Free Film Noir Movies and Information.
Amazing Mr. X,The (1948) | Global | The Amazing Mr. X, also known as The Spiritualist, is a 1948 thriller film directed by Bernard Vorhaus with cinematography by John Alton. Like the film noir Nightmare Alley released a year earlier, this film tells the story of a… |
Beat the Devil (1953) | Global | There are only two public domain Bogart films that I am aware of. This is one of them and it’s a real gem. It was so good, I even digitally restored it, so watching it right here is going to… |
D.O.A. (1950) | Global | D.O.A. (1950), a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Mata, is considered a classic of the genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man’s quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he… |
Daughter of Horror/Dementia (1955) | Global | Dementia is a film by John Parker. Made in 1955, it is also known as Daughter of Horror (USA) (recut version). The film is 56 minutes long, and is photographed in a film noir style throughout; there is no dialogue,… |
Detour (1945) | Global | A piano player, Al (Neal), sets off hitchhiking his way to California to be with his girl. Along the way, a stranger in a convertible gives him a ride. While driving, Al stops to put the top up during a… |
Fear in the Night (1947) | Global | Fear in the Night (1947) is a low budget black and white film noir directed by Maxwell Shane and starring Paul Kelly and DeForest Kelley (in his film debut). Based on the Cornell Woolrich story Nightmare. Woolrich is credited under… |
He Walked by Night (1948) | Global | Gripping film noir crime drama about a manhunt for a ruthless killer who plays a deadly cat and mouse game with the police. Starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Whit Bissell, and Jack Webb, this movie was the basis for “Dragnet”.… |
Hitch-Hiker,The (1953) | Global | The Hitch-Hiker (1953) is a film noir directed by Ida Lupino about two hunting buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker. The movie was written by Robert L. Joseph, Lupino and her husband Collier Young based on a story by… |
Impact (1949) | Global | Hard bitten San Francisco industrialist Walter Williams’s two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but instead the boyfriend gets killed and mistaken for . Half-dazed, Williams stumbles into a moving van that takes him to Mayberry… |
Inner Sanctum (1948) | Global | Doctor Velonius explains the story of a man who committed murder to a woman on a rail train. The main takes refuge in a boarding house because he is trapped by a storm. This print is a little tattered, but… |
Jigsaw (1949) | Global | Jigsaw is a 1949 film noir made by Tower Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Fletcher Markle and produced by Edward J. Danziger and Harry Lee Danziger from a screenplay by Vincent McConnor and Fletcher Markle… |
Kansas City Confidential (1952) | Global | Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 black-and-white crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne. Karlson and Payne teamed up a year later for another black-and-white film, this time a noir, titled 99 River Street, followed by a… |
Love from a Stranger (1937) | Global | A poor woman (Ann Harding) wins the lottery and soon she’s swept off her feet by a nice man (Basil Rathbone) but after they’re married she begins to think he has a few secrets including murder. |
Naked Kiss, The (1964) | Global | Kelly (Constance Towers) is a prostitute who shows up in the small town of Grantville, just one more burg in a long string of quick stops on the run after being chased out of the big city by her former… |
Panic In The Streets (1950) | Global | Panic in the Streets (1950) semidocumentary film noir directed by Elia Kazan shot exclusively on location in New Orleans, Louisiana and featuring numerous New Orleans citizens in speaking and non-speaking roles. |
Parole Inc. (1950) | Global | IMDB: An expose of the bribery of parole board officials by the underworld to obtain the illegal release of hardened gangsters from prison. The government sends FBI agent Richard Hendricks, at the request of the state governor, to investigate. Posing… |
Pay Off, The (1942) | Global | Special prosecutor Lloyd Pearson (Ian Keith) has been murdered and there is strong evidence that gambler Moroni (John Maxwell) committed the crime, but he has an air-tight alibi, spending the evening with Brad McKay (Lee Tracy), star reporter of the… |
Phantom of 42nd St, The (1945) | Global | An actor is killed during the performance of a play and critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O’Brien) undertakes to solve the crime. Claudia Moore (Kay Aldridge, in her last movie role), the girl he loves, is suspected, but when two more… |
Red House, The (1947) | Global | Here’s a pretty good little film noir presentation from the 1940’s. It stars Edward G. Robinson and Lon McCallister. You’ll notice the bad girl that is a very young Julie London of later singing fame. |
Scar, The (1948) | Global | Hollow Triumph, also known as The Scar in the United Kingdom, is a film noir released in 1948. It was directed by Steve Sekely and stars Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett. |
Scarlet Street (1945) | Global | Scarlet Street (1945). Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild banker and amateur painter is at a dinner honouring him for for twenty-five years of service in the bank for which he works. Enroute home he helps Kitty (Joan Bennett),… |
Second Woman, The (1950) | Global | This film noir tells the story of Jeff Cohalan (Robert Young). He’s a successful architect who is tormented by the fact that his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for… |
Somewhere in the Night (1945) | USA | A marine suffers amnesia and returns to civilian life with only a name. He traces his last address to a hotel in Los Angeles and discovers he may be a murderer. This is a more than adequate film noir. |
Strange Loves of Martha Ivers,The (1946) | Global | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a black-and-white film noir motion picture released in the United States in 1946, starring Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas (in his film debut). The movie is based on a… |
T-Men (1947) | Global | The story is about two U.S. Treasury agents who go undercover in an attempt to break a counterfeiting ring. The agents try to join the gang by posing as counterfeiters from out of town. They eventually join the gang but… |
Too Late for Tears (1949) | Global | Too Late for Tears is a 1949 black-and-white film noir starring Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea. Alan Palmer accidentally gets a hold of $60,000 in stolen cash. Lizabeth Scott is one of the great movie femme fatales and plays his… |
X Marks the Spot (1942) | Global | A cop get killed when he runs into some gangster Marty Clark heisting a warehouse. This is a film noir, gumshoe gangster movie of the cheapest variety and it kind of rambles a bit. It’s still a fair movie and a pretty good example of the film noir genre. |