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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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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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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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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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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

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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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The Sound of Fury

The Sound of Fury is a 1950 American film noir by Cy Endfield, based on Jo Pagano's novel about a kidnapping and mob lyn...

Classic Social Crime 1950S

7.5 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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99 River Street

99 River Street is a 1953 noir by Phil Karlson, notable for John Payne as an ex-boxer turned cab driver drawn into murde...

Classic Boxing Crime 1950S

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

13

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

14

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

15

Crashout

Crashout is a 1955 American prison-break noir by Lewis R. Foster, notable for its ensemble of escaped convicts led by Wi...

Classic Crime 1950S United Artists

7.0 Good

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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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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

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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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Conflict

Conflict is a 1945 American noir starring Humphrey Bogart, notable for its domestic murder plot and Warner Bros. psychol...

Classic Crime 1940S Bogart

6.6 Fair

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Guest in the House

Guest in the House is a 1944 American psychological noir melodrama, notable for Anne Baxter's role as a disturbed guest...

Classic Psychological Domestic 1940S

5.9 Mediocre