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10 titles. 1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Western. 8.2. Rate. 98 Metascore. Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
3 days ago · An ex-con finds himself drawn into that one last job. For the sake of this list, we’ve highlighted the top-reviewed films from the classic film noir era, roughly defined as starting in 1940 and...
Apr 6, 2024 · These films, including The Maltese Falcon (1941), Out of the Past (1947) and In a Lonely Place (1950), among others, were pivotal in defining what we now know as film...
- The Lady from Shanghai (1948) Orson Welles was given the chance to direct again after his falling out at RKO and he produced The Stranger (1946), a solid film noir that starred Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young.
- Laura (1944) Of all the women of film noir, Gene Tierney was perhaps the most alluring, and the 1944 film Laura, directed by Otto Preminger, is a great vehicle for her talents.
- Mildred Pierce (1945) Warner Brothers, with its emphasis on crime and social problem films, was one of the earliest and most successful studios to make noir films.
- The Woman in the Window (1944) Many characters in film noir based their actions on deeply seeded psychological motivations, and nowhere is this more evident than in The Woman in the Window, directed by German emigre Fritz Lang, who made a number of classic films in Germany (such as Metropolis and M) before fleeing Hitler.
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1. The Arnelo Affair (1947) Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. 5.8. Rate. A lawyer's wife starts an affair with a mobster but is confronted by his other flame who ends up murdered and the adulterous wife is set up to take the blame for the killing.
Nov 22, 2017 · 1940: Stranger on the Third Floor. Director: Boris Ingster. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) Latvian-born Boris Ingster only ever directed three films (he later became a TV producer on shows such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ), but the first of these is an acorn from which the great oak of film noir would grow.
Aug 12, 2023 · 15 Nightmare Alley (1947) 20th Century Fox. Nightmare Alley is the circus noir movie that inspired the recent Guillermo Del Toro film of the same name. Tyrone Power stars as Stan, a con...
