Plot:Convict Van Duff is the leader of a large-scale prison break. The breakout works as the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison....
    
    
  • The Big Combo
    The Big Combo
    The Big Combo is an American film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stylistically photographed by cinematographer and noir icon John Alton with music by David Raksin....
    
    
  • The Big Knife
    The Big Knife
    The Big Knife is a film noir directed and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the play by Clifford Odets. The film stars Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ilka Chase, and Everett Sloane.-Plot:Charlie Castle, a very...
    
    
  • A Bullet for Joey
    A Bullet for Joey
    A Bullet for Joey is a 1955 film noir starring Edward G. Robinson and George Raft-Critical Response:In his book, Film Noir, Detective and Mystery Movies on DVD, John Howard Reid considered the movie dull. Slow pace, one-dimensional characters, and an unconvincing climax plague the film....
    
    
  • 5 Against the House
    5 Against the House
    5 Against the House is a 1955 American heist film starring Kim Novak, Guy Madison and Brian Keith, directed by Phil Karlson and based on a story by Jack Finney...
    
    
  • Hell's Island
    Hell's Island
    Hell's Island is an American color film noir starring John Payne and dircted by Phil Karlson. The film was the last teaming of actor Payne and film director Karlson. The film was shot in the VistaVision wide-screen format...
    
    
  • Hell on Frisco Bay
    Hell on Frisco Bay
    Hell on Frisco Bay is a 1955 film starring Alan Ladd and Edward G. Robinson. Directed by Frank Tuttle, The supporting cast includes Joanne Dru, William Demarest, and Fay Wray. It was made for Ladd's own production company, Jaguar....
    
    
  • House of Bamboo
    House of Bamboo
    House of Bamboo is an American color film noir shot in CinemaScope format. The film was directed by Samuel Fuller.The film is a loose remake of The Street with No Name , by the same screenwriter and cinematographer as in the original.-Plot:In 1954, a military train guarded by American soldiers...
    
    
  • I Died a Thousand Times
    I Died a Thousand Times
    I Died a Thousand Times is a color film noir directed by Stuart Heisler. The drama features Jack Palance as paroled bank robber Roy Earle, with Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, and Lon Chaney, Jr....
    
    
  • Illegal
    Illegal (group)
    Illegal was a short-lived hip hop duo composed of Jamal Phillips and Malik Edwards that was signed to Rowdy Records...
    
    
  • Killer's Kiss
    Killer's Kiss
    Killer's Kiss is a 1955 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Kubrick and Howard Sackler. It is the second feature film directed by Kubrick...
    
    
  • Kiss Me Deadly
    Kiss Me Deadly
    Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 film noir drama produced and directed by Robert Aldrich starring Ralph Meeker. The screenplay was written by A.I. Bezzerides, based on the Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer mystery novel Kiss Me, Deadly. Kiss Me Deadly is often considered a classic of the noir genre. The film...
    
    
  • Mr. Arkadin
    Mr. Arkadin
    Mr. Arkadin is a French-Spanish-Swiss coproduction film, written and directed by Orson Welles and shot in several Spanish locations, including Segovia, Valladolid and Madrid.Its history is convoluted...
    
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  • Murder Is My Beat
  • The Naked Street
    The Naked Street
    The Naked Street is an American crime film noir directed by Maxwell Shane. The drama features Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn and Anne Bancroft.-Plot:Tough racketeer pulls strings to get his sister's punk boyfriend out of the death house....
    
    
  • New York Confidential
    New York Confidential (film)
    New York Confidential is a 1955 crime film starring Broderick Crawford and Richard Conte as New York gangsters. It is based on the 1948 book New York: Confidential! by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Night Holds Terror
    The Night Holds Terror
    The Night Holds Terror is an American crime film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone that stars Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes and Jack Kelly.It was originally shown on Z Channel, uncut and commercial-free.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Night of the Hunter
    The Night of the Hunter (film)
    The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. The film is based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb, adapted for the screen by James Agee and Laughton...
    
    
  • New Orleans Uncensored
  • The Phenix City Story
    The Phenix City Story
    The Phenix City Story is a film noir directed by Phil Karlson and written by Daniel Mainwaring and Crane Wilbur. The drama features John McIntire, Richard Kiley, among others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Tight Spot
    Tight Spot
    Tight Spot is an American film noir directed by Phil Karlson and written by William Bowers, based on the play Dead Pigeon, by Leonard Kantor. It stars Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lorne Greene, and Eve McVeagh...
    
    
• 1956
  • Accused of Murder
    Accused of Murder
    Accused of Murder is a 1956 film noir, based on the novel Vanity Row by W. R. Burnett and directed and produced by Joseph Kane. Accused of Murder was filmed in Trucolor and stars David Brian, Verna Ralston and Sidney Blackmer.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is a 1956 film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Douglas Morrow. The film, considered film noir, was the last American film directed by Lang.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Boss
  • Julie
  • A Cry in the Night
  • The Harder They Fall
    The Harder They Fall
    The Harder They Fall is a film noir directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart in his last film before his death in 1957. The film was written by Philip Yordan and based on the 1947 novel by Budd Schulberg....
    
    
  • The Houston Story
  • The Killer Is Loose
    The Killer Is Loose
    The Killer Is Loose is a 1956 crime film noir directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey.-Plot:An employee for a savings and loan desperate for cash plans and successfully robs a bank as an inside job...
    
    
  • The Killing
  • Nightmare
    Nightmare (1956 film)
    Nightmare is a 1956 psychological thriller starring Edward G. Robinson. The story is based on a novel by William Irish . The novel was also made into a film in 1947 titled Fear in the Night. The film was directed by long-time movie writer Maxwell Shane, later the producer of the classic horror...
    
    
  • Please Murder Me
    Please Murder Me
    Please Murder Me is a 1956 American film directed by Peter Godfrey.- Plot synopsis :Defense lawyer Craig Carlson buys a pistol at a pawn shop and travels to his office, where he deposits the gun in a desk drawer with a file folder, then begins to dictate into a tape recorder...
    
    
  • Slightly Scarlet
  • Storm Fear
  • While the City Sleeps
  • The Wrong Man
    The Wrong Man
    The Wrong Man is a 1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock which stars Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film is based on a true story of an innocent man charged for a crime he did not commit...
    
    
• 1957
  • Affair in Havana
    Affair in Havana
    Affair in Havana is a crime, film noir directed by Laszlo Benedek and written by Maurice Zimm. It stars Raymond Burr and John Cassavetes.The film is about a screenwriter who falls in love with a crippled man's wife.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Baby Face Nelson
    Baby Face Nelson (film)
    Baby Face Nelson is a 1957 film directed by Don Siegel, starring Mickey Rooney as Baby Face Nelson, and featuring Leo Gordon as John Dillinger.-Cast:Mickey Rooney ... Lester M. 'Baby Face Nelson' Gillis Carolyn Jones ... Sue...
    
    
  • The Brothers Rico
    The Brothers Rico
    The Brothers Rico is an American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson and written by Lewis Meltzer, Ben Perry, and Dalton Trumbo. The film is based on a story written by Georges Simenon, a French detective-story specialist...
    
    
  • The Burglar
    The Burglar
    The Burglar is a 1957 crime/thriller film released by Columbia Pictures, based on the 1953 novel of the same name by David Goodis .-Production background:...
    
    
  • Crime of Passion
    Crime of Passion (1957 film)
    Crime of Passion is a 1957 American crime film noir directed by Gerd Oswald and written by Jo Eisinger. The drama features Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr and Fay Wray, among others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • The Garment Jungle
    The Garment Jungle
    The Garment Jungle is a 1957 American crime film noir directed by Vincent Sherman and Robert Aldrich and written by Lester Velie and Harry Kleiner. The drama features Gia Scala, Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Matthews and Richard Boone, among others.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Hit and Run
    Hit and Run (1957 film)
    Hit and Run is a 1957 low-budgeted Columbia Pictures film noir, starring, Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, and Vince Edwards.The movie was Moore's final film appearance; she gained popularity earlier in the 1950s, in B-movie film noirs, all released by Columbia Pictures, for who Moore was a contract...
    
    
  • House of Numbers
    House of Numbers
    House of Numbers is a controversial 2009 documentary film about human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome produced and directed by Brent Leung. Leung describes the film as an objective examination of the idea that HIV causes AIDS...
    
    
  • Nightfall
    Nightfall (1957 film)
    Nightfall is a film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur. It features Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, and Anne Bancroft. The low-budget film is remembered today for camera work by cinematographer Burnett Guffey...
    
    
  • The Night Runner
  • Plunder Road
  • The Shadow on the Window
    The Shadow on the Window
    The Shadow on the Window is a 1957 film directed by William Asher. It stars Philip Carey and Betty Garrett.-Cast:*Philip Carey as Tony Atlas*Betty Garrett as Linda Atlas*John Drew Barrymore as Jess Reber*Corey Allen as Gil Ramsey...
    
    
  • Slander
  • Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (film)
    Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (film)
    Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a 1957 film directed by Arnold Laven. It stars Richard Egan and Jan Sterling.The film is a story of crime on New York's waterfront. It is based on the book "The Man Who Rocked the Boat," an autobiography by William Keating, played by Egan in the film...
    
    
  • Sweet Smell of Success
    Sweet Smell of Success
    Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists. It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison and Martin Milner. The screenplay was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman...
    
    
  • The Tattered Dress
    The Tattered Dress
    -Plot:In a California resort community, the wealthy Michael Reston is charged with the murder of a man he claimed attacked his wife, Charleen.Reston hires a high-priced lawyer, James Gordon Blane, a man known to do anything it takes to win a case. Blane makes few friends in the community because...
    
    
  • The Tijuana Story
  • The Unholy Wife
    The Unholy Wife
    The Unholy Wife is a color film noir drama film produced and directed by John Farrow at RKO Radio Pictures and released by Universal Pictures as RKO was in its final stages of closing down...
    
    
• 1958
  • The Case Against Brooklyn
    The Case Against Brooklyn
    The Case Against Brooklyn is a 1958 film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Darren McGavin and Margaret Hayes. It was based on a True Magazine article I Broke the Brooklyn Graft Scandal by crime reporter Ed Reid...
    
    
  • Cry Terror!
    Cry Terror!
    Cry Terror! is a 1958 thriller film starring James Mason, Inger Stevens, and Rod Steiger.-Plot:An innocent family gets caught in the middle when a gang threatens to blow up an airplane unless a ransom is paid.-Cast:*James Mason as Jim Molner...
    
    
  • I Want to Live!
    I Want to Live!
    I Want to Live! is a 1958 film noir produced by Walter Wanger and directed by Robert Wise which tells the heavily fictionalized story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution. It stars Susan Hayward as Graham, and also features Simon Oakland, Stafford Repp, and Theodore...
    
    
  • Lonelyhearts
    Lonelyhearts
    Lonelyhearts is a 1958 film noir drama film directed by Vincent J. Donehue. It is based on the play by Howard Teichmann and the 1933 novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West....
    
    
  • The Lineup
    The Lineup (film)
    The Lineup is a 1958 American film version of the police procedural series that ran on CBS radio from 1950 through 1953 and on CBS television from 1954 through 1960, directed by Don Siegel...
    
    
  • Murder by Contract
    Murder by Contract
    Murder by Contract is a 1958 film noir directed by Irving Lerner. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Ben Maddow did uncredited work on the film...
    
    
  • Party Girl
    Party Girl (1958 film)
    Party Girl is a film noir filmed in Metrocolor and CinemaScope. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray and starred Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, and Lee J. Cobb. Charisse performs two dance routines in the gangster film...
    
    
  • Thunder Road
    Thunder Road
    Thunder Road is the title of a 1958 drama–crime film about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1950s. It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film, co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the...
    
    
  • Touch of Evil
    Touch of Evil
    Touch of Evil is a 1958 American crime thriller film, written, directed by, and co-starring Orson Welles. The screenplay was loosely based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson...
    
    
• 1959
  • The Beat Generation
    The Beat Generation
    The Beat Generation is a film by MGM starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren, with Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Maggie Hayes, Jackie Coogan, Louis Armstrong, Vampira, and Ray Anthony...
    
    
  • The Crimson Kimono
    The Crimson Kimono
    The Crimson Kimono is a 1959 film noir directed by Samuel Fuller. The film stars James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett and Victoria Shaw.It featured several ahead-of-its-time ideas about race and society's perception of race, a thematic and stylistic trademark of Fuller.-Plot:The film is essentially about...
    
    
  • The Man in the Net
    The Man in the Net
    The Man in the Net is an American film noir starring Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones. The taut drama was directed by Michael Curtiz.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Odds Against Tomorrow
    Odds Against Tomorrow
    Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 film noir produced and directed by Robert Wise for HarBel Productions, a company founded by the film's star, Harry Belafonte. Belafonte selected Abraham Polonsky to write the script, which is based on a novel by William P. McGivern. As a blacklisted writer Polonsky...
    
    
  • The Trap
    The Trap (1959 film)
    The Trap is a 1959 color film noir directed by Norman Panama and released through 20th-Century Fox. It stars Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman, and Lorne Greene -Plot:...
    
    

Color film noir

• Leave Her to Heaven
  Leave Her to Heaven
  Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American 20th Century Fox Technicolor film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, and Chill Wills...
  
   (1945)
• Desert Fury
  Desert Fury
  Desert Fury is a 1947 Paramount Pictures color film noir drama film starring Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak and Burt Lancaster, with Mary Astor and Wendell Corey....
  
   (1947)
• Rope
  Rope (film)
  Rope is a 1948 American thriller film based on the play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions...
  
   (1948)
• Inferno
  Inferno (1953 film)
  Inferno is a 1953 American film noir drama/thriller directed by Roy Ward Baker, shot in Technicolor and shown in 3-D Dimension and stereophonic sound on prints for the few theaters equipped for that sound system in 1953.-Plot:...
  
   (1953, 3-D)
• Niagara
  Niagara (1953 film)
  Niagara is a 1953 thriller-film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and introducing Marilyn Monroe. Unlike other film noirs of the time, Niagara was shot in Technicolor on location and was one of 20th Century Fox's biggest box-office hits of the year.-Plot:Ray...
  
   (1953)
• Second Chance
  Second Chance (1953 film)
  Second Chance is a 1953 American color film noir, directed by Rudolph Maté. The picture, shot on location in Mexico in 3-Dimension, features Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, and Jack Palance...
  
   (1953, 3-D)
• Black Widow
  Black Widow (1954 film)
  Black Widow is a 1954 mystery color film noir, written, produced and directed by Nunnally Johnson and starring Van Heflin, Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, and George Raft.-Plot:...
  
