Subgenre Sampler
      Film Noir: 241 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
Hitch-Hiker, The (1953) 
- Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman 
- Weekend hunters Edmond O’Brien (D.O.A.) and Frank Lovejoy are terrorised by a psychotic, mass–murdering passenger (William Talman) in this…
 
Pickup On South Street (1953)
 
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Widmark 
- Pick–pocket Richard Widmark inadvertently steals a micro–film and becomes a fugitive from both police and spies. Vivid espionage thriller…
 
Angel Face (1952) 
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons 
- Jean Simmons is a woman possessed in this quietly unconventional film noir, playing a take–no–prisoners femme fatale who systematically…
 
Clash by Night (1952) 
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe 
- Simmering jealousies in a run–down fishing village provide downbeat fare from the pen of Clifford Odets. With Barbara Stanwyk, Robert Ryan and…
 
Kansas City Confidential (1952) 
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray… 
- A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld.
Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
 
Narrow Margin (1952)
 
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White… 
- A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles. 
 
Scandal Sheet (1952) 
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek 
- When the editor of a sensationalist newspaper commits an accidental murder, his own staff start to report on the case, and gradually inch closer to…
 
Sniper, The (1952)
 
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr… 
- Film noir shot on location in San Francisco, with Arthur Franz (THE CAINE MUTINY) playing a disturbed professional driver who harbours misogynistic…
 
He Ran All The Way (1951) 
- Dir. John Berry
Feat. John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford 
- Tense film noir features John Garfield as a bank robber on the run and Shelly Winters as the woman who takes him into her home. Garfield's final…
 
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
 
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond… 
- Grimly rewarding noir, with real–life tough guy Robert Ryan in one of his best roles.
As a cop helping with a protracted rural manhunt, he…