The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Peter Godfrey
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Patrick O'Moore, Barbara Stanwyck, Isobel Elsom, Barry Bernard
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Struggling artist Gerry Carroll meets Sally whilst on holiday in the country. A romance develops but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Gerry returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
He Walked by Night
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Starring: Whit Bissell, Richard Basehart, Roy Roberts, Scott Brady, James Cardwell, Jack Webb
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In the Post-World War II, in Los Angeles, a criminal shots and kills a police officer in the middle of the night. Without any leads, the chief of the LAPD assigns Sgt. Chuck Jones and Sgt. Marty Brennan to investigate the murder and apprehend the culprits. When the dealer of electronics devices, Paul Reeves, is caught selling a stolen projector, the police identifies the criminal, and connects him to other unsolved robberies. Using the witnesses of his heists, they draw their face, but the true identity of the smart and intelligent criminal is not disclosed. The perseverance of Sgt. Marty Brennan in his investigation gives a clue where he mig...
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1956
Country: USA
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Arthur Franz, Dan Seymour, Edward Binns, Carleton Young, Barbara Nichols, Rusty Lane, Philip Bourneuf
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Writer sets himself up to take murder rap to show the errors of circumstantial evidence. With a friend holding back evidence so he can prove his innocence at the last minute, he goes to trial. But during the trial, his friend is killed in a car accident.
Shock
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir
Year: 1946
Country: USA
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Starring: Vincent Price, Frank Latimore, Lynn Bari, Charles Trowbridge, Anabel Shaw, Stephen Dunne, Reed Hadley
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Dr. Cross, a psychiatrist, is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart, who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. As she comes out of her shock, she recognizes Dr. Cross as the killer. He takes her to his sanitarium and urged by his nurse/lover, Elaine Jordan, gives Janet an overdose of insulin. But he can't bring himself to murder her in cold blood and asks Elaine to get the medicine to save her. She refuses, they argue, and he strangles her. He saves Janet's life, but now faces two murder charges.
The Big Heat
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1953
Country: USA
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Jocelyn Brando, Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame, Robert Burton, Willis Bouchey, Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones
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Dave Bannion is an upright but unscrupulous cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide and his fellow officers' suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters' payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster's spurned girlfriend Debbie. As Bannion and Debbie fall further and further into the Gangland's insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary (including murder) to get to the truth.
Cause for Alarm
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Richard Anderson, Bruce Cowling, Georgia Backus, Barry Sullivan, Art Baker, Margalo Gillmore, Irving Bacon
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Invalid George Jones is both physically and mentally ill. He mistakenly believes his wife Ellen and his doctor are having an affair and also planning to kill him. He writes a letter to his lawyer detailing their alleged murder plot. After he has Ellen give the letter to their postman, he reveals its contents to her and then threatens her with a gun. The excitement proves to much and George suffers a fatal collapse. Now Ellen must find a way to retrieve the incriminating letter.
Pushover
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1954
Country: USA
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: E.G. Marshall, Dorothy Malone, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Allen Nourse
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A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. When she finds out Paul's a cop, to save herself she sets out to corrupt him. He's a pushover. But it won't be easy for Paul to get his hands on the money when he's part of a complex, peeping-tom stakeout. Soon, he's in much deeper than he'd planned, amid atmospheric night scenes.
Bluebeard
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Year: 1944
Country: USA
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Starring: John Carradine, Iris Adrian, Ludwig Stössel, Henry Kolker, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, George Pembroke
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A killer of young women, dubbed Bluebeard, is loose in Paris. Lucille and her friends meet Gaston Morrell, a puppeteer. He invites them to a show the next night; they go. Afterwards, he walks with Lucille; she offers to make costumes for his next show, he accepts, and feelings develop that may lead to love. She suspects he has a tragic past. Meanwhile, his leaving the show with Lucille prompts the jealousy of Renee, Gaston's sometime lover. Lucille's younger sister, Francine, comes back to Paris - her boyfriend is Inspector Lefebre, who's hunting for Bluebeard. Some clues point toward Lamart, a greedy art dealer. Who is in danger, and can Gas...
Sleep, My Love
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Don Ameche, Robert Cummings, George Coulouris, Lillian Bronson, Keye Luke, Claudette Colbert, Raymond Burr
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Alison Courtland wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she cannot remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Desperate
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: William Challee, Steve Brodie, Paul E. Burns, Douglas Fowley, Raymond Burr, Audrey Long, Jason Robards Sr.
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A young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge.
