swap_horiz So Dark the Night Alternatives

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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 Big Clock

The Big Clock is a 1948 American noir by John Farrow, starring Ray Milland as a magazine editor trapped inside a murder...

Classic Mystery Media 1940S

8.2 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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My Name Is Julia Ross

My Name Is Julia Ross is a 1945 American noir by Joseph H. Lewis, noted for its compact Gothic suspense plot about ident...

Classic Mystery Gothic 1940S

7.8 Good

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I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming is a 1941 American noir mystery from 20th Century Fox, starring Victor Mature, Betty Grable, and Lai...

Classic Mystery Celebrity 1940S

7.5 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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Black Angel

Black Angel is a 1946 American noir adapted from Cornell Woolrich, starring Dan Duryea and June Vincent in a murder-inve...

Classic Mystery Universal 1940S

7.3 Good

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The Unsuspected

The Unsuspected is a 1947 American mystery noir by Michael Curtiz, starring Claude Rains and based on Charlotte Armstron...

Classic Radio Mystery 1940S

7.2 Good

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Whirlpool

Whirlpool is a 1950 American psychological film noir by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney as a kleptomaniac entangle...

Classic Psychological 1940S Fox

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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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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Moontide

Moontide is a 1942 American noir-tinged drama directed by Archie Mayo, starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino in a fogbound...

Classic Psychological Waterfront 1940S

6.9 Fair

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High Wall

High Wall is a 1947 American psychological film noir by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Robert Taylor as a war veteran accuse...

Classic Psychological 1940S Amnesia

6.9 Fair

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Fear in the Night

Fear in the Night is a 1947 American noir based on Cornell Woolrich, centered on a man who dreams of murder and fears th...

Classic Psychological 1940S Paramount+

6.8 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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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry is a 1945 American noir melodrama by Robert Siodmak, starring George Sanders in a stor...

Classic Psychological Universal Domestic

6.6 Fair

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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes is a 1948 American Monogram film noir by William Nigh, adapted from a Cornell Woolrich novel...

Classic Mystery Monogram 1940S

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