The Noirharajah's List
The Noirharajah's alphabetical list of films commonly identified as Films Noir. Directors are listed in parentheses, followed by the Noirharajah's rating (0 to 5 stars). Films with no star rating have not yet been reviewed by the Noirharajah.
+ Film reviewed by The Noirharajah on The Nattering Nabob of Noir page.
5 Against the House, 1955 (Phil Karlson) Brian Keith, Kim Novak **1/2 +
5 Steps to Danger, 1957 (Henry S. Kesler) Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden **
The 13th Letter, 1951 (Otto Preminger) Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer
52 Pick-Up, 1986 (John Frankenheimer) Roy Scheider, Ann Margaret, John Glover *** +
99 River Street, 1953 (Phil Karlson) John Payne, Evelyn Keyes *** +
711 Ocean Drive, 1950 (Joseph M. Newman) Edmond O’Brien, Joanne Dru *** +
8 Million Ways to Die, 1986 (Hal Ashby) Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Andy Garcia **1/2
Abandoned, 1949 (Joseph M. Newman) Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Raymond Burr *** +
Accomplice, 1946 (Walter Colmes) 1/2* +
The Accused, 1949 (William Dieterle) Loretta Young, Bob Cummings, Wendell Corey *** +
Ace in the Hole, 1951 (Billy Wilder) Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling **** +
Across 110th Street, 1972 (Barry Shear) Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto **1/2 +
Act of Violence, 1948 (Fred Zinnemann) Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor **** +
Address Unknown, 1944 (William Cameron Menzies) Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond **1/2
Affair in Havana, 1957 (Laszlo Benedek) John Cassavetes, Raymond Burr, Sara Shane **1/2
Affair in Trinidad, 1952 (Vincent Sherman) Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth **1/2 +
After Dark, My Sweet, 1990 (James Foley) Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern **** +
Against All Odds, 1984 (Taylor Hackford) Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods *** +
Agnes of God, 1985 (Norman Jewison) Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly
Alias Nick Beal, 1949 (John Farrow) Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell **1/2
All My Sons, 1948 (Irving Reis) Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster
All Night Long, 1962 (Basil Dearden) Patrick McGoohan
Allotment Wives, 1945 (William Nigh) Kay Francis, Paul Kelly **1/2 +
The Amazing Mr. X, 1948 (Bernard Vorhaus)
The American Friend, 1977 (Wim Wenders) Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper ***
Among the Living, 1941 (Stuart Heisler) Susan Hayward
An Act of Murder, 1948 (Michael Gordon) Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien **1/2 +
Angel Face, 1952 (Otto Preminger) Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons *** +
Angel Heart, 1987 (Alan Parker) Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet *** +
Anti Matter, 2017 (Keir Burrows) Yaiza Figueroa, Philippa Carson **1/2 +
Apology for Murder, 1945 (Sam Newfield) Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage *1/2 +
Appointment With Danger, 1951 (Lewis Allen) Alan Ladd **1/2 +
The Argyle Secrets, 1948 (Cy Endfield) William Gargan, Marjorie Lord ***
Arkansas, 2020 (Clark Duke) Liam Hemsworth, Michael Kenneth Williams ***
Armored Car Robbery, 1950 (Richard Fleischer) Charles McGraw, William Talman *** +
Ashes and Diamonds, 1958 (Andrzej Wajda) Zbigniew Cybulski **** +
The Asphalt Jungle, 1950 (John Huston) Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe **** +
Assignment Paris, 1952 (Robert Parrish) Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, George Sanders, Audrey Totter **1/2
At Close Range, 1986 (James Foley) Sean Penn, Christopher Walken *** +
Backfire, 1950 (Vincent Sherman) Edmund O’Brien, Viveca Lindfors **1/2 +
Bad Blonde (aka The Flanagan Boy), 1953 (Reginald Le Borg) Barbara Payton, Tony Wright ** +
Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018 (Drew Goddard) Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo **
Bait, 1954 (Hugo Haas) Cleo Moore, John Agar, Hugo Haas ** +
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, 2007 (Sidney Lumet) Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke ***1/2 +
Behind Green Lights, 1946 (Otto Brower) William Gargan, Carole Landis, John Ireland *1/2 +
Behind Locked Doors, 1948 (Budd Boetticher)
Behind the High Wall, 1956 (Abner Biberman) Tom Tully, Sylvia Sidney, John Gavin **1/2 +
Berlin Express, 1948 (Jacques Tourneur) Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan **1/2 +
La Bestia Debe Morir (The Beast Must Die), 1952 (Roman Vinoli Barreto) Narciso Ibanez Menta ***
Between Midnight and Dawn, 1950 (Gordon Douglas) Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm **1/2 +
Beware My Lovely, 1952 (Harry Horner) Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan **1/2
Bewitched, 1945 (Arch Oboler) Phyllis Thaxter, Edmund Gwenn ** +
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, 1956 (Fritz Lang) Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine *** +
Beyond the Forest, 1949 (King Vidor) Bette Davis, Joseph Cotton
The Big Bang, 2011 (Tony Krantz) Antonio Banderas **
The Big Bluff, 1955 (W. Lee Wilder) Rosemarie Bowe *** +
The Big Caper, 1957 (Robert Stevens) Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory **
The Big Clock, 1948 (John Farrow) Ray Milland, Charles Laughton ***1/2 +
The Big Combo, 1955 (Joseph H. Lewis) Cornell Wilde, Richard Conte ***1/2 +
The Big Heat, 1953 (Fritz Lang) Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin **** +
The Big Knife, 1955 (Robert Aldrich) Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger ***1/2
The Big Night, 1951 (Joseph Losey) John Drew Barrymore **1/2
