Film Noir

<p>Pretty Eden Lane earned herself a one-way ticket to the slammer for the murder of her boyfriend. But the cop escorting Eden to prison has his doubts about her guilt -- especially when Eden glances out their train window and claims she sees the...

<p>Accepted into the Los Angeles Police Academy, cadets Chuck O'Flair (Ralph Meeker, Kiss Me Deadly), Harry Whenlon (Jeff Richards, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) and Russ Hardley (Robert Horton, Wagon Train) pass the rigorous training program, but are soon bored with their humdrum assignments....

<p>Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after...

<p>Negulesco and noir - a heady brew. Jean Negulesco proved his stunning noir debut The Mask of Dimitrios was no fluke by following up with an astonishing run of film noir classics, starting with the war noir intrigue and romance of The Conspirators. Hedy...

<p>Three strangers, three incredibly dangerous people drawn together by their greed. Each ready to kill for the riches of ...Kwan Yin. Jean Negulesco was truly hitting his stride with his classic run of film noirs when he crafted this stylish thriller in which three...

<p>Inch High, diminutive operative of the Finkerton Detective Agency, stands tall against the forces of perfidy, making Saturday mornings safe for all good citizens from the halcyon year of 1973 to today. Ably aided by niece Lori, her hulking boyfriend Gator and his loyal...

<p>Tough detectives, pretty women, ace reporters. All staples of the film-noir genre and exemplified by these two films. In Homicide, what seems like a routine suicide sparks the interest of LAPD Detective Michael Landers (Robert Douglas) when he sees something suspicious at the scene....

<p>Director Jules Dassin (Night and the City) combines the best of film noir, crime caper and romance in this little gem starring Lucille Ball, John Hodiak and Lloyd Nolan. Ace Connors (Hodiak) is a con man on the run, chased by determined cop Bob...

<p>Who killed showgirl Mida King (Patricia Dane) in a private railway car in New York's Grand Central Station? The suspect list is plenty: Marc, the rich boy who loved her? His spurned fiancee? Her gangster ex-boyfriend Turk? In this witty and fun mystery, it...

<p>Thrillmaster Andrew Stone re-teams Shadow of a Doubt's Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright for this bank job drama about a man who goes all out for the big score, only to discover he's risked losing all. Diligent, observant and bright assistant bank manager James...

<p>Sophisticated socialite Cathy goes slumming post-symphony soiree and encounters brilliant, embittered blind pianist Dan (Dana Andrews) tickling the keys in a back-alley Jazz joint. Dan's haunting, ethereal music enraptures Cathy, so much so that she hatches a desperate scheme to pull Dan out of...

<p>Five travelers sweat it out at gunpoint in an abandoned mining town in the Nevada desert. A killer escaped from the pen holds them, intending to scram after a doc tends to his wounded accomplice. Like The Petrified Forest and Key Largo, Split Second's...

<p>A future of happiness awaits San Francisco shipping executive Brad Collins (Robert Ryan) and his new bride (Laraine Day).Yet Brad's past could undo everything. Back in his days as a dockworker, he was an activist member of the Communist Party. Now the Party has...

<p>When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis prodigy who could be Milly's ticket to money and fame. Released in 1951, Hard, Fast and Beautiful foresaw...

<p>Board the Berlin Express and speed into danger, mystery and intrigue! Four postwar heroes -- a veritable United Nations from Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. -- battle a cadre of diehard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman in this tense espionage thriller...

<p>Tune in again, dear listeners. Same time, same spot on your radio dial for another cunning tale of murder. But something isn't the same about suave Victor Grandison, the host of the popular weekly program. He's secretly trying his own hand at murder. And...

<p>The wages of sin are deceit, heartbreak and possibly murder in The Unfaithful, a thriller about a wife who has an affair while her GI husband is off fighting in the Pacific. Then, after the war and happily reunited with her husband, she stabs...

<p>A respected doctor (Kent Smith) fakes his death, deserts his family, throws away his career and drives himself to the edge of madness -- all for the love of saloon singer Nora Prentiss (Ann Sheridan). From the opening shot of a media circus engulfing...

<p>Torch singer Petey Brown is beautiful and smart. The beautiful gets her in trouble. She'll need all of the smart to get out of it in this bluesy, boozy noir salute to tough dames in tough times. On a holiday visit to her family...

<p>Libby Saul (Ida Lupino) was raised in the Deep Valley. Isolated on a farm with her bitter parents, her only friend a devoted dog, Libby knows loneliness too well. Then a crew of convicts arrives to build a road and Libby is fascinated by...

<p>Ex-Spanish Civil War POW Kit McKitrick (John Garfield) is investigating the death of his childhood pal. But the brutality he endured at the hands of his fascist captors has left more then physical scars. Maureen O'Hara, playing an elusive beauty who knows more then...

<p>This woman is tough. This woman is smart. This woman is Joan Crawford. This Woman Is Dangerous. Who else but Crawford could portray a criminal mastermind and a glamour gal? In this gritty melodrama, the silver-screen legend stars as Beth Austin, the brains behind...

<p>It says a lot about George Hamilton's acting skills that his first credited performance was this starring -- and very demanding -- role. He shines as Robert Cole, a troubled young man with a troubling belief: Exceptional people shouldn't have to pay for their...

<p>Screen legend and Academy Award-winner Bette Davis ("All About Eve," "Dark Victory") stars with Emmy-nominee Barry Sullivan ("Rich Man, Poor Man") in this compelling look at why people drift apart in marriage and seek divorce, with all its consequences. With Frances Dee ("Of Human...

