FR #706 | Movie | Film-Noir, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville
Cast
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Wallace Ford
Plot
A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
FR #1921 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA, UK | English, Spanish
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
Cast
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
Plot
Frustrated former journalist Chuck Tatum now working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about trading post owner Leo Minosa trapped in a cave to rekindle Chuck's career, but the story soon escalates into a media circus.
FR #2193 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
John M. Stahl
Writer
Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams
Cast
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Ray Collins, Gene Lockhart
Plot
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
FR #2447 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Robert Rossen
Writer
Robert Penn Warren, Robert Rossen
Cast
Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
Plot
The rise and fall of a grass-roots rural politician who eventually becomes mired in the sort of political corruption he vehemently railed against on his way to the governor's mansion.
FR #2467 | Movie | Film-Noir, Horror | USA | English, Cantonese
Director
Erle C. Kenton
Writer
Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, H.G. Wells
Cast
Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen
Plot
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
FR #2664 | Movie | Film-Noir, Crime | UK | English
Director
Jules Dassin
Writer
Jo Eisinger, Gerald Kersh, Austin Dempster
Cast
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Herbert Lom
Plot
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
FR #2705 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Graham Greene, Lesley Storm, William Templeton
Cast
Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Plot
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
FR #2966 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Anatole Litvak
Writer
Lucille Fletcher
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
Plot
When neurotic bedridden wife Leona Stevenson overhears a murder plot on her telephone, she tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent the murder. Based on Lucille Fletcher's famous radio play.
FR #4441 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Ted Tetzlaff
Writer
Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich
Cast
Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy
Plot
To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him.
FR #4967 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Fred Zinnemann
Writer
Helen Deutsch, Anna Seghers
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins
Plot
In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh...
FR #6195 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
John Wexley, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang
Cast
Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Plot
After the German administrator of Czechia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
FR #6446 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Robert Wilder, Edmund H. North, Sally Wilder
Cast
Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
Plot
A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.
FR #6663 | Movie | Film-Noir, Thriller | USA, Russia | English
Director
David Miller
Writer
Lenore J. Coffee, Robert Smith, Edna Sherry
Cast
Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
Plot
After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.
FR #7660 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Alfred Hayes, Emile Zola
Cast
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan
Plot
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.
FR #7928 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
Writer
A.I. Bezzerides, Nicholas Ray, Gerald Butler
Cast
Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
Plot
Rough, violent city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain who sends him upstate to a snowy mountain town to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
FR #8197 | Movie | Film-Noir, Crime | USA, UK | English
Director
Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz
Writer
Robert Rossen, Abem Finkel, Seton I. Miller
Cast
Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Allen Jenkins, John Litel
Plot
A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.
FR #8949 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Irving Pichel
Writer
Jonathan Latimer, Gordon Mcdonell
Cast
Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer
Plot
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable-sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
FR #9957 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, Turkish
Director
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Writer
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Eric Ambler
Cast
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Agnes Moorehead
Plot
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
FR #10444 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Robert Montgomery
Writer
Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, Dorothy B. Hughes
Cast
Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix
Plot
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.
FR #10448 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Irving Reis
Writer
Arthur Miller, Chester Erskine
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Harry Morgan
Plot
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.
FR #10660 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA, Spain | Italian, Spanish
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Alfred Hayes, Clifford Odets
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, J. Carrol Naish
Plot
Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.
FR #10673 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Mitchell Leisen
Writer
Sally Benson, Catherine Turney, Cornell Woolrich
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Henry O'Neill
Plot
A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.
FR #11926 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Joseph Losey
Writer
Robert Thoeren, Hans Wilhelm, Hugo Butler
Cast
Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
Plot
After Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way.
FR #11961 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Delmer Daves
Writer
George Agnew Chamberlain, Delmer Daves, Albert Maltz
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Lon Mccallister, Judith Anderson
Plot
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
FR #12161 | Movie | Film-Noir, Crime | UK | English
Director
Lewis Gilbert
Writer
Janet Green, John Cresswell
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Plot
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes el...
FR #12414 | Movie | Crime, Film-Noir | USA, Turkey | Turkish, English
Director
Arthur Ripley
Writer
James Atlee Phillips, Walter Wise, Robert Mitchum
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon
Plot
A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in pri...
FR #12699 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Mervyn Leroy
Writer
Ward Greene, Robert Rossen, Aben Kandel
Cast
Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Elisha Cook Jr.
Plot
A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
FR #13192 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Vincent Sherman
Writer
N. Richard Nash, Paul Webster, Jack Sobell
Cast
Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Plot
A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.
FR #13951 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Writer
John Paxton, John Wexley, Ben Hecht
Cast
Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
Plot
Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
FR #13962 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Douglas Sirk
Writer
St. Clair Mckelway, Leo Rosten, Decla Dunning
Cast
Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Raymond Burr
Plot
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.
FR #14949 | Movie | Film-Noir, Crime | USA | English
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Virginia Van Upp, Norman Krasna, Jack Moffitt
Cast
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton Maclane
Plot
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
FR #15903 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Jean Negulesco
Writer
Nunnally Johnson, I.A.R. Wylie
Cast
Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill, Keenan Wynn
Plot
While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead frie...
FR #16698 | Movie | Film-Noir, Horror | USA, UK | English
Director
Bernard Vorhaus
Writer
Crane Wilbur, Muriel Roy Bolton, Ian Mclellan Hunter
Cast
Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell
Plot
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf; then meets a tall dark man Alexis, who seems to know all about such things.
FR #17439 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Anatole Litvak
Writer
John Wexley, Jacques Viot
Cast
Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Elisha Cook Jr.
Plot
Police surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation.
FR #17960 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer
Dayton Stoddart, S.K. Lauren, Gordon Kahn
Cast
Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Raymond Burr
Plot
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.
FR #17961 | Movie | Film-Noir, Mystery | USA | German, Italian
Director
Richard Wallace
Writer
Warren Duff, Dorothy B. Hughes
Cast
John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak
Plot
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.
FR #19454 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Robert Siodmak
Writer
Stephen Longstreet, Keith Winter, Thomas Job
Cast
George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Plot
Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises ...
FR #19457 | Movie | Film-Noir, Music | USA | English, French
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Catherine Turney, Jo Pagano, Maritta M. Wolff
Cast
Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Alan Hale
Plot
A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.
The show consisted of forty episodes, half of which were live and half of which were filmed. The shows, which often involved murder, were intended to confuse and mystify the audience.
FR #20197 | Movie | Film-Noir, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Alfred E. Green
Writer
Jerome Odlum, Dennis O'Keefe, Francis Swann
Cast
William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton
Plot
An insurance company investigator goes to a small town to probe into a case of supposed suicide. The natives are not very cooperative and some turn hostile, leading to suspicion of foul play.
FR #20486 | Movie | Film-Noir, Comedy | Germany | German
Director
Robert Siodmak
Writer
Ludwig Hirschfeld, Ernst Neubach, Curt Siodmak
Cast
Heinz Ruhmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek
Plot
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
FR #21157 | Movie | Crime, Film-Noir | USA | English
Director
Dick Powell
Writer
William Bowers, Irving Wallace, Chester Erskine
Cast
Stephen Mcnally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
Plot
Three hardened criminals take hostages and hide in a Nevada mining ghost town, knowing that an atom bomb is scheduled to be tested there the next morning.
FR #21689 | Movie | Film-Noir, Crime | USA | French, English
Director
Joseph H. Lewis
Writer
Martin Berkeley, Dwight V. Babcock, Aubrey Wisberg
Cast
Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden
Plot
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?
