Keyword: film noir
The Unknown Man
5.1
1951
Movie
HD
An attorney successfully defends a young hoodlum charged with murder but later has doubts about his clients innocence and starts investigating his background and associations.
The Unknown Man
Key Largo
7.8
1948
Movie
HD
A man visits his war buddys family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
Key Largo
The Unfaithful
5.8
1947
Movie
HD
A Los Angeles socialite kills a man while home alone one night and claims he was an intruder she did not know. It seems like a clear case of self defense until the story hits the papers and people connected to the dead man come forward.
The Unfaithful
Chicago Confidential
5
1957
Movie
HD
In Chicago, a crime syndicate tries to take over a labor union by killing its blow-whistler treasurer and framing the honest union boss for the murder.
Chicago Confidential
Strange Impersonation
6
1946
Movie
HD
A research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic finds herself being blackmailed by a woman she accidentally knocked down with her car; the woman wasnt hurt, but a scheming attorney has convinced her she can get a lot of money for the accident. Meanwhile, the scientists research assistant, who is in love with her boss boyfriend, arranges for an explosion in the laboratory that disfigures the scientists face, in order to take the boyfriend away from her. The scientist has plastic surgery to make her look like the woman who tried to blackmail her--who while struggling with the scientist fell out of a window and was killed--and determines to get back her boyfriend and punish her scheming assistant.
Strange Impersonation
Treasure of Monte Cristo
6
1949
Movie
HD
This modern tale borrows from an old story in establishing Langan, who works on a ship that docks in San Francisco, as a descendant of the Count of Monte Cristo. Crooked Lawyer Brodie sets up a scheme to get at the treasure of Langans famed ancestor, and using the beautiful blonde Jergens, tries to lure Langan into a trap. Langan proves worthy of his heritage, using a gun instead of a sword, and wins legitimately both his forturne and Jergens.
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Homicide
5.3
1949
Movie
HD
Detective Landers (Robert Douglas), of the Los Angeles Homicide Bureau, suspects murder when the body of a transient ranch hand is found in a sleazy Los Angeles hotel. Unable to be assigned officially to the case , Landers takes off on vacation, and goes to the swanky Glorietta Springs Hotel, a book of matches with that logo having been found at the scene of the murder, but ruled by the coroner as suicide. Other clues he has is a bad hangmans knot and a saccharin pill. There, he meets the bartender, Andy (Robert Alda), and the cigarette girl, Jo Ann Marlowe (Helen Westcott.) Following a tip from Jo Ann, he goes to a nearby ranch where the accidental death of the owner had recently occurred. He finds a piece of telephone wire, tracks it back and finds it leads to Andys room at the Gloriette Springs hotel. He also learns that Andy had a medical discharge from the Navy as a diabetes sufferer. Troubles and complications and an ambush follow.
Homicide
The Hot Month of August
6.4
1966
Movie
HD
A chance encounter with an international playboy and a clandestine affair with a cryptic married woman entangle an unsuspecting young man in a well-planned conspiracy. Has anyone emerged unscathed from the unbreakable shackles of passion?
The Hot Month of August
The House Across the Lake
5.3
1954
Movie
HD
An American writer living in England gets entangled in a scheme by a beautiful blonde to murder her rich husband.
The House Across the Lake
High Tide
5.4
1947
Movie
HD
A fast-moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles. It overturns and its occupants, Tim Slade, Newspaper man turned private investigator, and Hugh Fresney, managing editor of the Los Angeles Currier, are pinned underneath. Both are seriously injured and are unable to move. As they wait for the tide to come in and cover them, Fresney recounts that his boss, Clint VAughn has been killed, presumably by gangsters in the pay of Nick Dyke, who Fresney has fought against through his newspaper columns. Slade had been hired to avenge Fresney if Dykes gang killed him in retaliation, Slade, one-time sweetheart of Vaughns dipsomaniac wife Julie Vaughn, believed she still loved him, but he had fallen for Dana Jons, Vaughns beautiful secretary. Police Detective OHaffey investigated Vaughns death and unearthed several suspects, including Slade, Julie, Dykes and Dana, but Slade was not satisfied and looked elsewhere.
High Tide
The Killers
7.8
1946
Movie
HD
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
The Killers
One Way Street
6.5
1950
Movie
HD
After stealing a gangsters money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
One Way Street