Subgenre Sampler
Film Noir: 241 Films to Buy & Rent
This Gun for Hire (1942)
- Dir. Frank Tuttle
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston…
- Dynamite film noir, with Alan Ladd leaping to prominence as an unsmiling hitman embroiled in a vicious revenge quest for a traitorous confederate,…
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
- Dir. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Betty Grable
- Betty Grable tackles a dramatic role for this exciting whodunnit surrounding the murder of her sister. Quality film noir with a surprise twist in its…
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre…
- A remarkable debut from director Huston hires Bogart's detective Sam Spade to locate a priceless statuette. Prototype film noir based on Dashiell…
Angels Over Broadway (1940)
- Dir. Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
Feat. Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Rita Hayworth
- Off–beat melodrama about three of life's failures who redeem themselves in one night's gambling in a New York cafe.
They Drive by Night (1940)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Ida Lupino
- Freelance truckies Humphrey Bogart and George Raft do night–runs to deliver their cargo on time, making the first–half an…
Blind Alley (1939)
- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy
- A gangster escapes from prison and takes a psychiatrist hostage in this home–invasion film noir.
You Only Live Once (1937)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney
- An awesome early film noir from dir. Lang with Fonda playing a career criminal determined to go straight, but compelled by fate into murdering a…
Bogart Collection 1, The (They Drive By Night, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not)
- Feat. Humphrey Bogart
Bogart Collection 2, The (The Big Sleep, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Dark Passage)
- Feat. Humphrey Bogart
Pulp Cinema
- A sterling collection of film–noir movie trailers, including:
The Big Heat, The Big Knife, The Big Sleep, Grand Central Murder, I Am A…