   (1954)
• Dangerous Mission
  Dangerous Mission
  Dangerous Mission is a 1954 American dramatic color film noir thriller starring Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price and William Bendix. The movie was produced by Irwin Allen, directed by Louis King and released by RKO Pictures...
  
   (1954)
• Dial M for Murder
  Dial M for Murder
  Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American thriller film adapted from a successful stage play by Frederick Knott, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings. The movie was released by the Warner Bros...
  
   (1954)
• Bad Day at Black Rock
  Bad Day at Black Rock
  Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 thriller film directed by John Sturges that combines elements of Westerns and film noir. It tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man...
  
   (1955)
• Hell's Island
  Hell's Island
  Hell's Island is an American color film noir starring John Payne and dircted by Phil Karlson. The film was the last teaming of actor Payne and film director Karlson. The film was shot in the VistaVision wide-screen format...
  
   (1955)
• House of Bamboo
  House of Bamboo
  House of Bamboo is an American color film noir shot in CinemaScope format. The film was directed by Samuel Fuller.The film is a loose remake of The Street with No Name , by the same screenwriter and cinematographer as in the original.-Plot:In 1954, a military train guarded by American soldiers...
  
   (1955)
• I Died a Thousand Times
  I Died a Thousand Times
  I Died a Thousand Times is a color film noir directed by Stuart Heisler. The drama features Jack Palance as paroled bank robber Roy Earle, with Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, and Lon Chaney, Jr....
  
   (1955)
• Accused of Murder
  Accused of Murder
  Accused of Murder is a 1956 film noir, based on the novel Vanity Row by W. R. Burnett and directed and produced by Joseph Kane. Accused of Murder was filmed in Trucolor and stars David Brian, Verna Ralston and Sidney Blackmer.-Plot:...
  
   (1956)
• A Kiss Before Dying
  A Kiss Before Dying (1956 film)
  A Kiss Before Dying is a 1956 American color film noir, directed by Gerd Oswald. The screenplay was written by Lawrence Roman, based on Ira Levin's 1953 novel of the same name, which won the 1954 Edgar Award for "Best First Novel." The drama stars Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith,...
  
   (1956)
• Slightly Scarlet (1956)
• The Unholy Wife
  The Unholy Wife
  The Unholy Wife is a color film noir drama film produced and directed by John Farrow at RKO Radio Pictures and released by Universal Pictures as RKO was in its final stages of closing down...
  
   (1957)
• Party Girl
  Party Girl (1958 film)
  Party Girl is a film noir filmed in Metrocolor and CinemaScope. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray and starred Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, and Lee J. Cobb. Charisse performs two dance routines in the gangster film...
  
   (1958)
• Vertigo
  Vertigo (film)
  Vertigo is a 1958 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A...
  
   (1958)
• The Trap
  The Trap (1959 film)
  The Trap is a 1959 color film noir directed by Norman Panama and released through 20th-Century Fox. It stars Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman, and Lorne Greene -Plot:...
  
   (1959)

Noir comedies

• Whistling in the Dark
  Whistling in the Dark (1941 film)
  Whistling in the Dark is the first of three comedy films starring Red Skelton as Wally "the Fox" Benton, who writes and acts in radio murder mysteries. Wally is kidnapped by a greedy cult leader , who threatens to kill Wally's girlfriend and another young woman unless he concocts a perfect murder...
  
   (1941)
• Fly-by-Night (1942)
• Arsenic and Old Lace
  Arsenic and Old Lace (film)
  Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 film directed by Frank Capra based on Joseph Kesselring's play of the same name. The script adaptation was by twins Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941, but it was not released until 1944, after the original stage version...
  
   (1944)
• Hail the Conquering Hero
  Hail the Conquering Hero
  Hail the Conquering Hero is a satirical comedy/drama written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest, and featuring Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson and Bill Edwards....
  
   (1944)
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall...
  
   (1944)
• They've Got Me Covered (1944)
• Lady on a Train
  Lady on a Train
  Lady on a Train is a 1945 comedy film noir, starring Deanna Durbin and based on a story by Leslie Charteris.-Plot:Debutante Nikki Collins, an enthusiastic reader of detective stories, witnesses a murder in a building while passing by on a train entering New York's Grand Central Station. She goes to...
  
   (1945)
• Murder He Says (1945)
• Wonder Man
  Wonder Man (film)
  Wonder Man is a 1945 film starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. It is based on a short story by Arthur Sheekman, adapted for the screen by a staff of writers led by Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and directed by H. Bruce Humberstone...
  
   (1945)
• Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
• Monsieur Verdoux
  Monsieur Verdoux
  Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 black comedy film directed by and starring Charles Chaplin. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash.-Plot:...
  
   (1947)
• My Favorite Brunette
  My Favorite Brunette
  My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 movie spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style. Starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, it also features Lon Chaney, Jr...
  
   (1947)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It...
  
   (1947)
• Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
• Beat the Devil
  Beat the Devil (1953 film)
  Beat the Devil is a 1953 film directed by John Huston. It was co-authored by Huston and Truman Capote, and loosely based upon a novel of the same name by British journalist and critic Claud Cockburn, writing under the pseudonym James Helvick...
  
   (1953)

Noir westerns

• Stagecoach (1939)
• Ramrod
  Ramrod (film)
  Ramrod is a 1947 Western film directed by André De Toth.This cowboy drama from Hungarian director De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author Luke Short. De Toth's first Western is often compared to films noir movies released around the same time...
  
   (1947)
• Pursued
  Pursued
  Pursued is a 1947 movie starring Robert Mitchum that combines western, film noir and psychological melodrama. The film was directed by Raoul Walsh and photographed in black-and-white by James Wong Howe.-Plot summary:...
  
   (1947)
• Blood on the Moon
  Blood on the Moon
  Blood on the Moon is an RKO black-and-white "psychological" western directed by Robert Wise with cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca. The film, starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Preston has many film noir elements. It was shot in California and some of the more scenic shots...
  
   (1948)
• Colorado Territory
  Colorado Territory (film)
  Colorado Territory is a 1949 western film, a remake of the 1941 High Sierra. Both films were directed by Raoul Walsh. It was the first film premiered at a drive-in theater...
  
   (1948)
• The Man from Colorado
  The Man from Colorado
  The Man from Colorado is a 1948 American western-psychological drama film directed by Henry Levin and produced by Jules Schermer for Columbia Pictures. It stars Glenn Ford as a Union officer who becomes addicted to killing during the American Civil War, William Holden as his best friend, and Ellen...
  
   (1948)
• Station West
  Station West
  Station West is a black-and-white 1948 film based on a Western novel by Luke Short. The film, considered film noir as well as a Western, was directed by Sidney Lanfield, who was known for directing comedies such as The Lemon Drop Kid. Station Wests cinematographer was Harry J. Wild...
  
   (1948)
• Yellow Sky
  Yellow Sky
  Yellow Sky is an American western film directed by William A. Wellman. The story is believed to be loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. A band of outlaws flee after a bank robbery and encounter an old man and his granddaughter in a ghost town.-Plot:In 1867, a gang led by James...
  
   (1949)
• The Devil's Doorway (1950)
• The Furies
  The Furies (film)
  The Furies is a Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, and, in his last performance, Walter Huston.In 2008, the film was released on DVD in the U.S. by the Criterion Collection.-Plot:T.C...
  
   (1950)
• The Gunfighter (1950)
• Winchester '73
  Winchester '73 (1950 film)
  Winchester '73 is an American Western film starring James Stewart and Shelley Winters, and released by Universal Pictures in 1950. This is the first of eight collaborations between Stewart and director Anthony Mann. The movie features early roles for Rock Hudson , Tony Curtis, and James Best, and...
  
   (1950)
• Rawhide
  Rawhide (1951 film)
  Rawhide is a 1951 western film made by Twentieth Century-Fox. It was directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols. The music score was by Sol Kaplan and the song "A Rollin' Stone" by Lionel Newman. The cinematography was by Milton R...
  
   (1951)
• High Noon
  High Noon
  High Noon is a 1952 American Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells in real time the story of a town marshal forced to face a gang of killers by himself...
  
   (1952)
• Track of the Cat
  Track of the Cat
  Track of the Cat is a William A. Wellman film starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright. The film is based on a 1949 adventure novel of the same name by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. This was Wellman's second adaptation of a Clark novel, the first being The Ox-Bow Incident...
  
   (1954)
• The Naked Spur
  The Naked Spur
  The Naked Spur is a 1953 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their third collaboration. The screenplay was written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay - a rare honor for a Western. The...
  
   (1954)
• A Lawless Street
  A Lawless Street
  A Lawless Street is a 1955 western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Randolph Scott and Angela Lansbury. The film is also known as The Marshal of Medicine Bend in the US.-Plot:...
  
   (1955)
• The Man from Laramie
  The Man from Laramie
  The Man from Laramie is an American Technicolor Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in the fifth and final of their Western collaborations, and their seventh collaboration overall. It was adapted from a story of the same title by Thomas T...
  
   (1955)
• 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
• The Halliday Brand
  The Halliday Brand
  The Halliday Brand is a 1957 Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Joseph Cotten.-Cast:* Joseph Cotten - Daniel Halliday* Viveca Lindfors - Aleta Burris* Betsy Blair - Martha Halliday* Ward Bond - Big Dan Halliday...
  
   (1957)
• The Tall T
  The Tall T
  The Tall T is a 1957 western film directed by Budd Boetticher. It stars Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan and Henry Silva. The film was adapted by Burt Kennedy from an Elmore Leonard short story, "The Captives."...
  
   (1957)
• The Violent Men
  The Violent Men
  The Violent Men is a CinemaScope Western film drama from 1955. It was directed by Rudolph Maté, and starred Glenn Ford along with Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson as a bickering married couple at odds with cattlemen in their small town. Brian Keith and Diane Foster co-starred...
  
   (1957)
• Gunman's Walk
  Gunman's Walk
  Gunman's Walk is a 1958 film directed by Phil Karlson. It stars Van Heflin and Tab Hunter.-Cast:*Van Heflin as Lee Hackett*Tab Hunter as Ed Hackett*Kathryn Grant as Clee Chouard*James Darren as Davy Hackett...
  
   (1958)
• Man of the West
  Man of the West
  Man of the West is a 1958 western film starring Gary Cooper and directed by Anthony Mann in his last film in the genre. The screenplay, written by Reginald Rose, is based on the novel The Border Jumpers by Will C...
  
   (1958)
• Face of a Fugitive
  Face of a Fugitive
  Face of a Fugitive is a 1959 Western film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Fred MacMurray and Lin McCarthy and was based on the short story "Long Gone" by Peter Dawson, the nom de plume of Jonathan H. Glidden . Dawson was the author of 120 Western short stories and novelettes as well as 15 book...
  
   (1959)

Miscellaneous crossovers

• The Brute Man
  The Brute Man
  The Brute Man is a 1946 American horror thriller film starring Rondo Hatton as the Creeper, a murderer seeking revenge against the people he holds responsible for the disfigurement of his face. Directed by Jean Yarbrough, the film features Tom Neal and Jan Wiley as a married pair of friends the...
  
   (1946)—noir horror
• Reign of Terror
  Reign of Terror (film)
  Reign of Terror is a 1949 drama film set in the French Revolution. Plotters seek to bring down Maximilien Robespierre and end his bloodthirsty Reign of Terror...
  
   (aka The Black Book) (1949)—French Revolution noir
• The Tall Target
  The Tall Target
  The Tall Target is a 1951 thriller film starring Dick Powell as a detective who tries to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on a train taking the newly-elected president to his inauguration...
  
   (1951)—Civil War noir
• The Band Wagon
  The Band Wagon
  The Band Wagon is a 1953 musical comedy film that many critics rank, along with Singin' in the Rain, as the finest of the MGM musicals, although it was only a modest box-office success. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway play will restart his career...
  
   (1953)—noir musical
• Men in War
  Men in War
  Men in War is a war film about the Korean War directed by Anthony Mann. It stars Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray as the leaders of a small detachment of American soldiers cut off and desperately trying to rejoin their division. The events of the film take place on one day; 6 September 1950...
  
   (1957)—Korean War noir

Non-American

• 1940s
  • Contraband (1940) (UK)
  • Le Corbeau
    Le Corbeau
    Le Corbeau is a 1943 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The film was notable for causing serious trouble to its director after World War II because it had been produced by Continental Films, a German production company established in France in the early months of the war, and because...
    
     (The Raven) (1943) (France)
  • Ossessione
    Ossessione
    Ossessione is a 1943 film based on the novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain. Luchino Visconti’s first feature film, it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate.- Historical context...
    
     (1943) (Italy)
  • Brighton Rock (1947) (UK)
  • It Always Rains on Sunday
    It Always Rains on Sunday
    It Always Rains on Sunday is a film adaptation of the novel by Arthur La Bern, adapted and directed by Robert Hamer. In its gritty, unsentimental depiction of everyday life in post-war Britain, and in its exploration of the tedium, frustration and desperation wrought by grinding poverty, the film...
    
     (1947) (UK)
  • Odd Man Out
    Odd Man Out
    Odd Man Out is a 1947 Anglo-Irish film noir directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason, and is based on a novel of the same name by F. L. Green.-Plot:The film's opening intertitle reads:...
    
     (1947) (UK)
  • Panique (1947) (France)
  • Quai des Orfèvres
    Quai des Orfèvres
    Quai des Orfèvres is a 1947 French police procedural drama based on the book Légitime défense by Stanislas-Andre Steeman. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot the film stars Suzy Delair as Jenny Lamour, Bernard Blier as Maurice Martineau, Louis Jouvet as Inspector Antoine and Simone Renant as...
    
     (1947) (France)
  • They Made Me a Fugitive
    They Made Me a Fugitive
    They Made Me A Fugitive is a 1947 British film noir set in postwar England. Based on the Jackson Budd novel A Convict has Escaped, the black-and-white film was directed by Alberto Cavalcanti with brooding and atmospheric cinematography by noted cameraman Otto Heller...
    
     (1947) (UK)
  • Dédée d'Anvers
    Dédée d'Anvers
    Dédée d'Anvers is a 1948 French film directed by Yves Allégret. The film stars Simone Signoret, Bernard Blier, Marcel Pagliero and Jane Marken....
    
     (1948) (France)
  • Drunken Angel
    Drunken Angel
    is a 1948 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is notable for being the first of sixteen film collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor Toshirō Mifune.- Plot :...
    
     (1948) (Japan)
  • Une si jolie petite plage (Riptide) (1949) (France)
  • Salón México (1949) (Mexico)
  • The Small Back Room
    The Small Back Room
    The Small Back Room is a film by the British producer-writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron and featuring Jack Hawkins and Cyril Cusack. It was based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin...
    