The Big Operator, 1959 (Charles F. Haas) Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren ** +
The Big Sleep, 1946 (Howard Hawks) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall **** +
The Big Sleep, 1978 (Michael Winner) Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, James Stewart **1/2 +
The Big Steal, 1949 (Don Siegel) Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer *** +
The Bigamist, 1953 (Ida Lupino) Edmond O'Brien, Ida Lupino, Joan Fontaine *** +
Black Angel, 1946 (Roy William Neal) Dan Duryea, Peter Lorre *** +
The Black Dahlia, 2006 (Brian DePalma) Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson ** +
Black Gravel, 1961 (Helmut Kautner) Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg ***
Black Tuesday, 1954 (Hugo Fregonese) Edward G. Robinson, Peter Graves, Jean Parker *** +
Black Widow, 1954 (Nunnally Johnson) Van Heflin, Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, George Raft **1/2 +
Blade Runner, 1982 (Ridley Scott) Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer **** +
Blade Runner 2049, 2017 (Denis Villeneuve) Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford ***
Blast of Silence, 1961 (Allen Baron) Allen Baron *** +
The Blind Goddess, 1948 (Harold French) Eric Portman, Anne Crawford
Blonde Ice, 1948 (Jack Bernhard) Leslie Brooks **1/2 +
Blood and Money, 2020 (John Barr) Tom Berenger **1/2 +
Blood and Wine, 1996 (Bob Rafelson) Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Dorff, Michael Caine ***1/2
Blood Simple, 1984 (Joel and Ethan Coen) ***1/2 +
The Blue Dahlia, 1946 (George Marshall, written by Raymond Chandler) ***1/2 +
The Blue Gardenia, 1953 (Fritz Lang) Anne Baxter, Richard Conte **1/2 +
Blue Ruin, 2013 (Jeremy Saulnier) Macon Blair, Amy Hargreaves ***
A Blueprint for Murder, 1953 (Andrew L. Stone)
Blues in the Night, 1941 (Anatole Litvak) Richard Whorf, Priscilla Lane, Lloyd Nolan *** +
Bob Le Flambeur, 1956 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Roger Duchesne **1/2 +
Body and Soul, 1947 (Robert Rossen) John Garfield, Lili Palmer **** +
Body Heat, 1981 (Lawrence Kasdan) William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Ted Danson, Richard Crenna **** +
Bodyguard, 1948 (Richard Fleischer) Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane ** +
Boomerang!, 1947 (Elia Kazan) Dana Andrews
Border Incident, 1949 (Anthony Mann) Ricardo Montalban ***1/2 +
Borderline, 1950 (William A. Seiter) Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor ** +
Born to Be Bad, 1950 (Nicholas Ray) Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott **1/2
Born to Kill, 1947 (Robert Wise) Laurence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak ***1/2 +
Boulevard Nights, 1979 (Michael Pressman) Richard Yniguez
Bound, 1996 (The Wachowskis) Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano **1/2
Branded to Kill, 1967 (Seijun Suzuki) Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara ***1/2
The Brasher Doubloon, 1947 (John Brahm) George Montgomery, Nancy Guild **1/2 +
The Breaking Point, 1950 (Michael Curtiz) John Garfield, Patricia Neal **** +
Breathless, 1960 (Jean-Luc Godard) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg **** +
Breathless, 1983 (Jim McBride) Richard Gere, Valerie Kaprisky **1/2
The Bribe, 1949 (Robert Z. Leonard) Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price **1/2
Brick, 2005 (Rian Johnson) Joseph Gordon-Levitt ***1/2 +
Brighton Rock, 1947 (John Boulting) ***
Broken City, 2013 (Allen Hughes) Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones ** +
Brooklyn's Finest, 2009 (Antoine Fuqua) Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke ***
The Brothers Rico, 1957 (Phil Karlson) Richard Conte **1/2 +
Brown's Requiem, 1998 (Jason Freeland) Michael Rooker, Selma Blair **1/2 +
Brute Force, 1947 (Jules Dassin) Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn *** +
A Bullet for Joey, 1955 (Lewis Allen) George Raft, Edward G. Robinson ** +
Bunny Lake is Missing, 1965 (Otto Preminger) Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley ***
The Burglar, 1957 (Paul Wendkos, w. David Goodis) Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield ***1/2 +
The Burglars, 1971 (Henri Verneuil) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon ** +
The Burnt Orange Heresy, 2020 (Giuseppe Capotondi) Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger *** +
Bury Me Dead, 1947 (Bernard Vorhaus) * +
Cage of Evil, 1960 (Edward L. Cahn) Ron Foster, Patricia Blair ** +
Caged, 1950 (John Cromwell) Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead *** +
Calcutta, 1947 (John Farrow) Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix **1/2 +
Call Northside 777, 1948 (Henry Hathaway) James Stewart, Richard Conte **1/2 +
Captain Carey, U.S.A., 1950 (Mitchell Leisen) Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix **1/2
The Captive City, 1952 (Robert Wise) John Forsythe **1/2
The Card Counter, 2021 (Paul Schrader) Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan *** +
Cash on Demand, 1961 (Quentin Lawrence) Peter Cushing, Andre Morrell ***
Casque d'Or, 1952 (Jacques Becker) Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani ****
Caught, 1949 (Max Ophuls) Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, James Mason ** +
Cause for Alarm, 1951 (Tay Garnett) Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan **1/2 +
Le Cercle Rouge, 1970 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Alain Delon, Andre Bourvil ****
Champion, 1949 (Mark Robson) Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy
Chandler, 1971 (Paul Magwood) Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Charles McGraw * +
The Chase, 1946 (Arthur Ripley) Robert Cummings *1/2 +
