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1. Libel (1959)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley
Votes: 1,599
NF
2. Just Across the Street (1952)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Romance
Daft comedy about a toilet repair man's secretary who pretends to be wealthy.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Ann Sheridan, John Lund, Robert Keith, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 37
NF
3. Steel Town (1952)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Steve Kostain (Lund), nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up. He rooms with a steel working family, the McNamaras, and falls for the ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Ann Sheridan, John Lund, Howard Duff, William Harrigan
Votes: 133
NF
4. The Bribe (1949)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Federal agent Rigby, in Central America to trace stolen plane engines, falls for the gorgeous wife of the chief suspect.
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price
Votes: 2,162
NF
5. Playgirl (1954)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A naive Nebraska girl dreams of success in New York where she immerses herself in the glitzy glamorous life of the nightlife and the nightclubs frequented by rich playboys, but murder and manipulative people eventually burst her bubble.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Shelley Winters, Barry Sullivan, Colleen Miller, Richard Long
Votes: 172
NF
6. The Strip (1951)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.
Director: László Kardos | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, James Craig
Votes: 728
NF
7. Danger Signal (1945)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A very romantic murderer has plans to seduce, marry and kill a beautiful woman for her wealth, but finds her younger sister to be even better prey.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 1,115
NF
8. Conspirator (1949)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In Cold War London, young American Melinda Greyton marries British Army Major Michael Curragh, who is a Communist spy working for the Soviets.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender
Votes: 1,110
NF
9. Comrade X (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart
Votes: 1,833
NF
10. Repeat Performance (1947)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,955
NF
11. The Captive City (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A small town newspaperman's investigation into a local bookie operation turns up a web of organized crime.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Marjorie Crossland
Votes: 1,261
NF
12. Manhandled (1949)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The secretary to a psychiatrist finds herself caught up in the murder of a patient's wife and realizes that her life is also in danger.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Dan Duryea, Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Irene Hervey
Votes: 915
NF
13. Talk About a Stranger (1952)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In an idyllic setting, a likable but dangerously volatile twelve-year-old boy tries to settle a score with his disagreeable, mysterious neighbor.
Director: David Bradley | Stars: George Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Billy Gray, Lewis Stone
Votes: 735
NF
14. The Unknown Man (1951)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An attorney successfully defends a young hoodlum charged with murder but later has doubts about his client's innocence and starts investigating his background and associations.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle
Votes: 456
NF
15. Edge of Doom (1950)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mentally unbalanced young man kills a priest. One of the priest's colleagues sets out to find the killer.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Robert Keith
Votes: 930
NF
16. Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Passed | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Prowl car cops on night duty romance a reluctant young woman who works for the department while in danger from a vengeful racketeer.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka
Votes: 1,279
NF
17. House of Numbers (1957)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
San Quentin prison inmate Arnie Judlow asks his twin brother Bill and his wife Ruth to assist him in a daring escape plan.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Jack Palance, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt, Barbara Lang
Votes: 618
NF
18. The Midnight Story (1957)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a San Francisco priest is murdered, a policeman, who's a close friend, starts an investigation.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Jay C. Flippen
Votes: 920
NF
19. Slander (1957)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In an effort to improve the circulation of his notorious scandal magazine, unscrupulous owner, editor and publisher H. R. Manley spares nobody.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 484
NF
20. So Dark the Night (1946)
Not Rated | 71 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Paris police detective Cassin has a well needed vacation at a rural inn, where the owners' adult daughter shows interest in him but she has a jealous boyfriend. Will Cassin need his skills?
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden, Ann Codee
Votes: 1,425
NF
21. One Way Street (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea, Basil Ruysdael
Votes: 783
NF
22. Shadow on the Wall (1950)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A woman impulsively murders her sister after discovering she has been having an affair with her fiancé, and later plans on killing the little girl who may have witnessed the crime.
Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau, Nancy Reagan
Votes: 1,432
NF
23. The Other Woman (1954)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman plots revenge on her former boss.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore, Lance Fuller, Lucille Barkley
Votes: 278
NF
24. Walk the Dark Street (1956)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A big-game hunter seeks revenge upon the Army officer whom he believes caused the death of his brother.
