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Rental > Classics > Film Noir: 128 Films to Rent on DVD
Leave Her to Heaven (1946)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde
- Beware the beautiful woman! Gene Tierney makes a gorgeous yet domesticated vamp whose suffocating personality mutates into murderous frustration.…
Man I Love, The (1946)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett…
- Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
Panique (1946)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Michel Simon, Viviane Romance
- Exemplary French noir based on the novel Les Fiançailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon, the source of the Patrice Leconte film, MONSIEUR HIRE…
Pink String And Sealing Wax (1946)
- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson
- Brit film noir set in a dark and dirty Brighton sees a scheming landlady (Withers) befriend a young chemist's assistant in order to obtain poison to…
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
- Dir. Tay Garnett
Feat. John Garfield, Lana Turner
- Steamy film noir with John Garfield and Lana Turner as doomed, murderous lovers.
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan…
- Often underrated 'film noir' has an amnesiac soldier (Hodiak) return to Los Angeles from WW2 to rediscover his identity, only he may not want to... A…
Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin…
- Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
Detour (1945)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Tom Neal, Ann Savage
- Often touted as the best B–movie ever made, this blistering film noir upstaged many of the Hollywood main features it was paired with. Short on…
Fallen Angel (1945)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell
- Follow–up to Preminger's film noir LAURA stars Andrews as a penniless drifter who falls in love with beautiful waitress Stella (Darnell) so…
Mildred Pierce (1945)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Joan Crawford
- Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her career–defining role as a stoical housewife–turned–waitress who finds success in business, but…