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1	The Maltese Falcon (1941) more movies like this directed by John Huston featuring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Barton MacLane, Gladys George After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941--or, rather, John Huston, a long-established screenwriter making his directorial debut, got it right, simply by adhering as closely as possible to the original. Taking over from a recalcitrant George Raft, Humphrey ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
2	Laura (1944) more movies like this directed by Otto Preminger featuring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the film was ultimately credited to director Otto Preminger and cameraman Joseph LaShelle (who won an Oscar for his efforts). At the outset of the film, ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £7.56!
3	Double Indemnity (1944) more movies like this directed by Billy Wilder featuring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £11.78!
4	The Third Man (1949) more movies like this directed by Carol Reed featuring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hoerbiger In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been promised a job by his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). Upon his arrival, Martins discovers that Lime has been killed in a traffic accident, and that his funeral is taking place immediately. At the ... see all copies from £11.78! new only from £11.78!
5	Mildred Pierce (1945) more movies like this directed by Michael Curtiz featuring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerned a tawdry waitress who slept her way to financial security so as to provide a rosy future for her beloved daughter, only to be rewarded by having her true love stolen away by that same daughter. Ranald ... see all copies from £3.39! new only from £6.14!
6	Touch of Evil (1998) more movies like this directed by Orson Welles featuring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both directed and starred in it. On honeymoon with his new bride, Susan (Janet Leigh), Mexican-born policeman Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) agrees to investigate a bomb explosion. In so doing, he incurs the wrath of local police ... see all copies from £4.08! new only from £5.44!
7	Gilda (1946) more movies like this directed by Charles Vidor featuring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him to the Buenos Aires casino he owns, both men get more than they wagered on. Farrell convinces Mundson to hire him as casino manager, but is shocked when Mundson introduces his new bride, and Farrell's old flame, Gilda (Rita ... see all copies from £10.11! new only from £10.11!
8	Kiss of Death (1947) more movies like this directed by Henry Hathaway featuring Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Taylor Holmes Based in part on a true story, Kiss of Death is given a veneer of reality by being filmed on location in New York, with a bare minimum of studio work. In one of his best performances, Victor Mature plays a cheap crook who is sent up the river for 20 years for robbery. District attorney Brian Donlevy, out of sympathy for Mature's two young ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.56!
9	The Woman in the Window (1944) more movies like this directed by Fritz Lang featuring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Dan Duryea, Edmund Breon Directed by Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, a sadly tragic film noir, is the story of the doomed love of married psychology-professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson), who, with murderous results, meets and falls in love with another woman. Wanley first sees the portrait of a beautiful woman, Alice (Joan Bennett), and then meets the woman herself. ... see all copies from £8.56! new only from £11.02!
10	The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) more movies like this directed by Tay Garnett featuring Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) takes a job at a roadhouse run by slovenly but likeable Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway). Nick's sexy young wife Cora (Lana Turner) takes an immediate liking to Frank, but he senses that she's trouble and he keeps his ... see all copies from £4.83! new only from £5.71!
11 view cover	In a Lonely Place (1950) more movies like this directed by Nicholas Ray featuring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Robert Warwick, Jeff Donnell, Art Smith, Martha Stewart A haunting work of stark confessionalism disguised as a taut noir thriller, In a Lonely Place -- Nicholas Ray's bleak, desperate tale of fear and self-loathing in Hollywood -- remains one of the filmmaker's greatest and most deeply resonant features. It stars Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele, a fading screenwriter suffering from creative burnout; ... see all copies from £6.02! new only from £6.93!
12 view cover	The Spiral Staircase (1946) more movies like this directed by Robert Siodmak featuring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress" thriller, full of dark corners, flickering candles and featuring a mysterious, menacing killer whose true identity remains hidden until the end. Helen Capel (Dorothy McGuire), mute because of a childhood trauma, cares for the ... see all copies from £7.56! new only from £7.56!
13 view cover	Criss Cross (1948) more movies like this directed by Robert Siodmak featuring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Richard Long Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from good-time girl Anna (Yvonne De Carlo). Getting his old job back driving an armored car, and not even convincing himself that he's making a new start, he also wants his old wife back. When he finds Anna, he quickly learns that ... see all copies from £4.07! new only from £4.07!
