Subgenre Sampler
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)- Dir. Tay Garnett
Feat. John Garfield, Lana Turner - Steamy film noir with John Garfield and Lana Turner as doomed, murderous lovers.
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…
Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin… - Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
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…
Mildred Pierce (1945)
- 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 Street (1945)- 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 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 Indemnity (1944)- 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…
Laura (1944)- 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…
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