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  1. Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. 6.8. Rate. An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself. Director: Boris Ingster | Stars: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron.

  2. 5 days ago · Sunset Boulevard (1950)98%. #5. Critics Consensus: Arguably the greatest movie about Hollywood, Billy Wilder's masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, black comedy, and character study. Synopsis: An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended.

    • 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.
  3. Where Danger Lives (1950) Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller. A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman, becomes involved in her husband's death, and must flee with her to the Mexican border. Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Claude Rains, Faith Domergue, Maureen O'Sullivan.

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  5. Because the 1940s and 1950s are universally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir, films released prior to 1940 are listed under the caption "Precursors / early noir-like films". Films released after 1959 should generally only be listed in the list of neo-noir titles .

  6. Aug 12, 2023 · 5 The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Loews Cineplex Entertainment. Straddling the thin line between pulp and melodrama, which the best noir films can do, The Asphalt Jungle is a cold, economical crime ...

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