Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Film Noir: 142 Films to Buy & Rent
- Blue Dahlia, The (1946)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
- Riveting Raymond Chandler noir teams Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in their third on–screen pairing as an ex–bomber pilot accused of…
- Crime Wave (w/ Decoy) (1946-1954)
- Dir. Andre De Toth, Jack Bernhard
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk…
- Sterling Hayden burns a hole through the screen in this hard–boiled, viciously paced noir about a botched robbery and the ensuing manhunt.…
- Dark Corner (1946)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens…
- Expert film noir concerns a private detective (Stevens) living under the shadow of a murder frame–up concocted by villain Clifton Webb (LAURA).…
- Dark Mirror, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres
- Playing twin sisters with obvious relish, Olivia de Havilland is the chiefsuspect in a murder investigation who confounds the prosecution with a pair…
- Dragonwyck (1946)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Walter Huston
- 1940s gothic thriller. Gene Tierney gets married to the local lord of the manor, before discovering the skeletons in the closet of his big spooky…
- Gilda (1946)
- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
- Rita Hayworth defines the femme fatale for Hollywood in this sassy love–triangle musical set in Latin America. Glenn Ford and George Macready…
- Killers, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner
- Textbook film noir has insurance investigator Edmund O'Brien auditing the curious death of prize–fighter Burt Lancaster, in a series of…
- Leave Her to Heaven (1946)
- Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde
- Beware the beautiful woman! Gene Tierney makes a gorgeous yet domesticated vamp whose suffocating personality mutates into murderous frustration.…
- Man I Love, The (1946)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett…
- Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
- MGM Film Noir Collection (The Stranger, He Walked By Night, He Ran All The Way, Odds Against Tomorrow ) (1946-1959)
- Dir. Orson Welles, John Berry, Robert Wise
- Four vintage film noirs from the MGM vault.