Caught
Year: 1949
Country: USA
Director: Max Ophüls
Starring: Robert Ryan, James Mason, Curt Bois, Barbara Bel Geddes, Frank Ferguson, Art Smith, Natalie Schafer
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It was her childhood dream come true. She had married a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a tormented nightmare once she realized the truth about her husband. He was more than a millionaire, he was absolutely power mad and insane! Since he will not give her a divorce, she leaves a life of luxury and goes to work as a receptionist in an impoverished doctor's office in NYC's lower east side. After a temporary reconciliation (one night) with the rich husband, She conceives a child. By the time she finds out she is pregnant, she and one of the doctors (James Mason) have fallen in love but but she goes back to the mad husband so th...
Call Northside 777
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: James Stewart, John McIntire, Moroni Olsen, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Harvey, Howard Smith
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In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
On Dangerous Ground
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1952
Country: USA
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Ian Wolfe, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Ed Begley, Gus Schilling, Frank Ferguson, Olive Carey
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Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. However, Mary's brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind.
Quicksand (1950)
Year: 1950
Country: USA
Director: Irving Pichel
Starring: Taylor Holmes, Mickey Rooney, Richard Lane, Peter Lorre, John Gallaudet, Wally Cassell, Minerva Urecal
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Motor mechanic Dan Brady lacks funds for a heavy date with new waitress Vera, the type whose life's ambition is a fur coat; so he embezzles twenty dollars from his employer. To make up the shortage, he goes in debt for a hundred. Thereafter, every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets him deeper into crime, while everyone he meets is out for what they can get.
Panic in the Streets
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir
Year: 1950
Country: USA
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tommy Cook, Dan Riss, Paul Douglas, Zero Mostel
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One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite official skepticism, and in total secrecy, lest panic empty the city. Can a doctor turn detective? He has 48 hours to try...
Born to Kill
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Elisha Cook Jr., Grandon Rhodes, Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Esther Howard, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry
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In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but decides not to become involved. The two meet next day on the train to San Francisco unaware of this link between them. They are attracted to each other, and the relationship survives his marriage to her half-sister for money and status. It even survives the woman discovering that he was the murderer, though she may not realise how easily someone who has killed this way before can do so again.
Notorious (1946)
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Film-Noir
Year: 1946
Country: USA
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Claude Rains, Ivan Triesault, Moroni Olsen, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Louis Calhern, Wally Brown
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Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.
The Maltese Falcon
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir
Year: 1941
Country: USA
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ward Bond, Jerome Cowan, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Elisha Cook Jr., Lee Patrick
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Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss Wanderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It seems Miss Wanderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his enormous girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes from Sam, who is suspected by the police of one or the other murder. More murders are yet to come, ...
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Year: 1945
Country: USA
Director: Robert Siodmak
Starring: Samuel S. Hinds, George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Coulter Irwin, Moyna MacGill, Ella Raines, Sara Allgood
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Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?
Brute Force
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Jay C. Flippen, Charles Bickford, Jeff Corey, Hume Cronyn, Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
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At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.
Christmas Holiday
Year: 1944
Country: USA
Director: Robert Siodmak
Starring: Gene Kelly, Gale Sondergaard, Gladys George, Deanna Durbin, Richard Whorf, Dean Harens, David Bruce
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A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the wealthy man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
The Blue Dahlia
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1946
Country: USA
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Howard Da Silva, Will Wright, Walter Sande, Frank Faylen, William Bendix, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd
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When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides she's not worth it. Later, Helen is found dead and Johnny is the prime suspect.
Man in the Vault
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1956
Country: USA
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: Paul Fix, Anita Ekberg, Mike Mazurki, Berry Kroeger, Robert Keys, William Campbell, Karen Sharpe
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There's $200,000 in a Los Angeles safety-deposit box that mobster Willis Trent would like to have, so he gets two-timing, double-dealing Flo Randall to get the box number for him. He offers locksmith Tommy Dancer $5,000 to make the key but Tommy refuses. Trent threatens to harm Tommy's girl friend, Betty Turner, and Tommy gives in and goes to the bank. In a few nerve-racking minutes, Tommy makes the key and pockets the $200,000 for himself. Trent sends word that he has kidnapped Betty and the ransom is $200,000.
