Movie | United States | 09/19/1997 | Crime | Noir
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films. Based on the multi-layered James Ellroy novel.
Movie | United States | 08/22/2014 | Crime | Noir
Some of Sin Citys most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Movie | Czech Republic | 03/08/1946 | Crime | Noir
Movie | United States | 06/20/1974 | Crime | Noir
The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Movie | United States | 05/26/1994 | Crime | Noir
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to Chicago, where she ensnares her next conquest, insurance man Mike Swale (Peter Berg). After getting a job at his insurance company, Bridget convinces Mike to run a scam -- but things take a deadly turn when she recruits him to help get rid of her husband.
Movie | United States | 04/23/1958 | Crime | Noir
Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town.
Movie | United Kingdom | 11/25/1947 | Crime | Noir
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Movie | United Kingdom | 08/31/1949 | Crime | Noir
An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.
Movie | United Kingdom | 07/29/1957 | Crime | Noir
Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
Movie | United States | 09/15/1989 | Crime | Noir
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Movie | France | 10/21/1960 | Crime | Noir
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena...
Movie | United Kingdom | 01/09/1948 | Crime | Noir
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as Pinkie – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
Movie | United Kingdom | 12/02/1958 | Crime | Noir
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Movie | United States | 09/17/1954 | Crime | Noir
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Movie | United Kingdom | 06/13/1986 | Crime | Noir
George has just been released from prison, and manages to get a job driving an expensive call girl from customer to customer. Initially they don't get on - he doesn't fit in with the high class customers Simone services. Will they ever get on?
Movie | France | 09/02/1942 | Crime | Noir
A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montes, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1.
Movie | United States | 01/16/1943 | Crime | Murder
A bored young woman, a teen living in Santa Rosa, California, Charlotte \Charlie\ Newton (Wright), is frustrated because nothing seems to be happening in her life and that of her family. Then, she receives wonderful news: her uncle (for whom she was named), Charlie Oakley (Cotten), is arriving for a visit. But Uncle Charlie may not be the man he seems to be.
Movie | United States | 04/24/1944 | Crime
Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent. Against a backdrop of distinctly California settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance. Perfect until a claims manager gets a familiar feeling of foul play and pursues the matter relentlessly.
Movie | United States | 01/25/1941 | Crime
See Bogie at his best as world weary \Mad Dog Roy Earle\ Given a pardon from jail he gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Movie | United States | 05/22/1950 | Crime | Heist
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar \Doc\ Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Movie | United States | 05/25/1946 | Crime | Mystery
Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is Kindler's fascination with antique clocks; but, though Kindler seems secure in his new identity, he feels his past closing in.
Movie | United States | 02/01/1946 | Crime | Mystery
Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes deftly switches diamonds with Lady Margaret while in her compartment. Soon after, Roland is murdered and the fake diamond is stolen.
Movie | United States | 04/25/1941 | Crime
The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.
Movie | United States | 01/30/1950 | Crime
The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her when she gets a divorce. However, the husband refuses to grant her a divorce, and takes back all the money and jewelry he has given her. The editor sees her husband leaving her apartment and, seeing his opportunity, kills her, takes all his IOUs (and the jewelry) and frames the husband for the murder.
Movie | United States | 06/07/1946 | Crime
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
Movie | United States | 02/12/1943 | Crime | World War II
Starting in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes rescues the inventor of a bomb-sight which the allies want to keep from the Nazis. Back in London it seems that the inventor is not all that he seemed.