Plot:
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Tag: Film-Noir
Touch of Evil 1958 • Movie
Plot:
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 • Movie
Plot:
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Scandal Sheet 1952 • Movie
Plot:
The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.
The Fallen Idol 1949 • Movie
Plot:
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 • Movie
Plot:
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
I Want to Live! 1958 • Movie
Plot:
A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
The Mailbag Robbery 1957 • Movie
Plot:
Ronnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on ‘The Flying Scotsman’ passenger train. The train is carrying withdrawn bank notes from Scotland to London to be destroyed.
T-Men 1948 • Movie
Plot:
Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
Too Late for Tears 1949 • Movie
Plot:
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Pushover 1954 • Movie
Plot:
An undercover police officer falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run, and together they plan to double-cross the hood and the cops.
The Set-Up 1949 • Movie
Plot:
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
House of Bamboo 1955 • Movie
Plot:
Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
Don’t Bother to Knock 1952 • Movie
Plot:
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she’s dangerous.
The Asphalt Jungle 1950 • Movie
Plot:
A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.
Double Indemnity 1944 • Movie
Plot:
A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
The Maltese Falcon 1941 • Movie
Plot:
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
Cell 2455, Death Row 1955 • Movie
Plot:
Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin’s Death Row, a story he had told in a autobiography that became a sensational best-seller. As a boy, the young Whit stole groceries to help feed his impoverished family, later moving on into major crime to impress a young gang moll, Jo-Anne, and turns into a cold-blooded thug when he is repudiated by the girl he loves, Doll. And by his own lawyer when he is arrested and tried as the infamous Lover’s Lane Bandit. In cell 2455, he studies law to the point where he wins stay after stay, twice within minutes of his scheduled execution.
Stranger on the Third Floor 1940 • Movie
Plot:
An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner’s throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.
Sorry, Wrong Number 1948 • Movie
Plot:
While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and attempts to prevent it.
I Walk Alone 1948 • Movie
Plot:
Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn’t prepare Frankie for Big Business.
The Lady from Shanghai 1948 • Movie
Plot:
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O’Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.