The Lady from Shanghai
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Ted de Corsia, Rita Hayworth, Erskine Sanford, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Gus Schilling, Harry Shannon
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Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's law partner, en route. Bannister has a wife, Rosalie, who seems to like Michael much better than she likes her husband. After they dock in Sausalito, Michael goes along with Grisby's weird plan to fake his (Grisby's) murder so he can disappear untailed. He wants the $5000 Grisby has offered, so he can run off with Rosalie. But Grisby turns up actually murdered, and Michael gets blamed for it. Somebody set him up, but it is not clear who or how. Bannister (the actual murderer?) defends ...
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Year: 1940
Country: USA
Director: Alexander Hall
Starring: Ray Milland, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Halton, Reginald Gardiner, Loretta Young, Frank Sully, Gail Patrick
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What happens when writer Young, who hates marriage and dominating males, and a medical college instructor, Milland, who yearns to become a professor, meet in thebedroom? The movie dishes up a fast-talking, gibe-poking comedy that is still good for laughs. Young and Milland get involved in publicity linking them to marriage. Young takes advantage of the contretemps to dash off a hot novel, and Milland gets hisprofessorship. They must pretend to go through with it, and actually take an apartment, and that's where the bickering and name-calling begins.
Crime of Passion
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1957
Country: USA
Director: Gerd Oswald
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Royal Dano, Gail Bonney, Robert Quarry, Virginia Grey, Malcolm Atterbury, Fay Wray
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Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city. One day, Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, walks into her office - it is instant attraction. After marrying Bill, Kathy gives up her career and becomes a homemaker. However, she is not your typical 1950's homemaker. After hosting several cocktail parties in their San Fernando Valley home, she realizes that Bill is content with his position, and shows no ambition in furthering himself. Kathy will not sit idly by while everyone around her is "moving up in the world". She personally takes upon herself the t...
He Ran All the Way
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: John Berry
Starring: Clancy Cooper, Norman Lloyd, Wallace Ford, Shelley Winters, John Garfield, Selena Royle, Robert Hyatt
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The uptight and dumb smalltime thief Nick Robey and his partner and only friend Al Molin robber US$ 10,000.00 from a man, but the heist goes wrong. Al Molin is killed by a policeman and Nick shots him deadly in the spine. He hides out in a public swimming pool and meets the lonely spinster Peggy Dobbs in the water. Nick uses Peggy to lie low and leave the plunge. He offers a ride in a taxi to her and she invites him to enter in her apartment, where she introduces her family to him. When Nick discovers that he killed the cop, he decides to use Peggy's apartment as hideout to wait the police manhunt cool down, forcing the family to lodge him. W...
The Killer That Stalked New York
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1950
Country: USA
Director: Earl McEvoy
Starring: Ludwig Donath, Whit Bissell, Dorothy Malone, Harry Shannon, Connie Gilchrist, Lola Albright, Roy Roberts
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Sheila Bennett returns to New York from Cuba, carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds...and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail; while Public Health doctor Wood searches in vain for the unknown person spreading the deadly disease far and wide. Meanwhile, the increasingly ill Sheila is only concerned with her faithless husband Matt, who plans to abscond with the diamonds...
Actor's and Sin
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1952
Country: USA
Director: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
Starring: Marsha Hunt, Eddie Albert, Alan Reed, Dan O'Herlihy, Edward G. Robinson, Tracey Roberts, Jenny Hecht
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Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary agent whose newest client--a nine-year-old boy--is the author of a borderline pornographic book.
Two of a Kind
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: Henry Levin
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Alexander Knox, Virginia Brissac, Lizabeth Scott, Terry Moore, Griff Barnett, Robert Anderson
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Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy charms gambler Lefty Farrell into impersonating the missing son. Kathy, the McIntyre's niece, who likes Lefty, introduces him to the McIntyres who soon become convinced he is their son, but the old man refuses to change his will. Lefty balks at killing McIntyre and exposes Mailer's attempted swindle. Brandy and Lefty end up together as "two of a kind."