swap_horiz Touch of Evil Alternatives

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rogue Cop

Rogue Cop is a 1954 MGM noir by Roy Rowland, notable for Robert Taylor as a corrupt detective in an adaptation of Willia...

Classic Crime 1950S Corruption

6.7 Fair