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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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Le Cercle Rouge

Le Cercle Rouge is a 1970 French-Italian crime film by Jean-Pierre Melville, noted for a climactic jewelry heist staged...

Crime 1970S Heist French Noir

8.8 Great

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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 Britain Noir 1940S

8.7 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 Noir 1940S 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 Noir 1940S 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

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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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Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock is a 1948 British gangster noir by John Boulting, adapted from Graham Greene's novel and starring Richard...

Crime Britain Gangster Noir

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 Britain Noir Domestic

7.8 Good

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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

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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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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 Britain Gangster Noir

7.6 Good

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Hangover Square

Hangover Square is a 1945 American noir horror film by John Brahm, starring Laird Cregar as a composer drawn into murder...

Composer Classic Psychological 1940S

7.5 Good

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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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Tension

Tension is a 1949 MGM film noir by John Berry, notable for Richard Basehart as a pharmacist who invents an alias while p...

Psychological Crime Noir 1940S

7.1 Good