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Subgenre Sampler

 
Leave Her to HeavenLeave Her to Heaven (1946) Recommended
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, TheMan 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…
PaniquePanique (1946) Recommended
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 WaxPink 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 TwicePostman 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 NightSomewhere 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 IversStrange 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.
DetourDetour (1945) Aro Favourite
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 AngelFallen 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 PierceMildred Pierce (1945) Recommended
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…

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