Cornered (1945)
Year: 1945
Country: USA
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Edgar Barrier, Dick Powell, Steven Geray, Gregory Gaye, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale
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On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of a group of Resistence fighters including his new bride. He identifies Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac, who is reported as dead himself. Not believing this, Gerard follows the trail to Argentina where it is apparent that Nazism is also far from dead.
The Locket
Year: 1946
Country: USA
Director: John Brahm
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Reginald Denny, Queenie Leonard, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond, Nella Walker, Henry Stephenson
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Lovely Nancy seems like the ideal bride to fiancee John Willis... until, just before the ceremony, Willis is approached by Harry Blair, claiming to be Nancy's former husband. The tale Blair unfolds (in a flashback within a flashback within a flashback!) paints Nancy as a kleptomaniac, habitual liar, and perhaps worse. But is Blair telling the truth? And does fate have another surprise in store?
Ace in the Hole
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Harry Harvey, Ray Teal, Kirk Douglas, Lewis Martin, Frank Cady, Porter Hall, Jan Sterling
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Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in a mine. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth.
Detective Story
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Cathy O'Donnell, Lee Grant, Craig Hill, Joseph Wiseman, Frank Faylen, Kirk Douglas, Luis Van Rooten
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Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation of the law and doesn't believe in turning the other cheek. The current object of his zealousness is Karl Schneider, an abortionist responsible for the death of several young women. Schneider's lawyer tells the precinct lieutenant that McLeod has his own personal reasons for going after his client. It turns out that his wife was a patient before they met, although Jim knew nothing of it. His world suddenly turned upside down, McLeod is too late in re-evaluating his priorities.
Armored Car Robbery
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1950
Country: USA
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Charles McGraw, Steve Brodie, James Flavin, William Talman, Douglas Fowley, Adele Jergens, Gene Evans
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A well-planned robbery goes awry, with tough cop Cordell in pursuit.
Undercurrent (1946)
Year: 1946
Country: USA
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum, James Westerfield, Edmund Gwenn, Robert Taylor, Dan Tobin, Clinton Sundberg
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Life is good for Ann Hamilton (Katharine Hepburn), living with her popular scientist father and poised to become a spinster scientist herself, until one fateful night she meets the inventor Alan Garroway (Robert Taylor) whose distance controller has revolutionized the aeronautics industry. Alan woos Ann and they marry in a whirlwind affair with Alan whisking Ann away to Washington to live. In Washington Ann realizes that she knows little of Alans past, particularly his emotionally charged relationship to his brother Michael (Robert Mitchum), rumored to have bankrupted the company Alan and he had created. Michael is missing and has been absent...
Ride the Pink Horse
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Robert Montgomery
Starring: Harold Goodwin, Thomas Gomez, Edward Earle, Robert Montgomery, Grandon Rhodes, Martin Garralaga, Richard Gaines
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In the bordertown of San Pablo, preparing for an annual 'Mexican Fiesta,' arrives Gagin: tough, mysterious and laconic. His mission: to find the equally mysterious Frank Hugo, evidently for revenge; or is it blackmail? FBI agent Retz is also after the elusive Hugo. Everyone in town is enigmatic, especially Pila, a mystical teenager who follows Gagin around and has premonitions of his death. Also involved are a classic femme fatale and an antique carousel with a pink horse...
His Kind of Woman
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: John Farrow
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Vincent Price, Charles McGraw, Tim Holt, Philip Van Zandt, Raymond Burr, Jim Backus
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Nick Ferraro, deported crime boss, needs to re-enter the USA. His plan involves "honest" gambler Dan Milner, who's subjected to a series of "misfortunes," then bribed to take a trip to Mexico. En route, Dan meets chanteuse Lenore Brent, truly his kind of woman. But on arrival at posh Morros Lodge in Baja California, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing roles...except, possibly, ham actor Mark Cardigan. What does Ferraro want with him? Can he trust anyone?
The Harder They Fall
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Sport
Year: 1956
Country: USA
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jack Albertson, Felice Orlandi, Nehemiah Persoff, Harold J. Stone, Edward Andrews
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Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide ...
Johnny Angel
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1945
Country: USA
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Starring: Marvin Miller, George Raft, Claire Trevor, Lowell Gilmore, J. Farrell MacDonald, Signe Hasso, Hoagy Carmichael
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Johnny Angel sets out to learn who hijacked a gold shipment from his father's ship and killed his father, the captain. He is joined in the search by Paulette, whose own father has been killed by the hijackers.