swap_horiz The Big Clock 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

2

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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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

4

He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night is a 1948 American semidocumentary noir by Alfred L. Werker, with uncredited work by Anthony Mann and...

Classic Police Procedural 1940S

7.9 Good

5

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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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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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

10

T-Men

T-Men is a 1947 American noir docudrama by Anthony Mann, notable for John Alton's stark cinematography and its Treasury-...

Classic Procedural 1940S Undercover

7.7 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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Woman on the Run

Woman on the Run is a 1950 American film noir by Norman Foster, starring Ann Sheridan in a San Francisco chase story lat...

Classic Mystery Universal 1950S

7.6 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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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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So Dark the Night

So Dark the Night is a 1946 American noir by Joseph H. Lewis, following a Paris detective whose village holiday becomes...

Classic Mystery Psychological 1940S

7.2 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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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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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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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