Main content | Search | Section navigation menu | Site-wide navigation menu

Main menu

 
 
 

Subgenre Sampler

 
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…
Scarlet StreetScarlet Street (1945) Recommended
Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett
One of dir. Fritz Lang's best American film noirs, salts a slightly bizzare plot with pinches of cruelty and sexual repression. Edward G Robinson…
Christmas HolidayChristmas 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…
Double IndemnityDouble Indemnity (1944) Aro Favourite
Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
The jewel in the crown of all things film noir has hardly dated an iota despite countless imitations. You'll savour each moment as…
LauraLaura (1944) Aro Favourite
Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb
Classic noir with detective Dana Andrews assembling the pieces of the puzzle surrounding the mysterious death of glamourpuss Gene Tierney. Thriller…
Ministry of FearMinistry 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 SweetMurder, My Sweet (Farewell, My Lovely) (1944) Recommended
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 LadyPhantom 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…

Results Page   Prev | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 Next    Show All

Display
Display
Order
Order