All Movies : Film-noir

A young man is wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed. Reporters covering the execution relate the story, each from his own perspective....

A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances....

Four college buddies enjoy a night at a Reno casino and overhear a cop saying that robbing the casino......

In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman....

When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders......

A rich family, the Hillcrests, is fighting against the speculator, Hornblower, who sends away poor farmers to build factories on their lands. When Mrs. Hillcrest finds out that Chloe Hornblower was a prostitute, she uses this secret to blackmail the speculator and force him to stop his business....

Director Alex Merkin's feature-length noir thriller follows the tense stand-off between a young man, his unfaithful fiance, and his best friend. Terry's fiance, June, is having an affair. After following June to a run-down hotel on the far side of town, Terry quietly rents a room across the hall. Wi...

This needs a different synopsis, since it is not revealed that the woman is Dixie Logan's wife until the end. It is supposed to be a surprise twist, and it is spoiled on the movie's main page....

When several notorious criminals are unjustifiably released on parole, the Federal Government smells a rat and sends ace agent Richard Hendricks to investigate. Hendricks infiltrates the gang, responsible for the parole racket by posing as a much-wanted convict Rick Carson. However, the wily Barney ...

A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her....