Keyword: film noir

The Naked City

7.7

1948

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A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.

Unmasked

5.7

1950

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Roger Lewis, publisher of a vicious scandal sheet, is in the habit of tricking wealthy, gullible women into investing in his ventures. His latest conquest is a shapely ex-showgirl, Doris King, the wife of Harry Jackson, once a top-flight producer. Jackson has lost all his money, but Doris still has her jewels, and she wants to divorce her husband and marry Lewis, who has no intentions of marrying her once he gets his hands on her (money) jewels. Jackson, concerned about Doris happiness and wanting to prevent her from ruining her life, takes the jewels. Then he becomes involved in a fight with Lewis, who takes his revenge by killing Doris and pinning suspicion on Jackson. Jackson goes into hiding and falls prey to a small-time crook, Biggie Wolfe, who is secretly in the pay of Lewis. Wolfe wants to sell the jewelry and keep the proceeds for himself, telling Jackson the money will serve to get him the services of a good lawyer, but Lewis wants Jackson found with the jewels on him, and he orders Biggie to return them. MEABWHILE, Jacksons daughter, Linda, instigates a police search for her father and Detective Lt. Jim Webster and his assistant Newcombe bring so much pressure on Jackson that he commits suicide. This lets Biggie off the hook reference returning the jewels and he looks up gangster Johnny Rocco, who does business at the place of an old Long Island sea-dog, Pop Swenson, and Rocco offers to buy the jewels IF Biggie will arrange a border-crossing for his brother Mort, who is set to break out of the state penitentiary. Lewis wrings this information out of Biggie and takes it to District Attorney George Richards, who warns the prison officials and Mort is killed in the attempted jail break. Rocco learns the source of the leak, is somewhat miffed at Big-Mouth Biggie, takes him for a ride, comes back alone and hatches a plot to get Lewis.

Pitfall

7.2

1948

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Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.

A Kiss Before Dying

6.8

1956

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A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.

Shield for Murder

6.9

1954

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When a brutal police detective Lt. murders a bookmakers runner for $25,000 in cash, a deaf mute sees him do it and now he finds he must kill again to cover his tracks.

Chase a Crooked Shadow

7

1958

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At Kimberley Prescotts villa, a stranger shows up and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident.

The Underworld Story

6

1950

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The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.

Detour

7.4

1945

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Chance events trap hitchhiking nightclub pianist Al Roberts in a tightening net of death, deception and blackmail.

Pickup on South Street

7.8

1953

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A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.

Ransom!

7.4

1956

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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.

The Steel Trap

6.4

1952

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A Los Angeles bank assistant-manager devises a plan to steal money from the banks vault and to flee to Brazil with his unsuspecting wife.

Ministry of Fear

7.2

1944

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Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.