swap_horiz Party Girl 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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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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Border Incident

Border Incident is a 1949 American film noir by Anthony Mann, shot by John Alton and centered on undercover agents at th...

Classic Procedural 1940S Border

7.8 Good

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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

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Mystery Street

Mystery Street is a 1950 American MGM film noir by John Sturges, an early forensic-procedure thriller shot on location i...

Classic Procedural 1950S Forensic

7.2 Good

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The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry is a 1950 American Warner Bros. film noir by Vincent Sherman, starring Joan Crawford in an organize...

Classic Crime Gangster 1950S

7.0 Good

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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

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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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The Brothers Rico

The Brothers Rico is a 1957 American film noir by Phil Karlson, starring Richard Conte in a Georges Simenon story about...

Classic Crime Gangster 1950S

6.8 Fair

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Rogue Cop

Rogue Cop is a 1954 MGM noir by Roy Rowland, notable for Robert Taylor as a corrupt detective in an adaptation of Willia...

Classic Crime 1950S Corruption

6.7 Fair

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House of Numbers

House of Numbers is a 1957 MGM noir by Russell Rouse, notable for Jack Palance playing two brothers in a San Quentin pri...

Classic Escape 1950S Prison

6.0 Fair