     (1949) (UK)
  • Stray Dog
    Stray Dog (film)
    is a 1949 film noir police procedural directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring frequent collaborators Toshirō Mifune and Takashi Shimura.-Plot:Action takes place during a heatwave in a bombed-out, post-war Tokyo...
    
     (1949) (Japan)
  • The Third Man
    The Third Man
    The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...
    
     (1949) (UK)
• 1950s
  • Cronaca di un amore
    Cronaca di un amore
    Cronaca di un amore is a 1950 Italian black-and-white drama film and the first full length feature film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It stars Lucia Bosé, then 19-year old Miss Italy 1947 and a flame of Antonioni of that time...
    
     (Chronicle of a Love / Story of a Love Affair) (1950) (Italy)
  • Night and the City
    Night and the City
    Night and the City is a film noir based on the novel by Gerald Kersh, directed by Jules Dassin, and starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney. Shot on location in London, the plot evolves around an ambitious hustler whose plans keep going wrong....
    
     (1950) (UK)
  • Casque d'or
    Casque d'or
    Casque d'or is a 1952 French film directed by Jacques Becker. It is a Belle Époque tragedy, the story of an ill-fated love affair between characters played by Simone Signoret and Serge Reggiani.-Plot:...
    
     (Golden Marie) (1952) (France)
  • The Gambler and the Lady (1952) (UK)
  • The Last Page (aka Man Bait) (1952) (UK)
  • Nous sommes tous des assassins (1952) (France)
  • Stolen Face
    Stolen Face
    Stolen Face is a British film noir directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Film Productions. With its theme of a man who, after the sudden end of a powerful romance with a beautiful blonde tries to recreate her by altering the appearance of another woman, it is clearly a forerunner of Vertigo...
    
     (1952) (UK)
  • Wings of Danger (1952) (UK)
  • The Flanagan Boy (aka Bad Blonde) (1953) (UK)
  • Quand tu liras cette lettre (1953) (France)
  • 36 Hours (aka Terror Street) (1953) (UK)
  • The Limping Man
    The Limping Man
    The Limping Man is a 1953 British film directed by Cy Endfield , starring American actor Lloyd Bridges and Cape Town born actress Moira Lister. The film was based on Anthony Verney's novel Death on the Tideway and was released in the U.S...
    
     (1953) (UK)
  • Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953) (France)
  • Avant le déluge (Before the Flood) (1954) (France)
  • Les Femmes s'en balancent (Dames Don't Care) (1954) (France)
  • Five Days (aka Paid to Kill) (1954) (UK)
  • Le Grand jeu (1954) (France)
  • The House Across the Lake (1954 film)
    The House Across the Lake (1954 film)
    The House Across the Lake is a 1954 British film released in the U.S. as Heat Wave. The film noir drama stars Alex Nicol and Hillary Brooke.- Plot :...
    
     (aka Heat Wave) (1954) (UK)
  • Murder by Proxy (aka Blackout) (1954) (UK)
  • Touchez pas au grisbi
    Touchez pas au grisbi
    Touchez pas au grisbi is a 1954 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, Delia Scala, René Dary, and Miss America 1946, Marilyn Buferd...
    
     (1954) (France)
  • Bob le flambeur
    Bob le flambeur
    Bob le flambeur is a 1956 French gangster film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The film stars Roger Duchesne as Bob...
    
     (1955) (France)
  • Cast a Dark Shadow
    Cast a Dark Shadow
    Cast a Dark Shadow is a 1955 British suspense film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The black-and-white film was based on the play Murder Mistaken by Janet Green about a psychotic Bluebeard.-Plot:...
    
     (1955) (UK)
  • Les Diaboliques
    Les Diaboliques (film)
    Les Diaboliques , released as Diabolique in the United States and variously translated as The Devils or The Fiends, is a 1955 French black-and-white thriller feature film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot and Paul Meurisse...
    
     (1955) (France)
  • Le Dossier noir (1955) (France)
  • The Glass Cage (aka The Glass Tomb) (1955) (UK)
  • Die Ratten (1955) (Germany)
  • Razzia sur la Chnouf (1955) (France)
  • Du rififi chez les hommes
    Rififi
    Rififi is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste le Breton's novel of the same name. Directed by American filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster Tony le Stéphanois, Carl Möhner as Jo le Suédois, Robert Manuel as Mario Farrati, and Jules Dassin as César le...
    
     (Rififi) (1955) (France)
  • Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam (The Devil Strikes at Night) (1956) (Germany)
  • Fortune is a Woman
    Fortune is a Woman
    Fortune is a Woman is a 1957 British crime film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl and Dennis Price. An attempted insurance fraud goes badly wrong...
    
     (1957) (UK)
  • Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) (1958) (France)
  • The Rough and the Smooth (1959) (UK)

1960s

• The Criminal
  The Criminal
  The Criminal is a 1960 British drama film produced by Nat Cohen and directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker and Jill Bennett. Baker plays an ex-con who takes part in the robbery of a racetrack and is caught and sent back to prison...
  
   (aka The Concrete Jungle) (1960)
• Key Witness (1960)
• Blast of Silence
  Blast of Silence
  Blast of Silence is an American crime/thriller film released in 1961. It was written and directed by Allen Baron and produced by Merrill Brody who was also the cinematographer.-Characters and story:...
  
   (1961)
• Underworld U.S.A.
  Underworld U.S.A.
  Underworld U.S.A. is a 1961 neo-noir film produced, written and directed by Samuel Fuller. It tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who goes to enormous lengths to get revenge against the mobsters who beat his father to death...
  
   (1961)
• Cape Fear
  Cape Fear (1962 film)
  Cape Fear is a 1962 film starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Polly Bergen. It was adapted by James R. Webb from the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson, and released on April 12, 1962...
  
   (1962)
• Experiment in Terror
  Experiment in Terror
  Experiment in Terror is a 1962 thriller film. It was directed by Blake Edwards and written by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon based on their 1961 novel Operation Terror. The film stars Glenn Ford and Lee Remick.-Plot:...
  
   (1962)
• Shock Corridor
  Shock Corridor
  Shock Corridor is a 1963 film, directed and written by Samuel Fuller. The film tells the story of a journalist who gets himself committed to a mental hospital in order to track an unsolved murder.-Plot:...
  
   (1962)
• The Killers
  The Killers (1964 film)
  The Killers, sometimes marketed as Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, is a 1964 crime film released by Universal Studios. It is the second Hollywood adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story of the same name, following a version made in 1946 starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. It was directed...
  
   (1964)
• Mickey One
  Mickey One
  Mickey One is a 1965 surrealistic dramatic film starring Warren Beatty and directed by Arthur Penn from a script by Alan Surgal. Its kaleidoscopic camerawork, film noir atmosphere, lighting and design aspects, Kafkaesque paranoia, philosophical themes and Warren Beatty's performance in the title...
  
   (1965)
• The Naked Kiss
  The Naked Kiss
  The Naked Kiss is a 1964 neo-noir film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Constance Towers as Kelly, Anthony Eisley as Captain Griff and Michael Dante as J.L. Grant.-Plot:...
  
   (1964)
• Brainstorm
  Brainstorm (1965 film)
  Brainstorm, released in 1965, is a late film noir. The film stars Jeffrey Hunter and Anne Francis and was produced and directed by William Conrad, who became better known as an actor in such television series as Cannon and Jake and the Fat Man.-Plot:On a lonely highway, Jim Grayam spots a car...
  
   (1965)
• Harper
  Harper (film)
  Harper is a 1966 film written by William Goldman from a novel by Ross Macdonald. The movie starred Paul Newman as the eponymous Lew Harper . The original music score was composed by Johnny Mandel. Goldman received a 1967 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay...
  
   (1966)
• The Money Trap
  The Money Trap
  The Money Trap is a 1965 drama film starring Glenn Ford , Elke Sommer and Rita Hayworth and directed by Burt Kennedy.-Plot:Joe Baron is a cop with financial troubles because of his wife Lisa's constant spending. One day, a burglar is reported shot at the home of a doctor...
  
   (1966)
• Seconds
  Seconds (film)
  Seconds is a 1966 American film starring Rock Hudson. Characterized sometimes as a science fiction thriller, but with elements of horror, neo-noir, psychedelia, and drama, it was directed by John Frankenheimer with a screenplay by Lewis John Carlino. The script was based on a novel by David Ely...
  
   (1966)
• Point Blank (1967)
• Warning Shot
  Warning Shot
  Warning Shot is a 1967 movie about a police sergeant who kills a man in self-defense while on a stakeout. He must clear his name when the gun pulled on him disappears...
  
   (1967)
• Bullitt
  Bullitt
  Bullitt is a 1968 American police procedural film starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Vaughn. It was directed by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness by Robert L....
  
   (1968)
• The Detective
  The Detective (1968 film)
  The Detective is a 1968 film directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp.Co-stars include Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman and Robert Duvall....
  
   (1968)
• Lady in Cement
  Lady In Cement
  Lady In Cement is a 1968 detective film, directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Martin Gabel and Richard Conte. A sequel to the 1967 film Tony Rome, and based on the novel by Marvin H...
  
   (1968)
• Madigan
  Madigan
  Madigan is a 1968 American thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda.The screenplay, originally titled Friday, Saturday, Sunday, was adapted by two writers who had been blacklisted in the 1950s, Abraham Polonsky and Howard Rodman , based on a novel titled The...
  
   (1968)
• Pretty Poison
  Pretty Poison (film)
  Pretty Poison is a thriller film directed by Noel Black, starring Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, about an ex-convict and high school cheerleader who commit a series of crimes....
  
   (1968)
• The Split
  The Split
  The Split is a 1968 film directed by Gordon Flemyng and written by Robert Sabaroff based upon the novel by Donald E. Westlake.-Plot synopsis:...
  
   (1968)
• Marlowe (1969)

1970s

• The Honeymoon Killers
  The Honeymoon Killers
  The Honeymoon Killers is a 1970 American film written and directed by Leonard Kastle, and starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. It tells the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the notorious "lonely hearts killers" who murdered at least 12 women in the 1940s...
  
   (1970)
• A Clockwork Orange
  A Clockwork Orange
  A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess. The novel contains an experiment in language: the characters often use an argot called "Nadsat", derived from Russian....
  
   (1971)
• Chandler (1971)
• Dirty Harry
  Dirty Harry
  Dirty Harry is a 1971 American crime thriller produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan....
  
   (1971)
• The French Connection
  The French Connection (film)
  This article is about the 1971 film. For the British fashion label, see French Connection .The French Connection is a 1971 American crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore...
  
   (1971)
• Klute
  Klute
  Klute is a 1971 film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a missing persons case. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi and Roy Scheider. The movie was written by Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis and directed by Alan J. Pakula.Klute was the first...
  
   (1971)
• The Last Run
  The Last Run
  The Last Run is a 1971 action film directed by Richard Fleischer, starring George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, and Colleen Dewhurst.-Plot:...
  
   (1971)
• Road to Salina
  Road to Salina
  Road to Salina is a 1970 French film, a psychological thriller directed by Georges Lautner. It stars Robert Walker, Jr., Mimsy Farmer and Rita Hayworth. The film is based upon Maurice Cury’s novel Sur la Route de Salina...
  
   (1971)
• Shaft
  Shaft (1971 film)
  Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob neighborhoods in order to find the...
  
   (1971)
• The Godfather
  The Godfather
  The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...
  
   (1972)
• Across 110th Street
  Across 110th Street
  Across 110th Street is a 1972 American crime-drama film starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, and Anthony Franciosa, and directed by Barry Shear...
  
   (1972)
• The Getaway
  The Getaway (1972 film)
  The Getaway is a 1972 American action-crime film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw.The film is based on a novel by Jim Thompson, with the screenplay written by Walter Hill...
  
   (1972)
• Hickey & Boggs
  Hickey & Boggs
  Hickey & Boggs is a 1972 neo-noir detective movie written by Walter Hill and directed by Robert Culp. The film marks the first reunion of Culp and Bill Cosby since they starred together in the 1960s television series I Spy.-Plot:...
  
   (1972)
• The Mechanic (1972)
• Charley Varrick
  Charley Varrick
  Charley Varrick is a 1973 crime film directed by Don Siegel and starring Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker and John Vernon. The film was based on the novel The Looters by John H. Reese.-Plot:...
  
   (1973)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  This is an article about the movie. For information about George V. Higgins' 1970 novel, go to The Friends of Eddie Coyle .The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 crime film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. Directed by Peter Yates, the screenplay was adapted from the novel by George V. Higgins...
  
   (1973)
• The Long Goodbye
  The Long Goodbye (film)
  The Long Goodbye is a 1973 neo noir, directed by Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett, who co-wrote the screenplay for The Big Sleep in 1946...
  
   (1973)
• Mean Streets
  Mean Streets
  Mean Streets is a 1973 drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin. The film stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. It was released by Warner Bros. on October 2, 1973...
  
   (1973)
• The Outfit
  The Outfit (1973 film)
  The Outfit is a 1973 film directed by John Flynn. It stars Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan. The film is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Richard Stark and features a character modeled on Parker, who was introduced in The Hunter.- Plot :Released from prison In...
  
   (1973)
• Serpico
  Serpico
  Serpico is a 1973 American crime film directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers, after being pushed to the brink at first by their distrust and later by the threats and...
  
   (1973)
• Shamus
  Shamus (film)
  Shamus is a 1973 American film starring Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon. Burt Reynolds plays McCoy, a hard-nosed private detective.-Plot Synopsis:...
  
   (1973)
• Black Eye
  Black eye
  A black eye , or or 'shiner', is bruising around the eye commonly due to an injury to the face rather than eye injury. The name is given due to the color of bruising. The so-called black eye is caused by bleeding beneath the skin and around the eye...
  
   (1974)
• Chinatown (1974)
• Mr. Majestyk
  Mr. Majestyk
  Mr. Majestyk is a 1974 American action film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charles Bronson. The film is based on a novel written by Elmore Leonard.-Plot:...
  
   (1974)
• Thieves Like Us
  Thieves Like Us (film)
  Thieves Like Us is a 1974 film directed by Robert Altman, starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. The film was based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson...
  
   (1974)
• Dog Day Afternoon
  Dog Day Afternoon
  Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Frank Pierson, and produced by Martin Bregman. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penny Allen, James Broderick, and Carol Kane. The title refers to the "dog days of summer".The film was...
  
   (1975)
• The Drowning Pool
  The Drowning Pool (film)
  The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel The Drowning Pool. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a sequel to Harper...
  
   (1975)
• Farewell, My Lovely
  Farewell, My Lovely (1975 film)
  Farewell, My Lovely is a neo-noir film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling. The picture is based on the novel Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler.-Plot:...
  
