Le Doulos (1961), Croupier (1998), Special (2019), The Blue Angel (1930), The Lodger (1927), Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Stray Dog (1949), Drunken Angel (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Film Noir movies.
Storyline: Remy Germain (Pierre Fresnay) is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets. This allegorical film was highly controversial at the time of its release, and was banned in France after the Liberation.
Plot Keywords: mystery, horror, film noir, detective, murder, psychological thriller, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Robbers Ray Biddle (Richard Widmark) and his brother are shot and taken to the local hospital. There, the two are treated by Dr. Brooks (Sidney Poitier), the hospital's only black doctor. The brothers assault Brooks with racist slurs. And, when his brother ends up dying on the operating table, Ray accuses the doctor of murdering him. Blind with rage, Ray works to turn the white community of the city against Brooks, who finds an unlikely ally in the dead man's widow, Edie (Linda Darnell).
Plot Keywords: film noir, thriller, drama, crime, mystery, suspense, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at the Sex Pistols, the British band best representative of the punk rock movement of the late 1970s.
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, thriller, film noir, murder, detective, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this silent horror classic, aspiring young opera singer Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) discovers that she has a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead performer. This enigmatic masked presence is Erik, also known as the Phantom (Lon Chaney), a horribly disfigured recluse who lives underneath the Paris Opera House. When the Phantom takes Christine prisoner and demands her devotion and affection, her suitor, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), sets out to rescue her.
Plot Keywords: horror, silent film, classic, gothic, musical, romance, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A mobster's (Joe Pantoliano) disgruntled girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) steals $2 million from him with the help of her lesbian lover (Gina Gershon).
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, film noir, lesbian, romance, mystery, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A French government agent (Tcheky Karyo) turns a Paris drug punk (Anne Parillaud) into a chic assassin whose skill is cued by her code name.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, drama, spy, assassin, french film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following a nervous breakdown, a police officer (Jakob Cedergren) from Copenhagen pulls duty in a small town, where his big-city attitude clashes with the residents' bizarre behavior.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, black comedy, mystery, psychological thriller, drama, danish film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank.
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, drama, thriller, race relations, heist, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: His family packed off to Maine, Professor Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) is anticipating some quiet time alone. Then he meets Alice (Joan Bennett), the model for a portrait he admires, and can't resist her offer of a drink. No sooner do they get to her place, however, than her jealous boyfriend arrives in a rage. Richard kills him in self-defense, and they decide to hide the body. Things go smoothly until Richard's D.A. friend invites him to tag along on the investigation of his own crime.
Plot Keywords: suspense, film noir, psychological thriller, crime, murder, witness, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a Latin American country where the government has outlawed public religious displays, the last priest (Henry Fonda) in a village seeks refuge in a church, disguised as a peasant. Discovered by an Indian woman, Maria (Dolores del Río), the priest agrees to baptize her children and other poor people in the village. The priest's efforts to escape the military police are constantly upset by the desperate religious demands of the local people, and a beggar intent on turning him in.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, film noir, fugitive, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A sailor (Dennis Hopper) falls in love with a sideshow mermaid (Linda Lawson) who believes she really is a mermaid.
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, fantasy, film noir, romance, supernatural, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The mastermind (Stanley Baker) of a racetrack robbery escapes from prison to the loot and is double-crossed by his gang.
Plot Keywords: crime, prison, british film, film noir, drama, social issues, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A film about two homicide detectives' (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt) desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" (Kevin Spacey) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Somerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills (Pitt) scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, dark, psychological, serial killer, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: British intelligence fakes the death of Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) to send him on a mission in Switzerland, where as Richard Ashendon he is to locate and kill a Germany spy. Accompanying Brodie are fellow agents Elsa Carrington (Madeleine Carroll), who is to play Brodie's wife, and an eccentric assassin known as The General (Peter Lorre). Locating the spy on a train, Brodie and Elsa have second thoughts about their mission just as an American (Robert Young) ingratiates himself with them.
Plot Keywords: spy, british, mystery, thriller, film noir, alfred hitchcock, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone - he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit - meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out ...
Plot Keywords: existentialism, psychological thriller, surrealism, absurdism, isolation, human nature, survival ...
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