Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Film Noir: 132 Films to Rent on DVD
- 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…
- 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…
- Detour (1945)
- 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…
- Christmas Holiday (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly
- Considered one of the bleakest Film Noirs of the 1940s, casting musical star Deanna Durbin in a rare serious role as a woman who marries an…
- Ministry of Fear (1944)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond…
- Fritz Lang's classic film noir focuses on a man who, upon being released from an insane asylum, unwittingly discovers a piece of microfilm intended…
- Murder, My Sweet (Farewell, My Lovely) (1944)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley…
- An iconic 'noir' whose unsavoury storyline is taken from Raymond Chandler's classic novel.
Powell plays a detective dragged into a murky case of…
- Phantom Lady (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac…
- Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
- Hangmen Also Die (1943)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee…
- Moody political thriller with Donlevy on the run after assassinating a prominent Nazi and finding shelter with a Czech family as the manhunt consumes…
- Glass Key, The (1942)
- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy
- Alan Ladd re–teams with blonde siren Veronica Lake in this almighty film noir of divided loyalties, crooked politicians, and underworld snares.…