Film-Noir movies

Born to Kill (1947)

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Trevor, Claire | Tierney, Lawrence | Slezak, Walter | Terry, Phillip | Long, Audrey | Cook Jr., Elisha | Jewell, Isabel | Howard, Esther | Card, Kathryn | Barrett, Tony | Rhodes, Grandon | Alexis, Demetrius | Dearing, Sayre | Dixon, Joe | Dodd, Neal
Directors: Wise, Robert
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For a simple social slight, Sam Wild murders two innocent people. He chances to meet Helen Trent and aggressively pursues her even as he marries her half-sister. The two disturbed characters parlay their dark secrets into a morass of trouble.

Notorious (1946)

Friday, June 11th, 2010
Genres: Film-Noir | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bailey, Brandon A. | Braddock, Tim 'Single' | Calliste, Donald | Cooper, Duane Nakia | Devereaux, Rico | Dione, Mohamed | Freeman, Edwin | Hibbert, Corey | Hurt, Mike | Jefferies, Marc John | Luke, Derek | Mackie, Anthony | Navayne, Kevin | Oppel, Robert | Phillips, Kevin
Directors: Tillman Jr., George
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In 1946, in Miami, John Huberman is convicted for treason against the United States of America. His daughter Alicia Huberman, who is notorious for her affairs and drinking problem, but loyal to her country, is contacted by the cynical government agent T.R. Devlin for an assignment in Rio de Janeiro spying a network of Nazi’s friends of her father. They travel together and Alicia falls in love with Devlin. However, when she is ordered to meet with the German Alexander Sebastian who has a crush on her, she feels disappointed with the lack of attitude of Devlin. Sooner Alexander proposes her and Devlin does not object when Captain Prerscott asks her to marry Alexander. Alicia snoops around the mansion and discovers that the wine cellar is locked. Devlin suggests to her that she asks Alexander to throw her a party to introduce her to the society in Rio and invites him.

The Dark Mirror (1946)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: de Havilland, Olivia | Ayres, Lew | Mitchell, Thomas | Long, Richard | Evans, Charles | Owen, Garry | Bliss, Lela | Allen, Lester | Bell, Rodney | Chandler, Lane | Cheatham, Jack | Erway, Ben | Gargan, Jack | Halligan, William
Directors: Siodmak, Robert
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A man is murdered, and several witnesses can place Ruth Collins at the scene of the crime. But Ruth has a twin sister, Terry, who has been diagnosed as a psychotic. When Ruth falls for the psychiatrist who evaluates the two sisters, will Terry strike again?

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Brien, Edmond | Lovejoy, Frank | Talman, William | Torvay, José | Hayes, Sam | Niles, Wendell | Del Val, Jean | Howat, Clark | Vacío, Natividad | Barnes, Gordon | Bell, Rodney | Beltran, Orlando | Crosby, Wade | Dominguez, Joe | Escalante, Henry A.
Directors: Lupino, Ida
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Two friends on a fishing trip pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be a psychotic escaped convict. This sociopath has already murdered other good Samaritans in his efforts to evade authorities. He sadistically taunts and threatens the two men and perversely delights in telling them that he has them both marked for death sometime before the end of the trip. His destination is a ferryboat in Baja, California, which he hopes will help him get to the mainland. The hostages hope to stay alive long enough to escape or be rescued by Mexican authorities.

Third Man, The (1949)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Valli, Alida | Welles, Orson | Howard, Trevor | Lee, Bernard | Hörbiger, Paul | Deutsch, Ernst | Breuer, Siegfried | Ponto, Erich | Hyde-White, Wilfrid | Bleibtreu, Hedwig | Ayer, Harold | Belcher, Harry | Bieber, Leo | Birch, Paul
Directors: Reed, Carol
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An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend’s involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.

Possessed (1947)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Crawford, Joan | Heflin, Van | Massey, Raymond | Brooks, Geraldine | Ridges, Stanley | Ridgely, John | Olsen, Moroni | Sanford, Erskine | Miles, Peter | Gimpel, Jakob | Withers, Isabel | Golm, Lisa | Kennedy, Douglas | Blue, Monte | McGuire, Don
Directors: Bernhardt, Curtis
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A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she’s taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David as a result of borderline personality disorder which ultimately leads to murder.

Kiss Before Dying, A (1956)

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wagner, Robert | Hunter, Jeffrey | Leith, Virginia | Woodward, Joanne | Astor, Mary | Macready, George | Quarry, Robert | Petrie, Howard | Walker, Bill | McCart, Molly | Felton, Marlene | Ivers, Robert
Directors: Oswald, Gerd
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Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It’s his child, too, of course; but this ruins everything. Her moralistic father will disown her and will certainly never accept him. It seems he’s trapped. Bud’s mother knows something is troubling her son, but he won’t talk to her about it. All she knows is that Bud doesn’t want to turn out like his father, with holes in his shoes. He doesn’t have to worry. As his mother says, when he turns his mind to something, he does it. Unknown to her, his thoughts have turned to murder.

Journey Into Fear (1943)

Friday, February 6th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | del Rio, Dolores | Warrick, Ruth | Moorehead, Agnes | Durant, Jack | Sloane, Everett | Wyatt, Eustace | Readick, Frank | Barrier, Edgar | Moss, Jack | Schnabel, Stefan | Conried, Hans | Meltzer, Robert | Bennett, Richard
Directors: Foster, Norman
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L’ingegnere Graham e sua moglie stanno viaggiando attraverso la Turchia. Una notte subiscono un apparente attentato. Il colonnello Haki, capo della polizia segreta turca, consiglia ai due di lasciare immediatamente il paese. Sulla nave su cui sta viaggiando Graham incontra strani e misteriosi personaggi. Sfuggito a vari attentati alla sua vita, sfugge agli agenti nazisti e raggiunge la moglie. Banat, un agente nazista, vorrebbe uccidere l’ingegnere, ma Haki lo salva, lanciando il nazista giù dal cornicione del palazzo dove si sono scontrati all’ultimo sangue.

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Meeker, Ralph | Dekker, Albert | Stewart, Paul | Hernandez, Juano | Addy, Wesley | Carr, Marian | Cooper, Maxine | Leachman, Cloris | Rodgers, Gaby | Dennis, Nick | Lambert, Jack | Elam, Jack | Zinneman, Jerry | Snowden, Leigh | Helton, Percy
Directors: Aldrich, Robert
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Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer’s car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike’s policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story—meaning big money for him—because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed.

Cry Danger (1951)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Powell, Dick | Fleming, Rhonda | Erdman, Richard | Conrad, William | Toomey, Regis | Porter, Jean | Adler, Jay | Banks, Joan | Saunders, Gloria | Averback, Hy | McEvoy, Renny | Lubin, Lou | Burt, Benny | Bice, Robert | Brooks, Ralph
Directors: Parrish, Robert
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“Rocky” Mulloy is framed for a murder and a holdup he didn’t commit and pulls a five year stretch in prison. He is finally pardoned when a friend returns from overseas to corroborate his testimony in court. “Rocky” then goes hunting for the real culprits so this his prison buddy, believed to be innocent, can also be pardoned. Nancy Morgan, wife of his friend, falls in love with him along the way, and he also has a few bullets fired at him by an oily character. “Rocky” finds the guilty party in a place he didn’t think about looking.