Chicago Calling, 1951 (John Reinhardt) Dan Duryea, Mary Anderson *** +
Chicago Deadline, 1949 (Lewis Allen) Alan Ladd, Donna Reed
China Moon, 1994 (John Bailey) Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Benicio del Toro ** +
Chinatown, 1974 (Roman Polanski) Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston ***** +
Chinatown at Midnight, 1949 (Seymour Friedman) Hurd Hatfield **1/2
Christmas Holiday, 1944 (Robert Siodmak) Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly ** +
City of Fear, 1959 (Irving Lerner) Vince Edwards ** +
City of Tiny Lights, 2016 (Pete Travis) Riz Ahmed **1/2
City That Never Sleeps, 1953 (John H. Auer) Gig Young, William Talman ***1/2 +
Clash By Night, 1952 (Fritz Lang) Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas **1/2
The Clay Pigeon, 1949 (Richard Fleischer) Bill Williams, Barbara Hale ** +
Cloudburst, 1951 (Francis Searle) Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars *** +
Cold in July, 2014 (Jim Mickle) Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson ** +
Collateral, 2004 (Michael Mann) Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx **1/2 +
A Colt is My Passport, 1967 (Takashi Nomura) Joe Shishido, Jerry Fujido, Chitose Kobayashi ***1/2 +
The Come On, 1956 (Russell Birdwell) Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden ** +
Conflict, 1945 (Curtis Bernhardt) Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet **
The Conspirators, 1944 (Jean Negulesco) Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid
The Conversation, 1974 (Francis Ford Coppola) Gene Hackman ****
The Cooler, 2003 (Wayne Cramer) William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello ***
Cop, 1988 (James B. Harris) James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren ***
Cop Hater, 1959 (William Berke) Robert Loggia, Gerald O'Laughlin, Vincent Gardenia **1/2 +
Cornered, 1945 (Edward Dmytryck) Dick Powell, Walter Slezak *** +
Cover Up, 1949 (Alfred E. Green) Dennis O'Keefe, William Bendix **1/2
Crack-Up, 1946 (Irving Reis) Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor **1/2 +
Crime of Passion, 1957 (Gerd Oswald) Sterling Hayden, Barbara Stanwyck ***1/2 +
Crime Wave, 1954 (André de Toth) Sterling Hayden **1/2 +
The Crimson Kimono, 1959 (Samuel Fuller) *** +
Criss Cross, 1949 (Robert Siodmak) Burt Lancaster, Dan Duryea **** +
The Crooked Way, 1949 (Robert Florey) John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Percy Helton *** +
The Crooked Web, 1955 (Nathan Juran) Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning **
Crossfire, 1947 (Edward Dmytryck) Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum ***
Crossroads, 1942 (Jack Conway) William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor, Basil Rathbone **1/2
Croupier, 1998 (Mike Hodges) Clive Owen ***
Cruel Gun Story, 1964 (Takumi Furukawa) Joe Shishido, Chieko Matsubara *** +
Cry Danger, 1951 (Robert Parrish) Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, William Conrad *** +
A Cry In the Night, 1956 (Frank Tuttle) Edmond O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr
Cry of the City, 1948 (Robert Siodmak) Richard Conte, Victor Mature *** +
Cry of the Hunted, 1953 (Joseph H. Lewis) Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan **1/2 +
Cry Terror, 1958 (Andrew L. Stone) James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson **1/2 +
Cry Vengeance, 1954 (Mark Stevens) Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer *** +
Cutter's Way, 1981 (Ivan Passer) Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn ***
D.O.A., 1950 (Rudolph Maté) Edmond O'Brien **** +
D.O.A., 1988 (Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton) Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan ** +
The Damned Don’t Cry, 1950 (Vincent Sherman) Joan Crawford, Steve Cochrane **1/2 +
Danger Signal, 1945 (Robert Florey) Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson ** +
Dangerous Passage, 1944 (William Berke) Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks
A Dangerous Profession, 1949 (Ted Tetzlaff) George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O'Brien ** +
Dark City, 1950 (William Dieterle) Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott **1/2 +
Dark City, 1998 (Alex Proyas) Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt **1/2
The Dark Corner, 1946 (Henry Hathaway) Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens ***
The Dark Mirror, 1946 (Robert Siodmak) Olivia de Havilland
Dark Passage, 1947 (Delmer Daves) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall *** +
The Dark Past, 1948 (Rudolph Mate) William Holden, Lee J. Cobb, Nina Foch ** +
Dark Waters, 1944 (Andre De Toth) Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone
Dead Again, 1991 (Kenneth Brannagh) Kenneth Brannagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia **1/2 +
Dead Man Down, 2013 (Neils Arden Oplev) Colin Ferrell, Noomi Rapace, Isabelle Huppert ** +
Dead Reckoning, 1947 (John Cromwell) Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott ***1/2 +
Deadline at Dawn, 1946 (Harold Clurman) Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas **1/2
Deadline USA, 1952 (Richard Brooks) Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter ***1/2
Dear Murderer, 1947 (Arthur Crabtree) Eric Portman, Greta Gynt *** +
Death in Small Doses, 1957 (Joseph M. Newman) Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors **1/2 +
Death of a Cyclist, 1955 (Juan Antonio Bardem) Lucia Bose, Alberto Closas, Carlos Casaravilla ****
Deception, 1946 (Irving Rapper) Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains *** +
Decision to Leave, 2022 (Park Chan-wook) Tang Wei, Park Hae-il ***1/2
