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Film Noir 619,056 619K Suddenly movies eye 619,056 favorite 281 comment 41

"Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer well-portrayed against type by Frank Sinatra." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates. 77 min.

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Topics: crime, drama, Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Kim Charney



Film Noir 550,652 551K The Stranger by Sam Spiegel movies eye 550,652 favorite 271 comment 16

Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice.

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Topics: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller, pdmovies



Film Noir 439,657 440K D.O.A. by Leo C. Popkin movies eye 439,657 favorite 376 comment 57

D.O.A. (1950) is a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the stylistic genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies. The film begins with a scene called "perhaps one of cinema's most innovative opening sequences" by a BBC reviewer. The scene is a long, behind-the-back tracking sequence featuring Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) walking through a hallway into a police...

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Topics: suspense, film noir, pdmovies



Film Noir 388,508 389K Impact movies eye 388,508 favorite 162 comment 39

"Wealthy businessman survives attempt by wife to have him killed, makes it look like she succeeded and starts a new life in small town as auto mechanic. Variation on idea elevated to noir importance by The Killers (1946), where victim of femme fatale tries to abandon the city and his past identity." - noir expert Spencer Selby

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Topic: pdmovies



Film Noir 387,854 388K Scarlet Street by Fritz Lang, Walter Wanger movies eye 387,854 favorite 240 comment 32

German director Fritz Lang is best known for the highly influential films from relatively early in his career, especially Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). But he also had a brief Hollywood heyday during the mid 1940s, when he made some of his best films. Scarlet Street has been claimed by film noir. This attribution is understandable. The lighting is dark, with heavy use of shadows. The characters are all shady as well. Kitty is certainly a femme fatale, although hints are dropped that she is an...

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Topics: Film-Noir, Drama, Black Comedy, Fritz Lang



Film Noir 334,315 334K Quicksand movies eye 334,315 favorite 140 comment 17

An engrossing suspense film with Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, and Jeanne Cagney. Needing money for a date, Rooney borrows $20 from the cash register, starting a chain of events that includes car theft, burglary, and possibly murder. (Yes, that is Jack Elam in the bar scene.) Read more at the IMDB . (The video is interlaced in both the MPEG2 file and the Cinepack. If viewing with VLC, deinterlace with menu-path Video/Deinterlace/Blend.) This is a better copy than the previous versions that were...

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Topics: suspense, noir, crime, Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, Jack Elam



Film Noir 294,174 294K Detour movies eye 294,174 favorite 156 comment 27

"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme of explicit fatalism." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald. | A B-movie, it was shot in six days. The film, budgeted for $89,000 and ended up costing $117,000 to make.

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Topics: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller



Film Noir 242,051 242K Strange Love of Martha Ivers movies eye 242,051 favorite 72 comment 4

Top-of-the-line noir melodrama featuring Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, and Kirk Douglas. Don't miss it. (The video is interlaced in the MPEG2 file. If viewing with VLC, deinterlace with menu-path Video/Deinterlace/Blend.) You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and create a DVD to watch on your television.

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Topics: noir, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott



Film Noir 238,366 238K Too Late for Tears movies eye 238,366 favorite 204 comment 19

[2016-09-17 An upgraded version has been uploaded. The "MPEG4" file is the smallest file, and it's the source file. Download it if your player can handle h.265 (HEVC).] Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy are a couple who receive a satchel full of money that was intended for someone else (Dan Duryea). He wants to turn the cash over to the authorities; she wants to keep it---no matter what the consequenses: "Jane, Jane, what's happening to us---what's happening. The money sits down...

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Topics: noir, suspense, murder, crime



Film Noir 229,323 229K Please Murder Me movies eye 229,323 favorite 132 comment 27

How's that for a title? Lawyer Raymond Burr (seeming very much like Perry Mason) brilliantly defends Angela Lansbury, who seems certain to be found guilty of murdering her husband, who was Burr's best friend! Instead of spoiling it for you, I'll just say that a couple of surprises lie ahead for him. It's a wonder this film was allowed to become p.d. Don't miss it. Also appearing are Dick Foran, John Dehner, Lamont Johnson, and Denver Pyle. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a...