   (1975)
• The French Connection II (1975)
• Hustle
  Hustle (1975 film)
  Hustle is a 1975 American neo-noir crime film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert and Ernest Borgnine, which was released in 1975.-Cast:...
  
   (1975)
• The Nickel Ride
  The Nickel Ride
  The Nickel Ride is a 1974 crime film directed by Robert Mulligan. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.On December 13, 2011 Shout! Factory released the film on DVD as part of a double feature with 99 and 44/100% Dead.-Cast:...
  
   (1975)
• Night Moves
  Night Moves (1975 film)
  Night Moves is a 1975 detective film directed by Arthur Penn. The film stars Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren and Susan Clark, and features very early career appearances by Melanie Griffith and James Woods....
  
   (1975)
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  For the 1974 film of the same name see Dynamite BrothersThe Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 gangster film directed and written by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara....
  
   (1976)
• Obsession (1976)
• Taxi Driver
  Taxi Driver
  Taxi Driver is a 1976 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, and Cybill Shepherd. The film was nominated for four Academy...
  
   (1976)
• Sorcerer
  Sorcerer (film)
  Sorcerer is a 1977 thriller adventure film, produced and directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal and Amidou. It is the second remake of the 1953 French film Le Salaire de la Peur ....
  
   (1977)
• The Late Show
  The Late Show (film)
  The Late Show is a 1977 comedy, neo-noir, romance, mystery film written and directed by Robert Benton and produced by Robert Altman. It stars Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, and Joanna Cassidy...
  
   (1977)
• The Big Sleep
  The Big Sleep (1978 film)
  The Big Sleep was the second film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Robert Mitchum in his second feature film portrayal of the detective Philip Marlowe. The cast includes Sarah Miles, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, and...
  
   (1978)
• Capricorn One
  Capricorn One
  Capricorn One is a 1977 science fiction thriller movie about a Mars landing hoax. It was written and directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. It stars James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O. J...
  
   (1978)
• The Driver
  The Driver
  The Driver is a 1978 crime film directed by Walter Hill and starring Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, and Isabelle Adjani. Based upon similarities in plot elements, it is heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's film Le Samouraï...
  
   (1978)
• Who'll Stop the Rain
  Who'll Stop the Rain
  Who'll Stop The Rain is a 1978 psychological drama film released by United Artists. It was directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Herb Jaffe and Gabriel Katzka with Sheldon Schrager and Roger Spottiswoode as executive producers. The screenplay was by Judith Rascoe and Robert Stone from Stone's...
  
   (1978)
• Hardcore (aka The Hardcore Life) (1979)
• Last Embrace
  Last Embrace
  Last Embrace is a 1979 thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. Based on the novel The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom, it stars Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin and Christopher Walken.-Plot summary:...
  
   (1979)
• The Onion Field
  The Onion Field
  The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during an evening traffic stop and the subsequent murder of Officer Ian James Campbell.- Crime :On the...
  
   (1979)

1980s

• The Postman Always Rings Twice
  The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film)
  The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1981 film adaptation of the 1934 novel by the same name by James M. Cain. The film was produced by Lorimar and originally released theatrically in North America by Paramount Pictures. This version, based on a screenplay by David Mamet and directed by Bob...
  
   (1981)
• Body Heat
  Body Heat
  Body Heat is a 1981 American neo-noir film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. It stars William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston, and Mickey Rourke. The film is inspired by Double Indemnity....
  
   (1981)
• Thief
  Thief (film)
  Thief is a 1981 neo-noir film written and directed by Michael Mann and based on the novel The Home Invaders by "Frank Hohimer"...
  
   (1981)
• Blade Runner
  Blade Runner
  Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...
  
   (1982)
• Hammett (1982)
• Blood Simple
  Blood Simple
  Blood Simple is a 1984 neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Joel Coen and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director...
  
   (1984)
• Against All Odds (1984)
• Brazil
  Brazil (film)
  Brazil is a 1985 British science fiction fantasy/black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm...
  
   (1985)
• To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
• Trouble in Mind
  Trouble in Mind (film)
  Trouble in Mind is a 1985 neo-noir film which follows an ex-cop just released from jail after serving time for a murder sentence as he returns to the mean streets of the fictional "Rain City"....
  
   (1985)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Manhunter
  Manhunter (film)
  Manhunter is a 1986 American thriller film based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon. Written and directed by Michael Mann, it stars William Petersen as Will Graham and features Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecktor...
  
   (1986)
• Angel Heart
  Angel Heart
  Angel Heart is a 1987 North American/British mystery-thriller film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet...
  
   (1987)
• The Big Easy
  The Big Easy (1987 film)
  The Big Easy is a 1987 American neo-noir crime film directed by Jim McBride and written by Daniel Petrie Jr. The executive producer of the motion picture was Mort Engelberg and the cinematographer was Affonso Beato...
  
   (1987)
• House of Games
  House of Games
  House of Games is David Mamet's 1987 film directorial debut. Mamet wrote the screenplay himself, from a story he devised with Jonathan Katz. The film's cast includes Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, and J. T. Walsh.-Plot:...
  
   (1987)
• Tough Guys Don't Dance
  Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)
  Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece that was scorned by audiences and critics alike. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.The script had revisions done...
  
   (1987)
• D.O.A.
  D.O.A. (1988 film)
  D.O.A. is a 1988 very loose remake of the 1950 film noir of the same name, sharing the same premise but otherwise having a different story and characters....
  
   (1988)
• Batman
  Batman (1989 film)
  Batman is a 1989 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Michael Keaton in the title role, as well as Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl and Jack Palance...
  
   (1989)
• The Kill-Off
  The Kill-Off
  The Kill-Off is a neo-noir written and directed by Maggie Greenwald, based on a 1957 novel of the same name by Jim Thompson. It was an independent film, executive produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher and shot by Declan Quinn.-Plot:...
  
   (1989)

1990s

• After Dark, My Sweet
  After Dark, My Sweet
  After Dark, My Sweet is a neo-noir film directed by James Foley starring Jason Patric, Bruce Dern, and Rachel Ward. It is based on the 1955 Jim Thompson novel of the same name.-Plot:...
  
   (1990)
• The Grifters
  The Grifters (film)
  The Grifters is a 1990 neo-noir film directed by Stephen Frears and produced by Martin Scorsese. It stars John Cusack, Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening and is based upon The Grifters, a pulp novel by Jim Thompson.-Plot:...
  
   (1990)
• The Hot Spot
  The Hot Spot
  The Hot Spot is a 1990 American drama film directed by Dennis Hopper and based on the 1952 book Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams. It stars Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and Jennifer Connelly, and features a score by Jack Nitzsche played by John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal and Roy...
  
   (1990)
• King of New York
  King of New York
  King of New York is a 1990 American crime drama film, starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo, and Giancarlo Esposito. It was directed by independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara and written by Nicholas St...
  
   (1990)
• Miller's Crossing
  Miller's Crossing
  Miller's Crossing is a 1990 American gangster film by the Coen brothers and starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, Jon Polito and John Turturro...
  
   (1990)
• State of Grace
  State of Grace (film)
  State of Grace is an American neo-noir crime film starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman, and featuring Robin Wright, John Turturro and John C. Reilly. Written by Dennis McIntyre and directed by Phil Joanou, the film was executive produced by Ned Dowd, Randy Ostrow, and Ron Rotholz, and...
  
   (1990)
• The Two Jakes
  The Two Jakes
  The Two Jakes is a 1990 American mystery film, and a sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown.Directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, it also features Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Richard Farnsworth, Frederic Forrest, Pia Gronning, David Keith, Rubén Blades, Tracey Walter and Eli Wallach...
  
   (1990)
• Dead Again
  Dead Again
  Dead Again is a 1991 psychological thriller/neo-noir directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Branagh and his then-wife Emma Thompson. Andy García, Derek Jacobi and Robin Williams are also featured.-Plot summary:...
  
   (1991)
• A Kiss Before Dying (1991)
• Deep Cover
  Deep Cover
  Deep Cover is a 1992 crime thriller film starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum and directed by veteran actor Bill Duke. It is also notable for its theme song of the same name, composed by Dr...
  
   (1992)
• Final Analysis
  Final Analysis
  Final Analysis is an American neo-noir drama directed by Phil Joanou and written by Wesley Strick. It stars Richard Gere, Kim Basinger and Uma Thurman...
  
   (1992)
• One False Move
  One False Move
  One False Move is a 1992 thriller film co-written by Billy Bob Thornton. The film, also starring Thornton, Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams was directed by Carl Franklin. The low-budget B-movie was to be released straight to home video when it was finished. The film became popular through word of...
  
   (1992)
• The Public Eye
  The Public Eye (film)
  The Public Eye is a 1992 American neo-noir film written and directed by Howard Franklin, and produced by Robert Zemeckis and Sue Baden-Powell. The drama features Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Stanley Tucci, and Richard Schiff....
  
   (1992)
• Red Rock West
  Red Rock West
  Red Rock West is a neo-noir film directed by John Dahl. The film, written by Dahl and his brother Rick, was shot in Montana and Willcox, Arizona. The film was well received at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival, but deemed a cable and direct-to-video product by Columbia Tri-Star, which owned...
  
   (1992)
• Night and the City
  Night and the City (1992 film)
  Night and the City is a 1992 remake of the 1950 film noir of the same name, itself an adaptation of Gerald Kersh's novel of the same name. The film stars Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange and is directed by Irwin Winkler from a script by Richard Price....
  
   (1992)
• Romeo Is Bleeding
  Romeo Is Bleeding
  Romeo Is Bleeding is a darkly comic 1993 crime film starring Gary Oldman and Lena Olin, directed by Peter Medak. The film's title was taken from a song by Tom Waits....
  
   (1993)
• China Moon
  China Moon
  China Moon is a 1994 neo-noir written by Roy Carlson, directed by John Bailey, and starring Ed Harris and Madeleine Stowe.-Plot:The film opens as detectives Kyle Bodine and Lamar Dickey investigate a murder scene...
  
   (1994)
• The Last Seduction
  The Last Seduction
  The Last Seduction is a neo-noir 1994 film directed by John Dahl.The movie features Linda Fiorentino as the femme fatale, Peter Berg as a small town man whose one night affair turns into more than he wanted, and Bill Pullman as Fiorentino's husband who is chasing her and running from loan sharks at...
  
   (1994)
• Devil in a Blue Dress
  Devil in a Blue Dress (film)
  Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir film directed by Carl Franklin and photographed by Tak Fujimoto.The film was based on Walter Mosley's novel of the same name, was executive produced by Jonathan Demme, and starred Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle.In...
  
   (1995)
• Lord of Illusions
  Lord of Illusions
  Lord of Illusions is a 1995 American horror film, written and directed by the British author, filmmaker and artist Clive Barker. The film is based on his earlier short story, The Last Illusion , and it presents Barker's signature character Harry D'Amour onscreen for the first time. It stars Scott...
  
   (1995)
• The Underneath (1995)
• The Usual Suspects
  The Usual Suspects
  The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American neo-noir film written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey and Pete Postlethwaite....
  
   (1995)
• Blood and Wine
  Blood and Wine
  Blood and Wine is a neo-noir thriller directed by Bob Rafelson from a screenplay written by Nick Villiers and Alison Cross. It stars Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Lopez, Stephen Dorff, Judy Davis and Michael Caine...
  
   (1996)
• Bound
  Bound (film)
  Bound is a 1996 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by the Wachowski brothers. Violet , who longs to escape her relationship with her mafioso boyfriend Caesar , enters into a clandestine affair with alluring ex-con Corky , and the two women hatch a scheme to steal $2 million of mafia money.Bound...
  
   (1996)
• Mulholland Falls
  Mulholland Falls
  Mulholland Falls is a 1996 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori and written by Pete Dexter. The drama features Andrew McCarthy, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Melanie Griffith, Treat Williams, and John Malkovich.Nolte plays the...
  
   (1996)
• Lost Highway
  Lost Highway
  Lost Highway is a 1997 American psychological thriller film with elements of neo-noir. Written and directed by David Lynch, the film stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty and Robert Loggia. Lynch co-wrote the screenplay with Barry Gifford, who also wrote the novel that served as...
  
   (1997)
• L.A. Confidential
  L.A. Confidential (film)
  L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American film based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his L.A. Quartet. Both the book and the film tell the story of a group of LAPD officers in the 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity...
  
   (1997)
• Dark City (1998)
• Phoenix
  Phoenix (film)
  Phoenix is a 1998 American crime film directed by Briton Danny Cannon.-Plot:Unlike many of his Phoenix police detective partners, Harry Collins is a good cop and, despite his very idiosyncratic value system, a decent man. However his compulsive gambling has got him heavily in debt to a gangster...
  
   (1998)
• Poodle Springs
  Poodle Springs (film)
  Poodle Springs is a 1998 neo-noir HBO film directed by Bob Rafelson starring James Caan, Dina Meyer, and David Keith. The film is based on the unfinished novel Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler, completed after his death by Robert B...
  
   (1998)
• Twilight
  Twilight (1998 film)
  Twilight is a 1998 thriller/Neo-noir film directed by Robert Benton. It stars Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, and James Garner...
  
   (1998)

2000s

• American Psycho
  American Psycho (film)
  American Psycho is a 2000 cult thriller film directed by Mary Harron based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the same name. Though predominantly a psycho thriller, the film also blends elements of horror, satire, and black comedy...
  
   (2000)
• Amores Perros
  Amores perros
  Amores perros is a 2000 neorealist Mexican film, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Amores Perros is the first movie in Iñárritu's trilogy of death, and was followed by 21 Grams and Babel. It is a triptych; an anthology film, sometimes referred to as the "Mexican Pulp Fiction," containing...
  
   (2000)
• Reindeer Games
  Reindeer Games
  Reindeer Games is a 2000 American film, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, and Charlize Theron. It was Frankenheimer's final theatrically released film and received poor reviews.-Plot:...
  
   (2000)
• Way of the Gun (2000)
• Panic (2000)
• Memento (2000)
• The Deep End
  The Deep End (film)
  The Deep End is a 2001 film that was written and directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee. It stars Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker and Josh Lucas and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film was very loosely adapted from the novel The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay...
  
   (2001)
• Heist
  Heist (film)
  Heist is a 2001 crime film, written and directed by David Mamet, which stars Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, and Sam Rockwell.-Plot:...
  
   (2001)
• The Man Who Wasn't There
  The Man Who Wasn't There
  The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role. Also featured are James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Alexi-Malle and Coen regulars Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, and Jon...
  
   (2001)
• Monster's Ball
  Monster's Ball
  Monster's Ball is a 2001 romantic drama film directed by Marc Forster, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, and Heath Ledger, and written by Milo Addica and Will Rokos. It was produced by Lionsgate and Lee Daniels Entertainment....
  
