Noir |
The cynical private eyes, the alluring feme fetales, the cold-blooded hit men, and the dark city streets, these are the Classic Noir films of the 40s and 50s that defined the genre.
The Films |
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| The Actors |
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The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart | Mary Astor | |
Suspicion | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant | Joan Fontaine | |
The Glass Key | Brian Heisler | Alan Ladd | Veronica Lake | |
This Gun for Hire | Frank Tuttle | Alan Ladd | Veronica Lake | |
Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | Fred MacMurry | Barbara Stanwyck | |
Laura | Otto Preminger | Dana Andrews | Gene Tierney | |
Murder, My Sweet | Edward Dmytryk | Dick Powell | Claire Trevor | |
The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | Humphrey Bogart | Lauren Bacall | |
The Blue Dahlia | John Huston | Alan Ladd | Veronica Lake | |
The Killers | Robert Siodmak | Burt Lancaster | Ava Gardner | |
Postman Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | John Garfield | Lana Turner | |
Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant | Ingrid Bergman | |
Kiss of Death | Henry Hathaway | Victor Mature | Richard Widmark | |
Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | Robert Mitchum | Kirk Douglas | |
The Big Clock | John Farrow | Ray Milland | Maureen O'Sullivan | |
The Naked City | Jules Dassin | Barry Fitzgerald | Dorothy Hart | |
Sorry, Wrong Number | Anatole Litvak | Burt Lancaster | Barbara Stanwyck | |
Criss Cross | Robert Siodmak | Burt Lancaster | Yvonne DeCarlo | |
Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | Sterling Hayden | Louis Calhern | |
D.O.A. | Rudolph Mate | Edmond O'Brien | Pamela Britton | |
In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | Humphrey Bogart | Gloria Grahame | |
Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | William Holden | Gloria Swanson | |
Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | Farley Granger | Robert Walker | |
Sudden Fear | Fritz Lang | Joan Crawford | Gloria Grahame | |
The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | Glenn Ford | Gloria Grahame | |
Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich | Ralph Meeker | Marion Carr | |
Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | Marlene Dietrich |
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