We alternately follow the story from two sides; that of Superman TV star George Reeves, who is carrying on a not so secret affair with Toni Mannix, the wife of a powerful, ill-tempered MGM executive; and that of private dick Simo (the ritual noirish fall guy), who is later hired to investigate Reeves' supposed suicide. Simo found few Hollywood insiders ready to cooperate and his digging discovered plenty to suggest that the actor did not take his own life. Hollywood Land is a dark murder mystery find out more...

Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, "Motherless Brooklyn" follows Lionel Essrog (Norton), a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome, as he ventures to solve his friend's murder. Armed only with a few clues and the powerful engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely-guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.

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A surprisingly effective movie version of Dennis Potter's seminal TV drama, that, considering the slicing and dicing involved to squeeze the original story down to a 95 minute running time, captures the surreal essence of the original. find out more...

Already in trouble with his superiors over his brutal tactics and alienated from his colleagues, detective Mark Dixon's problems pile up when he accidentally kills a murder suspect and then falls in love with the dead man's wife. Where The Sidewalk Ends is a dark atmospheric noir thriller, with a classic anti hero in the form of Dana Andrews and a suitably torturous path to redemption. find out more...

The wife of a successful psychoanalyst is arrested for shoplifting and only saved from any scandal by a somewhat dubious hypnotist, but what had at first seemed like a blessing gradually desends into blackmail and murder. Whirlpool is a classy slice of noir directed by Preminger and with a script by Ben Hecht. find out more...