Keyword: film noir

Shadow on the Wall

6.6

1950

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A woman impulsively murders her sister after discovering she has been having an affair with her fiancé, and later plans on killing the little girl who may have witnessed the crime.

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.

While the City Sleeps

7

1956

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A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the first of his senior executives who can get the earliest scoops on the case.

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.

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.

Dark City

6.7

1950

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An Inspector Calls

10

1954

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When a young girl is found dead an inspector is sent to investigate a prosperous Yorkshire household. It emerges that each member of the family has a guilty secret - each one is partly responsible for her death.

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.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

5

1948

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A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

7.6

1946

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A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.

The Letter

7.7

1940

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The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.

The Man Who Cheated Himself

6.9

1950

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A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his newly-minted detective brother assigned to the case alongside him.