Subgenre Sampler
Film Noir: 238 Films to Buy & Rent
Detour (1945)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- 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)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- 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)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- 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 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)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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…