Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Suspense/Crime: 438 Films to Buy & Rent
Two Mrs Carrolls, The (1947)
- Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
- Bogie plays the baddie in this tense psychodrama – a mad artist who paints his female models before killing them. Barbara Stanwyk is the latest…
Blue Dahlia, The (1946)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
- Riveting Raymond Chandler noir teams Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in their third on–screen pairing as an ex–bomber pilot accused of…
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.