Genres:Crime | Drama | Film-Noir Countries:USA Directors: Actors:
A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. When she finds out Paul's a cop, to save herself she sets out to corrupt him. He's a pushover. But it won't be easy for Paul to get his hands on the money when he's part of a complex, peeping-tom stakeout. Soon, he's in much deeper than he'd planned, amid atmospheric night scenes.
Genres:Drama | Film-Noir Countries:USA Directors:Billy Wilder Actors:William Holden | Gloria Swanson | Erich von Stroheim | Nancy Olson | Fred Clark | Lloyd Gough | Jack Webb | Franklyn Farnum | Larry J. Blake | Charles Dayton | Cecil B. DeMille | Hedda Hopper | Buster Keaton | Anna Q. Nilsson | H.B. Warner
In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone wit her butler and driver Max von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was his director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end.
Genres:Film-Noir | Romance | Thriller Countries:USA Directors:George Tillman Jr. Actors:Brandon A. Bailey | Tim 'Single' Braddock | Donald Calliste | Duane Nakia Cooper | Rico Devereaux | Mohamed Dione | Edwin Freeman | Corey Hibbert | Mike Hurt | Marc John Jefferies | Derek Luke | Anthony Mackie | Kevin Navayne | Robert Oppel | Kevin Phillips
In 1946, in Miami, John Huberman is convicted for treason against the United States of America. His daughter Alicia Huberman, who is notorious for her affairs and drinking problem, but loyal to her country, is contacted by the cynical government agent T.R. Devlin for an assignment in Rio de Janeiro spying a network of Nazi's friends of her father. They travel together and Alicia falls in love with Devlin. However, when she is ordered to meet with the German Alexander Sebastian who has a crush on her, she feels disappointed with the lack of attitude of Devlin. Sooner Alexander proposes her and Devlin does not object when Captain Prerscott asks her to marry Alexander. Alicia snoops around the mansion and discovers that the wine cellar is locked. Devlin suggests to her that she asks Alexander to throw her a party to introduce her to the society in Rio and invites him. Download:DivXiPod
Genres:Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | History | Mystery Countries:USA Directors:Henry Hathaway Actors:James Stewart | Richard Conte | Lee J. Cobb | Helen Walker | Betty Garde | Kasia Orzazewski | Joanne De Bergh | Howard Smith | Moroni Olsen | John McIntire | Paul Harvey | Robert Adler | Richard Bishop | Larry J. Blake | John Bleifer
The whole story takes place in Chicago. A policeman is murdered in a cold-blooded way in one of some illicit taprooms. Tomek Zaleska who on the ill-fated night was staying at Franek's flat is suspected of the homicide. They are both sentenced to 99 years of prison, with the conviction based merely on the testimony of one witness. Frank's mother who believes that her son is innocent after eleven years places an announcement in the local newspaper in which she offers 5000 dollars reward for anybody who would prove the innocence of her son. The chief editor of Chicago Times gets interested in the case and commissions to one of his journalists, McNeal (in this part great James Stewart) writing an article about it. Initially his view on the issue is quite skeptical, but later on he gradually starts to believe that Frank is innocent. He also faces the growing resistance from the local authorities.
Genres:Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller Countries:USA Directors:Gerd Oswald Actors:Robert Wagner | Jeffrey Hunter | Virginia Leith | Joanne Woodward | Mary Astor | George Macready | Robert Quarry | Howard Petrie | Bill Walker | Molly McCart | Marlene Felton | Robert Ivers
Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It's his child, too, of course; but this ruins everything. Her moralistic father will disown her and will certainly never accept him. It seems he's trapped. Bud's mother knows something is troubling her son, but he won't talk to her about it. All she knows is that Bud doesn't want to turn out like his father, with holes in his shoes. He doesn't have to worry. As his mother says, when he turns his mind to something, he does it. Unknown to her, his thoughts have turned to murder. Download:DivXiPod
Genres:Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller Countries:USA Directors:Robert Aldrich Actors:Ralph Meeker | Albert Dekker | Paul Stewart | Juano Hernandez | Wesley Addy | Marian Carr | Maxine Cooper | Cloris Leachman | Gaby Rodgers | Nick Dennis | Jack Lambert | Jack Elam | Jerry Zinneman | Leigh Snowden | Percy Helton
Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer's car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike's policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story—meaning big money for him—because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed. Download:DivXiPod
Genres:Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller Countries:USA Directors:Jacques Tourneur Actors:Robert Mitchum | Jane Greer | Kirk Douglas | Rhonda Fleming | Richard Webb | Steve Brodie | Virginia Huston | Paul Valentine | Dickie Moore | Ken Niles | Brooks Benedict | Oliver Blake | Eumenio Blanco | Wesley Bly | Hubert Brill
For the last three years, Jeff Bailey has been laying low and trying to live a normal life. He's been running his own gas station but prior to that, had been a pretty good private detective. His last job had been for a gangster, Whit Sterling, who him to find Kathy Moffat, who just happens to have shot him, and recover the $40,000 she stole. Jeff found her in Mexico but fell in love with her. She eventually ran out on him and he decided it might be better if he found a new line of work. When one of Sterling's henchmen happens to see him pumping gas, he's summoned to the gangster's Lake Tahoe estate. Sterling's offer is quite simple: recover some incriminating tax files and all will be forgotten. Jeff soon realizes however that he's being set up and framed for murder. Download:DivXiPod
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