Deadlier Than the Male (1956), Too Late for Tears (1949), Born to Kill (1947), Phantom Lady (1944), Dual Alibi (1947), Whirlpool (1949), Lady in the Lake (1946), The Great Sinner (1949) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Classic Film Noir movies.
Storyline: André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André left more than twenty years before. As Gabrielle has just died, André accepts to accommodate Catherine first, then gives her a job in his restaurant before finally marrying her. But the angel-faced young lady might well be a devil in disguise.—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, thriller, mystery, murder, detective, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One night on a lonely highway, a man in a speeding car tosses a satchel of money meant for somebody else into Jane and Alan Palmer's convertible as they are heading down a mountain road to a party. When they open the satchel and see what's inside, Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with a life of luxury now within reach, persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." Soon afterward, the Palmers are tracked down by one Danny Fuller, a sleazy character who claims the money is his. To hang on to the cash, Jane will need to exercise all her feminine wiles, even if it leads her to dangerous circumstances and criminal behavior.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, mystery, thriller, drama, 1940s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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 then 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 realize how easily someone who has killed this way before can do so again.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, thriller, murder, greed, betrayal, femme fatale ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar. Returning home, he finds his wife strangled and becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady (or her hat). In prison, Scott gives up hope but his faithful secretary, "Kansas," doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Can she save Scott in time?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, mystery, crime, thriller, murder, wrongly accused, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge.
Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, british film, 1940s, mystery, drama, twins ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The wife of a psychiatrist falls prey to a devious hypnotist when he discovers she's an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his former patients - now being treated by a real psychoanalyst's, found murdered, with her at the scene, suspicion points only one way.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: film noir, psychological thriller, crime, mystery, murder, deception, mind control ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. The detective is hired to find a publisher's wife, who is supposed to have run off to Mexico. But the case soon becomes much more complicated as people are murdered.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: film noir, detective story, murder mystery, novel adaptation, 1940s, crime thriller, complex plot ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young writer goes to Wiesbaden to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church poor box in order to feed his compulsion.—<homeport@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: gambling, film noir, drama, crime, romance, moral decay, psychological struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After fighting with husband Stephen, Jan storms out with a suitcase. Meanwhile, Stephen gets drunk, picks up Grena and brings her back to their apartment. But a fight leads to a dead body, and soon, Stephen's landlord wants money to remain silent.—Ulf Kjell Gür
Plot Keywords: crime, murder, thriller, mystery, film noir, british film, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, thriller, mystery, 1950s, american film, b-movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.—lisirose51@aol.com
Plot Keywords: film noir, thriller, mystery, crime, psychological warfare, espionage, murder ...
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