14 view cover	Naked City (1948) more movies like this directed by Jules Dassin featuring Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Ted de Corsia Young model Jean Dexter is knocked unconscious and drowned in her own bathtub in her Manhattan apartment, and a lot of jewelry that she supposedly owned is missing. The Naked City is actually about six days in the life of New York City that coincide with the murder and the subsequent investigation by Lt. Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) and ... see all copies from £8.31! new only from £8.31!
15 view cover	The Stranger (1946) more movies like this directed by Orson Welles featuring Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale, Byron Keith, Martha Wentworth, Richard Long The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college professor named Charles Rankin, who lives in a pastoral Connecticut town with his lovely wife Mary (Loretta Young). One afternoon, an extremely nervous German gentleman named Meineke (Konstantin Shayne) arrives in town. ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
16 view cover	Scarlet Street (1945) more movies like this directed by Fritz Lang featuring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then to murder. Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely man married to a nagging wife. Painting is the only thing that brings him joy. Cross meets Kitty (Joan Bennett) who, believing him to be a famous painter, begins ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
17 view cover	The Big Heat (1953) more movies like this directed by Fritz Lang featuring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin Fritz Lang directed this gritty drama of gangland murder and police corruption, which was considered quite violent in its day. Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) is a scrupulously honest police detective who learns that one of his fellow officers has committed suicide. Bannion is told by the officer's wife, Bertha (Jeanette Nolan), that he was severely ... see all copies from £5.44! new only from £5.44!
18 view cover	Dark Passage (1947) more movies like this directed by Delmer Daves featuring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea Robert Montgomery's 1946 film Lady in the Lake attempted to tell the entire story with a "subjective camera": shooting the film from the point of view of the main character, with the camera acting as his "eyes". The first hour or so of Dark Passage does the same thing--and the results are far more successful than anything seen in Montgomery's film ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.50!
19 view cover	The Big Sleep (1946) more movies like this directed by Howard Hawks featuring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Charles D. Brown The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's sensuous, thumb-sucking daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers ... see all copies from £4.16! new only from £10.54!
20 view cover	Murder, My Sweet (1944) more movies like this directed by Edward Dmytryk featuring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe, the hard-boiled private detective antihero created by novelist Raymond Chandler. Hired by hulking, psychotic Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to locate Moose's old girl friend, Marlowe is pitched headlong into a ... see all copies from £1.79! new only from £11.39!
21 view cover	Niagara (1952) more movies like this directed by Henry Hathaway featuring Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams, Denis O'Dea Belated honeymooners Polly (Jean Peters) and Ray Cutler (Casey Adams) arrive at their Niagara Falls cottage only to find that Rose (Marilyn Monroe) and George Loomis (Joseph Cotten) have not yet checked out. Though the Cutlers temporarily take another cabin, the lives of the two couples are bound together for the next two days. Polly discovers ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.52!
22 view cover	The Blue Dahlia (1946) more movies like this directed by George Marshall featuring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay, Raymond Chandler. Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) returns from the war to find his wife Helen (Doris Dowling) having a party and in the arms of another man. Johnny and Helen have a terrible fight, and later Helen is found dead. Johnny ... see all copies from £12.53!
23 view cover	The Black Angel (1946) more movies like this directed by Roy William Neill featuring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Wallace Ford With an ingenious script by Roy Chanslor, this modest, but imaginative film noir is notable for the strong performance by lead actor Dan Duryea Alcoholic musician Martin Blair (Duryea) becomes the prime suspect when his cheating wife is murdered, until it is determined that he was "sleeping one off" at the time of the killing. Another man (John ... see all copies from £3.47! new only from £7.49!
24 view cover	The Killers (1946) more movies like this directed by Robert Siodmak featuring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Jeff Corey, Sam Levene, Jack Lambert The Killers uses Ernest Hemingway's short story as a springboard for a complex film noir. Two mysterious men (William Conrad and Charles McGraw) muscle their way into a small town and kill an aging boxer (Burt Lancaster, making his screen debut), who offers no resistance and seems to be welcoming his death. An insurance investigator (Edmond O ... see all copies from £4.33! new only from £25.64!
25 view cover	Diabolique (1954) more movies like this directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot featuring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Pierre Larquey The greatest film that Alfred Hitchcock never made, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique is set in a provincial boarding school run by headmaster Michel Delasalle (Paul Meurisse). A ruthless lothario, he becomes the target of a murder plot concocted by his long-suffering invalid wife Christina (Vera Clouzot, the director's own spouse) and his latest ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.82!

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