swap_horiz The Scarf Alternatives

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Touch of Evil

Orson Welles’ *Touch of Evil* (1958) is a seminal film-noir exploring moral decay along the US-Mexico border. The movie'...

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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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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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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Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 heist noir by Phil Karlson, notable for masked robbers unknown to one another and Joh...

Classic 1950S Heist United Artists

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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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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Plunder Road

Plunder Road is a 1957 American film noir by Hubert Cornfield, built around a San Francisco mint-train gold robbery and...

Classic 1950S Truck Heist

7.3 Good

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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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Private Hell 36

Private Hell 36 is a 1954 noir by Don Siegel, notable as one of Ida Lupino and Collier Young's last Filmakers production...

Classic Police 1950S Corruption

6.9 Fair

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Shield for Murder

Shield for Murder is a 1954 noir co-directed by Edmond O'Brien and Howard W. Koch, notable for O'Brien starring as a mur...

Classic Police 1950S Corruption

6.9 Fair

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Wicked Woman

Wicked Woman is a 1953 American noir by Russell Rouse, notable for Beverly Michaels as a drifter who schemes with a marr...

Classic 1950S Femme Fatale United Artists

6.9 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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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

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I, the Jury

I, the Jury is a 1953 3-D noir by Harry Essex, notable as the first film adaptation of Mickey Spillane's private detecti...

Classic Detective 1950S United Artists

5.6 Mediocre