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Topics: murder, lawyer, Raymond Burr, noir, thriller, Angela Lansbury, Perry Mason, Dick Foran, John...



Film Noir 225,478 225K Behind Green Lights movies eye 225,478 favorite 102 comment 29

The action begins when a car occupied by the corpse of a sleazy private detective glides down a hill and winds up in front of a police station. (The title of the film stems from the fact that police stations used to have green lights at the entrance.) Currently (2010-02-23) the movie is rated 7.2 at the IMDB ! Some of the stars are William Gargan, Carole Landis, John Ireland, Charles Russell, and Don Beddoe. Althought this film was already on this site, those who didn't want to download 4...

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Topics: William Gargan, crime, drama, noir, murder, mystery, police, reporters, John Ireland, Charles...



Film Noir 210,499 210K The Saint Louis Bank Robbery movies eye 210,499 favorite 84 comment 13

Steve McQueen stars in a gritty, downbeat, and sometimes savage heist movie that features a gang of very psychologically warped men and a story that's based on an actual crime. Warning: this film is devoid of humor, wit, cheerfulness, glamor, and mercy. It's grim to the brim. Some will find that viewing it is an unpleasant experience. This movie is in the public domain. Video-Cellar wrote: The film was originally published without a notice, but most prints currently in circulation are later...

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Topics: Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, bank robbery, heist, Saint Louis, St. Louis, pdmovies



Film Noir 208,784 209K The Hitch-Hiker movies eye 208,784 favorite 127 comment 16

Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy pick up a hitch-hiker (William Talman) who turns out to be an insane escaped convict. The mpeg2 file is ready to be loaded into dvdAuthorGUI to create a DVD to watch on your television.

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Topics: suspense, terror, hitch-hiker, murder, convict



Film Noir 198,099 198K The Red House by Sol Lesser movies eye 198,099 favorite 107 comment 27

"Middle-aged farmer goes to extreme lengths to protect the dark secret associated with a deserted house on his property. Murky psychological thriller with resonant settings and an emotive Miklos Rozsa score." - noir expert Spencer Selby

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Topics: Thriller, Film-Noir, Mystery



Film Noir 193,087 193K He Walked By Night by Bryan Foy movies eye 193,087 favorite 87 comment 19

Gripping film noir crime drama about a manhunt for a ruthless killer who plays a deadly cat and mouse game with the police. Starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Whit Bissell, and Jack Webb, this movie was the basis for "Dragnet". Watch for Whit Bissell, the unsung but solid bit player who has appeared in hundreds of films and TV shows

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Topics: crime drama, manhunt, film noir



Film Noir 188,255 188K Beat the Devil by John Huston movies eye 188,255 favorite 135 comment 10

This is a DVD image. Beat the Devil This movie has not become a cult classic for nothing. Among its other merits, it is one of the few films where a film noir is mixed with a comedy. It’s a whose who of actors of it’s vintage and is directed by John Huston. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley and Peter Lorre.

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Topics: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida



Film Noir 170,382 170K The Chase by Seymour Nebenzal, Eugene Frenke movies eye 170,382 favorite 81 comment 20

Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends. The job proves nerve-wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help Eddie's lovely, fearful, prisoner-wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) to escape. The result leaves Chuck caught like a rat in a trap, vainly seeking a way out through dark streets. But the real chase begins when the strange plot...

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Topics: Film-Noir, Peter Lorre



Film Noir 135,019 135K Inner Sanctum movies eye 135,019 favorite 74 comment 12

An atmospheric film starring Charles Russell and Mary Beth Hughes. Fritz Leiber, Sr. (father of the famous author) has a cameo as a seer or psychic. "You're very pretty ... when those lips aren't moving." The IMDB entry is here. This print seems to be complete and may be of higher quality than the one already in the Archive. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and create a DVD to watch on your television.

