swap_horiz The Scarlet Hour 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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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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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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The Phenix City Story

The Phenix City Story is a 1955 noir by Phil Karlson, notable for dramatizing the 1954 Albert Patterson murder and enter...

Classic Crime 1950S Corruption

7.8 Good

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The Lineup

The Lineup is a 1958 American film noir directed by Don Siegel, adapted from the CBS police series and noted for San Fra...

Classic Procedural Crime 1950S

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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Cry Danger

Cry Danger is a 1951 American noir directed by Robert Parrish, notable for Dick Powell's ex-con hero and Joseph Biroc's...

Classic Crime Revenge 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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Drive a Crooked Road

Drive a Crooked Road is a 1954 American film noir by Richard Quine, notable for casting Mickey Rooney as a lonely mechan...

Crime Noir 1950S Heist

7.2 Good

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House by the River

House by the River is a 1950 American psychological crime film by Fritz Lang, adapted from A. P. Herbert's novel about a...

Classic Crime 1950S Lang

7.1 Good

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No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own is a 1950 American noir melodrama by Mitchell Leisen, with Barbara Stanwyck in a Cornell Woolrich iden...

Classic Crime Identity 1950S

7.1 Good

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The Garment Jungle

The Garment Jungle is a 1957 Columbia noir by Vincent Sherman, notable for its New York garment-industry racketeering pl...

Classic Crime 1950S Columbia

7.1 Good

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Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday is a 1955 American crime film by Richard Fleischer, notable for staging a bank-robbery plot in CinemaSc...

Crime 1950S Heist Color Noir

7.1 Good

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The File on Thelma Jordon

The File on Thelma Jordon is a 1950 American film noir by Robert Siodmak, starring Barbara Stanwyck as a suspect who com...

Classic Crime 1950S Femme Fatale

6.9 Fair

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The Burglar

The Burglar is a 1957 American film noir directed by Paul Wendkos, based on David Goodis's novel and shot partly in Phil...

Classic Crime 1950S Heist

6.7 Fair