Film-Noir movies



They Live by Night (1948)

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

Out of the Past (1947)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mitchum, Robert | Greer, Jane | Douglas, Kirk | Fleming, Rhonda | Webb, Richard | Brodie, Steve | Huston, Virginia | Valentine, Paul | Moore, Dickie | Niles, Ken | Benedict, Brooks | Blake, Oliver | Blanco, Eumenio | Bly, Wesley | Brill, Hubert
Directors: Tourneur, Jacques
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For the last three years, Jeff Bailey has been laying low and trying to live a normal life. He’s been running his own gas station but prior to that, had been a pretty good private detective. His last job had been for a gangster, Whit Sterling, who him to find Kathy Moffat, who just happens to have shot him, and recover the $40,000 she stole. Jeff found her in Mexico but fell in love with her. She eventually ran out on him and he decided it might be better if he found a new line of work. When one of Sterling’s henchmen happens to see him pumping gas, he’s summoned to the gangster’s Lake Tahoe estate. Sterling’s offer is quite simple: recover some incriminating tax files and all will be forgotten. Jeff soon realizes however that he’s being set up and framed for murder.

Deception (1946)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | McGregor, Ewan | Williams, Michelle | Hamilton, Lisa Gay | Q, Maggie | Henstridge, Natasha | Cohen, Lynn | Burstein, Danny | Goodwin, Malcolm | Rampling, Charlotte | Girardeau, Frank | Camp, Bill | Altman, Bruce | Ginsburg, Andrew | Roth Haberle, Stephanie
Directors: Langenegger, Marcel
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Music teacher Christine Radcliffe thought Karel Novak to have been killed in the war. She loves him more than ever and insists they marry. At their reception her benefactor and former lover offers Karel the chance to solo his new cello concerto. Hollenius torments Christine and she shoots him. The concert is a success and Karel promises to stand by Christine.

Behind Locked Doors (1948)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Bremer, Lucille | Carlson, Richard | Fowley, Douglas | Harolde, Ralf | Henry, Thomas Browne | Heyes, Herbert | Donovan, Gwen | Bardette, Trevor | Farley, Morgan | Holland, John | Horton, Tony | Johnson, Tor | Moore, Dickie | Vernon, Wally | Freeman, Kathleen
Directors: Boetticher, Budd
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A well-known judge has become a fugitive from the police, with a large reward on his head. A reporter believes that the judge is hiding in a private sanitarium, so she seeks out a private investigator and asks him to pretend to be insane, so that he can get inside the sanitarium and look for the judge. The investigator is admitted to the asylum, and encounters many dangers while trying to prove that the judge is there.

Reign of Terror aka Black Book, The (1949)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Cummings, Robert | Basehart, Richard | Hart, Richard | Dahl, Arlene | Moss, Arnold | Lloyd, Norman | McGraw, Charles | Bondi, Beulah | Barker, Jess | Bennett, Ray | Brooks, Ralph | Challee, William | Conlan, Frank | Cooper, Clancy | Crosby, Wade
Directors: Mann, Anthony
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The plot starts in France in the year 1794. Robespierre is sowing panic among his opponents with the only reason to take over the power of the state.

Suddenly (1954)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sinatra, Frank | Hayden, Sterling | Gleason, James | Gates, Nancy | Charney, Kim | Frees, Paul | Dark, Christopher | Bouchey, Willis | Wexler, Paul | O'Hara, James | Dibbs, Kem | Howat, Clark | Smith, Charles Martin
Directors: Allen, Lewis
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The tranquility of a midget town is marred exclusive by sheriff Tod Shaw’s ineffectual courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can’t suffer guns and those who employ them. But distort descends on Ellen’s household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes because of town… and to a certain psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson house ideal after an ambuscade.