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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a 1944 film-noir directed by Billy Wilder. The story explores a complex relationship between an insu...

Classic Crime 1940S Femme Fatale

9.7 Brilliant

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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

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Act of Violence

Act of Violence is a 1949 American MGM film noir by Fred Zinnemann, starring Van Heflin and Robert Ryan in a postwar rev...

Classic Crime 1940S Veteran

8.0 Great

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Cry of the City

Cry of the City is a 1948 American film noir by Robert Siodmak, pairing Victor Mature and Richard Conte in a New York cr...

Classic Crime Urban 1940S

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

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Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears is a 1949 American film noir by Byron Haskin, notable for Lizabeth Scott as a ruthless woman keeping...

Classic Crime 1940S Money

7.8 Good

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Ride the Pink Horse

Ride the Pink Horse is a 1947 American film noir directed by and starring Robert Montgomery, adapted from Dorothy B. Hug...

Classic Crime Universal 1940S

7.7 Good

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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

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The Stranger on the Third Floor

The Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 RKO crime film often cited as an early film noir, with Peter Lorre and express...

Crime Expressionist 1940S Rko

7.4 Good

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The Suspect

The Suspect is a 1944 American noir by Robert Siodmak, starring Charles Laughton as a London shopkeeper caught in murder...

Classic Crime Universal Domestic

7.4 Good

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Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph is a 1948 American film noir by Steve Sekely, starring producer Paul Henreid as a criminal who impersonat...

Classic Crime Identity 1940S

7.2 Good

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The Locket

The Locket is a 1946 American noir melodrama, notable for its nested flashback structure and Laraine Day's role as a psy...

Classic Psychological 1940S Flashback

7.1 Good

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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 American noir thriller by Norman Foster, with Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine in...

Classic Crime Universal 1940S

7.1 Good

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Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn is a 1946 American noir mystery written by Clifford Odets, following a sailor and a dance-hall girl thr...

Classic Mystery Night 1940S

7.0 Good

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Johnny O'Clock

Johnny O'Clock is a 1947 American film noir written and directed by Robert Rossen, marking his feature directing debut a...

Classic Crime Gambling 1940S

7.0 Good

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Journey Into Fear

Journey Into Fear is a 1943 American spy noir based on Eric Ambler's novel, associated with Orson Welles and starring Jo...

Classic Spy 1940S Rko

6.9 Fair

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Desperate

Desperate is a 1947 American noir by Anthony Mann, using a trucking job, robbery, and pursuit plot to show an ordinary m...

Classic Crime 1940S Rko

6.9 Fair

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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

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Framed

Framed is a 1947 American film noir by Richard Wallace, a Columbia B-crime thriller starring Glenn Ford as a miner trapp...

Classic Crime 1940S Femme Fatale

6.8 Fair