Decoy, 1946 (Jack Bernhard) Jean Gillie **1/2 +
Deep Cover, 1992 (Bill Duke) Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Charles Martin Smith **1/2
The Departed, 2006 (Martin Scorsese) Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon **** +
Deported, 1950 (Robert Siodmak) Jeff Chandler, Marta Toren
Desert Fury, 1947 (Lewis Allen) Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor **1/2
Desperate, 1947 (Anthony Mann) Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr **1/2 +
The Desperate Hours, 1955 (William Wyler) Humphrey Bogart, Frederic March ***
Destination Murder, 1950 (Edward L. Cahn) **1/2 +
Destiny, 1944 (Reginald Le Borg) Gloria Jean, Alan Curtis
Destroyer, 2018 (Karyn Kusama) Nicole Kidman *** +
The Detective, 1968 (Gordon Douglas) Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman **1/2
Detective Story, 1951 (William Wyler) Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker ***
Detour, 1945 (Edgar G. Ulmer) Tom Neal, Ann Savage ****1/2 +
Le Deuxieme Souffle, 1966 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse ***
Devil in a Blue Dress, 1995 (Carl Franklin) Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, Don Cheadle ***1/2 +
The Devil Thumbs a Ride, 1947 (Felix E. Feist) Lawrence Tierney
Dial 1119, 1950 (Gerald Mayer) Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field **1/2
The Disappearance of Alice Creed, 2009 (J Blakeson) Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan *** +
Dishonored Lady, 1947 (Robert Stevenson) Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe **1/2
Do You Know This Voice?, 1964 (Frank Nesbitt) Dan Duryea, Isa Miranda **1/2 +
Don’t Bother to Knock, 1952 (Roy Ward Baker) Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark **1/2
Door-to-Door Maniac (Five Minutes to Live), 1961 (Bill Karn) Johnny Cash, Cay Forrester *1/2
A Double Life, 1947 (George Cukor) Ronald Colman, Edmond O'Brien
Double Indemnity, 1944 (Billy Wilder) ***** +
Le Doulos, 1963 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani ***1/2
Down Three Dark Streets, 1954 (Arnold Laven) Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer **1/2 +
Dragged Across Concrete, 2018 (S. Craig Zahler) Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles * +
Drive a Crooked Road, 1954 (Richard Quine) Mickey Rooney *** +
Drive, 2011 (Nicolas Winding Refn) Ryan Gosling, Cary Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks ***
The Driver, 1978 (Walter Hill) Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani **1/2 +
The Drop, 2014 (Michael R. Roskam) Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, Noomi Rapace ***1/2 +
The Drowning Pool, 1975 (Stuart Rosenberg) Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward **1/2 +
Edge of Doom, 1950 (Mark Robson) Dana Andrews, Farley Granger
Elena, 2012 (Andrey Zvyagintsev) Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov ***1/2 +
Elevator to the Gallows, 1958 (Louis Malle) Jeanne Moreau ***1/2 +
Emily the Criminal, 2022 (John Patton Ford) Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi ***1/2
The Enforcer, 1951 (Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh) Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia **1/2 +
Escape in the Fog, 1945 (Bud Boetticher) Otto Kruger, Nina Foch **1/2
Experiment in Terror, 1962 (Blake Edwards) Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers
The Face Behind the Mask, 1941 (Robert Florey) Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes ***1/2 +
Fall Guy, 1947 (Reginald Le Borg) Elisha Cook, Jr.
Fallen Angel, 1945 (Otto Preminger) Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell *** +
The Fallen Sparrow, 1943 (Richard Wallace) John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara **1/2 +
Farewell, My Lovely, 1975 (Dick Richards) Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling ***1/2 *
Fargo, 1996 (Joel and Ethan Coen) Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi **** +
Fear, 1946 (Alfred Zeisler) Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne ** +
Fear in the Night, 1947 (Maxwell Shane) Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley
Female Jungle, 1956 (Bruno VeSota) Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine
Female on the Beach, 1955 (Joseph Pevney) Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler ** +
The File on Thelma Jordon, 1950 (Robert Siodmak) Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey **1/2
Final Analysis, 1992 (Phil Joanou) Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts *1/2 +
Finger Man, 1955 (Harold D. Schuster) Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker
Finger of Guilt (aka The Intimate Stranger), 1956 (Joseph Losey) Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy **1/2 +
First Snow, 2006 (Mark Fergus) Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, J.K. Simmons **1/2
Five Days (Paid to Kill), 1954 (Montgomery Tully) Dane Clark
Five Steps to Danger, 1957 (Henry S. Kesler) Sterling Hayden, Ruth Roman **1/2
The Flame, 1947 (John H. Auer) John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Broderick Crawford ** +
Flame of the Islands, 1956 (Edward Ludwig) Yvonne DeCarlo, Howard Duff, Zachary Scott ** +
Flamingo Road, 1949 (Michael Curtiz) Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet **1/2
Flaxy Martin, 1949 (Richard L. Bare) Zachary Scott, Virginia Mayo, Elisha Cook Jr., Dorothy Malone **
Flight to Nowhere, 1946 (William Rowland) Alan Curtis *1/2
Fly By Night, 1942 (Robert Siodmak) Richard Carlson, Nancy Kelly
Follow Me Quietly, 1949 (Anthony Mann) William Lundigan **
Following, 1998 (Christopher Nolan) **1/2 +
For You I Die, 1947 (John Reinhardt) Cathy Downs, Paul Langton **1/2 +
Forbidden, 1953 (Rudolf Mate) Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru, Lyle Bettger **1/2
Force of Evil, 1948 (Abraham Polonsky) John Garfield, Thomas Gomez ****1/2 +
Foreign Intrigue, 1956 (Sheldon Reynolds) Robert Mitchum, Genevieve Page, Ingrid Thulin **1/2 +
Framed, 1947 (Richard Wallace) Glenn Ford, Janis Carter *** +
Frantic, 1988 (Roman Polanski) Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner ***
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 1973 (Peter Yates) Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle **** +
Fury, 1948 (Phil Karlson) Preston Foster
The Gambler and the Lady, 1952 (Pat Jenkins/Sam Newfield) Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron **
Gambling House, 1950 (Ted Tetzlaff) Victor Mature, William Bendix **1/2 +
The Gangster, 1947 (Gordon Wiles) Barry Sullivan **1/2
The Garment Jungle, 1957 (Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich) Lee J. Cobb, Gia Scala, Richard Boone
Gaslight, 1944 (George Cukor) Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer ***
Gattaca, 1997 (Andrew Niccol) Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Alan Arkin ***
Get Carter, 1971 (Mike Hodges) Michael Caine, Britt Ekland ***1/2
The Getaway, 1972 (Sam Peckinpah) Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw **1/2
Gilda, 1946 (Charles Vidor) Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford ***1/2 +
The Girl Hunters, 1963 (Roy Rowland) Mickey Spillane, Lloyd Nolan ** +
The Girl in Black Stockings, 1957 (Howard W. Koch) Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren *1/2 +
The Glass Key, 1942 (Stuart Heisler) Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake ***
The Glass Wall, 1953 (Maxwell Shane) Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame ***1/2 +
Gloria, 1980 (John Cassavetes) Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen ***
Gone Girl, 2014 (David Fincher) Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike **1/2
The Good Die Young, 1955 (Lewis Gilbert) Laurence Harvey, Richard Basehart **1/2 +
The Great Flamarion, 1945 (Anthony Mann) **1/2 +
The Green Glove, 1952 (Rudolph Mate) Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks **1/2 +
The Grifters, 1990 (Stephen Frears) John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening **** +
The Groundstar Conspiracy, 1972 (Lamont Johnson) George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin **1/2 +
Guest in the House, 1944 (John Brahm) Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy
The Guilty, 1947 (John Reinhardt) Bonita Granville, Don Castle **
Guilty Bystander, 1950 (Joseph Lerner) Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson **
Gumshoe, 1971 (Stephen Frears) Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw **1/2 +
Gun Crazy, 1950 (d. Joseph H. Lewis, w. Dalton Trumbo) **** +
The Gun Runners, 1958 (Don Siegel) Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert **1/2 +
Gunman in the Streets, 1950 (Frank Tuttle) Dane Clark, Simone Signoret **1/2 +
Guns, Girls and Gangsters, 1959 (Edward L. Cahn) Mamie Van Doren **1/2 +
Hammett, 1982 (Wim Wenders) Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle ***
Hangmen Also Die, 1943 (Fritz Lang) **1/2
Hangover Square, 1945 (John Brahm) Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders **1/2
Hard Eight, 1996 (Paul Thomas Anderson) Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly ***
Hardcore, 1979 (Paul Schrader) George C. Scott, Peter Boyle ***
The Harder They Fall, 1956 (Mark Robson) Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger ***
Harper, 1966 (Jack Smight) Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh ***
He Ran All the Way, 1951 (John Barry, w. Dalton Trumbo) John Garfield **1/2
He Walked By Night, 1948 (Anthony Mann) Richard Basehart **1/2
Heat, 1995 (Michael Mann) Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Diane Venora **** +
Heat Wave (aka The House Across the Lake), 1954 (Ken Hughes) Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke *** +
Heist, 2001 (David Mamet) Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito **1/2
Hell Bound, 1957 (William J. Hole, Jr.) John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman *** +
Hell Drivers, 1957 (Cy Endfield) Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins ***
Hell on Frisco Bay, 1955 (Frank Tuttle) Alan Ladd, Joanne Dru, Edward G. Robinson ** +
Hell or High Water, 2016 (David Mackenzie) Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster ***1/2
Hell’s Half Acre, 1954 (John H. Auer) Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes ** +
Hell's Island, 1955 (Phil Karlson) John Payne, Mary Murphy (color) ** +
Hickey & Boggs, 1972 (Robert Culp) Bill Cosby, Robert Culp **1/2
High and Low, 1963 (Akira Kurosawa) Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai **** +
High Sierra, 1941 (Raoul Walsh) Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie **** +
High Tide, 1947 (John Reinhardt) Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop **1/2 +
High Wall, 1947 (Curtis Bernhardt) Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter **1/2 +
Highway Dragnet, 1954 (Nathan Juran) Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix **1/2 +
Highway 301, 1950 (Andrew L. Stone) Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey **1/2 +
Highway West, 1941 (William C. McGann) Arthur Kennedy, Brenda Marshall **
His Kind of Woman, 1951 (John Farrow) Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price *** +
The Hit, 1984 (Stephen Frears) Terrence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol ***
Hit and Run, 1957 (Hugo Haas) Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Vince Edwards **1/2
Hit Me, 1996 (Steven Shainberg) Elias Koteas, William H. Macy
