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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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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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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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Crime Wave

Crime Wave is a 1954 American film noir by Andre de Toth, notable for Sterling Hayden's hard police role and Los Angeles...

Police Crime Noir 1950S

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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Human Desire

Human Desire is a 1954 American film noir by Fritz Lang, notable for reworking Emile Zola's La Bete humaine with Glenn F...

Crime Noir 1950S Railroad

7.4 Good

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Panic

Panic is a 1946 French film by Julien Duvivier, adapted from Georges Simenon's Monsieur Hire novel and starring Michel S...

Psychological Crime 1940S French Noir

6.9 Fair

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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 Britain Noir

6.8 Fair

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The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger is a 1954 British film noir by Joseph Losey, notable as his first British feature, credited under the...

Psychological Crime Britain Noir

6.4 Fair