Bud Corliss, a handsome college boy is so obsessed with wealth that he'll do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend Dorothy gets pregnant and is threatened with disinheritance, Bud stages her suicide, sending her plummeting from the roof of a high-rise. It's the perfect crime; until Dorothy's sister Ellen begins to unravel Bud's deadly scheme. A classic ‘hommefatale', that's still tense and creepy over half a century after its original release. find out more...

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 medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway. A dark and gritty thriller. find out more...

Slick gangster flick with the inimitable Bogey as hard-nosed DA Martin Ferguson. With his prime witnesses being murdered one by one, cracking the underworld gang responsible looks impossible, till he meets Teresa, the one who got away. Stylishly shot with great atmosphere and slyly witty script. 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...