7.1 The Sniper1952

Genres: Film-Noir, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Actors: Marie Windsor, Gerald Mohr, Arthur Franz, Richard Kiley

Apparently rejected by women all his life, a loner with a high-power rifle starts on a trail of murder...

8.2 The Night of the Hunter1955

Genres: Film-Noir, Thriller, Drama

Director: Charles Laughton

Actors: Shelley Winters, Harry Powell, Robert Mitchum, Peter Graves

A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

8.2 The Night Of The Hunter1955

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir

Director: Charles Laughton

Actors: Ben Harper, Peter Graves, Robert Mitchum, Harry Powell

A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

7.4 The Lineup1958

Genres: Film-Noir, Crime, Drama

Director: Don Siegel

Actors: William Leslie, Mary LaRoche, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Keith

8.7 Sunset Boulevard1950

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Billy Wilder

Actors: Lloyd Gough, Fred Clark, Nancy Olson, Erich von Stroheim

The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and tota ...

6.5 Shockproof1949

Genres: Film-Noir, Crime, Drama

Director: Douglas Sirk

Actors: Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Esther Minciotti, Russell Collins

Jenny Marsh, still dangerously attractive after 5 years in prison for killing a man in defense of her shady lover Harry...

7.3 Scandal Sheet1952

Genres: Film-Noir, Romance, Crime, Thriller

Director: Phil Karlson

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek, Jonathan Hale

The editor of a New York exploitation newspaper meets the wife he had abandoned years ago, while using another name...

7.3 Murder By Contract1958

Genres: Film-Noir, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Director: Irving Lerner

Actors: Gloria Victor, Don Garrett, Davis Roberts, Janet Brandt

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.

7 I Am Waiting1957

Genres: Film-Noir, Crime, Drama

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara

Actors: Hideaki Nitani, Kenjiro Uemura, Mie Kitahara, Isamu Kosugi

8.6 Double Indemnity1944

Genres: Film-Noir, Crime, Thriller

Director: Billy Wilder

Actors: Fortunio Bonanova, Porter Hall, Edward Hearn, Richard Gaines

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

7.7 Detective Story1951

Genres: Film-Noir, Crime, Drama

Director: William Wyler

Actors: Lee Grant, George Macready, Luis Van Rooten, Frank Faylen

On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.

5.9 5 Against the House1955

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Phil Karlson

Actors: Guy Madison, Jean Willes, Kim Novak, Brian Keith

Four college buddies enjoy a night at a Reno casino and overhear a cop saying that robbing the casino...

9.7 Touch Of Evil1958

Genres: Comedy, Film-Noir, Thriller

Director: Orson Welles

Actors: Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh

Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town.

9.7 Sunset Boulevard1950

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Billy Wilder

Actors: Fred Clark, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

9.7 Shadow Of A Doubt1943

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Actors: Macdonald Carey, Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Patricia Collinge

A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.

9.7 Laura1988

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Director: Otto Preminger

Actors: Judith AndersonOtto Preminger, Vincent Price, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

9.7 Ace In The Hole1951

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Billy Wilder

Actors: Frank Cady, Porter Hall, Robert Arthur, Jan Sterling

A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

8.3 Notorious1946

Genres: Thriller, Romance, Film-Noir

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Actors: Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman

A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

8.3 Notorious1946

Genres: Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Actors: Cary Grant, Louis Calhern, Moroni Olsen, Claude Rains

A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?