Noir Movies

Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Movies

Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David...

Crossfire
Crossfire
Movies

Crossfire (1947) is a film noir drama film which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement. The film was directed...

The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend
Movies

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 motion picture directed by Billy Wilder for Paramount Pictures, starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry. The film was based on a novel of the same title...

Gattaca
Gattaca
Musical Albums, Movies

Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Gore Vidal and...

The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate
Movies

The Manchurian Candidate is a Cold War political thriller film adapted by George Axelrod from the 1959 thriller novel, by Richard Condon. It was directed by John Frankenheimer and starred...

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Movies

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a pre-Code 1932 crime/drama film in which Paul Muni stars as a wrongfully accused escapee from a chain gang. The film was written by Howard J. Green and...

Touch of Evil
Touch of Evil
Movies

Touch of Evil is a black-and-white American film, written, directed and co-starring Orson Welles. Paul Monash and Franklin Coen also wrote scenes for the film. The screenplay was loosely...

Kiss Me Deadly
Kiss Me Deadly
Movies

Kiss Me Deadly is a film noir drama produced and directed by Robert Aldrich starring Ralph Meeker. The screenplay was written by A.I. Bezzerides, based on the Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer...

The Third Man
The Third Man
Books, Movies

The Third Man is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles. The screenplay was written by novelist Graham Greene...

Detour
Detour
Movies

Detour is a film noir cult classic that stars Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, and Edmund MacDonald. The movie was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney from...

Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity
Movies, Books

Double Indemnity is an Academy Award nominated film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. The movie was directed by Billy Wilder and adapted by Wilder and...

Force of Evil
Force of Evil
Movies

Force of Evil is a film noir directed by Abraham Polonsky who had already achieved a name for himself as a scriptwriter, most notably for gritty boxing film Body and Soul . Like Body and...

Fury
Fury
Movies

Fury is a 1936 drama film which tells the story of an innocent man who narrowly escapes being lynched and the revenge he seeks. Directed by Fritz Lang, the film was released by...

Gun Crazy
Gun Crazy
Movies

Gun Crazy is a film noir feature film starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. The film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and...

The Hitch-Hiker
The Hitch-Hiker
Movies

The Hitch-Hiker is a film noir directed by Ida Lupino about two hunting buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker. The movie was written by Robert L. Joseph, Lupino and her husband...

Laura
Laura
Movies

Laura is a American film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney as Laura, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson. The movie was based on Vera...

Meshes of the Afternoon
Meshes of the Afternoon
Movies

Meshes of the Afternoon is a short experimental film directed by wife and husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The film's narrative is circular, and repeats a number of...

Suspicion
Suspicion
Movies

Suspicion is a romantic psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also stars Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame...

The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter
Movies

The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 film noir, starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters, and the only film Charles Laughton ever directed. The film is based on the novel of the same name by...

Out of the Past
Out of the Past
Movies

Out of the Past is a film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur. The movie was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring ...

Rope
Rope
Movies

Rope is a 1948 film written by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger. It is the first of...

Scarface
Scarface
Movies

Scarface is a 1932 gangster film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins,...

Shadow of a Doubt
Shadow of a Doubt
Movies

Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville. It stars Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey...

Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard
Movies

Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir classic. Directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, it was named after the famous boulevard of the same name that runs through Los Angeles and...

Sweet Smell of Success
Sweet Smell of Success
Movies

Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists. It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and stars Burt...

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