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Subgenre Sampler

 
Christmas HolidayChristmas Holiday (1944)
Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly
Considered one of the bleakest Film Noirs of the 1940s, casting musical star Deanna Durbin in a rare serious role as a woman who marries an…
ConspiratorsConspirators (1944)
Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
A somewhat Casablanca–esque combination of wartime espionage and exotic romance, which even has some cast overlap. Paul Henreid stars as a…
GaslightGaslight (1944) Recommended
Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten
Menacing, atmospheric psycho–thriller in which Ingrid Bergman marries suave romantic Charles Boyer, unaware of his murderous obsession to find…
Ministry of FearMinistry of Fear (1944)
Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Fritz Lang's classic film noir focuses on a man who, upon being released from an insane asylum, unwittingly discovers a piece of microfilm intended…
Murder, My SweetMurder, My Sweet (Farewell, My Lovely) (1944) Recommended
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
An iconic 'noir' whose unsavoury storyline is taken from Raymond Chandler's classic novel. Powell plays a detective dragged into a murky case of…
Phantom LadyPhantom Lady (1944)
Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac
Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
Hangmen Also DieHangmen Also Die (1943)
Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee
Moody political thriller with Donlevy on the run after assassinating a prominent Nazi and finding shelter with a Czech family as the manhunt consumes…
Le CorbeauLe Corbeau (1943) Recommended
Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Pierre Fresnay
Fascinating as a wartime allegory made under the German Occupation of France, a small town becomes a hot–bed of paranoia following a rash of…
Ox Bow Incident, TheOx Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943) Recommended
Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford. Although…
Power of the PressPower of the Press (1943)
Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger
Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. During World War II, a newspaper publisher investigates the murder of a colleague, who was attempting to steer his…

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