<p>Based on a true story, this documentary-style caper film follows a federal agent on a dangerous assignment -- he must go underground to flush out a nefarious spy ring. Leonard Maltin praises this suspenseful political tales as "low key, and effective." Starring Frank Lovejoy...

<p>During the era of Prohibition, gangsters gained enormous power by controlling the illicit drink. The most infamous was a thug from Brooklyn who murdered his way to the top and was, for a time, one of the most powerful men in the United States....

<p>Claire Phillips is an American nightclub singer working in Singapore in the early 1940s, when the Japanese attack and take over the island country. Now trapped, and widowed since her husband was killed in the Bataan Death March, Claire agrees to aid an American...

<p>An innocent woman falls under a villain's spell in So Evil My Love, a captivating film noir thriller of obsession and deceit starring Ray Milland. In the late 19th century, English widow Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd) meets Mark Bellis (Milland), a charming-but-dangerous criminal and...

<p>An Act of Murder stars Fredric March as a husband faced with an impossible predicament in this controversial drama that was well ahead of its time. Calvin Cooke (March), a no-nonsense judge in a small Pennsylvania town, finds his thoughts turning to end the...

<p>Dennis O'Keefe and Gale Storm expose a baby-selling racket in the searing crime drama Abandoned, co-starring Jeff Chandler and Raymond Burr. When Paula Considine (Storm) arrives in Los Angeles to find her sister Mary, she soon learns the unwed mother is dead and her...

<p>A slick lawyer attempts to get away with murder in Smooth as Silk, a fast-paced film noir thriller starring Kent Taylor and Virginia Grey. When Paula Marlowe (Grey) learns boyfriend Mark Fenton (Taylor) represents the nephew of theatrical producer Stephen Elliott, the ambitious actress...

<p>Drug pushing and gambling set the stage for murder in The Sleeping City, a hardboiled film noir thriller shot on the streets of New York. When a doctor is shot dead outside Bellevue Hospital, detective Fred Rowen (Richard Conte) is assigned to find the...

<p>This French crime-drama is simply brilliant. Fresnay is an infamous criminal who escapes from a shootout with the police. He's picked up on the road by a self-made millionaire who's returning home to his only living relative, an aunt, whom he hasn't seen since...

<p>When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage to confront the inevitability of his case's conclusion, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.</p>

An ancient Chippewa demon, the WINDIGO, is resurrected by a Native American teenager and his grandmother to protect their family after a run-in with back-woods meth dealers. They soon discover that the creature's lust for killing cannot be controlled. As each killing bonds the...

Young teen Claire discovers a bleeding boy in her family's garden. The boy is a young Afghani drug courier, wounded and fleeing the drug cartel. Claire decides to keep the boy a secret and help him heal. Their language barrier is overcome through human...

A young male stockbroker's life is turned upside when he follows his passion for music and takes a side gig playing saxophone in a local night club. He makes the mistake of falling for the singer, a notorious femme fatale who happens to be...

A man attempts to break off an affair he's been having with an unstable woman while his fiancee has been away with her family. As she prepares to return, he finds his time is running out and this woman is becoming more and more...

<p>As the sole survivor of a plane crash, David Trask (Gary Merrill) takes on the responsibility of contacting the families of his fellow passengers. He thinks he knows what to expect, but people have secrets and lives hidden below the surface, and Trask learns...

<p>Following a string of murders coinciding with his blackouts, stressed-out composer George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) takes the advice of his doctor and takes a vacation only to end up meeting and falling in love with singer Netta (Linda Darnell). Things go from bad...

<p>A young bride is set to begin her honeymoon aboard a luxury liner. Her happiness does not last when she finds that her husband has disappeared. Trouble is, no one else ever saw him board the ship with her and his name has mysteriously...

<p>Victoria has survived Nazi concentration by assuming the identity of one who died there. She arrives in San Francisco to see her "Son" just as the boy's great-Aunt dies leaving a lot of money to be inherited. Victoria falls in love with the boy's...

<p>In this engaging melodrama, Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) is a lowlife working in a carnival. Knowing a good con when he sees one, he learns the tricks of a mind-reading act from Zeena (Joan Blondell), then tosses her aside. In time, he becomes "The...

<p>Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's MOONTIDE. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker who gets mixed...

<p>In this powerful film noir of betrayal and revenge, Max Monetti, the son of a tyrannical banker, is double-crossed by his three brothers and lands in prison for seven years. Upon his release, Max seeks vengeance, all the while ignoring his fiancee and the...

<p>Turhan Bay (Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Climax) stars in this sinister tale of ghosts and lost love. Director Bernard Vorhaus found himself on the Hollywood blacklist for his alleged link to the communist party, but this story of phony spiritualists remains a...

<p>A classic 1940's noir set almost entirely aboard an ominous freighter travelling from Central America to Galveston, Texas, this film revolves around the ill-fated Joe Beck (portrayed by none other than the original Batman, Robert Lowery) as he attempts to retrieve his deceased grandfather's...

<p>A Puff--A Party--A Tragedy! See the truth about the smoke from Hell! Harley Wood stars as Burma Roberts, the hard luck blonde who takes a few puffs of the stuff and descends into a life of crime. This daring drug expose from the glory...

In a small town, a hit-man unknowingly unleashes a blood-thirsty creature, and the entire town is soon stalked one by one in a bloody massacre. Hold it while you can, but the next time you "gotta go," check the toilet first.

In a small town, a hit-man unknowingly unleashes a blood-thirsty creature, and the entire town is soon stalked one by one in a bloody massacre. Hold it while you can, but the next time you "gotta go," check the toilet first.