Russell Metty Films Noir
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1. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 466,064 | Gross: $1.59M
2. The Falcon's Brother (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Tom Lawrence, Gay's brother, takes over for his injured sibling in a case which involves Nazi espionage and political assassination.
Director: Stanley Logan | Stars: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Don Barclay
Votes: 972
3. Hitler's Children (1943)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, War
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
Directors: Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis | Stars: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger
Votes: 1,001 | Gross: $3.36M
4. Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, War
In Japan, foreigners and their Japanese friends are caught up in the rising tide of militarism.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Ryan
Votes: 385
5. The Master Race (1944)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, War
In the dying days of World War II a German agent infiltrates a recently liberated Belgian town. His aim is to turn them against their Allied liberators.
Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: George Coulouris, Stanley Ridges, Osa Massen, Carl Esmond
Votes: 286
6. Betrayal from the East (1945)
Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama
Before World War II, Japanese spies seek secrets of the Panama Canal.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Lee Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo, Regis Toomey
Votes: 265
7. Whistle Stop (1946)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When beautiful Mary returns home to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,329
8. The Stranger (1946)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Votes: 28,719
9. Ivy (1947)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall, Richard Ney
Votes: 1,117
10. Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.
Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King
Votes: 3,428
11. A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 824
12. Arch of Triumph (1948)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, Romance, War
Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Louis Calhern
Votes: 1,918 | Gross: $1.40M
13. All My Sons (1948)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir
During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Louisa Horton
Votes: 2,410
14. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell
Votes: 2,155
15. We Were Strangers (1949)
Approved | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir
In 1930's Cuba, a bank clerk and an American mercenary assist a revolutionary group in a plan to kill the President but the Cuban Secret Police chief and the dictator's military complicate the plan's execution.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 1,327
16. The Lady Gambles (1949)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett
Votes: 1,057
17. The Raging Tide (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a San Francisco gangster murders a rival criminal, he seeks shelter on a fisherman's boat while the police are man-hunting him and pressuring his girlfriend into betrayal.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Shelley Winters, Richard Conte, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford
Votes: 397
18. Naked Alibi (1954)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A chief of police detectives fired for brutality, tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry, Marcia Henderson
Votes: 1,514
19. 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: 737
20. Cult of the Cobra (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Fantasy, Horror
American G.I.s who trespass on a Hindu ceremony are hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to transform herself into a cobra.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson, Kathleen Hughes
Votes: 1,482
21. Man Afraid (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A burglar is surprised by David and Lisa Collins in their son's room. In the struggle, Lisa's eyes are hurt and David throws an ornament, unintentionally killing the young thief. It's not ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: George Nader, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey, Eduard Franz
Votes: 231
22. 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: 921
23. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,827 | Gross: $2.24M
24. Step Down to Terror (1958)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A killer on the lam takes refuge in his childhood home where his mother and widowed sister-in-law are ignorant of his criminal past.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Colleen Miller, Charles Drake, Rod Taylor, Josephine Hutchinson
Votes: 316
25. Platinum High School (1960)
95 min | Crime, Drama
At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island (played by Catalina Island), rich young delinquents think money puts them above the law. Enter Steve Conway (Mickey Rooney) - there to ... See full summary »
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, Dan Duryea, Conway Twitty
Votes: 145
26. Portrait in Black (1960)
Approved | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Sandra Dee
Votes: 1,791
27. Midnight Lace (1960)
Approved | 103 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In London, a recently-wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
Votes: 6,027 | Gross: $7.40M
28. Madigan (1968)
TV-14 | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In New York City's Spanish Harlem, detectives Madigan and Bonaro are given 72 hours by their superior to capture a hoodlum wanted for homicide in Brooklyn.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino
Votes: 4,078
29. Eye of the Cat (1969)
M | 102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker, Tim Henry
Votes: 1,274
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