The Hitch-Hiker, 1952 (Ida Lupino) Edmond O’Brien, William Talman ***1/2 +
Hollow Triumph (The Scar), 1948 (Steve Sekely) Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett ***
Hollywood Story, 1951 (William Castle) Richard Conte, Julie Adams ** +
Hollywoodland, 2006 (Allen Coulter) Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane *** +
Homicide, 1949 (Felix Jacoves) Robert Douglas, Robert Alda ** +
The Hoodlum, 1951 (Max Nosseck) Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts *** +
Hoodlum Empire, 1952 (Joseph Kane) Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor
The Hot Spot, 1990 (Dennis Hopper) Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly **1/2
House by the River, 1950 (Fritz Lang) Louis Hayward
House of Bamboo, 1955 (Samuel Fuller) Robert Ryan, Robert Stack *** +
House of Numbers, 1957 (Russell Rouse) Jack Palance
House of Strangers, 1949 (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward
The House on 92nd Street, 1945 (Henry Hathaway)
The House on Telegraph Hill, 1951 (Robert Wise) **1/2
The Housemaid, 1960 (Kim Ki-young) Kim Jin-kyu, Lee Eun-shim *** +
The Houston Story, 1956 (William Castle) Gene Barry, Barbara Hale **1/2
Human Desire, 1954 (Fritz Lang) Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame *** +
Hunt the Man Down, 1951 (George Archainbaud) Gig Young, James Anderson **
The Hunted, 1948 (Jack Bernhard) Preston Foster, Belita
Hustle, 1975 (Robert Aldrich) Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson *** +
I Am Waiting, 1957 (Koreyoshi Kurahara) Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara ***1/2 +
I Confess, 1953 (Alfred Hitchcock) Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter **1/2 +
I Died a Thousand Times, 1955 (Stuart Heisler) Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin **1/2 +
I Love Trouble, 1948 (S. Sylvan Simon) Franchot Tone, Janet Blair **1/2 +
I, the Jury, 1953 (Harry Essex) Biff Elliot **1/2
I Wake Up Screaming, 1941 (H. Bruce Humberstone) Betty Grable, Victor Mature *** +
I Walk Alone, 1948 (Byron Haskin) Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott ***
I Want to Live! 1958 (Robert Wise) Susan Hayward **1/2
I Was a Communist for the FBI, 1951 (Gordon Douglas) Frank Lovejoy * +
I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes, 1948 (William Nigh) Don Castle, Elyse Knox *1/2 +
Illegal, 1955 (Lewis Allen) Edward G. Robinson **1/2 +
I'm Your Woman, 2020 (Julia Hart) Rachel Brosnahan, Arinze Kene *** +
Impact, 1949 (Arthur Lubin) Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines *** +
In a Lonely Place, 1950 (Nicholas Ray) **** +
Indestructible Man, 1956 (Jack Pollexfen) Lon Chaney, Jr., Max Showalter *1/2 +
The Indian Runner, 1991 (Sean Penn) Viggo Mortensen, David Morse, Patricia Arquette ** +
Inferno, 1953 (Roy Ward Baker) Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming **1/2 +
Inside Job, 1946 (Jean Yarbrough) Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford
Ivy, 1947 (Sam Wood) Joan Fontaine, Herbert Marshall
Jackie Brown, 1997 (Quentin Tarantino) Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert DeNiro ***1/2
Jagged Edge, 1985 (Richard Marquand) Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Robert Loggia **1/2
Jeopardy, 1953 (John Sturges) Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker ***
Jigsaw, 1949 (Fletcher Markle) Franchot Tone
Johnny Angel, 1945 (Edward L. Marin) George Raft, Claire Trevor **1/2 +
Johnny Apollo, 1940 (Henry Hathaway) Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan **1/2
Johnny Cool, 1963 (William Asher) Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery **
Johnny Eager, 1941 (Mervyn LeRoy) Robert Taylor, Lana Turner *** +
Johnny Guitar, 1954 (Nicholas Ray) Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge ***1/2 +
Johnny Handsome, 1989 (Walter Hill) Mickey Rourke, Elizabeth McGovern, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman **1/2
Johnny O’Clock, 1947 (Robert Rossen) Dick Powell ***
Johnny One-Eye, 1950 (Robert Florey) Pat O’Brien *** +
Johnny Stool Pigeon, 1949 (William Castle) Dan Duryea, Howard Duff, Shelley Winters **1/2 +
Journey Into Fear, 1943 (Norman Foster) Joseph Cotton, Dolores del Rio, Orson Welles **1/2 +
Julia, 2008 (Erick Zonca) Tilda Swinton, Aidan Gould *** +
Julie, 1956 (Andrew L. Stone) Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan ** +
Kansas City Confidential, 1952 (Phil Karlson) John Payne, Coleen Gray *** +
Key Largo, 1948 (John Huston) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson **** +
Key Witness, 1947 (D. Ross Lederman) John Beal ** +
Kid Glove Killer, 1942 (Fred Zinnemann) Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt **1/2
Kill Me Again, 1989 (John Dahl) Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer **1/2 +
The Kill-Off, 1990 (Maggie Greenwald)
The Killer Inside Me, 2010 (Michael Winterbottom) Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson
The Killer Is Loose, 1956 (Bud Boetticher) Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey **
The Killer That Stalked New York, 1950 (Earl McEvoy) Evelyn Keyes **1/2 +
Killer’s Kiss, 1955 (Stanley Kubrick) **1/2 +
The Killers, 1946 (Robert Siodmak) Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien **** +
The Killers, 1964 (Don Siegel) Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes ***
The Killing, 1956 (Stanley Kubrick, co-w. Jim Thompson) Sterling Hayden ***1/2 +
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, 1976 (John Cassavetes) Ben Gazzara **1/2 +
Killing Them Softly, 2012 (Andrew Dominik) Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, James Gandolfini **
A Kiss Before Dying, 1956 (Gerd Oswald) Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter ***
