Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Film Noir: 29 Films to Rent on VHS
- Big Combo, The (1955)
- Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
- Late period film noir borders on parody, with light and dialogue straight out of some parallel universe. Untouchables–style story has some…
- On Dangerous Ground (1951)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond…
- Grimly rewarding noir, with real–life tough guy Robert Ryan in one of his best roles.
As a cop helping with a protracted rural manhunt, he…
- Caught (1949)
- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes, James Mason
- Noir–melodrama hybrid has half–mad millionaire Robert Ryan (a role based on Howard Hughes), wrapping Barbara Bel Geddes in the coils of a…
- Body and Soul (1947)
- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, William Conrad…
- Vital companion–piece to FORCE OF EVIL with John Garfield again lined up for the fall, as a naive, get–ahead young boxer whose propensity…
- Dark Passage (1947)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
- Smokey Bogie and Bacall noir thriller in which his convicted murderer flees prison and changes his face to prove his innocence. The first third is…
- Journey into Fear (1942)
- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles…
- Hitchcockian suspenser set around an American engineer's adventures in WW2 Turkey.
Loaded down with a maze–like plot (written by star Joseph…
- I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
- Dir. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Betty Grable
- Betty Grable tackles a dramatic role for this exciting whodunnit surrounding the murder of her sister. Quality film noir with a surprise twist in its…
- Angels Over Broadway (1940)
- Dir. Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
Feat. Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Rita Hayworth
- Off–beat melodrama about three of life's failures who redeem themselves in one night's gambling in a New York cafe.
- World's Best Dicks
- Dir. Various
- Compilation tape of gumshoes, gangsters, broads and bombshells including Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Moto, Dick Tracy, Mr. Wong and many more.