   (2001)
• Picture Claire
  Picture Claire
  Picture Claire is a 2001 thriller film directed by Bruce McDonald of a screenplay by Semi Chellas. The film stars Juliette Lewis, Gina Gershon, Callum Keith Rennie, Kelly Harms, Camilla Rutherford, Peter Stebbings, and Mickey Rourke...
  
   (2001)
• The Pledge
  The Pledge (film)
  The Pledge is a 2001 American mystery film directed by Sean Penn. It is based on the 1958 novella Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman , by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt...
  
   (2001)
• Mulholland Drive
  Mulholland Drive (film)
  Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, and Laura Harring. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   (2001)
• City by the Sea
  City by the Sea
  City by the Sea is a 2002 film starring Robert De Niro, James Franco, Eliza Dushku, Frances McDormand and William Forsythe. It deals with a family problems of wayward youth and set against a man trying to break free of his past. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones...
  
   (2002)
• City of Ghosts
  City of Ghosts
  City of Ghosts is a 2002 drama film co-written, directed by and starring Matt Dillon, about a con artist who must go to Cambodia to collect his share in money collected from an insurance scam...
  
   (2002)
• Dark Blue (2002)
• The Good Thief (2002)
• Femme Fatale (2002)
• Insomnia
  Insomnia (2002 film)
  Insomnia is an American psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank. The film, released on 24 May 2002, is a remake of the 1997 Norwegian film of the same name.-Plot:...
  
   (2002)
• Murder By Numbers
  Murder by Numbers
  Murder by Numbers is a 2002 psychological thriller film produced and directed by Barbet Schroeder. It stars Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt. It is loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb case....
  
   (2002)
• Narc
  Narc (film)
  Narc is a 2002 crime film about corrupt police involved in the illegal drug trade. It was released to critical acclaim and moderate commercial success. It was written and directed by Joe Carnahan. The plot revolves around the efforts of two police detectives as they search for the murderer of an...
  
   (2002)
• Panic Room
  Panic Room
  Panic Room is a 2002 American thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by David Koepp. The film stars Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam, Kristen Stewart, and Patrick Bauchau...
  
   (2002)
• Road to Perdition
  Road to Perdition
  Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig...
  
   (2002)
• The Salton Sea
  The Salton Sea
  The Salton Sea is a 2002 American neo-noir film starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio directed by D. J. Caruso.-Plot:While playing the trumpet in a burning room, the protagonist's voice is heard in narration. His story begins with him posing as "Danny Parker", a speed freak addicted to...
  
   (2002)
• Basic
  Basic (film)
  Basic is a 2003 American/German thriller film directed by John McTiernan and starring John Travolta, Connie Nielsen and Samuel L. Jackson.-Plot:...
  
   (2003)
• 21 Grams
  21 Grams
  21 Grams is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, and Benicio del Toro....
  
   (2003)
• Confidence (2003)
• The Cooler
  The Cooler
  The Cooler is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Wayne Kramer. The original screenplay was written by Kramer and Frank Hannah. In gambling parlance, a "cooler" is an unlucky individual whose presence at the tables results in a streak of bad luck for the other players.- Plot :Unlucky Bernie...
  
   (2003)
• Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
• Out of Time (2003)
• Mystic River
  Mystic River
  The Mystic River is a river in Massachusetts, in the United States. Its name derives from the Wampanoag word "muhs-uhtuq", which translates to "big river." In an Algonquian language, "Missi-Tuk" means "a great river whose waters are driven by waves", alluding to the natural tidal nature of the...
  
   (2003)
• Collateral
  Collateral (film)
  Collateral is a 2004 crime thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. It was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie. It was Mann's first feature film to be shot mostly with high-definition cameras. Mann had previously used the format for portions of Ali and for his CBS drama...
  
   (2004)
• Kill Bill Volume 2
  Kill Bill Volume 2
  Kill Bill Volume 2 is a 2004 action thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the second of two volumes that were theatrically released several months apart. Kill Bill was originally scheduled for a single theatrical release, but with a running time of over four hours, it was...
  
   (2004)
• Never Die Alone
  Never Die Alone
  Never Die Alone is a 2004 crime thriller film directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Donald Goines.-Plot:...
  
   (2004)
• Twisted (2004)
• Derailed (2005)
• Harsh Times
  Harsh Times
  Harsh Times is a 2006 American crime film set in South Los Angeles. The film stars Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez, and was written and directed by David Ayer, who wrote the script for the Academy Award-winning film Training Day. The film was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and...
  
   (2005)
• A History of Violence
  A History of Violence (film)
  A History of Violence is a 2005 American crime thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Josh Olson. It is an adaptation of the 1997 graphic novel of the same name by John Wagner and Vince Locke...
  
   (2005)
• Shadowboxer
  Shadowboxer
  Shadowboxer is a 2005 thriller directed by Lee Daniels that stars Academy Award winners Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren, and Mo'Nique. It opened in limited release in six cities: New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Richmond, Virginia.-Plot:Mikey and his stepmother...
  
   (2005)
• Sin City
  Sin City (film)
  Sin City, also known as Frank Miller's Sin City, is a 2005 crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez...
  
   (2005)
• Batman Begins
  Batman Begins
  Batman Begins is a 2005 American superhero action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson,...
  
   (2005)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 crime/dark comedy film, which engages many conventions of the classic film noir genre in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. It is based, in part, on the novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them by Brett Halliday. The cast includes Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan...
  
   (2005)
• Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)
• Brick (2005)
• Basic Instinct 2
  Basic Instinct 2
  Basic Instinct 2, also known as Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction, is a 2006 German/British/American/Spanish thriller film and the sequel to 1992's Basic Instinct. The film was directed by Michael Caton-Jones and produced by Mario Kassar, Joel B. Michaels, and Andrew G. Vajna. The screenplay was by...
  
   (2006)
• The Black Dahlia
  The Black Dahlia (film)
  The Black Dahlia is a 2006 neo noir crime film directed by Brian De Palma. It is based on the novel of the same name by James Ellroy, writer of L.A. Confidential and starred Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank. The story is based on the murder of Elizabeth Short...
  
   (2006)
• The Departed
  The Departed
  The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan...
  
   (2006)
• The Good German
  The Good German
  The Good German is a 2006 feature film adaptation of the novel by Joseph Kanon. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh, and stars George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire...
  
   (2006)
• Hollywoodland
  Hollywoodland
  Hollywoodland is a 2006 American biographical docudrama film directed by Allen Coulter in his feature directorial debut. The film documents a fictional account of the investigation surrounding the death of actor George Reeves , the star of the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman. Adrien...
  
   (2006)
• Lonely Hearts (2006)
• Lucky Number Slevin
  Lucky Number Slevin
  Lucky Number Slevin, renamed for the German/USA DVDs as Lucky # Slevin , is a 2006 crime thriller film written by Jason Smilovic, directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tucci, and Lucy Liu...
  
   (2006)
• Miami Vice
  Miami Vice (film)
  Miami Vice is a 2006 American crime drama film about two Miami police detectives, Crockett and Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, written, produced, and directed by Michael Mann...
  
   (2006)
• Running Scared
  Running Scared (2006 film)
  Running Scared is a 2006 crime film written and directed by Wayne Kramer and released by New Line Cinema. The film stars Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Chazz Palminteri, Alex Neuberger and Johnny Messner. It was released in the United States on February 24, 2006...
  
   (2006)
• Smokin' Aces
  Smokin' Aces
  Smokin' Aces is a 2006 crime film, written and directed by Joe Carnahan. It stars Jeremy Piven as a Las Vegas magician turned mafia informant and Ryan Reynolds as the FBI agent assigned to protect him...
  
   (2007)
• American Gangster (2007)
• No Country For Old Men
  No Country for Old Men (film)
  No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American crime thriller directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. The film was adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name...
  
   (2007)
• Eastern Promises (2007)
• Zodiac
  Zodiac (film)
  Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery-thriller film directed by David Fincher and based on Robert Graysmith's non-fiction book of the same name. The Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros...
  
   (2007)
• Gone Baby Gone
  Gone Baby Gone
  Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 American crime drama-mystery film directed by Ben Affleck and starring his brother Casey Affleck. The screenplay by Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard is based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island...
  
   (2007)
• The Dark Knight
  The Dark Knight (film)
  The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...
  
   (2008)
• Changeling
  Changeling (film)
  Changeling is a 2008 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. Based on real-life events in 1928 Los Angeles, the film stars Angelina Jolie as a woman who is reunited with her missing son—only to realize he is an impostor. She confronts the city...
  
   (2008)
• The Spirit
  The Spirit (film)
  The Spirit is a 2008 American superhero noir film, written and directed by Frank Miller and starring Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes, Sarah Paulson, Dan Lauria, Paz Vega, Jaime King, Scarlett Johansson, and Samuel L. Jackson. The film is based on the newspaper comic strip The Spirit by Will Eisner...
  
   (2008)
• Assassination of a High School President
  Assassination of a High School President
  Assassination of a High School President is a 2008 American neo noir comedy film, directed by Brett Simon, written by Tim Calpin and Kevin Jakubowski, and starring Reece Thompson, Bruce Willis, Mischa Barton and Michael Rapaport...
  
   (2008)
• Law Abiding Citizen
  Law Abiding Citizen
  Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray from a screenplay written by Kurt Wimmer, starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. The film takes place in Philadelphia and tells the story of a man whose developed sociopathic tendencies drove him into killing while targeting not...
  
   (2009)
• Public Enemies (2009)
• Heartless
  Heartless (2009 film)
  Heartless is a 2009 British horror film directed by Philip Ridley and starring Jim Sturgess, Noel Clarke, Clémence Poésy and Eddie Marsan.-Plot:Jamie Morgan is a troubled photographer with a heart-shaped birthmark on his face...
  
   (2009)

2010s

• Shutter Island (2010)
• The Killer Inside Me
  The Killer Inside Me (2010 film)
  The Killer Inside Me is a 2010 American film adaptation of the 1952 novel of the same name by Jim Thompson. The film is directed by Michael Winterbottom and stars Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, and Jessica Alba. At its release, it was criticised for its graphic depiction of violence directed toward...
  
   (2010)
• The Town
  The Town (2010 film)
  The Town is a 2010 crime film starring, co-written, and directed by Ben Affleck adapted from Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves. The film opened in theaters in the United States on September 17, 2010 at number one with more than $23 million and positive reviews...
  
   (2010)
• The Big Bang
  The Big Bang (2011 film)
  The Big Bang is a 2011 American thriller written by Erik Jendresen and directed by Tony Krantz. The film stars Antonio Banderas and Sienna Guillory.- Plot :...
  
   (2011)
• Drive
  Drive (2011 film)
  Drive is a 2011 American crime neo-noir drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling as the principal character, with Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks...
  
   (2011)

Psycho-noir

• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Lunatics: A Love Story
  Lunatics: A Love Story
  Lunatics: A Love Story is a 1991 comedy romance film with neo-noir connections written and directed by Josh Becker, starring Ted Raimi, Deborah Foreman and Bruce Campbell...
  
   (1990)
• Knight Moves
  Knight Moves
  Knight Moves is a 1992 American thriller film, directed by Carl Schenkel and written by Brad Mirman, about a chess grandmaster who is accused of several grisly murders.-Synopsis:...
  
   (1991)
• Shattered
  Shattered (film)
  Shattered is a 1991 Hitchcockian neo-noir/psychological thriller starring Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley and Corbin Bernsen...
  
   (1991)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
• The Vagrant
  The Vagrant (1992)
  The Vagrant is a 1992 black comedy film. It stars Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside & Marshall Bell and revolves around a yuppie who is being driven insane by a crazed bum after moving into a new home the destitute is currently squatting in.- Synopsis :Graham's life is full of promise...
  
   (1992)
• Blink
  Blink (film)
  Blink is a 1994 neo-noir thriller film starring Madeleine Stowe, and Aidan Quinn. Director Michael Apted was nominated for a Crystal Globe award for the film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and screenwriter Dana Stevens was nominated for Best Motion Picture at the Edgar Allan Poe...
  
   (1994)
• Natural Born Killers
  Natural Born Killers
  Natural Born Killers is a 1994 crime/black comedy film directed by Oliver Stone about two victims of traumatic childhoods who became lovers and psychopathic serial killers, and are irresponsibly glorified by the mass media...
  
   (1994)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• eXistenZ
  EXistenZ
  eXistenZ is a 1999 body horror/science fiction film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law....
  
   (1998)
• Fight Club
  Fight Club (film)
  Fight Club is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an "everyman" who is discontented with his white-collar job...
  
   (1999)
• American Psycho
  American Psycho (film)
  American Psycho is a 2000 cult thriller film directed by Mary Harron based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the same name. Though predominantly a psycho thriller, the film also blends elements of horror, satire, and black comedy...
  
   (2000)
• Memento (2000)
• Mulholland Drive
  Mulholland Drive (film)
  Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, and Laura Harring. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   (2001)
• The Machinist
  The Machinist
  The Machinist is a 2004 English-language Spanish psychological thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Scott Kosar....
  
   (2004)
• Secret Window
  Secret Window
  Secret Window is a 2004 psychological horror film starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. It was written and directed by David Koepp, based on the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King, featuring a musical score by Philip Glass and Geoff Zanelli. The story appeared in King's...
  
   (2004)
• The Number 23
  The Number 23
  The Number 23 is a 2007 American psychological thriller film written by Fernley Phillips and directed by Joel Schumacher. The film starred Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, and Logan Lerman. It was subsequently released on DVD on July 24, 2007 , and premiered on HBO on Saturday April 19,...
  
   (2007)

Non-American

• The Reflecting Skin (1990) (UK)
• Naked Lunch
  Naked Lunch (film)
  Naked Lunch is the 1991 Canadian/British/Japanese film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, of William S. Burroughs' novel of the same name...
  
   (1991) (Canada)
• Europa (1991) (Denmark)
• Darr
  Darr
  Darr: A Violent Love Story is a 1993 Bollywood psychological thriller film directed by Yash Chopra. It is the story of an obsessed lover and the lengths he goes to get his girl who is already happily married to Sunil Malhotra . It is the second film in which Shahrukh Khan played the role of a...
  
   (1993) (India)
• Crash
  Crash (1996 film)
  Crash is a 1996 Canadian/British drama thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on the J. G. Ballard 1973 novel of the same name. It tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents, a notable form of paraphilia. The film generated considerable...
  
   (1996) (Canada)
• Following (1998) (UK)
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is a 2002 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook which follows the character Ryu trying to earn enough money for his sister's kidney transplant and the path of vengeance that follows. It is the first part of The Vengeance Trilogy and is followed by Oldboy and...
  