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Topics: noir, Fritz Leiber, Charles Russell, Mary Beth Hughes



Film Noir 124,252 124K Kansas City Confidential by Edward Small movies eye 124,252 favorite 98 comment 27

Four robbers hold up an armored truck getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck flower delivery truck driver is accused of being involved and is beaten up by the local police. Released due to lack of evidence, Joe, following the clues to a Mexican resort, decides to look for the men who set him up and get revenge.

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Topics: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, pdmovies



Film Noir 122,858 123K Inner Sanctum by Richard B. Morros movies eye 122,858 favorite 58 comment 11

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

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Film Noir 122,423 122K Blonde Ice (1948) movies eye 122,423 favorite 65 comment 11

A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men. They all die mysteriously afterwards though. Mystic Nights Videos

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Topics: Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent, Michael Whalen, Mystic Nights Videos



Film Noir 121,908 122K The File On Thelma Jordan by Break Wind Studios movies eye 121,908 favorite 83 comment 9

http://imdb.com/title/tt0041368/ Thelma Jordon (Barbara Stanwyck), late one night, shows up in the office of married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey). Before Cleve can stop himself, he and Thelma are involved in an illicit affair. But Thelma is a mysterious woman, and Cleve can't help wondering if she is hiding something. Thelma has a plan up her sleeve that will ruin Corey if his love for her and his own weakness win out. Thelma has a heart and a conscience. She comes to love Cleve,...

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Topics: Crime, mystery, Barbara Stanwyck



The Video Cellar Collection 110,466 110K Jail Bait by Edward D Wood Jr movies eye 110,466 favorite 101 comment 18

Jail Bait (1954) Directed by Edward D Wood Jr. A Howco Release A vicious criminal uses plastic surgery to escape the police.This movie features Steve Reeves (undubbed). This is the original version of the film released in 1954. This film was registered for copyright (1954 LP3883) and never renewed. It entered the public domain on 1 January 1983.

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Topics: Edward D Wood Jr, Mystery, Crime Thriller, Steve Reeves, Delores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Ed Wood



You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

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Topic: Thriller



Film Noir 108,866 109K Woman on the Run movies eye 108,866 favorite 84 comment 13

In San Francisco, a woman tries to track down her husband, who is hiding from a killer and from the police. The IMDB entry is here .

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Topics: noir, crime, suspense, thriller, murder, witness



Film Noir 106,919 107K The Green Glove by Georges Maurer, Detmar Walter movies eye 106,919 favorite 70 comment 14

Glen Ford plays Michael Blake a WWII veteran who retuns to France to find a mysterious Green Glove he had discoverd during the early days of Normandy invasion.

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Topics: Suspense, Mystery



Film Noir 102,048 102K The Man Who Cheated Himself by Felix E. Feist movies eye 102,048 favorite 85 comment 22

"Tough cop helps his lover cover up the shooting of her wealthy husband. Mainstream noir, primarily distinguished by its acting and San Francisco visuals." - noir expert Spencer Selby Cast: Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt, Lisa Howard. 81 min.

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Film Noir 97,149 97K The Big Combo by Boo movies eye 97,149 favorite 68 comment 18

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047878/ Police captain Peterson (Robert Middleton) storms into the office of police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) critical of Diamond's spending exorbitant amounts of the city budget and his own personal money in an attempt to arrest a crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). Peterson says it is a waste of time trying to find something incriminating to bring Mr. Brown to justice because his crime combo does business without accounting books, and furthermore...

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Topic: syndicate, crime, Cornel Wilde, Brian Donlevy, film noir, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman, Robert...



Film Noir 91,008 91K The Second Woman by Mort Briskin, Robert Smith movies eye 91,008 favorite 66 comment 10

Robert Young plays Jeff Cohalan, a young man whose wife was murdered while they were on their honeymoon, and who is plagued by strange accidents and visions of her death. He meets a beautiful young woman on a train, Ellen (Betsy Drake), and it becomes apparent that the two are very attracted to one another. Ellen soon learns about Jeff's past and is quickly drawn into his strange dark world, even when she begins to realize that Jeff may be much more dangerous than he seems.

