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Films with the genre "Noir", sorted by name
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Behind the High Wall (1956)
, 1h25Directed by Abner Biberman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Tom Tully, Sylvia Sidney, Betty Lynn, John Gavin, Don Beddoe, John Larch
Inmates pull a prison break, taking the warden and another prisoner as hostages. But when the car gets into a crash, killing the others, the warden makes off with the gang's loot and places the blame on the other hostage.
Black Snow (1990)
, 1h47Directed by Fei Xie
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Renée O'Connor, Jiang Wen, Yue Hong
The film captures the social impact of political change in China at the time. A semi-literate who was deprived of schooling during the Cultural Revolution, Li Huiquan, is released from labor camp. He arrives back in his native Beijing to find that he has no family or prospects or friends, just his underworld contacts trying to drag him back into a life of crime. His attempts to make good are continually thwarted. His street stall selling clothes puts him on the fringe of the black market, and he soon gets lured back into his old neighbourhood gangs. His disenchanted comrades include a nightclub chanteuse as well as an escaped convict. The film's lurking handheld camera visually presents realistic footage of a man destined for the past from which he left behind.
Berlin Express (1948)
, 1h27Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Noir
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote, Fritz Kortner
Frenchwoman Lucienne (Merle Oberon) American agricultural expert Robert Lindley (Robert Ryan)
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka, Gale Robbins, Anthony Ross
Childhood friends Rocky Barnes (Stevens) and Dan Purvis (O'Brien) are Los Angeles prowl car cops on night duty. Barnes is easygoing while Purvis is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum. Both men are attracted to radio communicator Kate Mallory (Storm) but she is reluctant to get involved with policemen, her cop father having been killed in the line of duty.
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
, 1h17Directed by Harry Horner
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, O. Z. Whitehead, William Talman
The film is set in 1918 in an unnamed small town. A widow (Lupino) impulsively hires handyman (Ryan) to look after her house. She soon learns Ryan is a dangerous schizophrenic, but by the time she comes to this realization she is unable to leave her house and escape from him.
Bewitched (1945)
, 1h5Directed by Arch Oboler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Phyllis Thaxter, Edmund Gwenn, Addison Richards, Kathleen Lockhart, Will Wright, Gladys Blake
On the eve of her engagement, a demure young woman becomes the victim of a split personality and murders her fiance.
Blue, White, and Perfect (1942)
, 1h14Directed by Herbert I. Leeds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, George Reeves, Helene Whitney, Steven Geray, Henry Victor
Le détective privé Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) annonce à sa petite amie Merle Garland (Mary Beth Hughes) qu'il quitte son métier pour un travail à l'usine, moins dangereux pour lui. En réalité, il s'agit d'une couverture pour une nouvelle enquête. Lors de son premier jour à l'usine, des diamants sont dérobés et Shayne doit suivre leurs traces sur un bateau de croisière qui le mêne vers le Panama à la poursuite d'espions allemands ...
Blind Spot (1947)
, 1h13Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, James Bell, William Forrest, Harry Strang
A mystery writer hates his publisher and during the same night he get blind drunk the same publisher is murdered. The writer is the key suspect.
Blitz (2011)
, 1h37Directed by Elliott Lester
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Actors Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen, David Morrissey, Zawe Ashton, Luke Evans
A serial killer targeting police officers is on the loose in South East London. When the killer shoots two police constables in cold blood and bludgeons the recently widowed Chief Inspector Bruce Roberts to death, the hunt for his identity begins.
Blonde for a Day (1946)
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors Hugh Beaumont, Kathryn Adams Doty, Richard Fraser, Cy Kendall, Frank Ferguson, Harry Depp
Le journaliste Dillingham Dilly Smith (Richard Fraser) écrit plusieurs articles à charge accusant la police et pointant son incapacité à résoudre une série de meurtres. Il échappe finalement de peu à une tentative d'assassinat et se tourne vers le détective privé Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont) pour le protéger et poursuivre son enquête.
Blonde Ice (1948)
, 1h13Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Leslie Brooks, Robert Paige, James Griffith, Emory Parnell, Walter Sande, Julie Gibson
Claire (Leslie Brooks) is a society reporter who will do whatever she has to for a story. Claire manages to keep herself in the headlines by marrying and romancing a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances. To deflect suspicion from herself, Claire frames her former boyfriend, sportswriter Les Burns.
Boomerang! (1947)
, 1h28Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Noir, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Cara Williams, Karl Malden
A priest is shot dead on a Bridgeport, Connecticut street at night. The police, led by Chief Robinson (Cobb), fail to immediately find the murderer. It soon becomes a political hot potato, with the police accused of incompetence, and the city's reform-minded administration comes under attack. Robinson and the prosecutor Henry Harvey (Andrews) come under severe pressure by political leaders to find the killer or bring in outside help.
Borderline (1950)
, 1h28Directed by William A. Seiter, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr, José Torvay, Morris Ankrum, Roy Roberts
Pete Ritchie (Raymond Burr) runs a narcotics smuggling operation to the USA from Mexico, which the Los Angeles Police Department and the US federal government have unsuccessfully tried to stop. Because of Ritchie's careful operating procedures, US authorities haven't even been able to find out the identities of his sources or customers and are desperate for a breakthrough. As a last resort, Madeleine Haley (Claire Trevor), an LAPD officer and former OSS operative, is sent undercover to Mexico to charm her way into Ritchie's confidence.
Death Proof (2007)
, 1h49Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy-drama, Action, Noir, Slasher
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Three friends, Arlene, Shanna and radio DJ "Jungle" Julia Lucai, drive down Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas on their way to celebrate Julia's birthday. In a bar, Julia reveals that she made a radio announcement offering a free lap dance from Arlene in return for addressing her as "Butterfly," buying her a drink, and reciting a segment of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". Aging Hollywood stunt double "Stuntman Mike" trails the women to a bar and claims the lap dance. Arlene is suspicious, having seen Mike's car earlier that day, but Mike puts her at ease.
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
, 1h50Directed by Billy Wilder, Charles C. Coleman, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Noir, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Mise en scène d'un scénariste, Films about psychiatry
Actors William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Fred Clark
At a Sunset Boulevard mansion, the body of Joe Gillis floats in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the events leading to his death.