Undercurrent (1946)
Middle aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband
Cry of the City (1948)
Police Lieut Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop killer Martin Rome
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
An ex bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife
Niagara (1953)
As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
After being hired to find an ex cons former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the others most hated person
No Mans Woman (1955)
The police investigates five possible suspects in the murder of a greedy and scheming woman who wronged them
Sirocco (1951)
A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household
D.O.A. (1949)
Frank Bigelow, told hes been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why
Hangover Square (1945)
A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer and by the strange gaps in his memory
He Walked by Night (1948)
This film noir piece, told in semi documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop
Rope of Sand (1949)
A man abused by a sadistic mining company cop before he could tell where on their desert property hed found diamonds decides to steal them instead
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout
Private Hell 36 (1954)
When 2 detectives steal 80,000 from a dead robber, one of them suffers from a guilty conscience which could lead to murder
Ransom! (1956)
After the child of wealthy parents gets abducted, the police and a member of the press intervene to assist the parents in their search but end up complicating their impending decisions
Gaslight (1944)
Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife
Crime of Passion (1957)
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs Her drive to advance Bills career soon takes her down a dangerous path
The Big Knife (1955)
Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover up to protect his valuable career
Violent Saturday (1955)
Three hoodlums carefully case a small town while planning to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday On Saturday, things turn violent and deadly
The Killing (1956)
Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery
The Sound of Fury (1950)
A man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
A self proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the 10,000 hed stolen in a robbery
Dial M for Murder (1954)
A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife
Tight Spot (1955)
A female inmate is whisked out of prison and into a police guarded hotel until the district attorney can convince her to testify against the mob
Spellbound 1945
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory
Sunset Blvd (1950)
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious great whatsit
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
A mentally disturbed handyman on the run, for reasons even he doesnt understand, takes a job at the house of a lonely war widow in 1918
Mildred Pierce (1945)
A hard working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter
The Woman in the Window (1944)
A reserved professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I
Little Caesar (1931)
A small time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune
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
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids
The Naked City (1948)
A step by step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York
Secret Beyond the Door
After a lovely woman and her new husband settle in an ancient mansion on the East coast, she discovers that he may want to kill her
White Heat 1949
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist