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  • Out of the Past
    United States - 1947
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    Mitchum stars as existential antihero Jeff Markham, a retired private detective with a shady past who is hoping for a fresh start with a new name, a new love, and a new ...
  • Double Indemnity
    United States - 1944
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    Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife (Barbara Stanwyck) encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy ...
  • Sunset Boulevard
    United States - 1950
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    A bankrupt screenwriter (William Holden) takes refuge in the mansion of a faded star (Gloria Swanson) of the silent era, in order to escape the debt-collectors who are ...
  • Touch of Evil
    United States - 1958
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    An unseen man sets the timer on an explosive device. The clock starts ticking down as soon as he stashes it in the boot of a fancy-looking car. Immediately afterwards, a ...
  • The Maltese Falcon
    United States - 1941
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    Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye who gets involved in the hunt for a statuette while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). ...
  • The Big Sleep
    United States - 1946
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    It tells the story of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), hired by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to deal with a blackmailer. The General has two ...
  • Key Largo
    United States - 1948
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    Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in the war. He plans to ...
  • White Heat
    United States - 1949
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    Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma', Cody is a volatile, violent, and ...
  • The Killers
    United States - 1946
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    Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede", who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against ...
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
    United States - 1946
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    Set during the Depression, this story concerns an older man and his attractive young wife, who take on drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) as an employee at their ...
  • Angel Face
    United States - 1953
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    Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne, who ...
  • Scarface
    United States - 1932
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    Big Louis Costillo, last of the old-style gang leaders is slain, and his former bodyguard Tony Camonte is taken into custody. Since Costillo's body has never been found, ...
  • Chinatown
    United States - 1974
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    It is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes ...
  • Miller's Crossing
    United States - 1990
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    The 20s. An Irish gangster (Albert Finney) and his trusted lieutenant (Gabriel Byrne) and counselor find their domination of the town threatened by an ambitious Italian ...
  • L.A. Confidential
    United States - 1997
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    Take strong performances, an involved story and period atmosphere, then throw in sex, violence, corruption and politics to make one hell of a crime drama. It’s the early ...
  • Where Danger Lives
    United States - 1950
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    Medical intern Jeff treats and falls for suicidal Margo, who neglects to tell him she is married. After a run-in with her husband, Jeff, who suffers a blow to the head, ...
  • The Woman in the Window
    United States - 1944
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    Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the woman while ...
  • Scarlet Street
    United States - 1945
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    New York, year 1934. Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild mannered bank clerk, celebrates his 25 years of service, but he is unhappy with his dead end job and his ...
  • The Big Heat
    United States - 1953
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    Dave Bannion is an upright but unscrupulous cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's ...
  • The Third Man
    United Kingdom - 1949
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    Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his friend, Harry Lime. When he finds that Lime has just been killed in a ...
  • Laura
    United States - 1944
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    Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for ...
  • The Asphalt Jungle
    United States - 1950
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    Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a ...
  • Gilda
    United States - 1946
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    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 ...
  • The Lady From Shanghai
    United States - 1947
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    A seaman, Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles), is hired as a crew member on the yacht of the wealthy Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane). His beautiful but mysterious wife Elsa ...
  • Body Heat
    United States - 1981
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    In this humid, atmospheric film noir, a sweltering summer in south Florida sets the stage for a dark romance between attorney Ned Racine (William Hurt) and sexy Matty ...
  • The Killing
    United States - 1956
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    Based on Lionel White's crime novel 'Clean Break'. Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from a San Francisco racetrack. He assembles ...
  • High Sierra
    United States - 1941
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    Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed ...
  • Detour
    United States - 1945
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    Low budget director Edgar G. Ulmer cemented his reputation with this downbeat film noir masterpiece. It has since inspired countless filmmakers. The use of minimal sets ...
  • Killing Them Softly
    United States - 2012
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    Frankie and Russell, two not-too-bright ex-cons, are hired by John "The Squirrel" Amato to disrupt a high-stakes backroom poker game, rob the players and frame someone ...
  • Angels With Dirty Faces
    United States - 1938
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    Gangster Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) returns from prison to make a name for himself in the crime world. He's soon discovered by the Dead End Kids, who idolize him, and ...
  • This Gun for Hire
    United States - 1942
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    Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen ...
  • To Have and Have Not
    United States - 1944
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    Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) is the owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet ...
  • Detective Story
    United States - 1951
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    On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem him; ...
  • The Public Enemy
    United States - 1931
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    A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.
  • The Roaring Twenties
    United States - 1939
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    After WWI, three war veterans, Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), and George Hally (Humphrey Bogart), go back to their lives in the United States ...
  • They Live by Night
    United States - 1948
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    In the '30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to ...
  • The Harder They Fall
    United States - 1956
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    Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although ...
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends
    United States - 1950
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    Cop Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) is already in trouble with his superiors for his brutal tactics when he accidentally kills a murder suspect. To protect himself, he decides ...
  • Kansas City Confidential
    United States - 1952
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    Phil Karlson's low budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster. He devises an ...
  • Shadow of a Doubt
    United States - 1943
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    Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting wold happen and knows exactly what ...
  • Strangers on a Train
    United States - 1951
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    En route from Washington D.C., champion tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy playboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). What begins as a chance encounter ...
  • The Big Clock
    United States - 1948
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    Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing ...
  • Thieves' Highway
    United States - 1949
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    A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
  • Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
    United States - 1950
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    From the trial of the survivors, we flash back to amoral crook Ralph Cotter's violent prison break, assisted by Holiday Carleton, sister of another prisoner...who doesn't ...
  • The Unsuspected
    United States - 1947
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    A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Her uncle hosts a radio murder mystery show called "The Unsuspected". Who killed the ...
  • Death of a Cyclist
    Spain - 1955
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    Geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress Maria José, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist, and run. The resulting tale ...
  • High and Low
    Japan - 1963
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    It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan, ...
  • The Bad Sleep Well
    Japan - 1960
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    A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro ...
  • Rififi
    France - 1955
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    Tony le Stéphanois (Jean Servais) is a grim, hardboiled crook fresh from a stretch in stir for the noble gesture of taking a rap for his younger buddy Jo le Suedois (Carl ...
  • Drunken Angel
    Japan - 1948
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    A drunken doctor with a hot temper works in a village whose most prominent geographical feature is a disease-ridden sump. Businesses and social life are infected by the ...
  • Stray Dog
    Japan - 1949
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    Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without ...
  • Red Fish
    Spain - 1955
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    Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, turn up at a provincial hotel on a stormy night. They have come from Madrid with Carlos, Hugo’s son, born nineteen years ...
  • The Red Circle
    France - 1970
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    Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing ...
  • The Finger Man
    France - 1962
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    Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, ...
  • Night and the City
    United Kingdom - 1950
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    Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the ...
  • Elevator to the Gallows
    France - 1958
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    Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. But after Julien has killed him and he puts his things ...
  • The Samurai
    France - 1967
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    Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen ...
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
    United States - 1981
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    Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and soon begins an affair with ...
  • The Untouchables
    United States - 1987
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    Kevin Costner is idealistic federal agent Eliot Ness, whose assignment to clean up Prohibition-era Chicago leads to violence and manly questions about upholding the law. ...
  • The Last Seduction
    United Kingdom - 1994
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    Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) seems to have it all: beauty, intelligence and a marriage to Clay, a wealthy physician (Bill Pullman). But everything isn't enough for ...
  • Devil in a Blue Dress
    United States - 1995
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    It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt ...
  • Mulholland Falls
    United States - 1996
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    Gritty and powerful crime drama about four no-nonsense cops who form an elite task force within the LAPD. The murder of a well-connected seductress swings the true-life ...
  • The Man Who Wasn't There
    United States - 2001
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    In the summer of 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), the local barber in a small northern California town, is dissatisfied with his life. In the hopes of turning his ...
  • Road to Perdition
    United States - 2002
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    The Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John Rooney (Paul Newman). The ...
  • Brick
    United States - 2005
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    Brendan Fry is a loner at his high school, someone who knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he plunges into ...
  • Sin City (Frank Miller's Sin City)
    United States - 2005
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    A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a ...
  • The Black Dahlia
    United States - 2006
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    Los Angeles, year 1947. Two policemen, friends and former boxers, Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) are in love with the same woman, the ...
  • Gangster Squad
    United States - 2013
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    Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the ...
  • Marshland
    Spain - 2014
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    Spain in the early 80s. Two young girls disappear from a town deep in the Guadalquivir wetlands. Two detectives are sent from Madrid; both use very different methods and ...
  • Blast of Silence
    United States - 1961
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    Having been 'away' for some time professional killer Frankie Bono returns to New York to do another job: assassinate some mid-level mobster. Although intending to avoid ...
  • The Locket
    United States - 1946
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    Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.
  • The Prowler
    United States - 1951
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    Webb Garwood is a cynical policeman who believes that success comes from lucky breaks. Responding to a prowler complaint at the home of Susan Gilvray, he is immediately ...
  • Born to Kill
    United States - 1947
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    In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but says nothing to the police; she's ...
  • Pickup on South Street
    United States - 1953
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    While on the subway to deliver a piece of film she believes contains corporate secrets, Candy's wallet is stolen by Skip McCoy. The film actually contains government ...
  • Gun Crazy
    United States - 1950
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    Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival, where he meets the perfect girl, Annie, a ...
  • The Big Combo
    United States - 1955
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    Police Lt. Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) because it's costing the department too much money ...
  • The Narrow Margin
    United States - 1952
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    When a mobster's wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that she's coming to trial she has to be escorted across ...
  • Woman on the Run
    United States - 1950
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    Frank Johnson, sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible ...
  • The Blue Gardenia
    United States - 1953
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    Anne Baxter is a telephone operator who believes she committed murder when she was drinking away the tears of a broken romance. Too much rum with Raymond Burr, a ...
  • In a Lonely Place
    United States - 1950
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    Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later ...
Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • Out of the Past
  • Double Indemnity
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Touch of Evil
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Big Sleep
  • Key Largo
  • White Heat
  • The Killers
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
  • Angel Face
  • Scarface
  • Chinatown
  • Miller's Crossing
  • L.A. Confidential
  • Where Danger Lives
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Scarlet Street
  • The Big Heat
  • The Third Man
  • Laura
  • The Asphalt Jungle
  • Gilda
  • The Lady From Shanghai
  • Body Heat
  • The Killing
  • High Sierra
  • Detour
  • Killing Them Softly
  • Angels With Dirty Faces
  • This Gun for Hire
  • To Have and Have Not
  • Detective Story
  • The Public Enemy
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • They Live by Night
  • The Harder They Fall
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Kansas City Confidential
  • Shadow of a Doubt
  • Strangers on a Train
  • The Big Clock
  • Thieves' Highway
  • Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  • The Unsuspected
  • Death of a Cyclist
  • High and Low
  • The Bad Sleep Well
  • Rififi
  • Drunken Angel
  • Stray Dog
  • Red Fish
  • The Red Circle
  • The Finger Man
  • Night and the City
  • Elevator to the Gallows
  • The Samurai
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
  • The Untouchables
  • The Last Seduction
  • Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Mulholland Falls
  • The Man Who Wasn't There
  • Road to Perdition
  • Brick
  • Sin City (Frank Miller's Sin City)
  • The Black Dahlia
  • Gangster Squad
  • Marshland
  • Blast of Silence
  • The Locket
  • The Prowler
  • Born to Kill
  • Pickup on South Street
  • Gun Crazy
  • The Big Combo
  • The Narrow Margin
  • Woman on the Run
  • The Blue Gardenia
  • In a Lonely Place
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