Director: Wyott Ordung | Stars: Chuck Connors, Don Ross, Regina Gleason, Vonne Godfrey
Votes: 287
NF
25. Hollywood Story (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull
Votes: 921
NF
26. Highway Dragnet (1954)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley
Votes: 897
NF
27. Shakedown (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous and opportunistic San Francisco news media photographer Jack Early steps on and uses folks to get ahead, but in the end he tangles with the wrong people.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney
Votes: 729
NF
28. Whiplash (1948)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Votes: 780
NF
29. Lady in the Death House (1944)
Passed | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young woman is on Death Row for the murder of a man who was blackmailing her family, although she claims she was framed. Her fiance', a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Jean Parker, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Fowley, Marcia Mae Jones
Votes: 419
NF
30. I Met a Murderer (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Farmer Mark Warrow lives an unhappy existence with his shrewish wife Martha. His only happiness comes from his dog. When his wife loses her temper and kills his beloved pet, Warrow snaps ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: James Mason, Sylvia Coleridge, William Devlin, Pamela Mason
Votes: 204
NF
31. Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Carl Esmond
Votes: 1,135
NF
32. Short Cut to Hell (1957)
Passed | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A professional hitman is hired by a friend to commit two murders. His friend pays him off in what turns out to be stolen money, and the police soon trace the money to him. On the run, he ... See full summary »
Director: James Cagney | Stars: William Bishop, Robert Ivers, Georgann Johnson, Yvette Vickers
Votes: 313
NF
33. Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
US Treasury agent George Morton persuades convicted criminal Johnny Evans to help him destroy a drug smuggling ring in exchange for early parole.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Tony Curtis
Votes: 777
NF
34. The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The body of a Jane Doe turns up in an abandoned car in New York and the police's only clue revolves around the tattoo she has on her arm, and the fact that someone tried to destroy the corpse to erase the fingerprints.
Director: Edward Montagne | Stars: John Miles, Patricia Barry, Walter Kinsella, Frank Tweddell
Votes: 1,109
NF
35. The Way to the Gold (1957)
94 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An old inmate tells his cellmate, who's up for parole, about the location of a 35-year old gold loot and the released convict goes looking for it in Arizona.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Sheree North, Barry Sullivan, Walter Brennan
Votes: 92
NF
36. No Questions Asked (1951)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An insurance lawyer unhappy with his rate of company advancement becomes a middleman in deals to recover stolen property from the Mob, thus earning a nice living. But his actions attract police attention and set him up for a double-cross.
Director: Harold F. Kress | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy, Jean Hagen
Votes: 751
NF
37. Wicked Woman (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on Billie jeopardizes her plans.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton, Evelyn Scott
Votes: 1,001
NF
38. Storm Fear (1955)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After being wounded by a bullet, bank robber Charlie Blake seeks shelter with his gang at his brother's mountain retreat. There he rekindles his romance with his brother's wife and reconnects with the boy he believes is his son.
Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Lee Grant
Votes: 1,131
NF
39. The Medium (1951)
84 min | Drama, Music
Madame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent séances. Menotti's first international success, "The Medium" is a tragedy in two acts for ... See full summary »
Director: Gian Carlo Menotti | Stars: Marie Powers, Leopoldo Savona, Belva Kibler, Beverly Dame
Votes: 196
NF
40. Fingers at the Window (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unemployed actor in Chicago aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of axe murders, apparently committed by a "lunatic".
Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 1,146
NF
41. The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young man who insists that he is innocent is slated to be the first executed in the prison's electric chair.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Sally Parr, Patrick Waltz, Walter Reed, Lee Frederick
Votes: 276
NF
42. Night Without Sleep (1952)
77 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Awaking one morning out of a drunken stupor, composer Richard Morton can't shake the feeling he has murdered a woman during the night.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Linda Darnell, Gary Merrill, Hildegard Knef, Joyce Mackenzie
Votes: 205
NF
43. She Played with Fire (1957)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail, and murder.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Violet Farebrother
Votes: 862
NF
44. The Scarlet Hour (1956)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance, James Gregory
Votes: 724
NF
45. Destiny (1944)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Bank robbers Cliff Banks and Sam Baker go their separate ways while being chased by the law. Now fleeing alone, Cliff begins to reflect, via flashback, on the various events and unsavory ... See full summary »
Directors: Reginald Le Borg, Julien Duvivier | Stars: Gloria Jean, Alan Curtis, Frank Craven, Grace McDonald
Votes: 200
NF
46. Hit and Run (1957)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mechanic wants his boss's younger wife for himself, and plans on using a junkyard car to run him over, then dismantling it.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Vince Edwards, Dolores Reed
Votes: 577
NF
47. I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Don Castle, Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey, Charles D. Brown
Votes: 878
NF
48. The Night Runner (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Realizing that he can't handle the pressures... See full summary »
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Ray Danton, Colleen Miller, Merry Anders, Willis Bouchey
Votes: 210
NF
49. Crashout (1955)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman
Votes: 735
NF
50. New Orleans Uncensored (1955)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Navy veteran purchases a government surplus vessel and becomes involved in the capture of waterfront racketeers.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Arthur Franz, Beverly Garland, Helene Stanton, Michael Ansara
Votes: 412
NF
51. Loophole (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Charles McGraw, Dorothy Malone, Don Haggerty
Votes: 436
NF
52. This Side of the Law (1950)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A drifter is bailed out of jail by a lawyer, who hires him to impersonate a millionaire until the man can be declared legally dead and the estate settled. However, the man soon finds out that things are not exactly how they seem.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige, Robert Douglas
Votes: 401
NF
53. Intrigue (1947)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: George Raft, June Havoc, Helena Carter, Tom Tully
Votes: 226
NF
54. No Escape (1953)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Bennett | Stars: Lew Ayres, Sonny Tufts, Marjorie Steele, Lewis Martin
Votes: 409
NF
55. Fall Guy (1947)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tom Cochrane (Leo Penn'), full of dope (cocaine) and covered with blood, is picked up by the police and then questioned by detectives Shannon (Douglas Fowley) and Taylor (Harry Strang), but... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Teala Loring, Robert Armstrong, Leo Penn, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 214
NF
56. Blind Spot (1947)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mystery writer accused of murdering his publisher sets out to discover the real killer.
Director: Robert Gordon | Stars: Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, James Bell
Votes: 202
NF
57. Smooth as Silk (1946)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An attorney engaged to an actress gains acquittal for a wealthy playboy accused of manslaughter. The actress, anxious to play the lead in a production backed by the playboy's uncle, ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Kent Taylor, Virginia Grey, Milburn Stone, John Litel
Votes: 240
NF
58. The Come On (1956)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous con woman gets involved in murder.
Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden, John Hoyt, Jesse White
Votes: 277
NF
59. Crime Against Joe (1956)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
A disreputable Korean War veteran is suspected of murder.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: John Bromfield, Julie London, Henry Calvin, Patricia Blair
Votes: 386
NF
60. The Guilty (1947)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Two guys sharing an apartment meet twin girls (both Bonita Granville). One's sweet, the other a major piece of bad news. The nice one is murdered and her boyfriend is accused of the crime. The wrong man/wrong victim plot strikes again.
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, John Litel
Votes: 765
NF
61. Breakdown (1952)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Framed for murder, heavyweight boxer Terry Williams is sent to prison, but is released after a few years on good behavior. He becomes a championship contender and then, on the eve of the ... See full summary »
Director: Edmond Angelo | Stars: Ann Richards, William Bishop, Anne Gwynne, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 108
NF
62. Sealed Lips (1942)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A detective begins to suspect that a man may be in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: William Gargan, June Clyde, John Litel, Anne Nagel
Votes: 98
NF
63. Sudden Danger (1955)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman who heads a sportswear manufacturing company is found dead. Although it is ruled a suicide, the police detective in charge believes she was murdered, and his subsequent ... See full summary »
Director: Hubert Cornfield | Stars: Bill Elliott, Tom Drake, Beverly Garland, Dayton Lummis
Votes: 243
NF
64. Jealousy (1945)
Passed | 71 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
The wife of an alcoholic writer must take a job as a taxi driver to make ends meet. A young man she picks up as a fare befriends her, but after her husband is found murdered, the police suspect she and her new friend committed the murder.
Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: John Loder, Karen Morley, Jane Randolph, Nils Asther
Votes: 234
NF
65. Below the Deadline (1946)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A veteran, Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton (George Meeker), a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames, Jan Wiley, Paul Maxey
Votes: 184
NF
66. Strange Fascination (1952)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music
Middle-aged European pianist Paul Marvan (Hugo Haas) is brought to America by wealthy widow Diana Fowler (Mona Barrie) and he meets and weds a canary-blonde named Margo (Cleo Moore), who is... See full summary »
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Mona Barrie, Rick Vallin
Votes: 305
NF
67. Circumstantial Evidence (1945)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When his son is abused, Joe Reynolds threatens to kill the man responsible. When that man is killed, Joe finds himself facing the electric chair.
Director: John Francis Larkin | Stars: Michael O'Shea, Lloyd Nolan, Trudy Marshall, Billy Cummings
Votes: 169
NF
68. Strange Triangle (1946)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A bank district supervisor relates how he has been accused of a murder involving the bank's vice-president's brother and his mysterious wife, who has long police record, and to which he intends to plead guilty.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Signe Hasso, Preston Foster, Anabel Shaw, Shepperd Strudwick
Votes: 150
NF
69. The Pretender (1947)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Banker Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker) steals funds from an estate and decides to marry the heiress, Claire Worthington (Catherine Craig), to safeguard his position. He arranges for her ... See full summary »
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig, Charles Drake, Alan Carney
Votes: 382
NF
70. The Houston Story (1956)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Houston, a man working as an oil driller comes up with a scheme for stealing millions of dollars worth of oil from the fields. He insinuates himself with a local mobster in order to get financing for his scheme.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Gene Barry, Barbara Hale, Edward Arnold, Paul Richards
Votes: 429
NF
71. Blackmail (1947)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Film-Noir
A private detective is approached by a wealthy entertainment executive to stop a blackmail scheme against him. Although he hasn't decided to take the job, the blackmailers believe that he already has, and he is marked for murder.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers
Votes: 278
NF
72. Backlash (1947)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Detectives try to solve the case of a murdered Los Angeles defense attorney.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, Larry J. Blake, John Eldredge
Votes: 545
NF
73. The Hunted (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Despite her pleas of innocence, an honest cop arrests his own girlfriend for her alleged part in a jewel robbery and he keeps hounding her after her release from prison, even though he still loves her.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin, Larry J. Blake
Votes: 668
NF
74. Shadowed (1946)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fred J. Johnson (Lloyd Corrigan) scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are ... See full summary »
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Anita Louise, Lloyd Corrigan, Michael Duane, Mark Roberts
Votes: 279
NF
75. Once a Thief (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress... See full summary »
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 218
NF
76. City of Chance (1940)
56 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Texas girl (Bari) goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend (Woods) to come home.
Director: Ricardo Cortez | Stars: Lynn Bari, C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Woods, Amanda Duff