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Topics: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery



Film Noir 90,455 90K Big Bluff by W. Lee Wilder movies eye 90,455 favorite 64 comment 11

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

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Film Noir 88,539 89K The Lady Confesses movies eye 88,539 favorite 52 comment 12

Mary Beth Hughes, about to be married to Hugh Beaumont, receives a visit from his previous wife, who was presumed dead. And then the woman is found murdered. The video is interlaced in both the MPEG2 file and the Cinepack. If viewing with VLC, deinterlace with menu-path Video/Deinterlace/Blend.

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Topics: Hugh Beaumont, Mary Beth Hughes, murder



Film Noir 86,400 86K Whistle Stop by Seymour Nebenzal , Philip Yordan movies eye 86,400 favorite 49 comment 8

When beautiful Mary (Ava Gardner) returns home to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.

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Topics: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir, Ava Gardner



Film Noir 85,316 85K Port of New York by Aubrey Schenck, James T. Vaughn movies eye 85,316 favorite 37 comment 5

Port of New York is a 1949 film shot in semidocumentary style. The film is notable for being Yul Brynner's first movie. The film tells the story of a customs and treasury agent out to stop the distribution of opium, that came in on a ship in the Port of New York but was smuggled off by drug dealers. The leader of the drug dealers is the suave Vicola (Brynner).

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Topics: Semidocumentary, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Yul Brynner



Film Noir 75,401 75K Jigsaw by Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger movies eye 75,401 favorite 49 comment 3

The plot is about a shadowy group called the Crusaders, which has been organizing itself into a power center. Its poster shows a handsome Aryan lad against the waving American flag. Their slogan, "Join The Crusaders -- Fight for America!". The implication is clear...the Crusaders will be against anyone who doesn't look, sound or believe the way that Aryan poster boy does. When a columnist is killed while looking into the Crusaders, Howard Malloy finds himself appointed a special...

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Topics: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir



Film Noir 75,149 75K Two Dollar Bettor movies eye 75,149 favorite 19 comment 9

New to betting on the horses, a middle-aged man has good fortune at first and thinks that gambling is a good source of income. Then his luck turns. Finding himself in dire financial straits, he is tempted to take money from the vault of the bank where he works. Currently rated 7.1 at the IMDB ( here ). (The video is interlaced in the MPEG2 file. If viewing with VLC, deinterlace with menu-path Video/Deinterlace/Blend.) You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and quickly...

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Topics: betting, racing, bookie



Film Noir 74,877 75K Timetable (aka Time Table) by Mark Stevens movies eye 74,877 favorite 48 comment 7

After the theft of $500,000 in a carefully executed train robbery, an insurance investigator (Mark Stevens, who also doubled as director and producer) is forced to cancel a planned vacation with his wife to assist a railroad detective in identifying the culprits and recovering the money. However, private preoccupations weigh on his mind and he grows increasingly restless as the investigation goes on. External links: IMDB page American Film Institute entry Noir of the Week review Under the hood:...

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Topics: film noir, train robbery, Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr, Marianne Stewart, Wesley Addy



Film Noir 72,233 72K Fear in the Night by L.B. Merman, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas movies eye 72,233 favorite 74 comment 10

A film noir shocker, based on the story Nightmare by Cornell Woorlich, in which average Joe Vince Grayson (De Forest Kelley) dreams he murders someone and wakes up to find it may not have been a dream. This is worth it for the clever plot twists alone.

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Topics: Film-Noir, Mystery, De Forest Kelley



Film Noir 71,881 72K Sobaka by Clearly Ambiguous Productions movies eye 71,881 favorite 16 comment 6

SOBAKA is the thrilling story of a lonely Russian immigrant trying to find the "American dream" in present day Los Angeles. To provide care for his dying sister he works as an assistant to a mysterious and dangerous man, but his desire to achieve something more takes him down a dark and risky path. When a seductive call girl enters his life his world is thrown upside down and the choices he makes may have deadly consequences.

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Topics: film noir, thiller, drama, Los Angeles, Murat Han, Boris Kievsky



Film Noir 67,044 67K The Scar by Steve Sekely movies eye 67,044 favorite 59 comment 15

"Harsh tale of an alienated criminal's attempt to impersonate his psychiatrist-double. Important fatalistic noir, with classy visuals and a very fine script that features a creative doppelganger theme." - noir expert Spencer Selby Also titled "Hollow Triumph". Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen. 82 min.