   (2002) (S. Korea)
• Last Exit (2003) (Denmark)
• Oldboy
  Oldboy
  Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr...
  
   (2003) (S. Korea)
• Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
  Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
  Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is a 2008 South Korean film by director Park Chan-wook. In North America and parts of Europe, the film has been screened under the title Lady Vengeance. The film is the third installment in Park's The Vengeance Trilogy, following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy...
  
   (2005) (S. Korea)
• 13 (Tzameti) (2005) (France)
• The Square
  The Square (2008 film)
  The Square is a neo-noir thriller film directed by Nash Edgerton, written by his brother Joel Edgerton and Matthew Dabner, and starring David Roberts and Claire van der Boom. Based upon an original idea by Joel, the project was written and then shelved by the actor because he felt it was not...
  
   (2008) (Australia)
• Animal Kingdom
  Animal Kingdom (film)
  Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, Jacki Weaver and James Frecheville...
  
   (2010) (Australia)

Noir–science fiction

• Alphaville (1965)
• The Satan Bug
  The Satan Bug
  The Satan Bug is a science fiction film directed by John Sturges that stars George Maharis and Anne Francis. It was loosely adapted from Alistair MacLean's 1962 novel of the same name...
  
   (1965)
• The Groundstar Conspiracy
  The Groundstar Conspiracy
  The Groundstar Conspiracy is a 1972 film directed by Lamont Johnson. It stars George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin. The script was very freely adapted from L. P. Davies' 1968 novel, The Alien...
  
   (1972)
• Soylent Green
  Soylent Green
  Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution,...
  
   (1973)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 science fiction film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. It is a remake of the 1956 film of the same name. It was directed by Philip Kaufman and starred Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Leonard Nimoy.A San Francisco health inspector and...
  
   (1978)
• Blade Runner
  Blade Runner
  Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...
  
   (1982)
• Repo Man (1984)
• The Terminator
  The Terminator
  The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los...
  
   (1984)
• Brazil
  Brazil (film)
  Brazil is a 1985 British science fiction fantasy/black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm...
  
   (1985)
• RoboCop
  RoboCop
  RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...
  
   (1987)
• Alien Nation
  Alien Nation (film)
  Alien Nation is a 1988 American science fiction film directed by Graham Baker and produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Richard Kobritz and Bill Borden. The storyline was based on a screenplay written by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It stars James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, and Kevyn Major Howard...
  
   (1988)
• Total Recall
  Total Recall
  Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox & Mel Johnson, Jr.. It is based on the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”...
  
   (1990)
• Robocop 2
  RoboCop 2
  RoboCop 2 is a 1990 science fiction action film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bayer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. Set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan...
  
   (1990)
• Alien 3 (1992)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Strange Days
  Strange Days (film)
  Strange Days is a 1995 cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced and co-written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott and Vincent D'Onofrio. Despite positive reviews, the film was a...
  
   (1995)
• 12 Monkeys (1995)
• Gattaca
  Gattaca
  Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin....
  
   (1997)
• Disturbing Behavior
  Disturbing Behavior
  Disturbing Behavior is a 1998 thriller science fiction film starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes, and Nick Stahl. The film was released on July 24, 1998. The plot follows a group of high school outcasts who are horrified by their "Blue Ribbon" classmates...
  
   (1998)
• Dark City (1998)
• eXistenZ
  EXistenZ
  eXistenZ is a 1999 body horror/science fiction film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law....
  
   (1998)
• The Thirteenth Floor
  The Thirteenth Floor
  The Thirteenth Floor is a 1999 science fiction film directed by Josef Rusnak and loosely based upon Simulacron-3 , a novel by Daniel F. Galouye...
  
   (1999)
• The Matrix
  The Matrix
  The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...
  
   (1999)
• Donnie Darko
  Donnie Darko
  Donnie Darko is a 2001 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Noah Wyle, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell...
  
   (2001)
• Equilibrium
  Equilibrium (film)
  Equilibrium is a 2002 American science fiction action film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer. It stars Christian Bale as John Preston, a warrior-priest and enforcement officer in a future dystopia where both feelings and artistic expression are outlawed and citizens take daily injections of drugs...
  
   (2002)
• Cypher
  Cypher (film)
  Cypher , is a 2002 science fiction thriller film starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu. The film was written by Brian King and directed by Vincenzo Natali. The film was shown in limited release in theaters in the USA, and released on DVD on August 2nd 2005.-Plot:Morgan Sullivan, a recently...
  
   (2002)
• Minority Report
  Minority Report (film)
  Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C...
  
   (2002)
• V for Vendetta
  V for Vendetta (film)
  V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian thriller film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. It is an adaptation of the V for Vendetta comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd...
  
   (2006)
• Sin City
  Sin City (film)
  Sin City, also known as Frank Miller's Sin City, is a 2005 crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez...
  
   (2005)
• Southland Tales
  Southland Tales
  Southland Tales is a 2006 American-Franco-German science fiction dark comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles...
  
   (2007)
• Franklyn  (2008)
• Watchmen
  Watchmen (film)
  Watchmen is a 2009 superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons...
  
    (2009)
• Stargate Universe
  Stargate Universe
  Stargate Universe is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way...
  
   (2010)
• Inception
  Inception
  Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...
  
   (2010)

Stoner Noir

• Gravesend
  Gravesend (film)
  Gravesend is a 1997 criminal drama film directed by Salvatore Stabile.-Plot summary:Four friends from the ghetto get involved in a careless prank which goes badly wrong. As their weekend spirals out of control, they try to "fix" the situation with criminal acts and only succeed in making things...
  
   (1997)
• Thursday (1998)
• Weirdsville
  Weirdsville
  Weirdsville is a black comedy directed by Allan Moyle and written by Willem Wennekers. The film premiered January 18, 2007 at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival. The film has also been shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Raindance Film...
  
   (2007)
• Bored to Death
  Bored to Death
  Bored to Death is an American comedy series, which premiered on HBO on September 20, 2009. , three seasons have aired, each consisting of eight episodes. The show was created by author Jonathan Ames, and stars Jason Schwartzman as a fictional Jonathan Ames – a writer based in Brooklyn, New York...
  
   (2009) (HBO series)

Noir comedies

• Play It Again, Sam (1972)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
  Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
  Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward. It is both a parody of, and an homage to, film noir and the pulp detective movies of the 1940s....
  
   (1982)
• After Hours
  After Hours (film)
  After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy film, written by Joseph Minion and directed by Martin Scorsese. Paul Hackett , a New Yorker, experiences a series of adventures and perils in trying to make his way home from SoHo.-Plot:...
  
   (1985)
• Crime Wave
  Crime Wave (1985 film)
  Crime Wave is a 1985 film made by Winnipeg-based filmmaker John Paizs shot between 1984 and 1986. The film is an homage to late 1940s-early 1950s "color crime pictures". Paizs plays Steven Penny, a struggling screenwriter who lives above the garage of a suburban family, and begins typing each...
  
   (a.k.a. The Big Crimewave) (1985)
• Crimewave
  Crimewave
  Crimewave is a 1985 comedy film directed by Sam Raimi, an unusual slapstick mix of film noir, black comedy and several eras, starring Reed Birney, Paul L. Smith, Louise Lasser, Brion James, Bruce Campbell, and Sheree J. Wilson. It was Raimi's first studio film following the success of The Evil Dead...
  
   (1985)
• The Naked Gun
  The Naked Gun
  The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 American comedy film that is the first in a The Naked Gun series of films starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, and O. J. Simpson...
  
   (1988)
• Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
  Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
  Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel is a 1992 neo-noir black comedy written and directed by Alien Castle. The film stars Sherilyn Fenn, Whip Hubley, David Hewlett, David Johansen and Paul Bartel.-Plot:...
  
   (1992)
• Fatal Instinct
  Fatal Instinct
  Fatal Instinct is a 1993 comedy film directed by Carl Reiner. It parodies the erotic thriller movie genre, which at the time had reached its commercial peak. The film stars Armand Assante as a lawyer and cop named Ned Ravine who has an affair with a woman named Lola Cain played by Sean Young...
  
   (1993)
• Get Shorty
  Get Shorty (film)
  Get Shorty is a 1995 crime-comedy film based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, and Danny DeVito, the plot remained true to the book except for a few minor details....
  
   (1995)
• The House of Yes
  The House of Yes
  The House of Yes is a 1997 film starring Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Geneviève Bujold, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Tori Spelling. The movie is based on the play of the same name, which was written by Wendy MacLeod. It was produced by Robert Berger and was released by Miramax Films on October 10,...
  
   (1997)
• Very Bad Things
  Very Bad Things
  Very Bad Things is a 1998 black comedy directed by Peter Berg, based on the book by Gene Brewer. It stars Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Leland Orser.-Plot:...
  
   (1998)
• Zero Effect
  Zero Effect
  Zero Effect is a 1998 mystery film written and directed by Jake Kasdan . It stars Bill Pullman as "the world's most private detective" Daryl Zero and Ben Stiller as his assistant Steve Arlo....
  
   (1998)
• Cecil B. DeMented
  Cecil B. Demented
  Cecil B. Demented is a 2000 black comedy film written and directed by John Waters. The film stars Melanie Griffith as a snobby A-list Hollywood actress who is kidnapped by a band of terrorist filmmakers who force her to star in their underground film...
  
   (2000)
• The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
  The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
  The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is a 2001 American film written, directed by, and starring Woody Allen. The cast also features Dan Aykroyd, Elizabeth Berkley, Helen Hunt, John Schuck, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers, and Charlize Theron. The plot concerns an insurance investigator and an...
  
   (2001)
• Novocaine
  Novocaine (film)
  Novocaine is a 2001 film written and directed by David Atkins and starring Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern, Lynne Thigpen and Elias Koteas. The film was shot in the Chicago, Illinois area, during a limited 32-day schedule. The film received extra publicity during production and as...
  
   (2001)
• One Night at McCool's
  One Night at McCool's
  One Night at McCool's is a 2001 American dark comedy/neo-noir film, directed by Harald Zwart and starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, John Goodman, Paul Reiser, Reba McEntire and Andrew Dice Clay.-Plot:...
  
   (2001)
• Death to Smoochy
  Death to Smoochy
  Death to Smoochy is a 2002 American dark comedy film directed by and starring Danny DeVito and starring Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, and Jon Stewart.-Plot:...
  
   (2002)
• Be Cool
  Be Cool
  Be Cool is a 2005 crime-comedy film adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1999 novel of the same name and the sequel to Leonard's 1990 novel Get Shorty about mobster Chili Palmer's entrance into the film industry.The film adaptation of Be Cool began production in 2003. It was directed by F...
  
   (2005)
• The Big White
  The Big White
  The Big White is a 2005 black comedy picture directed by Mark Mylod starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson, Tim Blake Nelson, W. Earl Brown and Alison Lohman.-Plot:...
  
   (2005)
• The Ice Harvest
  The Ice Harvest
  The Ice Harvest is a 2005 dark comedy/drama film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, based on the novel of the same name by Scott Phillips. It stars John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid, and Oliver Platt...
  
   (2005)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 crime/dark comedy film, which engages many conventions of the classic film noir genre in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. It is based, in part, on the novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them by Brett Halliday. The cast includes Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan...
  
   (2005)
• Big Nothing
  Big Nothing
  Big Nothing is a 2006 British neo-noir comedy film directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea starring David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg. It was released in December 2006, and had its premiere at Cardiff Film Festival in November 2006....
  
   (2006)
• Mini's First Time
  Mini's First Time
  Mini's First Time is a 2006 comedy/drama film written and directed by Nick Guthe. It was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 1, 2006 and had a limited release on July 14, 2006. It was released on DVD on October 24, 2006 by HBO Films.-Plot:...
  
   (2006)
• Leaves of Grass
  Leaves of Grass (film)
  Leaves of Grass is an American black comedy/drama film written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson. It stars Edward Norton, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Melanie Lynskey and Keri Russell. The film, released on September 17, 2010, is in limited release by Millennium Pictures...
  
   (2010)

Noir westerns

• Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
• Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
• High Plains Drifter
  High Plains Drifter
  High Plains Drifter is a 1973 American Western film, with a hint of the supernatural, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood and produced by Robert Daley for The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. Eastwood plays a mysterious gunfighter hired by the residents of a corrupt frontier mining town...
  
   (1973)

Miscellaneous crossovers

• The Dead Don't Die (1975)—noir horror
• Pennies from Heaven
  Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)
  Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 musical film. The film was based on a 1978 BBC television drama. In 1981, Dennis Potter adapted his own screenplay for a film of the same name for American audiences, with its setting changed to Depression era Chicago. Potter was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award...
  
   (1981)—noir musical
• Class of 1984
  Class of 1984
  Class of 1984 is a 1982 action-thriller movie about a newly hired music teacher at a troubled inner city school, where students have to pass through a metal detector due to problems with gangs, drugs, and violence. It was directed by Mark L...
  
   (1982)-noir horror
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
  A Nightmare on Elm Street
  A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film features Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund, and Johnny Depp in his feature film...
  
   (1984)-noir horror
• Angel Heart
  Angel Heart
  Angel Heart is a 1987 North American/British mystery-thriller film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet...
  
   (1987)—noir horror
• The Believers
  The Believers
  The Believers is a horror/neo-noir film directed by John Schlesinger, released in 1987 and starring Martin Sheen, Robert Loggia and Helen Shaver...
  
   (1987)—noir horror
• Dead of Winter
  Dead of Winter
  Dead of Winter is a thriller film made in 1987 It was directed by Arthur Penn and is a remake of the 1945 film My Name Is Julia Ross and stars Mary Steenburgen who plays three roles in the film.-Plot:...
  
   (1987)—noir horror
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...
  
   (1988)—"toon-noir"
• Batman
  Batman (1989 film)
  Batman is a 1989 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Michael Keaton in the title role, as well as Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl and Jack Palance...
  
   (1989)—superhero noir
• Dick Tracy (1990)—comic noir
• Darkman
  Darkman
  Darkman is a 1990 superhero action film directed by Sam Raimi. It is based on a short story Raimi wrote that paid homage to Universal's horror films of the 1930s...
  
   (1990)—superhero noir/horror
• The First Power
  The First Power
  The First Power is a 1990 American horror film/neo-noir, directed by Robert Resnikoff. It starred Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober and Mykelti Williamson.-Plot:...
  
   (1990)—noir horror
• Cast a Deadly Spell
  Cast a Deadly Spell
  Cast a Deadly Spell is a Horror/Detective HBO movie with Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, David Warner and Clancy Brown. It was directed by Martin Campbell and written by Joseph Dougherty.-Plot:...
  
