Too Late for Tears (1949)
Too Late for Tears (1949) One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with luxury within her reach, persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." Soon, the
Party Girl (1958)
Party Girl 1958 Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials He has never realized that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gaye She makes him decide to get a better reputation But mob king Rico Angelo insists that he continues his services
Girl on the Run (1953)
Girl on the Run 1953 Bill Martin, a reporter falsely accused of murder, takes refuge at a traveling carnival Janet his girlfriend, is forced to hide out with him as the new fish in the chorus line of carnival strippers, and becomes the defacto Girl On The Run
All the Kings Men (1949)
All the Kings Men (1949) Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. What's special about this nobody running for county treasurer? He's supposedly an honest man. Burden discovers this to be true when he sees Stark
The Glass Web (1953)
The Glass Web 1953 The ice cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one night stand, she has a secret affair with Henry, who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show Crime of the Week, which Don writes for When Henry fails to
A Womans Devotion (1956)
A Womans Devotion 1956 After six months of marriage to Trevor Stevenson Ralph Meeker, well known painter and much decorated hero of World War Two, Stella Janice Rulehas found such complete fulfillment of all her romantic dreams that when he is accused or murdering a pretty cantina waitress, on their
Suspicion (1941)
Suspicion (1941) Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. He begins to court Lina and before long they are married. It is only after the
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946) The Big Sleep is the story of a private investigator, named Philip Marlowe, hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his youngest daughter, Carmen, from being blackmailed about her gambling debts; things almost immediately unravel and blow up from here, as Marlowe finds h
The Unfaithful (1947)
The Unfaithful (1947) Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
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,...
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941) 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 Wonderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's cha
Touch of Evil (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958) Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted o
Ruthless (1948)
Ruthless (1948) Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by richer neighbours he started to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make more and more mon
House by the River (1950)
House by the River (1950) The unsuccessful writer Stephen Byrne tries to force his servant Emily Gaunt sexually while his wife Marjorie Byrne is visiting a friend and accidentally strangles her. His crippled brother John Byrne coincidently comes to his house in that moment, and Stephen asks him to h
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955) It's the Great Depression. In the process of robbing a bank of $10,000, Ben Harper kills two people. Before he is captured, he is able to convince his adolescent son John and his daughter Pearl not to tell anyone, including their mother Willa, where he hid the money, n
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) 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
Laura (1944)
Laura (1944) Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951) Bruno Anthony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train, he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. His plan is relatively simple. Two strangers each agree to kill someone the oth
The Unguarded Moment (1956)
The Unguarded Moment 1956 A woman has recently been murdered A teacher at the nearby high school receives threatening notes from a student Detective Graham is the only one who believes that she is in danger She fingers the boy, a popular student Her teaching career is threatened, as is her life The
Rumble on the Docks (1956)
Rumble on the Docks (1956) It's West Side Story, which was common back then.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Having returned from fighting in World War I, James Allen doesn't want to settle into a humdrum life and decides to set off to find his fortune. He travels the length and breadth of America, working as a skilled tradesman in the construction industry. When ti
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Nick Smith, the middle-aged proprietor of a roadside restaurant, hires drifter Frank Chambers as a handyman. Frank eventually begins an affair with Nick's beautiful wife Cora, who talks Frank into helping her kill Nick, by "accident." But the best laid
The Naked City (1948)
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran ...
Gilda (1946)
Gilda (1946) Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from a trip with a wife: the supremel
The Killing (1956)
The Killing (1956) After getting out of prison, Johnny Clay masterminds a complex race-track heist, but his scheme is complicated by the intervention of the wife of a teller (George Peatty) in on the scheme, the boyfriend of the wife, airport regulations, and a small dog.
Double Indemnity (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944) In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and
Human Desire (1954)
Human Desire (1954) Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, a
Niagara (1953)
Niagara (1953) George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. For one thing, after Loomis is reported missing Polly Cutler spies him at the motel but her husband Bud thinks she's imagining it. Marilyn sings &qu
The Roaring 20s Twenties (1939)
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Sirocco (1951)
Sirocco (1951) In 1925 Damascus Harry Smith runs guns to the rebels under Emir Hassan. The French arrest him along with others and force him to sell weapons to them. He develops an interest in French intelligence officer Feroud's mistress Violette.
Black Widow (1954)
Black Widow (1954) A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. At first thought to be a suicide, it is later discover
Sunset Blvd (1950)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man (1949) An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offer
Three Bad Sisters (1956)
Three Bad Sisters (1956) A millionaire dies in an airplane crash, leaving all of his money to be divided among his three daughters. One of the daughters doesn't want to share any of it, so she plans to get rid of her two sisters.
Man in the Dark (1953)
Man in the Dark (1953) A thug is convicted and undergoes experimental brain surgery to remove the criminal element in his brain. The operation wipes out all memories of his past life, including where he stashed the loot. He is abducted by his gang and they try to beat the truth out of him. His memor
The Sniper (1952)
The Sniper (1952) Apparently rejected by women all his life, a loner with a high-power rifle starts on a trail of murder. The police are baffled by the apparently random killings until their psychologist comes up with some ideas.
Notorious (1946)
Notorious (1946) 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 b
5 Against the House (1955)
Four college buddies enjoying a night at a Reno casino are told by a cop that robbing the casino "cannot be done." That gets the brainiest rich kid among them thinking up a plan for the perfect robbery. He convinces the others to join in when they hear that it will only be a college hoax, his plan b
Crime of Passion (1957)
Crime of Passion (1957) 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 ca
D.O.A. (1949)
D.O.A. (1949) Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he's been given a
The Unholy Wife (1957)
The Unholy Wife (1957) Wealthy vintner Paul Hochen meets blonde bombshell Phyllis in a bar...and marries her. In due course, Phyllis is bored by Paul, and finds an exciting new lover in rodeo rider San. To adjust matters, she forms a murderous scheme, which seems to be going wrong...or is it? Will i
Clash by Night (1952)
Clash by Night 1952 The bitter and cynical Mae Doyle returns to the fishing village where she was raised after deceptive loves and life in New York She meets her brother, the fisherman Joe Doyle, and he lodges her in his home Mae is courted by Jerry DAmato, a good and naive man that owns the boat wh
Road House (1948)
Road House (1948) Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Jefty is smitten with Lily, who in turn exerts her charms on the more resistant Pete. When Pete finally falls for her and she turns
The Garment Jungle (1957)
The Garment Jungle (1957) The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.
Girls in Prison (1956)
Girls in Prison 1956 Protesting innocence of course, 21 year old Anne Carson, convicted as an accomplice to a bank robbery, finds herself in prison with 3 equally glamorous cellmates in form fitting uniforms tough Jenny, unbalanced Dorothy, and deceptive, sweet talking Melanee who its implied makes