swap_horiz Brighton Rock Alternatives

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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American noir by Billy Wilder, adapted from James M. Cain and noted for its fatalistic insura...

Classic Crime 1940S Femme Fatale

9.7 Brilliant

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Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out is a 1947 British film noir by Carol Reed, starring James Mason as a wounded nationalist leader hunted throu...

Crime 1940S British Noir Fugitive

8.7 Great

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Pepe le Moko

Pepe le Moko is a 1937 French poetic-realist crime film by Julien Duvivier, with Jean Gabin as a fugitive gangster trapp...

French Crime Gangster 1930S

8.3 Great

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The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment is a 1949 American noir melodrama by Max Ophuls, notable for Joan Bennett and James Mason in a black...

Crime 1940S Classic Noir Domestic Noir

8.3 Great

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Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Touchez Pas au Grisbi is a 1954 French-Italian gangster film by Jacques Becker, starring Jean Gabin in a Paris underworl...

Crime Gangster 1950S French Noir

8.2 Great

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Thieves' Highway

Thieves' Highway is a 1949 American film noir by Jules Dassin, notable for A. I. Bezzerides adapting his own novel about...

Crime 1940S Classic Noir Truckers

8.2 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

9

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

10

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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It Always Rains on Sunday

It Always Rains on Sunday is a 1947 British noir drama by Robert Hamer, set in Bethnal Green during one day after an esc...

Crime Domestic 1940S British Noir

7.8 Good

12

Born to Kill

Born to Kill is a 1947 American noir by Robert Wise, starring Lawrence Tierney as a violent drifter in one of RKO's hars...

Classic Crime Violent 1940S

7.7 Good

13

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

14

They Made Me a Fugitive

They Made Me a Fugitive is a 1947 British film noir by Alberto Cavalcanti, set in postwar England's black-market crimina...

Crime Gangster 1940S Alliance

7.6 Good

15

Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 RKO film noir by Boris Ingster, often cited as an early classic noir for its expre...

Crime Expressionist 1940S Proto Noir

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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Yield to the Night

Yield to the Night is a 1956 British crime drama by J. Lee Thompson, starring Diana Dors as a condemned prisoner in an a...

Crime 1950S Warwick British Noir

7.4 Good

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Hell Drivers

Hell Drivers is a 1957 British crime drama by Cy Endfield, notable for Stanley Baker as an ex-con truck driver in a corr...

Crime 1950S British Noir Truckers

7.3 Good

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The October Man

The October Man is a 1947 British mystery noir written and produced by Eric Ambler, notable for John Mills as a murder s...

Mystery Crime 1940S British Noir

6.8 Fair