   (1991)—noir horror
• Batman Returns
  Batman Returns
  Batman Returns is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is the sequel to Burton's Batman , and features Michael Keaton reprising the title role, with Danny DeVito as the Penguin and Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman.Burton originally did not...
  
   (1992)—superhero noir
• The Resurrected
  The Resurrected
  The Resurrected is a 1992 horror film, released direct to video. It was directed by Dan O'Bannon and starred John Terry, Jane Sibbett, Chris Sarandon and Robert Romanus. It is an adaptation of the H. P...
  
   (1992)—noir horror
• The Shadow
  The Shadow (1994 film)
  The Shadow is a 1994 American superhero film, directed by Russell Mulcahy, and based on the character of the same name created by Walter B. Gibson in 1931. Alec Baldwin starred in the title role...
  
   (1994)—superhero noir
• In the Mouth of Madness
  In the Mouth of Madness
  In the Mouth of Madness is a 1995 American horror film directed by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca, who was at the time of the film's release in charge of New Line Cinema...
  
   (1995)—noir horror
• Lord of Illusions
  Lord of Illusions
  Lord of Illusions is a 1995 American horror film, written and directed by the British author, filmmaker and artist Clive Barker. The film is based on his earlier short story, The Last Illusion , and it presents Barker's signature character Harry D'Amour onscreen for the first time. It stars Scott...
  
   (1995)—noir horror
• The Phantom (1996)—superhero noir
• Spawn
  Spawn (film)
  Spawn is a 1997 American superhero film loosely based on the comic book of the same name, by Todd McFarlane and published by Image Comics. Directed and co-written by Mark A.Z. Dippé , the film stars Michael Jai White in the leading role...
  
   (1997)—superhero noir/horror
• Fallen
  Fallen (film)
  Fallen is a 1998 supernatural thriller film, directed by Gregory Hoblit, and starring Denzel Washington, John Goodman and Donald Sutherland.-Plot:...
  
   (1998)—noir horror
• The Ninth Gate
  The Ninth Gate
  The Ninth Gate is a 1999 horror film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski. It is a neo-noir, occult mystery thriller involving the rare book business, wherein rare-book dealer Dean Corso is hired by bibliophile Boris Balkan to validate a seventeenth-century copy of The Nine Gates...
  
   (1999)—noir horror
• FeardotCom
  FeardotCom
  FeardotCom is a 2002 horror film, directed by William Malone and stars Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone and Stephen Rea.-Plot:Mike Reilly is an NYPD detective who is called to the scene of a mysterious death in the subway system...
  
   (2002)—noir horror
• The Dark Knight
  The Dark Knight (film)
  The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...
  
   (2008)—superhero noir
• Watchmen
  Watchmen (film)
  Watchmen is a 2009 superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons...
  
    (2009) —superhero noir
• Kick-Ass
  Kick-Ass (film)
  Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt, and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman...
  
   (2010) -superhero noir

Non-American crossovers

• Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville) (1965) (France/SF)
• Gumshoe
  Gumshoe (film)
  Gumshoe is a 1971 film, and was the directorial debut of British director Stephen Frears.Written by local author Neville Smith, the film is set in Liverpool with Albert Finney playing the role of Eddie Ginley. Ginley is a bingo-caller and occasional club comedian who dreams of being a private eye...
  
   (1971) (UK/comedy)
• Patlabor the Movie (1989) (Japan/SF anime
  Anime
  is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
  
  )
• Patlabor 2 the Movie (1989) (Japan/SF anime
  Anime
  is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
  
  )
• Ghost in the Shell
  Ghost in the Shell
  is a Japanese multimedia franchise composed of manga, animated films, anime series, video games and novels. It focuses on the activities of the counter-terrorist organization Public Security Section 9 in a futuristic, cyberpunk Japan ....
  
   (1995) (Japan/SF anime
  Anime
  is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
  
  )
• WXIII: Patlabor 3 the Movie (2001) (Japan/SF anime
  Anime
  is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
  
  )
• Running on Karma
  Running on Karma
  Running on Karma , also known as An Intelligent Muscle Man, is a 2003 Hong Kong film, produced and directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai. It is ultimately a Buddhist parable about the nature of karma. There were some cuts in the Mainland China edition to meet the requirements for release...
  
   (2003) (Hong Kong/"bubblegum noir")
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
  Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
  Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known simply as in japan, is a 2004 science fiction film and sequel to the anime film, Ghost in the Shell. Released in Japan on March 6, 2004, with an U.S. release on September 17, 2004, Innocence had a production budget of approximately $20 million...
  
   (2004) (Japan/SF anime)
• Renaissance
  Renaissance (film)
  Renaissance is a 2006 French black-and-white animated science fiction film by French director Christian Volckman. It was co-produced in France, United Kingdom and Luxembourg and released on 15 March 2006 in France and 28 July 2006 in the UK by Miramax Films...
  
   (2006) (France/animated SF)
• V for Vendetta
  V for Vendetta (film)
  V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian thriller film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. It is an adaptation of the V for Vendetta comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd...
  
   (2006) (UK/SF)
• Thirst
  Thirst (2009 film)
  Thirst is a 2009 horror/drama film, written, produced and directed by Park Chan-wook. It is loosely based on the novel Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola. The film tells the story of a priest—who is in love with his friend’s wife—turning into a vampire through a failed medical experiment. Park has...
  
   (2009) (Korea/horror)

Non-American

• 1960s
  • À bout de souffle (Breathless) (1960) (France)
  • Plein Soleil
    Plein Soleil
    Purple Noon is a 1960 film directed by René Clément, based on The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, and starring Alain Delon in his first major movie...
    
     (Purple Noon) (1960) (France)
  • The Bad Sleep Well (1960) (Japan)
  • Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960) (France)
  • Le Trou
    Le Trou
    The Hole is a 1960 French film directed by Jacques Becker. It is an adaptation of José Giovanni's 1957 book of the same name. It was called The Night Watch when first released in the United States, but is released under its French title today...
    
     (The Hole) (1960) (France)
  • Le Doulos
    Le Doulos
    Le Doulos is a 1962 French crime film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It was released theatrically as The Finger Man in the English-speaking world, but all video and DVD releases have used the French title...
    
     (1962) (France)
  • High and Low (1963) (Japan)
  • Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964) (France)
  • Tôkyô nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter) (1966) (Japan)
  • Branded to Kill
    Branded to Kill
    is a 1967 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara, Annu Mari and Mariko Ogawa. It was a low budget, production line number for the Nikkatsu Company, originally released in a double bill with Shōgorō Nishimura's Burning Nature. The story follows Goro...
    
     (1967) (Japan)
  • Le Samouraï
    Le Samouraï
    Le Samouraï is a 1967 French crime film directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Alain Delon.- Plot :The story follows a perfectionist free-agent hitman, Jef Costello , who religiously adheres to a strict code of duty...
    
     (1967) (France)
  • La Mariée était en noir
    The Bride Wore Black
    The Bride Wore Black is a 1968 French film directed by François Truffaut and based on the novel of the same name by William Irish, a pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich. It stars Jeanne Moreau, Charles Denner, Alexandra Stewart, Michel Bouquet, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Rich and Jean-Claude Brialy.It is...
    
     (The Bride Wore Black) (1968) (France)
  • The Conformist
    The Conformist (film)
    The Conformist is a 1970 political drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay was written by Bertolucci based on the 1951 novel The Conformist by Alberto Moravia. The film features Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli, among others...
    
     (1969) (Italy)
  • Que la bête meure (This Man Must Die) (1969) (France)
  • Jewel Thief
    Jewel Thief
    Jewel Thief is a 1967 Indian Hindi film. Produced by Navketan films , the film is directed by Dev's brother Vijay Anand. Music is by S.D. Burman and the lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri. The film is a crime thriller, and stars Dev Anand, Vyjayantimala, Ashok Kumar, Tanuja, Faryal, Anju Mahendru,...
    
     (1967) (India)
• 1970s
  • Le Boucher (1970) (France)
  • Le Cercle rouge
    Le Cercle rouge
    Le Cercle rouge is a 1970 crime film set in Paris, France. It was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and stars Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté and Yves Montand...
    
     (1970) (France)
  • Get Carter
    Get Carter
    Get Carter is a 1971 British crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a gangster who sets out to avenge the death of his brother in a series of unrelenting and brutal killings played out against the grim background of derelict urban housing in the city of...
    
     (1971) (UK)
  • Un Homme est mort (The Outside Man) (1972) (France)
  • Un Flic
    Un flic
    Un flic is a 1972 French film, the last directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It stars Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Richard Crenna.-Plot:Four men rob a bank in Saint-Jean-de-Monts...
    
     (1972) (France)
  • Pulp (1972) (UK)
  • The Castle of Sand (1974) (Japan)
  • Der Amerikanische Freund
    The American Friend
    The American Friend is a 1977 film by Wim Wenders, loosely adapted from the novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. The film is of the neo-noir genre, and features Dennis Hopper as career criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley...
    
     (The American Friend) (1977) (Germany)
  • Série noire (1979) (France)
• 1980s
  • The Long Good Friday
    The Long Good Friday
    The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film...
    
     (1980) (UK)
  • Coup de Torchon
    Coup de Torchon
    Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film follows the novel relatively faithfully, but changes its setting from a West Texas boom town to a small town in French West Africa.-Plot:Lucien Cordier is an...
    
     (Clean Slate) (1981) (France)
  • Angel
    Angel (1982 film)
    Angel is a 1982 film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Stephen Rea. The film was Neil Jordan's directorial debut, and the executive producer was John Boorman.-Plot summary:...
    
     (1982) (UK)
  • La Balance (1982) (France)
  • Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
    Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
    Veronika Voss is a black and white 1982 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Its original German title is Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, which means The Longing of Veronika Voss....
    
     (Veronika Voss) (1982) (Germany)
  • La Lune dans le caniveau (The Moon in the Gutter) (1983) (France)
  • De vierde man (The Fourth Man) (1983) (Netherlands)
  • Vivement dimanche! (Confidentially Yours / Finally Sunday) (1983) (France)
  • The Element of Crime
    The Element of Crime
    The Element of Crime is the first feature film directed by noted Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. The film, released in 1984, is also the first in the director's Europa trilogy...
    
     (1984) (Denmark)
  • Mona Lisa
    Mona Lisa (film)
    Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan. It was produced by George Harrison's HandMade Films...
    
     (1986) (UK)
  • As Tears Go By (1988) (Hong Kong)
  • Stormy Monday
    Stormy Monday
    Stormy Monday is the 1988 feature film debut of director Mike Figgis. Starring Sean Bean, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting and Melanie Griffith, it is an atmospheric, noirish thriller. The notable jazz soundtrack is also by Figgis. Being set in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, the film is something of an homage...
    
     (1988) (UK)
  • Monsieur Hire
    Monsieur Hire
    Monsieur Hire is a 1989 French film directed by Patrice Leconte and starring Michel Blanc in the title role and Sandrine Bonnaire as the object of his affection. The film received numerous accolades as well as a glowing review from popular American movie commentator Roger Ebert. The film is based...
    
     (1989) (France)
• 1990s
  • Boiling Point (1990) (Japan)
  • The Krays
    The Krays (film)
    The Krays is a 1990 film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays...
    
     (1990) (UK)
  • Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990) (France)
  • Europa (1991) (Denmark)
  • Sonatine (1993) (Japan)
  • Katia Ismailova (1994) (Russia)
  • Léon
    Léon (film)
    Léon is a 1994 French thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson...
    
     (The Professional) (1994) (France)
  • Fallen Angels
    Fallen Angels (1995 film)
    Fallen Angels is a 1995 Hong Kong movie written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Michelle Reis, Charlie Yeung and Karen Mok.Fallen Angels can be seen as a companion piece to Chungking Express...
    
     (1995) (Hong Kong)
  • Hana-bi (1997) (Japan)
  • Insomnia
    Insomnia (1997 film)
    Insomnia is a 1997 Norwegian thriller film about a police detective investigating a murder in a town located above the Arctic Circle. The investigation goes horribly wrong when he mistakenly shoots his partner and subsequently attempts to cover up his bungle...
    
     (1997) (Norway)
  • Kiss or Kill (1997) (Australia)
  • Croupier
    Croupier (film)
    Croupier is a 1998 film starring Clive Owen as a croupier. Directed by Mike Hodges, the film was released by Image Entertainment on DVD in the USA, and Alliance Atlantis in Canada. Though intended as a feature film, it was shown on television in North America...
    
     (1998) (UK)
  • Satya
    Satya (film)
    Satya is a 1998 Hindi crime film directed by Ram Gopal Varma with a screenplay by Anurag Kashyap and Saurabh Shukla. It stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Manoj Bajpai, Urmila Matondkar and Shefali Shah...
    
     (1998) (India)
  • Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) (UK)
  • So Close to Paradise
    So Close to Paradise
    So Close to Paradise is a 1998 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, a member of Chinese cinema's so-called Sixth Generation. It is alternatively known by the English title Ruan's Song or by its original Chinese title, The Girl From Vietnam...
    
     (1998) (China)
• 2000s
  • Snatch
    Snatch (film)
    Snatch is a 2000 crime film written and directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film contains two intertwined plots: one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter named Turkish ...
    
     (2000) (UK)
  • Gangster No. 1
    Gangster No. 1
    Gangster No. 1 is a 2000 British crime film. It stars Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Paul Bettany and was directed by Paul McGuigan.- Cast :*Malcolm McDowell as Gangster 55*David Thewlis as Freddie Mays*Paul Bettany as Young Gangster...
    
     (2000) (UK)
  • Sexy Beast
    Sexy Beast
    Sexy Beast is a 2000 British-Spanish crime drama film directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, and Ian McShane. Produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was Glazer's debut feature film, who had previously been a music video director for videos such as Rabbit in Your Headlights for...
    
     (2000) (UK)
  • Lantana
    Lantana (film)
    Lantana is a 2001 Australian film, directed by Ray Lawrence and featuring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey. It is based on the play Speaking In Tongues by Andrew Bovell, which premiered at Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company...
    
     (2001) (Australia)
  • Il Gioco di Ripley
    Ripley's Game (film)
    Ripley's Game is a feature film based on the 1974 novel of the same name, the third in Patricia Highsmith's "Ripliad," a series of books chronicling the murderous adventures of con artist Tom Ripley...
    
     (Ripley's Game) (2002) (Italy)
  • The Missing Gun
    The Missing Gun
    The Missing Gun is a 2002 Chinese black comedy film directed by Lu Chuan and starring Jiang Wen, Ning Jing and Wu Yujuan. A directorial debut of Lu, the film premiered during the 9th Beijing Student Film Festival on 21 April 2002...
    
