Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Film Noir: 128 Films to Rent on DVD
- 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.
- 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…
- Prowler, The (1951)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell…
- This underseen "perv noir" deliciously subverts archetypes by twisting its menacing male lead (a terrific Van Heflin) into a 'homme fatale', replete…
- Racket, The (1951)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott…
- An incorruptible police captain's attempts to clean up the streets of his town leads to confrontation with the local mob boss. Minor noir, previously…
- Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Marilyn Monroe
- Brute force and eloquent dishonesty intersect as different walks of low–life are helplessly drawn to the ultimate heist, engineered by German…
- Clouded Yellow, The (1950)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Kenneth More…
- Superior British noir with Howard as a jaded ex–secret service agent pressed into service when he falls for the charms of mysterious young…
- D.O.A. (1950)
- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Edmond O'Brien
- Edmund O'Brien finds himself the victim of a slow poison and sets about finding his own murderer. Impressively detailed film noir uses location…
- House by the River (1950)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt…
- Crime noir which chillingly evokes the Victorian era thanks to director Fritz Lang's characteristic attention to detail and mood.
When a rich…
- In a Lonely Place (1950)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame
- Hot–headed Hollywood writer Humphrey Bogart is suspected of murder by his new girlfriend and old army pal detective. Gutsy psycho–drama…