Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Film Noir: 155 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Quai Des Orfevres (1947)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair…
- Romantically bleak French noir about an ambitious starlet and her protective husband who find themselves implicated in the murder of a lecherous…
Black Angel (1946)
- Dir. Roy William Neill
Feat. Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre…
- The husband of a murdered woman and the wife of the man who was convicted for the killing (Duryea and Vincent) team up to prove his innocence, until…
Blue Dahlia, The (1946)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
- Riveting Raymond Chandler noir teams Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in their third on–screen pairing as an ex–bomber pilot accused of…
Dark Corner (1946)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens…
- Expert film noir concerns a private detective (Stevens) living under the shadow of a murder frame–up concocted by villain Clifton Webb (LAURA).…
Dragonwyck (1946)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Walter Huston
- 1940s gothic thriller. Gene Tierney gets married to the local lord of the manor, before discovering the skeletons in the closet of his big spooky…
Locket, The (1946)
- Dir. John Brahm
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day, Brian Aherne…
- Film noir set during the day of a wedding, where a surprise guest tries to convince the groom that his bride–to–be is in fact a murderer…
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…
MGM Film Noir Collection (The Stranger, He Walked By Night, He Ran All The Way, Odds Against Tomorrow ) (1946-1959)
- Dir. Orson Welles, John Berry, Robert Wise
- Four vintage film noirs from the MGM vault.
Panique (1946)
- 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…