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What Film-Noir Movies to Watch Right Now

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1. Notorious

Sep 6, 1946 • Rated Approved

A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

2. Touch of Evil

Feb 1, 1958 • Rated Approved

This film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Charlton Heston plays an honorable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past. A memorable supporting cast including Janet Leigh as Heston's inquisitive wife, Akim Tamiroff as a seedy underworld leader, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Marlene Dietrich as an enigmatic gypsy complete this fascinating drama engulfed in haunting cinematography and a magnificently eerie score by Henry Mancini.

3. The Maltese Falcon

Oct 18, 1941 • Rated Approved

A private detective (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

4. The Third Man

Sep 3, 1949 • Rated TV-PG

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

5. The Night of the Hunter

Jul 27, 1955 • Rated Approved

A traveling preacher's (Robert Mitchum) nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow (Shelley Winters) are uncovered by her terrified young children.

6. Double Indemnity

Jul 6, 1944 • Rated Approved

An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

7. Shadow of a Doubt

Jan 15, 1943 • Rated Approved

A young woman discovers her visiting uncle may not be the man he seems to be.

8. Sunset Boulevard

Aug 10, 1950 • Rated Approved

Billy Wilder's 1950 classic stars Gloria Swanson as has-been silent film star Norma Desmond.

9. The Killing

Jun 6, 1956 • Rated Approved

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five man team to plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.

10. Scarface

Apr 9, 1932 • Rated PG

An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.

11. To Have and Have Not

Jan 20, 1945 • Rated Approved

During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.

12. Force of Evil

Mar 1, 1949 • Rated Approved

An unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.

13. White Heat

Sep 3, 1949 • Rated Approved

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

14. Strangers on a Train

Jun 30, 1951 • Rated Approved

A psychotic socialite attempts to force a professional tennis star to prove a theory that two complete strangers can get away with murder.

15. Mildred Pierce

Oct 20, 1945 • Rated Approved

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

16. The Fallen Idol (re-release)

Feb 10, 2006 • Rated Approved

Adapted from Graham Greene's story "The Basement Room" this 1948 film is told from the perspective of a child.

17. Odd Man Out

Apr 23, 1947 • Rated Approved

A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

18. Rebecca

Apr 12, 1940 • Rated Approved

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

19. The Big Sleep

Aug 31, 1946 • Rated Approved

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

20. Out of the Past

Dec 1, 1947 • Rated Approved

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.

21. The Asphalt Jungle

May 12, 1950 • Rated Approved

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

22. The Postman Always Rings Twice

May 2, 1946 • Rated Approved

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

23. The Letter

Nov 23, 1940 • Rated Approved

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.

24. The Wrong Man

Jan 26, 1957 • Rated Approved

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

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