M4ufree - Best FILM-NOIR Movies Ever

The Return of the Whistler 1948 On the eve of his marriage, a young mans fiance disappears He hires a private detective to help him track her down, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of lies, intrigue and murder revolving around his fiances de

Mysterious Intruder 1946 The fifth entry in the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, The Whistler, opens with kindly old music store owner Edward Stillwell Paul E Burns hiring private detective Don Gale Richard Dix to find a girl Stillwell

Flamingo Road 1949 Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus

Moonrise 1948 Danny Hawkins, who lives in a psychological shadow because his father died by a hangmans noose, accidentally kills a man in a fight over a girl, Gilly Johnson, and is afraid to notify the police He wins the love of the girl but when she

Illegal 1955 Ambitious D A Victor Scott zealously prosecutes Ed Clary for a womans murder But as Clary walks the last mile to the electric chair, Scott receives evidence that exonerates the condemned man Realizing that hes made a terrible mistake he

Night Has a Thousand Eyes 1948 After heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiance Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition His p

Knock on Any Door 1949 Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy his wife some jewelry, she announced sh

The Amazing Mr X 1948 On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things After more ghostly manifestat

Clash by Night 1952 The bitter and cynical Mae Doyle returns to the fishing village where she was raised after deceptive loves and life in New York She meets her brother, the fisherman Joe Doyle, and he lodges her in his home Mae is courted by Jerry

Among the Living 1941 Paul Raden Albert Dekker, hopelessly insane son of Maxim Raden, hated owner of the Radentown mills, is in a strait jacket in a secret room in the family mansion, while the body of his father is lowered into a grave Twenty five y

Fury 1936 Based on the story Mob Rule by Norman Krasna Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesnt have enough money for them to get married So Katherine moves across the country to make money But things go disastrously wrong for Joe wh

The Woman on the Beach (1947) Scott, a troubled Coast Guardsman assigned to a fog-bound station on a remote stretch of beach, suffers from Post Traumatic Stress when he survives a mine explosion that sinks his ship. Although he is engaged to a beauti

Caught (1949) It was Leonora Eames' childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about her husband - he is power mad and insane! Since he will not

The Brothers Rico (1957) Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on th

Gun Crazy (1950) Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival, where he meets the perfect girl; Annie, a sharp-shooting sideshow performer who loves guns as much as he. The 2 run of

Johnny Eager (1941) Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is working as a taxi driver. In fact, he's as deep into crime as he ever was and desperately needs official permission to open his

The Accused (1949) Wilma Tuttle, psychology professor, lets aggressively brash student Bill Perry drive her home. Big mistake. After an attempted rape, Perry is dead; panicked, Wilma hides her traces and flees. As time passes, she watches the investi

The Window (1949) At the age of 9, Tommy Woodry has a reputation for telling tall tales -- the latest one being that his family is moving from Manhattan to a ranch out west. When the landlord interrupts the Woodrys at dinner to show their about to be

The Face Behind the Mask (1941) Janos Szaby is a kind, innocent immigrant to America. Just after he arrives though, he is caught in a fire and his face is horribly burned and disfigured. Although a skilled craftsman his hideous features make it impos

Alias Nick Beal (1949) Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strang

The Tattered Dress (1957) When top lawyer James Blane gets an acquittal for a man who killed another man for sexually roughing up his trophy wife, the murderous town sheriff frames him for bribing a juror in the case.

Act of Violence (1948) War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something that happened in a German POW camp, and when a frighten

Affair in Trinidad (1952) When Steve Emery arrives in Trinidad at the urgent request of his brother, he is stunned to find that his brother has not only been murdered, but that his brother's wife Chris is succumbing to the seduction attempts of the m

Ruthless (1948) Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by richer neighbours he started to exhibit an ob

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects in

This Gun for Hire (1942) Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in

Murder by Contract (1958) Claude is a young man with a regular job, no history of trouble with the law and no chance of making any real money. He also has the brains and emotional detachment to make the big bucks as a hit man, and that becomes his ne

They Drive by Night (1940) Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to make ends meet in the face of corrupt businessmen and intense competition.

Nightmare (1956) A musician has a nightmare in which he killed a man. When he wakes up he finds evidence that the crime really took place and tries to find the truth with the help of his brother-in-law who is a police officer.

Death of a Scoundrel (1956) When Clementi Suborin is found murdered, his secretary recounts to the police the story of his rise from Czech refugee to ultra-rich New Yorker. The tale of betrayal, womanising and fraud confirms that almost everyone who

The Garment Jungle (1957) The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.

Ransom! (1956) When his son Andy is kidnapped and held for ransom, David Stannard liquidates his assets to meet the half-million dollar demand. A casual remark by newspaper reporter Charlie Telfer makes him change his mind. Despite the pleas from his

The 39 Steps (1935) Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdere

The Mob (1951) Police detective Damico, outwitted by mob killer Blackie Clay, is nominally suspended; actually he goes undercover (as Tim Flynn, ex-con longshoreman) to find Clay and expose the waterfront rackets. In character, Damico throws his weig

5 Against the House (1955) Four college buddies enjoying a night at a Reno casino are told by a cop that robbing the casino

Singapore (1947) After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda