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He Walked By Night
(1948) [PG]

A burglar becomes a cold-blooded cop killer and is hunted down on the streets of Los Angeles. The men in blue manage to track their suspect down into the bowels of the city--the labyrinth sewer system. Noir veteran Anthony Mann, though uncredited, co-directed the film. Well-done and supposedly an...  More

The Singing Detective (2003)
(2003) [MA]

Robert Downey Jr. stars as Dan Dark, a bedridden crime novelist writing about a private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band. The detective is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue during the murder investigation of a prostitute. Heavily medicated, the border between reality and...  More

Pickup on South Street
(1953) [PG]

Writer-director Samuel Fuller's film about a low-life, petty criminal is a nominally Anti-Communist B-pic and an American noir classic. Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eye on the big score but ends up with some top-secret microfilm that has the Feds and the Commies on his trail....  More

Pulp Cinema
(2001) [M]

The birth of so-called "hard-boiled" cinema, with is pulp plot and dark, sombre mood, is documented here in this exciting collection of theatrical trailers from some of pulp cinema/film noir's greatest hits. Featuring the gritty portrayal of down-and-outs on all sides of the law, film noir was...  More

Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)
(1959) [PG]

Landmark French movie that turns the tragi-comic story of a minor crim (Belmondo), obsessed with both Bogart and an aspiring American journo (Seberg), into a major masterpiece of fickle hedonism. Crafted with elusive spontaneity, Godard's nervy style still looks as good as ever.  More

Gilda
(1946) [PG]

Rita Hayworth sizzles alonside Glenn Ford and George Macready in Gilda, director Charles Vidor's classic noir set against a backdrop of high life and low characters in a Buenos Aires casino. Exuding sensuality and star power in a dazzling performance, Hayworth delivers lines like "If I'd been a...  More

The Blue Gardenia
(1953) [M]

Classic Hollywood film noir with a feminine twist. Nora is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier overseas. On her birthday, she gets a Dear John letter from him. Feeling despondent, she agrees to a date with a wolf from her office. He gets her drunk and leads her back to his apartment,...  More

Chinatown
(1974) [M]

A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her...  More

Dark Passage
(1947) [PG]

Bogey's on the lam and Bacall's at his side in Delmer Daves' stylish film-noir thriller that's the third of four films Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together. Bogart is Vincent Parry, a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face. Bacall is Irene...  More

Key Largo
(1948) [PG]

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank...  More