swap_horiz Beware, My Lovely Alternatives

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Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil is a 1958 American noir by Orson Welles, famous for its border-town corruption story and elaborate opening...

Classic Universal 1950S Corruption

9.4 Excellent

2

The Killing

The Killing is a 1956 American heist noir by Stanley Kubrick, notable for its fractured chronology around a racetrack ro...

Classic 1950S Heist Kubrick

8.9 Great

3

The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point is a 1950 American film noir by Michael Curtiz, adapted from Hemingway's To Have and Have Not and sta...

Classic Crime 1950S Warner

8.5 Great

4

Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet is a 1944 American noir by Edward Dmytryk, notable for casting Dick Powell as Raymond Chandler's detect...

Classic Detective 1940S Hardboiled

8.4 Great

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The Narrow Margin

The Narrow Margin is a 1952 RKO train noir by Richard Fleischer, notable as a low-budget thriller that earned an Oscar n...

Classic Crime 1950S Train

8.4 Great

6

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1950 American noir by Otto Preminger, reuniting Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in a story of...

Classic Police 1950S Fox

8.1 Great

7

Murder by Contract

Murder by Contract is a 1958 American film noir by Irving Lerner, noted for Vince Edwards as a detached hitman and its s...

Classic Minimalist 1950S Columbia

8.1 Great

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Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11 is a 1954 prison noir by Don Siegel, notable for Walter Wanger's production and location shooting...

Classic Social 1950S Prison

8.0 Great

9

Try and Get Me!

Try and Get Me! is the reissue title of Cy Endfield's 1950 noir The Sound of Fury, a United Artists crime film drawn fro...

Classic Crime 1950S United Artists

7.9 Good

10

Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American noir by Robert Wise, notable for using a heist plot to examine racial tension i...

Classic Social 1950S Heist

7.8 Good

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Pitfall

Pitfall is a 1948 American film noir by Andre de Toth, starring Dick Powell and Lizabeth Scott in a suburban adultery an...

Classic Crime Domestic 1940S

7.8 Good

12

The Phenix City Story

The Phenix City Story is a 1955 noir by Phil Karlson, notable for dramatizing the 1954 Albert Patterson murder and enter...

Classic Crime 1950S Corruption

7.8 Good

13

The Lineup

The Lineup is a 1958 American film noir directed by Don Siegel, adapted from the CBS police series and noted for San Fra...

Classic Procedural Crime 1950S

7.8 Good

14

Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 heist noir by Phil Karlson, notable for masked robbers unknown to one another and Joh...

Classic 1950S Heist United Artists

7.7 Good

15

Cry Danger

Cry Danger is a 1951 American noir directed by Robert Parrish, notable for Dick Powell's ex-con hero and Joseph Biroc's...

Classic Crime Revenge 1950S

7.5 Good

16

Slightly Scarlet

Slightly Scarlet is a 1956 color noir by Allan Dwan, notable for John Alton's Technicolor cinematography and its source...

Classic Gangster 1950S Rko

7.0 Good

17

His Kind of Woman

His Kind of Woman is a 1951 RKO noir starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, notable for Howard Hughes's costly reshoo...

Classic Crime 1950S Resort

6.9 Fair

18

Cause for Alarm!

Cause for Alarm! is a 1951 American domestic noir by Tay Garnett, notable for turning a sunny suburban home into a publi...

Classic Thriller 1950S Domestic

6.8 Fair

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Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion is a 1957 noir by Gerd Oswald, notable for Barbara Stanwyck as a San Francisco columnist trapped in a f...

Classic Crime 1950S Domestic

6.7 Fair

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Edge of Doom

Edge of Doom is a 1950 American RKO film noir by Mark Robson, starring Farley Granger and Dana Andrews in a priest-murde...

Classic Social Crime 1950S

6.4 Fair