Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3203 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Dressed To Kill (1946)
- Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
- The final of the 14 Rathbone–Bruce 'Sherlock Holmes' adaptations concerning a criminal gang's pursuit of three music–boxes for mysterious…
Green for Danger (1946)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim
- Sly whodunit finds Trevor Howard and Sally Gray prime suspects in the death of a hospital patient. Cue Scotland Yard’s finest (Alistair Sim), whose…
I See a Dark Stranger (The Adventuress) (1946)
- Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley…
- Absorbing thriller with Deborah Kerr outstanding as a young Irish woman who despises England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.
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.
Notorious (1946)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant
- Sexy, suspenseful romantic thriller with Ingrid Bergman at her most radiant as an American spy who unwittingly falls in love with her contact, Cary…
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…