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Topic: film noir, Joan Bennett, The Scar



Film Noir 63,991 64K The Limping Man by Donald Ginsberg movies eye 63,991 favorite 47 comment 19

World War II vet Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges) returns to London from America after six years to look up an old flame, Pauline French (Moira Lister), now a successful actress. As he and the other passengers deplane and walk across to the terminal, Frank pauses for a moment and asks the man beside him for a light. There's a gunshot and the man crumples to the ground, shot by a marksman with a high-powered rifle, an assassin with a limp. It's not long before Frank Pryor is up to his neck in...

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Topics: Crime, Drama, Lloyd Bridges



A gang of bank robbers (Johnny Cash) terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers.

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Topics: Crime, Music, Drama, Thriller



Film Noir 63,164 63K I Love Trouble movies eye 63,164 favorite 47 comment 11

A noirish detective yarn. The script is by Roy Huggins. Please be aware that the video quality is poor.

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Topics: Roy Huggins, detective



Film Noir 61,167 61K Shock by Aubrey Schenck movies eye 61,167 favorite 53 comment 12

This post-World War II suspense thriller sets off an emotional roller coaster after the psychologically fragile wife of a POW (Anabel Shaw) witnesses a brutal murder from a hotel window while waiting to be reunited with her husband (Frank Latimer). By the time he arrives, she's nearly comatose with shock. The hotel's psychiatrist (Vincent Price) is called in to help Film noir classic, noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting.

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Topics: Horror, Thriller, Film-Noir



Film Noir 60,120 60K The Hoodlum movies eye 60,120 favorite 35 comment 12

Lawrence Tierney plays an unreformed, hardened criminal who has just been released from prison. While working at his brother's gas station, he becomes very interested in the armored car that makes regular stops at the bank across the street. If you enjoy heist films, watch this. Tierney was perfect for this type of role. The IMDB entry is here.

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Topics: crime, robbery, armored car, noir



Film Noir 58,941 59K Club Paradise by Joe Kaufmann movies eye 58,941 favorite 32 comment 7

Also known as "Sensation Hunters". You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . How To Make A DVD of this film: 1) Download these files: club_paradise.mpeg VIDEO_TS.BUP VIDEO_TS.IFO VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_01_0.IFO 2) Create folder named "VIDEO_TS" and move the files that you downloaded to that folder. 3) Rename "club_paradise.mpeg" to "VTS_01_0.VOB" 4) Burn the folder "VIDEO_TS" to a DVD-R (or DVD+R) disk with a DVD burning...

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Topic: Drama



Film Noir 58,598 59K Guest in the House (1944) movies eye 58,598 favorite 52 comment 6

Story of a young woman's obsessive love. Evelyn (Anne Baxter), an emotionally unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor (Scott McKay). She meets and falls in love with the doctors brother Douglas, but he is already happily married. Evelyn decides she will break up the marriage. Mystic Nights Videos

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Topics: Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon, Ruth Warrick, Scott McKay, Marie McDonald, Jerome...



Film Noir 58,458 58K The Strange Love of Martha Ivers by Lewis Milestone movies eye 58,458 favorite 72 comment 19

"Man is waylaid by chance in old home town, meets a girl down on her luck and a turbulent couple with whom he shares a dark childhood secret. Significant noir melodrama focusing on provocative, intermingling relationships of neurotic love, guilt and fear." - noir expert Spencer Selby Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas (his first film), Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen, Darryl Hickman. 115 min.

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Topic: Martha Ivers, Lewis Milestone, Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas



Film Noir 55,445 55K Cause for Alarm! by Tom Lewis movies eye 55,445 favorite 43 comment 12

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

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Topic: drama



Film Noir 55,292 55K Borderline by Milton H. Bren movies eye 55,292 favorite 38 comment 10

Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor are caught in Mexican dope-smuggling ring, fearing each other is involved, but both undercover agents. Cast includes Raymond Burr. For more info on this film see its IMDB.com entry

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Topics: crime, adventure



Film Noir 55,204 55K They Made Me a Killer movies eye 55,204 favorite 35 comment 4

A man arrested for bank robbery escapes and tries to track down the real culprits. You can find out more at IMDB.com .