Votes: 82
NF
77. Guilty Bystander (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.
Director: Joseph Lerner | Stars: Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Mary Boland, Sam Levene
Votes: 1,078
NF
78. Shadow of a Woman (1946)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A young bride's marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband is trying to starve his young son to death in order to claim an inheritance the boy is entitled to.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince, John Alvin
Votes: 460
NF
79. End of the Road (1944)
Approved | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Edward Norris, John Abbott, June Storey, Jonathan Hale
Votes: 78
NF
80. Rogue Cop (1954)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After witnessing a murder, honest cop Eddie Kelvaney is silenced by gangster Dan Beaumonte, prompting Eddie's brother, Detective Chris Kelvaney, to search for the killer.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft, Steve Forrest
Votes: 1,018
NF
81. Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce
Votes: 1,743
NF
82. Kill or Be Killed (1950)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A man falsely accused of murder hides out in the South American jungle.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, George Coulouris, Marissa O'Brien, Rudolph Anders
Votes: 158
NF
83. Sleep, My Love (1948)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Chronic sleepwalker Alison Courtland thinks that a mysterious man wearing horned-rimmed eye glasses is out to kill her but her husband blames her tired imagination.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Rita Johnson
Votes: 2,189 | Gross: $1.80M
NF
84. Woman and the Hunter (1957)
78 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The machinations of a young adventuress while fortune hunting in darkest Africa.
Director: George P. Breakston | Stars: Ann Sheridan, David Farrar, Jan Merlin, John Loder
Votes: 37
85. Berlin Correspondent (1942)
Approved | 70 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In 1941, a U.S. radio correspondent (Dana Andrews as Bill Roberts) in Berlin broadcasts sensitive information about the Nazis, prompting the Gestapo to investigate these leaks and how they pass the censors.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Virginia Gilmore, Dana Andrews, Mona Maris, Martin Kosleck
Votes: 513
NF
86. The Trap (1959)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a remote Californian desert town, a lawyer arranges for a wanted mobster to skip the country via a small airstrip but the local sheriff and his deputy could pose a problem.
Director: Norman Panama | Stars: Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman
Votes: 691
NF
87. The Unfaithful (1947)
Approved | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Los Angeles socialite kills a man while home alone one night and claims he was an intruder she did not know. It seems like a clear case of self defense until the story hits the papers and people connected to the dead man come forward.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Votes: 1,618
NF
88. Target Zero (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, War
Set during the Korean War, a unit of American soldiers, together with three British tank crew, find themselves trapped behind enemy lines.
Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Richard Conte, Peggie Castle, Charles Bronson, Richard Stapley
Votes: 423
NF
89. The Scarf (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A man believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one who actually killed her using the scarf she was wearing.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 651
NF
90. The System (1953)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper is crusading against him and the rackets, primarily because Merrick is in love with Felice Stuart (... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Joan Weldon, Robert Arthur, Paul Picerni
Votes: 139
NF
91. Strange Impersonation (1946)
Approved | 68 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic finds herself being blackmailed by a woman she accidentally knocked down with her car; the woman wasn't hurt, but a scheming ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke, George Chandler
Votes: 815
NF
92. Ruthless (1948)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family, but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet
Votes: 1,409
NF
93. The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
In 1940, an American former Republican prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick, is determined to find the killer of NYPD Lieutenant Louie Lepetino, who had helped him escape.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Patricia Morison
Votes: 1,990
NF
94. Inside Job (1946)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Alan Curtis, Milburn Stone
Votes: 220
NF
95. Murder in the Music Hall (1946)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Music, Mystery
Lovely ice ballerina Lila Leighton meets former ice show producer Carl Lang at his New York City penthouse apartment and refuses his offer to star in his new Music Hall Ice Show. Back at ... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Vera Ralston, William Marshall, Helen Walker, Nancy Kelly
Votes: 154
NF
96. The Madonna's Secret (1946)
Not Rated | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The sister of a murdered model poses for the same artist to try to catch her killer.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Francis Lederer, Gail Patrick, Ann Rutherford, Edward Ashley
Votes: 284
NF
97. High Wall (1947)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick
Votes: 1,934
NF
98. Government Girl (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Romance
The secretary of a newly appointed government official strives to make him a success in spite of his shortcomings.
Director: Dudley Nichols | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Anne Shirley, Sonny Tufts, Jess Barker
Votes: 630
NF
99. The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, Sonny Tufts, James Gleason
Votes: 187
NF
100. Under the Gun (1951)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a cunning, unscrupulous mobster is sentenced to a Florida prison farm, he launches a deadly escape plan.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John McIntire, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 199
NF
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