Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Film Noir: 128 Films to Rent on DVD
- Velvet Touch, The (1948)
- Dir. Jack Gage
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn…
- Film noir with Rosalind Russell (HIS GIRL FRIDAY) playing a Broadway star who accidentally kills her producer during an argument, then stands by as a…
- Body and Soul (1947)
- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, William Conrad…
- Vital companion–piece to FORCE OF EVIL with John Garfield again lined up for the fall, as a naive, get–ahead young boxer whose propensity…
- Born to Kill (1947)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Audrey Long…
- Cracking, hard–edged B–movie thriller, with studly Lawrence Tierney as a ‘homme fatale’ who seduces his way into a cushy marriage in…
- Brute Force (1947)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford…
- Surprisingly visceral and violent for its time, this prison drama sees Lancaster play a tough inmate in Westgate Penitentiary who decides to wage war…
- Dead Reckoning (1947)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott
- Minor Bogart vehicle, playing a war veteran out to avenge the murder of his buddy. Femme Fatale Lizabeth Scott is undoubtedly involved.
- Desert Fury (1947)
- Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster…
- Small town Nevada desert set suspense focusing around a gambling empire obstinately led by a tough woman whose perfect monopoly is interrupted by her…
- Dishonored Lady (1947)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder
- Hedy Lamarr and then–husband John Loder star in this deliciously ludicrous, dated melodrama, with Lamarr as a fashion editor and lively party…
- It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner
- Overlooked masterpiece of British crime noir which blends kitchen sink realism with the poetic sensibilities of 30's French cinema. An escaped…
- Kiss of Death (1947)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray…
- Fantastic film noir about a career criminal whose attempts to start a new life entangle him with a psychopathic murderer bent on revenge. Richard…
- Nightmare Alley (1947)
- Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray…
- Cast against type, Tyrone Power smolders as a nefarious conman whose powers of seduction are employed to crib a secret mind–reading act from a…