swap_horiz Whirlpool Alternatives

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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American noir by Billy Wilder, adapted from James M. Cain and noted for its fatalistic insura...

Classic Crime 1940S Femme Fatale

9.7 Brilliant

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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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The Big Clock

The Big Clock is a 1948 American noir by John Farrow, starring Ray Milland as a magazine editor trapped inside a murder...

Classic Mystery Media 1940S

8.2 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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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The Dark Corner

The Dark Corner is a 1946 American noir directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens in a private-...

Classic Detective 1940S Private Eye

7.3 Good

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The Lodger

The Lodger is a 1944 American period noir by John Brahm, starring Laird Cregar in a Jack the Ripper story drawn from Mar...

Classic Thriller Serial Killer 1940S

7.2 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 Locket

The Locket is a 1946 American noir melodrama, notable for its nested flashback structure and Laraine Day's role as a psy...

Classic Psychological 1940S Flashback

7.1 Good

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Moontide

Moontide is a 1942 American noir-tinged drama directed by Archie Mayo, starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino in a fogbound...

Classic Psychological Waterfront 1940S

6.9 Fair

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High Wall

High Wall is a 1947 American psychological film noir by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Robert Taylor as a war veteran accuse...

Classic Psychological 1940S Amnesia

6.9 Fair

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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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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry is a 1945 American noir melodrama by Robert Siodmak, starring George Sanders in a stor...

Classic Psychological Universal Domestic

6.6 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