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Topics: bank robbery, framed, suspense



Film Noir 55,197 55K Detour movies eye 55,197 favorite 79 comment 17

In a classic poverty-row noir, the protagonist struggles helplessly in the grip of inexorable fate. Currently rated 7.4 at the IMDB . This was the first poverty-row film chosen by the Library of Congress for its National Film Registry, in 1992. Don't miss it. The copy you find here is sharper than the two that have already been uploaded. And the mpeg2 file contains nav packets, so you can load it into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and quickly create a DVD to watch on your television.

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Topics: noir, Tom Neal, Ann Savage, poverty row, suspense, P.R.C.



Film Noir 54,214 54K Kansas City Confidential movies eye 54,214 favorite 15 comment 3

Derived from the 4.4 GB high-definition version found here on this site.

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Topics: John Payne, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam, Neville Brand, Coleen Gray



Film Noir 53,799 54K He Walked by Night movies eye 53,799 favorite 41 comment 12

Richard Basehart becomes the target of an intense manhunt. You'll find that this copy is sharper than the version that was already here at the Archive.

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Topics: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Whit Bissell, Jack Webb, Byron Foulger, John Dehner, Frank Cady,...



Film Noir 53,563 54K The Amazing Mr. X by Ben Stoloff movies eye 53,563 favorite 53 comment 11

1948 B thriller shot by renowned cinematographer John Alton , who was also involved with the following films already available on the archive: T-Men (1947), He walked by night (1948), Hollow triumph (aka The scar) (1948), The crooked way (1949), Reign of Terror (1949) and The big combo (1955). IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040829/ Two years after the accidental death of her husband, Christine Faber (Lynn Bari) is trying to put her life back together and move forward. However, strange...

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Topics: Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson, John Alton, Film Noir



Film Noir 51,211 51K Behind Green Lights movies eye 51,211 favorite 33 comment 11

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

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Topics: crime, drama, noir



For other intermediate derivations of this file look here: archive.org/details/Kansas_City_Confidential_1952

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Film Noir 50,986 51K Please Murder Me by Jack J. Gross movies eye 50,986 favorite 33 comment 11

A lawyer wins an a acquittal for his client, a woman accused of murder. After the verdict, he finds out that she indeed did commit the murder and manipulated him to win her acquittal.

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Topics: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller



Film Noir 49,905 50K The Big Combo movies eye 49,905 favorite 45 comment 4

A high-quality p.d. noir. Don't bother downloading the h.264 file or the Ogg Video file; the Cinepack file from which they are derived is smaller.

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Topics: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman



Film Noir 47,785 48K Scarlet Street by Fritz Lang movies eye 47,785 favorite 61 comment 3

"Sultry woman's boyfriend has her hook middle-aged clerk for his money, leading first to ironic and then tragic complications. Second of a pair of closely related middle class nightmares directed by Fritz Lang. (Remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 French film, La Chienne.)" - noir expert Spencer Selby

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Topics: Drama, Noir, Mystery



Film Noir 47,716 48K The Big Combo movies eye 47,716 favorite 34 comment 4

Because a reviewer stated that the audio is out of sync with the video, here's a link to a different transcoding that was derived from a different source file: CLICK HERE Cornel Wilde stars in an excellent noir. This copy is sharper than the one that was already here.

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Film Noir 47,298 47K Stranger, The by Sam Spiegel movies eye 47,298 favorite 42 comment 4

Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice. Originally uploaded by k-otic.com

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Topics: WWII, Suspense, Drama, Mystery



Film Noir 46,947 47K Strange Illusion by Edgar G. Ulmer movies eye 46,947 favorite 50 comment 10

"Adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father. Stylish cheapie by the recognized master of stylish cheapies." - noir expert Spencer Selby

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Topic: film noir, Ulmer



Film Noir 46,484 46K Trapped by Bryan Foy movies eye 46,484 favorite 34 comment 6

The film tells the story of the U.S. Treasury Department who, with the aid of a counterfeiter, try to track down and stop of counterfeiting ring. The counterfeiter, Tris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges) serving time in prison, is released under the agreement that he will assist in the capture of the phoney money printers.

