Noir |
Almost Noir is our designation for films that have elements of noir but,
for any number of reasons, don't really fit. War films, gangster films,
and later 60s black and white are featured heavily in this category.
The Films |
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| The Actors |
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Little Caesar | Mervyn LeRoy | Edward G. Robinson | Glenda Farrell | |
Public Enemy | William Wellman | James Cagney | Mae Clarke | |
Beast of the City | Charles Brabin | Walter Huston | Jean Harlow | |
Scarface | Howard Hawks | Paul Muni | Ann Dvorak | |
Fury | Fritz Lang | Spencer Tracey | Sylvia Sidney | |
The Letter | William Wyler | Bette Davis | Herbert Marshall | |
Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | Joseph Cotten | |
Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart | Ingrid Bergman | |
Woman in the Window | Fritz Lang | Edward G. Robinson | Joan Bennett | |
The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | Ray Milland | Jane Wyman | |
Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz | Joan Crawford | Jack Carson | |
Scarlet Street | Fritz Lang | Edward G. Robinson | Joan Bennett | |
The Chase | Arthur Ripley | Robert Cummings | Michele Morgan | |
Gilda | Charles Vidor | Rita Hayworth | Glenn Ford | |
The Stranger | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | Edward G. Robinson | |
Key Largo | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart | Lauren Bacall | |
The Third Man | Carol Reed | Orson Welles | Joseph Cotten | |
White Heat | Raoul Walsh | James Cagney | Virginia Mayo | |
Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | William Holden | Peter Graves | |
Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | Robert Mitchum | Shelley Winters | |
Invas. Body Snatchers | Don Seigel | Kevin McCarthy | Dana Wynter | |
Nightfall | Jacques Tourneur | Brian Keith | Anne Bancroft | |
The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | Henry Fonda | Vera Miles | |
Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | Anthony Perkins | Janet Leigh | |
The Hustler | Robert Rossen | Paul Newman | Piper Laurie | |
Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | Gregory Peck | Polly Bergen | |
Shock Corridor | Sam Fuller | Peter Breck | Constance Towers | |
Dead Men Don't W. Plaid | Rob Reiner | Steve Martin | Rachel Ward | |
Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen | Billy Bob Thornton | Frances McDormand |
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