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"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.
Keywords: crime; drama; Frank Sinatra; Sterling Hayden; James Gleason; Nancy Gates; Kim Charney
Downloads: 179,850
Average rating:  (25 reviews) |  |
| Beat the Devil - Jack Clayton, John Huston, Humphrey Bogart
Off-genre comedy-film noir.
Keywords: Crime; Satire; Comedy; Drama
Downloads: 163,536
Average rating:  (20 reviews) |  |
| D.O.A. - Leo C. Popkin
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 station to repo...
Keywords: suspense; film noir
Downloads: 95,989
Average rating: (37 reviews) |  |
| Detour (iPod) - Leon Fromkess
"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...
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Thriller
Downloads: 16,991
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Scarlet Street - Fritz Lang, Walter Wanger
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...
Keywords: Film-Noir; Drama; Black Comedy; Fritz Lang
Downloads: 52,454
Average rating: (19 reviews) |  |
| Panic In The Streets - Elia Kazan
Not to be confused with the later (1972) version, which is copyrighted, this one is PD http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042832/ One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie (Jack Palance) and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed (Richard Widmark-this time not seen pushing little old ladies in wheelchairs down the stairs) of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague...
Keywords: plague; Oscar; Richard Widmark; Jack Palance; New Orleans
Downloads: 46,949
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Impact
"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
Downloads: 15,139
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Inner Sanctum - Richard B. Morros
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 19,961
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Lewis Milestone
"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...
Keywords: Martha Ivers, Lewis Milestone, Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas
Downloads: 11,436
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Borderline - Milton H. Bren
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
Keywords: crime; adventure
Downloads: 7,312
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Kansas City Confidential - Edward Small
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.
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery
Downloads: 23,159
Average rating: (17 reviews) |  |
| The Chase - Seymour Nebenzal, Eugene Frenke
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...
Keywords: Film-Noir; Peter Lorre
Downloads: 13,975
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Ida Lupino's "THE HITCH-HIKER" (1953)
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/
Keywords: Ida; Lupino; Edmond; OBrien; Frank; LovejoyThriller; Suspens; Film; Noir
Downloads: 2,669 |  |
| Detour
"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.
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Thriller
Downloads: 31,243
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| He Walked By Night - Bryan Foy
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
Keywords: crime drama; manhunt; film noir
Downloads: 15,082
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| The Green Glove - Georges Maurer, Detmar Walter
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.
Keywords: Suspense; Mystery
Downloads: 22,872
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Scarlet Street - Fritz Lang
"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
Keywords: Drama; Noir; Mystery
Downloads: 11,013
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| Door-to-Door Maniac - James Ellsworth
A gang of bank robbers (Johnny Cash) terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers.
Keywords: Crime; Music; Drama; Thriller
Downloads: 17,180
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| The Man Who Cheated Himself - Felix E. Feist
"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.
Downloads: 20,981
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Quicksand
An engrossing film noir 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. Read more at the IMDB. This is a better copy than the previous versions that were uploaded. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and quickly create a DVD to watch on your television.
Keywords: suspense; noir; crime; Mickey Rooney; Peter Lorre
Downloads: 6,325
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Top-of-the-line noir melodrama featuring Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, and Kirk Douglas. Don't miss it. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and create a DVD to watch on your television.
Keywords: noir; Van Heflin; Lizabeth Scott
Downloads: 8,018
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Beat the Devil - John Huston
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.
Keywords: Humphrey Bogart; Jennifer Jones; Gina Lollobrigida
Downloads: 6,594
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Scar - Steve Sekely
"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.
Keywords: film noir, Joan Bennett, The Scar
Downloads: 20,248
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| D.O.A. - Leo C. Popkin
Acclaimed film noir story of man trying desperately to find who has given him a slow-acting fatal dose of radium.
Keywords: suspense; film noir
Downloads: 10,411
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| The Hitch-Hiker
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.
Keywords: suspense; terror; hitch-hiker; murder; convict
Downloads: 11,687
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| The Red House - Sol Lesser
"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
Keywords: Thriller; Film-Noir; Mystery
Downloads: 18,717
Average rating: (22 reviews) |  |
| The Pay Off (1935) - Robert Florey
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
Keywords: the pay off; vintage
Downloads: 4,773
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Fear in the Night - L.B. Merman, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas
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.
Keywords: Film-Noir; Mystery; De Forest Kelley
Downloads: 9,994
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Too Late for Tears
This is pure noir. 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 there in an old leather bag and yet it's tearing us apart. It's poison, Jane...
Keywords: noir; suspense; murder; crime
Downloads: 11,458
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Kansas City Confidential (iPod) - Edward Small
An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery
Downloads: 7,155
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Shock - Aubrey Schenck
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.
Keywords: Horror; Thriller; Film-Noir
Downloads: 9,665
Average rating:  (8 reviews) |  |
| The Second Woman - Mort Briskin, Robert Smith
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.
Keywords: Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery
Downloads: 7,594
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Quicksand - Mort Briskin, Samuel H. Stiefel
After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Mickey Rooney; Peter Lorre
Downloads: 5,544
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Jigsaw - Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger
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 prosecutor...
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir
Downloads: 8,290
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Fear in the Night
DeForest Kelley in a Cornell Woolrich story. This is a better copy than what is already on this site.
Keywords: suspense; thriller; murder; mystery; noir
Downloads: 6,914
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| T-Men
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039881/ United States Treasury agents O'Brien (dEnnis O'Keefe) and Genaro infiltrate a counterfeiting ring which has some dangerously good paper. This undercover-secret-service-agents-infiltrate-counterfeiting-ring film is heavily dependent on exceptionally fine noir lighting and camera work under the direction of Albert Mann which help to maintain a high degree of tension, notwithstanding its pseudo-documentary format (complete with voice-over narrator) and somewhat...
Keywords: Film noir, Anthony Mann, Dennis O'Keefe, secret service, counterfeiting
Downloads: 3,969
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Strange Illusion - Edgar G. Ulmer
"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
Keywords: film noir, Ulmer
Downloads: 9,868
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| They Made Me a Killer
A man arrested for bank robbery escapes and tries to track down the real culprits. You can find out more at IMDB.com.
Keywords: bank robbery; framed; suspense
Downloads: 5,355
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Wrong Road
Spoiled young lovers rob bank and hide the loot. Lionell Atwill tries to find it. With Richard Cromwell and Helen Mack.
Downloads: 6,066
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Trapped - Bryan Foy
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.
Keywords: Semidocumentary; Drama; Crime; Film-Noir; Lloyd Bridges
Downloads: 3,272
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Parole Inc
"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.
Downloads: 4,393
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| The Red House iPod - Sol Lesser
Curiosity propels two teens, Meg and Nath (Allene Roberts and Lon McCallister) to explore an apparently abandoned house in the countryside. Of course they are warned to stay away from the secluded place.
Keywords: Thriller; Film-Noir; Mystery
Downloads: 2,500
Average rating:  (0 review) |  |
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