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Topics: Semidocumentary, Drama, Crime, Film-Noir, Lloyd Bridges



Film Noir 46,340 46K D.O.A. by Leo C. Popkin movies eye 46,340 favorite 27 comment 5

Acclaimed film noir story of man trying desperately to find who has given him a slow-acting fatal dose of radium.

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Topics: suspense, film noir



Film Noir 45,068 45K Whispering City (1947) movies eye 45,068 favorite 40 comment 7

A reporter hears that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car. She goes to the hospital to interview the actress, who tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.

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Topics: Film-Noir, Crime, Crime Drama



Film Noir 44,071 44K The Pay Off (1935) by Robert Florey movies eye 44,071 favorite 30 comment 12

NOTE: DESCRIPTION CORRECTED. This is about a crime fighting newspaperman. Brad McKay, played by Lee Tracy, whom I have never heard of, works with the police to solve a case involving $100k and some murders. He is wisecracking and thinks his way, rapidly, out of the surprises. Visit: VintageNewscast.com

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Topics: the pay off, vintage



Film Noir 43,432 43K Convict's Code by E.B. Derr movies eye 43,432 favorite 31 comment 4

An ex-con is employed by the man who framed him for bank robbery. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

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Topic: drama



Film Noir 41,183 41K Parole Inc movies eye 41,183 favorite 25 comment 9

"Low budget exposé thriller of corruption being uncovered in the parole system." - Spencer Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir | You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

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Film Noir 40,764 41K The man who cheated himself by Jack M. Warner movies eye 40,764 favorite 27 comment 4

Shot on location in San Francisco and starring Lee J. Cobb, John Dall and Jane Wyatt, The man who cheated himself tells the story of a policeman who pushes the boundaries of the law by covering up a crime committed by his lover. He then finds himself assigned to investigate that very same crime, along with a new rookie partner who is determined to track down the culprit. The film is also available elsewhere on the archive , as a 2.2GB MPEG2 or on a 7.3GB ISO DVD image. The smaller file offered...

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Topics: drama, film noir, Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Felix E. Feist, San Francisco



Film Noir 40,368 40K Detour (iPod) by Leon Fromkess movies eye 40,368 favorite 20 comment 4

"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme of explicit fatalism." - noir expert Spencer Selby A B-movie, it was shot in six days. The film, budgeted for $89,000, but cost $117,000 to make. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Roger Clark, Pat Gleason, Esther Howard. Originally uploaded by: www.k-otic.com

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Topics: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller



Film Noir 39,773 40K The Chase by Eugene Frenke movies eye 39,773 favorite 19 comment 2

Taken from IMDB : Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare. Originally uploaded by www.k-otic.com

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Topic: Noir



Film Noir 37,899 38K Walk the Dark Street (1956) movies eye 37,899 favorite 32 comment 8

Check out the IMDb page for this film for more details. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049932/

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Topics: Film-Noir, Crime, Chuck Connors



Film Noir 37,667 38K Detour by Producers Releasing Corporation movies eye 37,667 favorite 34 comment 5

In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. On a rainy night, the sleazy gambler he's riding with mysteriously dies; afraid of the police, Roberts takes the man's identity. But thanks to a blackmailing dame, Roberts' every move plunges him deeper into trouble... - IMDB Description

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Topics: Mystery, Film-Noir, Movie Powder, avi



Sixth Lupino feature and first "Film noir" made by a woman ever. Hardly sentimental and sharp edged thriller with very modern filming. The paralysed "eyelid" thing is very clever too. more info on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045877/

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Topics: Ida, Lupino, Edmond, OBrien, Frank, LovejoyThriller, Suspens, Film, Noir, pdmovies



Film Noir 34,453 34K Wrong Road movies eye 34,453 favorite 28 comment 5