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1. Angels Over Broadway. 1940 1h 19m Approved. 6.5 (1.3K) Rate. A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting. Director Ben Hecht Lee Garmes Stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Rita Hayworth Thomas Mitchell. 2. City for Conquest.
4 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...
- 15 Nightmare Alley
- 14 Kiss Me, Deadly
- 13 Out of The Past
- 12 Sweet Smell of Success
- 11 The Big Sleep
- 10 Touch of Evil
- 9 Double Indemnity
- 8 The Night of The Hunter
- 7 The Maltese Falcon
- 6 The Killing
Nightmare Alleyis the circus noir movie that inspired the recent Guillermo Del Toro film of the same name. Tyrone Power stars as Stan, a con man who is part of a circus and wants to learn from Mademoiselle Zeena’s "mental powers". After killing her husband (maybe involuntarily), Stan leaves with his lover and goes to Chicago to start his own scheme...
A tough private eye named Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) picks up an almost naked mysterious hitchhiker (Cloris Leachman in one of her first roles ever). When she ends up dead, and he ends up in the hospital after some bad guys get to them, Hammer decides to solve the mystery. That’s the start of Kiss Me, Deadly,one of the weirdest noir movies as what ...
Out of the Pastis as exemplary noir film as they come. Robert Mitchum plays the tough detective, that drinks too much and gives voice-over exposition and whose past comes to get him one last time. Kirk Douglas plays the mobster who knows all his secrets and makes him get dirtier, and Jane Greer plays the femme fatale. The movie is dark, sad, violen...
Taking the realm of noir and moving it to the world of journalism to show how the game can be played by dirty, seedy men without morals was a fascinating ride. With a towering Burt Lancaster performance as the man behind the curtain, calling the shots, and a desperate Tony Curtis battling it out to move up in the world, The Sweet Smell of Successis...
The Big Sleep is one of the best Raymond Chandler books and one of his best adaptations, as Humphrey Bogart becomes Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall is the femme fatale. As with many Chandler stories, the mystery resolution is the least important part. Howard Hawkes’ direction, the incredible Chandler dialogue, and the absolutely incredible chemist...
Touch of Evil was one of the last classical film noirs ever made as the genre concluded in 1959. It was also one the best possible ways to end the genre as the film has all the characteristics of a great noir film with some modern touches by director Orson Welles. The film is still known as one of the best movie beginnings ever, with a unique three...
One of Billy Wilder’s strongest assets as a director is his ability to find bursts of comic joy and playfulness amidst films ripe with cynicism. Double Indemnityisn’t just a mysterious noir with a multilayered plot scheme that at times confuses its audience. It's also an anti-capitalist dig and the dangers of getting lost in your work. With a stack...
The multi-faceted, layered, and haunting noir from Charles Laughton was much maligned by critics upon its release but, in recent years it has come back to retain its status as a seminal work from the longtime actor whose only chance to direct was The Night of The Hunter. Dark for its subject matter at the time, Robert Mitchum plays the killer preac...
The reliable cool of Humphrey Bogart is itself, a staple of noir. In John Huston’s powerful debut as a filmmaker, he directed one of the greatest noir mysteries of all time, The Maltese Falcon. Packed with eloquently hard-boiled dialogue where no line is spared, slowly moving the tightly wound and mysterious plot with double-crosses and murders abo...
The lone noir in Stanley Kubrick’s historic filmography is a slaughterhouse of nihilism where every player is liable to kill or be killed. With a steely Sterling Hayden in the center, he rallies a troop of desperate criminals to perform a daring heist at the horse track. Kubrick opts for an approach only he would take, by focusing on the build-up b...
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- The Night of the Hunter (1955) One of the most interesting films of the decade, The Night of the Hunter is notable as the only film directed by the great English actor Charles Laughton.
- Gun Crazy (1950) A precursor to Bonnie and Clyde, Gun Crazy is the story of Bart Tare (John Dall) a troubled young man who is good with a gun who meets sharpshooter Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) when they work together at a carnival.
- The Hitchhiker (1953) For years, film directing was a totally male dominated profession, and The Hitchhiker is rare in that it was directed by a woman, actress Ida Lupino.
- In a Lonely Place (1950) The difference between 1940’s and 1950’s film noir is never more evident than in In a Lonely Place, starring Humphrey Bogart as ‘Dix’ Steele, a down on his luck screenwriter.
- 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.
Apr 6, 2024 · While film noir refers specifically to the mid-20th century films that adhered to certain thematic and stylistic conventions, neo-noir is a term used to describe films produced after...
Apr 1, 2024 · This post is all about the best 1950s film noir movies. Hard boiled detectives, sexy femme fatales, a heist that that is likely to go wrong… if you're a fan of film noir movies, you know there isn't another genre quite like it. We pulled together 20 of our favorite 1950s film noir movies.
