Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Film Noir: 155 Films to Buy & Rent
Violent Saturday (1955)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally…
- Crisp southern noir in which a bank robbery gone wrong ignites trouble in amongst the morally corrupt citizens of a small town. Ripping dialogue and…
Good Die Young, The (1954)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Sir Stanley Baker, Joan Collins…
- Fiery British heist–noir with a debt–burdened Laurence Harvey leading a motley crew of down–on–their–luck military men…
Life at Stake, A (1954)
- Dir. Paul Guilfoyle
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglas Dumbrille…
- Minor noir elevated by the presence of Lansbury as a seductress who's business proposition to a struggling architect may not be strictly financial.
Witness to Murder (1954)
- Dir. Roy Rowland
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill…
- Film noir following a woman who doubts her sanity after witnessing a murder from her apartment window.
While the cops think she is just some…
Hitch-Hiker, The (1953)
- Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
- Weekend hunters Edmond O’Brien (D.O.A.) and Frank Lovejoy are terrorised by a psychotic, mass–murdering passenger (William Talman) in this…
Angel Face (1952)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
- Jean Simmons is a woman possessed in this quietly unconventional film noir, playing a take–no–prisoners femme fatale who systematically…
Clash by Night (1952)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe
- Simmering jealousies in a run–down fishing village provide downbeat fare from the pen of Clifford Odets. With Barbara Stanwyk, Robert Ryan and…
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray…
- A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld.
Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
Narrow Margin (1952)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White…
- A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Scandal Sheet (1952)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek
- When the editor of a sensationalist newspaper commits an accidental murder, his own staff start to report on the case, and gradually inch closer to…