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, 1948 (Norman Foster) Burt Lancaster, Joan Fontaine ***
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 2005 (Shane Black) Robert Downey Jr., Michelle Monaghan, Val Kilmer *** +
Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 (Robert Aldrich) Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman **** +
Kiss of Death, 1947 (Henry Hathaway) Victor Mature, Richard Widmark *** +
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, 1950 (Gordon Douglas) James Cagney, Barbara Payton ***1/2 +
Knock On Any Door, 1949 (Nicholas Ray) Humphrey Bogart, John Derek
L.A. Confidential, 1997 (Curtis Hanson) Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger ***1/2
The Lady Confesses, 1945 (Sam Newfield) Mary Beth Hughes, Hugh Beaumont
The Lady From Shanghai, 1947 (Orson Welles) Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles ***1/2 +
Lady in Cement, 1968 (Gordon Douglas) Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker *1/2 +
Lady in the Lake, 1947 (Robert Montgomery) Robert Montgomery ** +
Lady on a Train, 1945 (Charles David) Deanna Durbin, Dan Duryea **1/2
A Lady Without Passport, 1950 (Joseph H. Lewis) Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak **1/2 +
Larceny, 1948 (George Sherman) John Payne, Dan Duryea, Joan Caulfield, Shelley Winters ** +
The Las Vegas Story, 1952 (Robert Stevenson) Victor Mature, Jane Russell, Vincent Price **1/2
Last Embrace, 1979 (Jonathan Demme) Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin ** +
The Last Seduction, 1994 (John Dahl) Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman *** +
The Last Stop In Yuma County, 2024 (Francis Galluppi) Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue **1/2 +
Laura, 1944 (Otto Preminger) Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney ***1/2 +
Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 (John M. Stahl) Gene Tierney ***1/2
The Letter, 1940 (William Wyler) Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall ***1/2
Lightning Strikes Twice, 1951 (King Vidor) Ruth Roman, Richard Todd **
The Limey, 1999 (Steven Soderbergh) Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren *** +
The Limping Man, 1953 (Cy Endfield) Lloyd Bridges **1/2
The Lineup, 1958 (Don Siegel) Eli Wallach *** +
Loan Shark, 1952 (Seymour Friedman) George Raft *1/2
The Locket, 1946 (John Brahm) Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne **1/2 +
The Locksmith, 2023 (Nicolas Harvard) Ryan Phillippe, Kate Bosworth *1/2 +
London Fields, 2018 (Matthew Cullen) Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Johnny Depp 1/2* +
The Long Good Friday, 1980 (John Mackenzie) Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren ***1/2 +
The Long Goodbye, 1973 (Robert Altman) Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden ***1/2 +
The Long Haul, 1957 (Ken Hughes) Victor Mature, Diana Dors ***
The Long Night, 1947 (Anatole Litvak) Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price **1/2 +
The Long Wait, 1954 (Victor Saville) Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn
The Lookout, 2007 (Scott Frank) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode ***
Loophole, 1954 (Harold D. Schuster) Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Charles McGraw **1/2 +
Lost Highway, 1997 (David Lynch) Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette ** +
The Lost Weekend, 1945 (Billy Wilder) Ray Milland ***1/2 +
Lured, 1947 (Douglas Sirk) George Sanders, Lucille Ball **
M, 1931 (Fritz Lang) Peter Lorre ****
M, 1951 (Joseph Losey) David Wayne, Howard Da Silva ***
Macao, 1952 (Nicholas Ray) Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell **1/2 +
The Maltese Falcon, 1941 (John Huston) Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre ****1/2 +
Man Bait (aka The Last Page), 1952 (Terence Fisher) George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Diana Dors **1/2 +
The Man I Love, 1947 (Raoul Walsh) Ida Lupino, Robert Alda **1/2 +
Man in the Dark, 1953 (Lew Landers) Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter ** +
The Man Who Cheated Himself, 1950 (Felix E. Feist) Lee J. Cobb, John Dall **
The Man Who Wasn’t There, 2001 (Joel and Ethan Coen) Billy Bob Thornton ***
The Man With My Face, 1951 (Edward Montagne) Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews **1/2 +
Manhandled, 1949 (Lewis R. Foster) Dorothy Lamour, Dan Duryea, Sterling Hayden **1/2
Manpower, 1941 (Raoul Walsh) George Raft, Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich *** +
Marlowe, 1969 (Paul Bogart) James Garner, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee **1/2
Marlowe, 2022 (Neil Jordan) Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange **1/2
The Mask of Dimitrios, 1944 (Jean Negulesco) Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Peter Lorre ***
Mean Streets, 1973 (Martin Scorsese) Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro **** +
Memento, 2000 (Christopher Nolan) Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano ***1/2 +
The Midnight Story, 1957 (Joseph Pevney) Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan
Mildred Pierce, 1945 (Michael Curtiz) Joan Crawford ***1/2
Miller’s Crossing, 1990 (Joel and Ethan Coen) ***1/2 +
Ministry of Fear, 1944 (Fritz Lang) Ray Milland ***
The Missing Person, 2008 (Noah Buschell) Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan *** +
The Mob, 1951 (Robert Parrish) Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler **1/2
Mona Lisa, 1986 (Neil Jordan) Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine ***
Moonrise, 1948 (Frank Borzage) Dane Clark, Gail Russell ** +
