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1	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 $2.95! new only from $4.41!
2	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 $5.80! new only from $14.99!
3	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 $1.99! new only from $6.99!
4	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 $3.21! new only from $14.85!
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 $3.00! new only from $15.48!
6	The Killing (1956) more movies like this directed by Stanley Kubrick featuring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr., Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen The Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort -- though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was economically produced with an inexpensive cast. In a variation of his Asphalt Jungle role, Sterling Hayden plays veteran criminal Johnny Clay, planning one last big heist before settling down to a respectable marriage with Fay ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94!
7	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 $6.82! new only from $6.82!
8	Force of Evil (1948) more movies like this directed by Abraham Polonsky featuring John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Roy Roberts, Beatrice Pearson John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned his scruples in favor of monetary reward. Morse now represents the interests of crime boss Ben Tucker (Roy Roberts), who plans to take over the numbers racket in New York. Morse has devised a way of doing this legally and ... see all copies from $3.32! new only from $3.32!
9	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 $1.99! new only from $14.99!
10	The Lady from Shanghai (1948) more movies like this directed by Orson Welles featuring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Ted de Corsia, Glenn Anders, Gus Schilling The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing his singular talents and sensibilities as few other films have. The story is superficially simple: a seaman Michael O'Hara (Welles) is hired as a crew member on the yacht of the wealthy Banister (Everett Sloane). His beautiful ... see all copies from $2.88! new only from $17.11!
11	The Blue Gardenia (1953) more movies like this directed by Fritz Lang featuring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's invitation to his apartment. When he tries to force himself on her, she hits him with a poker. Unfortunately, ... see all copies from $11.76! new only from $11.76!
12 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 $6.82! new only from $6.82!
13 view cover	Kansas City Confidential (1952) more movies like this directed by Phil Karlson featuring John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston S. Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand Kansas City Confidential, Phil Karlson's low ( low ) budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster (Preston S. Foster). Foster devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit three of the most vicious and unrelenting criminals he can find (screen heavies Lee Van ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
14 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 $1.99! new only from $3.99!
15 view cover	Out of the Past (1947) more movies like this directed by Jacques Tourneur featuring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first starring role (it had previously been offered to John Garfield and Dick Powell), Robert Mitchum plays Jeff Bailey, the friendly but secretive proprietor of a mountain-village gas station. As Jeff's worshipful deaf-mute ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $15.80!
16 view cover	Dead Reckoning (1947) more movies like this directed by John Cromwell featuring James Bell, Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, William Prince, Charles Cane, George Chandler, Marvin Miller, Wallace Ford In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and Johnny Drake (William Prince) are Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, en route to Washington by train. Drake hops off and disappears, leading Murdock on a hectic manhunt. Upon meeting Drake's former girlfriend Coral ... see all copies from $10.59! new only from $17.11!
17 view cover	I Wake Up Screaming (1941) more movies like this directed by H. Bruce Humberstone featuring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, Elisha Cook, Jr., William Gargan Well-known New York sports promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) is the prime suspect in the murder of Vicky Lynn (Carole Landis), a successful model and would-be actress. Questioned relentlessly by the police, and particularly by hulking detective squad commander Ed Cornell (Laird Cregar), he maintains his innocence. Meanwhile, Vicky's ... see all copies from $2.52! new only from $10.59!
18 view cover	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 $3.95! new only from $12.99!
19 view cover	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 $5.93! new only from $10.69!
20 view cover	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 $4.46! new only from $16.24!
21 view cover	Midnight Lace (1960) more movies like this directed by David Miller featuring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim of a mysterious stalker, who she hears but can never see. She is threatened by the eerie, high-pitched voice as she walks in the thick London fog. She then begins receiving repeated threatening telephone calls. The now ... see all copies from $40.00!
22 view cover	Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) more movies like this directed by Otto Preminger featuring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Karl Malden, Tom Tully Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) as a murder suspect, Dixon subjects Paine to the third degree -- and accidentally kills him. In disposing of the body, Dixon inadvertently places the blame for the ... see all copies from $10.59! new only from $10.69!
23 view cover	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 $14.85! new only from $14.99!
24 view cover	The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) more movies like this directed by Jean Negulesco featuring Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen Zachary Scott made his screen debut in this clever bit of film noir that has gained a cult reputation in recent years. Dutch mystery novelist Cornelius Leyden (Peter Lorre) is travelling through Istanbul when he meets Col. Haki (Kurt Katch), head of the secret police and a big fan of Leyden's work. He offers to tell Leyden about Dimitrios ... see all copies from $47.85! new only from $52.00!
25 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 $1.99! new only from $1.99!

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