     (2002) (China)
  • City of God (2002) (Brazil)
  • Infernal Affairs
    Infernal Affairs
    Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates the triads, and a police officer secretly working for the same gang. The Chinese title means "the non-stop path", a reference to Avici, the lowest...
    
     (2002) (Hong Kong)
  • Company
    Company (film)
    Company is a 2002 Indian film directed by Ram Gopal Varma and written by Jaideep Sahni, starring Ajay Devgan, Mohanlal, Manisha Koirala, Vivek Oberoi,and Antara Mali. It is a fictional exposé of the Mumbai underworld, loosely based on the Indian mafia organization D-Company, known to be run by...
    
     (1998) (India)
  • The Alzheimer Case
    The Alzheimer Case
    The Alzheimer Case is a 2003 film directed by Erik Van Looy, based on the novel De Zaak Alzheimer by Jef Geeraerts....
    
     (2003) (Belgium)
  • Blind Shaft
    Blind Shaft
    Blind Shaft is a 2003 film about a pair of brutal con artists operating in the illegal coal mines of present-day northern China. The film was written and directed by Li Yang , and is based on Chinese writer Liu Qingbang's short novel Shen Mu .-Production history:Most of the filming took place 700...
    
     (2003) (China)
  • I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003) (UK)
  • 36 Quai des Orfèvres
    36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)
    36 Quai des Orfèvres is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of Chief of Police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves...
    
     (2004) (France)
  • Bad Education
    Bad Education
    Bad Education is a 2004 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Lluís Homar. The plot is about two reunited childhood friends in the vein of a murder mystery...
    
     (2004) (Spain)
  • Ek Hasina Thi
    Ek Hasina Thi
    Ek Hasina Thi is a 2004 Indian psychological thriller film noir by Sriram Raghavan, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, and starring Urmila Matondkar and Saif Ali Khan in the lead roles. The screenplay was by Sriram Raghavan and Pooja Ladha Surti...
    
     (2004) (India)
  • Dead Man's Shoes (2004) (UK)
  • Layer Cake
    Layer Cake (film)
    Layer Cake is a 2004 British crime thriller produced and directed by Matthew Vaughn, in his directorial debut. It is based on the novel Layer Cake by J. J...
    
     (2004) (UK)
  • El Aura
    El Aura
    The Aura is an Argentine, French and Spanish neo-noir drama film, directed by Fabián Bielinsky, his second and final feature after Nine Queens. The picture features Ricardo Darín in the lead role, as well as Alejandro Awada, Dolores Fonzi, among others.The drama was the Argentine entry in the...
    
     (2005) (Argentina)
  • Match Point (2005) (UK)
  • The Red Kebaya
    The Red Kebaya
    The Red Kebaya is a 2006 Malaysian period drama film released by Golden Screen Cinemas, directed by Oliver Knott and produced by Andre Berly and Ramli Hassan. The film premiered in Malaysian cinemas on November 23, 2006 and is rated PG13.-Synopsis:...
    
     (2006) (Malaysia)
  • Omkara (2006) (India)
  • Don: The Chase Begins Again (2006) (India)
  • Lust, Caution (2007) (China)
  • Johnny Gaddar (2007) (India)
  • Manorama Six Feet Under
    Manorama Six Feet Under
    Manorama Six Feet Under is a 2007 Indian thriller film directed and co-written by Navdeep Singh. The film features Abhay Deol, Raima Sen and Gul Panag in the lead roles. It was released on 21 September 2007....
    
     (2007) (India)
  • In Bruges
    In Bruges
    In Bruges is a 2008 black comedy crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss. The film takes place—and was filmed—within the Belgian city of Bruges. In Bruges was...
    
     (2008) (UK)
  • MR 73 (2008) (France)
  • The Square
    The Square (2008 film)
    The Square is a neo-noir thriller film directed by Nash Edgerton, written by his brother Joel Edgerton and Matthew Dabner, and starring David Roberts and Claire van der Boom. Based upon an original idea by Joel, the project was written and then shelved by the actor because he felt it was not...
    
     (2008) (Australia)
  • Zift (2008) (Bulgaria)
  • Franklyn (2008) (France/UK)
  • Gulaal
    Gulaal
    Gulaal is a 2009 Indian film directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring Kay Kay Menon, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Abhimanyu Singh, Deepak Dobriyal, Ayesha Mohan, Jesse Randhawa, Piyush Mishra and Aditya Srivastava. The film explores themes such as pursuit of power, quest for legitimacy, perceived...
    
     (2009) (India)
  • Kaminey
    Kaminey
    Kaminey is a 2009 Bollywood caper thriller film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj featuring Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in the lead roles, and Amol Gupte in his debut film appearance...
    
     (2009) (India)
• 2010s
  • Animal Kingdom
    Animal Kingdom (film)
    Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, Jacki Weaver and James Frecheville...
    
     (2010) (Australia)
  • Im Schatten (2010) (Germany)
  • Ishqiya
    Ishqiya
    Ishqiya is a 2010 Indian film starring Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, and Salman Shahid in the lead roles. The film is directed by Abhishek Chaubey in his directorial debut and is produced by Raman Maroo and Vishal Bharadwaj. The film was released on 29 January 2010.Upon release, the...
    
     (2010) (India)
  • Kick-Ass
    Kick-Ass (film)
    Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt, and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman...
    
     (2010) (UK/US)
  • London Boulevard
    London Boulevard
    London Boulevard is a 2010 British film noir released in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2010. It is based on a novel by Ken Bruen with screenplay and direction by William Monahan, marking his directorial debut...
    
     (2010) (UK)
  • Brighton Rock
    Brighton Rock (2010 film)
    - External links :* * * * from BBC Films...
    
     (2010) (UK)
  • 7 Khoon Maaf (2011) (India)
  • Aaranya Kaandam
    Aaranya Kaandam
    Aaranya Kaandam is a 2011 Indian Tamil action film, written and directed by newcomer Thiagarajan Kumararaja. It is supposedly the first neo-noir film in Tamil cinema. The story takes place in a day in the lives of the six protagonists, played by Jackie Shroff, Ravi Krishna, Sampath Raj and...
    
    (2011) (India)
  • Blitz
    Blitz (film)
    Blitz is a 2011 crime film directed by Elliott Lester and starring Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen and David Morrissey. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ken Bruen, which features his recurring characters Detective Sergeant Tom Brant and Chief Inspector James...
    
     (2011) (UK)

Television series

• Dragnet
  Dragnet (series)
  Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners...
  
   (1951–59)
• Peter Gunn
  Peter Gunn
  Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and later ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. The show's creator was Blake Edwards...
  
   (1958–61)
• The Fugitive
  The Fugitive (TV series)
  The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death...
  
   (1963–67)
• The Outer Limits
  The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)
  The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction, rather than fantasy stories...
  
   (1963–65)
• Banyon
  Banyon
  Banyon is a detective series broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of its 1972-73 television schedule, though a standalone two-hour television movie was broadcast first in March 1971. The series was a Quinn Martin Production Banyon is a detective series broadcast in the United States by NBC...
  
   (1972–73)
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974-1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly ones law...
  
   (1974–75)
• City of Angels
  City of Angels (1976 TV series)
  City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files...
  
   (1976)
• Miami Vice
  Miami Vice
  Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989...
  
   (1984–89)
• Mike Hammer
  Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
  Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer is the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective Mike Hammer...
  
   (1984–87)
• Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
  Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
  Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986. The series featured Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's titular character, and was the first drama produced for HBO.-Synopsis:The series...
  
   (1984–86)
• Moonlighting
  Moonlighting (TV series)
  Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes...
  
   (1985–89)
• Crime Story
  Crime Story (TV series)
  Crime Story is an NBC TV drama created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and direct the film Manhunter. The show premiered with a two hour pilot — a movie which had been exhibited theatrically —...
  
   (1986–88)
• Twin Peaks
  Twin Peaks
  Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...
  
   (1990–91)
• Batman: The Animated Series
  Batman: The Animated Series
  Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated series based on the DC Comics character Batman. The series featured an ensemble cast of many voice-actors including Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Arleen Sorkin, and Loren Lester. The series won four Emmy Awards and was nominated...
  
   (1992–95)
• The X-Files
  The X-Files
  The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
  
   (1993–02)
• Fallen Angels
  Fallen Angels (TV series)
  Fallen Angels was an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran from 1993 to 1995 on the Showtime pay cable station and was produced by Propaganda Films. No first-run episodes were shown in 1994....
  
   (1993, 1995)
• EZ Streets
  EZ Streets
  EZ Streets is an American television drama series created by Paul Haggis. It premiered on CBS on October 27, 1996 with a two hour pilot telefilm...
  
   (1996, 1997)
• La Femme Nikita (1997-01)
• Todd McFarlane's Spawn
  Todd McFarlane's Spawn
  Todd McFarlane's Spawn was an animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999. It was based on the Spawn comic series from Image Comics, and was nominated for and won an Emmy in 1999 for Outstanding Animation Program...
  
   (1997–99)
• Brimstone
  Brimstone (TV series)
  Brimstone was a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead police detective whose mission is to return to Hell 113 spirits who have escaped to Earth. The series ran for only one partial season....
  
   (1998–99)
• Angel
  Angel (TV series)
  Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
  
   (1999–04)
• Firefly
  Firefly (TV series)
  Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear....
  
   (2002)
• The Shield
  The Shield
  The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...
  
   (2002–08)
• Veronica Mars
  Veronica Mars
  Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
  
   (2004–07)
• Sleeper Cell
  Sleeper Cell (TV series)
  Sleeper Cell is a one-hour drama on the Showtime network that began airing on December 4, 2005. The tagline for the first season was "Friends. Neighbors. Husbands. Terrorists." and the tagline for the second season was "Cities. Suburbs. Airports. Targets." The series was nominated for an Emmy award...
  
   (2005–2006)
• Day Break
  Day Break
  Day Break is a television program for which one 13-episode season was produced. The series starred Taye Diggs as Detective Brett Hopper, who is framed for the murder of Assistant District Attorney Alberto Garza. Due to a time loop, Hopper lives the same day over and over...
  
   (2006)
• Dexter
  Dexter (TV series)
  Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer...
  
   (2006–present)
• Moonlight
  Moonlight (TV series)
  Moonlight was an American paranormal romance television drama created by Ron Koslow and Trevor Munson, who was also executive producer for all episodes with Joel Silver, Gerard Bocaccio, Gabrielle Stanton and Harry Werksman. The series follows private investigator Mick St...
  
   (2007–08)
• Raines
  Raines
  Raines is a crime drama television series that ran from March 15, 2007 to April 27, 2007 on NBC in the United States. The show premiered as a mid-season replacement, as well as airing on CH in Canada, TV3 in Ireland, ITV3 in the UK and on Network Ten in Australia.The series focused on Michael...
  
   (2007)
• Breaking Bad
  Breaking Bad
  Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series...
  
    (2008–present)
• Sons Of Anarchy
  Sons of Anarchy
  Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California...
  
   (2008–present)
• True Blood
  True Blood
  True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...
  
   (2008–present)
• Bored to Death
  Bored to Death
  Bored to Death is an American comedy series, which premiered on HBO on September 20, 2009. , three seasons have aired, each consisting of eight episodes. The show was created by author Jonathan Ames, and stars Jason Schwartzman as a fictional Jonathan Ames – a writer based in Brooklyn, New York...
  
   (2009–present)
• Terriers
  Terriers (TV series)
  Terriers is an American crime comedy-drama television series created by Ted Griffin for FX. It premiered on September 8, 2010. The show was canceled by FX on December 6, 2010 after the first season.-Premise:...
  
   (2010)
• Ringer
  Ringer (TV series)
  Ringer is an American television series that premiered on The CW on September 13, 2011. The series stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays twin sisters Bridget Kelly and Siobhan Martin...
  
   (2011-present)
• Femme Fatales
  Femme Fatales (TV series)
  Femme Fatales is an anthology TV series based on the men's magazine of the same name and produced by Cinemax.-Episodes:-External links:*...
  
   (2011-present)

Non-American

• The Singing Detective
  The Singing Detective
  The Singing Detective is a BBC television miniseries written by Dennis Potter, which stars Michael Gambon, and was directed by Jon Amiel. The six episodes were "Skin", "Heat", "Lovely Days", "Clues", "Pitter Patter" and "Who Done It"....
  
   (1986) (UK)
• Cracker
  Cracker (UK TV series)
  Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. The series is centered on a criminal psychologist , Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. Set in Manchester, it consists of three series which were...
  
   (1993–2006) (UK)
• Cowboy Bebop
  Cowboy Bebop
  is a critically acclaimed and award-winning 1998 Japanese anime series directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, written by Keiko Nobumoto, and produced by Sunrise. Its 26 episodes comprise a complete storyline: set in 2071, the series follows the adventures, misadventures and tragedies of five bounty...
  
   (1998–99) (Japan/anime)
• The Big O
  The Big O
  is a Japanese animated television series created by director Kazuyoshi Katayama and designer Keiichi Sato for Sunrise Studios. The writing staff was assembled by the series' head writer, Chiaki J. Konaka....
  
   (1999–2000) (Japan/anime)
• Noir
  Noir (anime)
  is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced in 2001 by the Bee Train animation studio. Kōichi Mashimo directed Noir, it was written by Ryoe Tsukimura, and the soundtrack was composed by Yuki Kajiura...
  
   (2001) (Japan/anime)
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  is an anime television series produced by Production I.G and based on Masamune Shirow's manga Ghost in the Shell. It was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, with original character design by Hajime Shimomura and a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno...
  
   (2002–2003) (Japan/anime)
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
  Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
  is the second season of the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, based on Masamune Shirow's manga Ghost in the Shell. It was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, with original character design by Hajime Shimomura and a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno...
  
   (2004–2005) (Japan/anime)
• Torchwood
  Torchwood
  Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
  
   (2006–present) (UK)
• Darker than Black
  Darker than Black
  is an anime television series, created, directed and written by Tensai Okamura and animated by Bones. It premiered across Japan from April 5, 2007 on MBS, TBS, and its affiliated broadcast stations, with its satellite television premiere in Japan on Animax in May 2007. The music for the series is...
  
   (2007, 2009) (Japan/anime)
• 009-1
  009-1
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shotaro Ishinomori. The manga was serialized in the Futabasha publication Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974. The story concerns Miléne Hoffman , a female cyborg who works as a secret agent...
  
   (Japan/anime)
• Phantom of Inferno
  Phantom of Inferno
  Phantom of Inferno is a visual novel game created by Nitroplus, and distributed by Hirameki International . It came out in Japan in 2000, and then was distributed in America as an AnimePlay title in 2003...
  
   (Requiem for Phantom) (2004,2009) (Japan/anime)
• Sherlock (2010–present) (UK)