Moontide, 1942 (Fritz Lang) Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Claude Rains ***
The Morning After, 1986 (Sidney Lumet) Jeff Bridges, Jane Fonda **1/2
Motherless Brooklyn, 2019 (Edward Norton) Edward Norton, Alec Baldwin **1/2
Mr. Arkadin (Confidential Report), 1955 (Orson Welles) Orson Welles, Robert Arden ***
Mulholland Drive, 2001 (David Lynch) Naomi Watts ****
Mulholland Falls, 1996 (Lee Tamahori) Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Melanie Griffith ** +
Murder by Contract, 1958 (Irving Lerner) Vince Edwards **1/2 +
Murder is My Beat, 1955 (Edward G. Ulmer) Paul Langton, Barbara Payton ** +
Murder, My Sweet, 1944 (Edward Dmytryck) Dick Powell **** +
My Gun Is Quick, 1957 (George White and Victor Saville) Robert Bray **1/2 +
My Name is Julia Ross, 1945 (Joseph H. Lewis) Nina Foch *** +
Mysterious Intruder, 1946 (William Castle) Richard Dix
Mystery Street, 1950 (John Sturges) Ricardo Montalban **1/2 +
Naked Alibi, 1954 (Jerry Hopper) Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame *1/2 +
The Naked City, 1948 (Jules Dassin) Barry Fitzgerald *** +
The Naked Kiss, 1964 (Samuel Fuller) Constance Towers *** +
The Naked Street, 1955 (Maxwell Shane) Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft ** +
The Narrow Margin, 1952 (Richard Fleischer) Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor ***1/2 +
Narrow Margin, 1990 (Peter Hyams) Gene Hackman, Anne Archer **1/2 +
Never Die Alone, 2004 (Ernest R. Dickerson) DMX, Michael Ealy, David Arquette
New York Confidential, 1955 (Russell Rouse) Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte ***
Niagara, 1953 (Henry Hathaway) Joseph Cotton, Marilyn Monroe **1/2
Night and the City, 1950 (Jules Dassin) Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney ****1/2 +
The Night Clerk, 2020 (Michael Cristofer) Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas *1/2 +
Night Editor, 1946 (Henry Levin) **1/2 +
Night Has a Thousand Eyes, 1948 (John Farrow) Edward G. Robinson **1/2
The Night Holds Terror, 1955 (Andrew L. Stone) Vince Edwards, Jack Kelly **1/2 +
Night Moves, 1975 (Arthur Penn) Gene Hackman, Susan Clark ***1/2 +
The Night of the Hunter, 1955 (Charles Laughton) Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish **** +
The Night Runner, 1957 (Abner Biberman) Ray Danton
Night Without Sleep, 1952 (Roy Ward Baker) Gary Merrill, Linda Darnell
Nightcrawler, 2014 (Dan Gilroy) Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed ***
Nightfall, 1957 (Jacques Tourneur) Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft *** +
Nightmare, 1956 (Maxwell Shane) Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy **1/2 +
Nightmare Alley, 1947 (Edmund Goulding) Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Colleen Gray **** +
Nightmare Alley, 2021 (Guillermo del Toro) Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett *** +
The Nile Hilton Incident, 2017 (Tarik Saleh) Fares Fares, Hania Amar ***1/2 +
No Country for Old Men, 2007 (Joel and Ethan Coen) Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin ****
No Man of Her Own, 1950 (Mitchell Leisen) Barbara Stanwyck **1/2
No Man's Woman, 1955 (Franklin Adreon) Marie Windsor ** +
No Questions Asked, 1951 (Harold F. Kress) Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, Jean Hagen **1/2 +
No Sudden Move, 2021 (Steven Soderbergh) Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Ray Liotta ***1/2 +
No Way Out, 1950 (Joseph L. Mankeiwicz) Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell ***
Nobody Lives Forever, 1946 (Jean Negulesco) John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan **1/2
Nocturne, 1946 (Edwin L. Marin) George Raft **1/2 +
Nora Prentiss, 1947 (Vincent Sherman) Anne Sheridan *** +
Notorious, 1946 (Alfred Hitchcock) Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman ***1/2
Nowhere to Go, 1958 (Seth Holt) Maggie Smith, George Nader ** +
Odd Man Out, 1947 (Carol Reed) James Mason, Kathleen Ryan, Robert Newton ****1/2 +
Odds Against Tomorrow, 1959 (Robert Wise) Harry Belfonte, Robert Ryan **** +
On Dangerous Ground, 1952 (Nicholas Ray) Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino ***1/2 +
Once a Thief, 1965 (Ralph Nelson) Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin **1/2
One False Move, 1992 (Carl Franklin) Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams ***1/2
One Girl’s Confession, 1953 (Hugo Haas) Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas **1/2
One Way Street, 1950 (Hugo Fregonese) James Mason, Dan Duryea, Marta Toren *** +
Ossessione, 1943 (Luchino Visconti) ***
The Other Woman, 1954 (Hugo Haas) Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas
Out of the Blue, 2022 (Neil LaBute) Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson *1/2 +
Out of Sight, 1998 (Steven Soderbergh) George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez ***1/2
Out of the Fog, 1941 (Anatole Litvak) John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell **1/2
Out of the Past, 1947 (Jacques Tourneur) Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas ****1/2 +
Out of Time, 2003 (Carl Franklin) Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes **
Over-Exposed, 1956 (Lewis Seiler) Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna ** +
The Ox-Bow Incident, 1943 (William Wellman) Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews ****
Pale Flower, 1964 (Masahiro Shinoda) Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga ***1/2 +
Palmetto, 1998 (Volker Schlondorff) Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon *1/2 +
Panic In the Streets, 1950 (Elia Kazan) Richard Widmark ***1/2 +
Park Row, 1952 (Sam Fuller) **1/2
Party Girl, 1958 (Nicholas Ray) Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse **1/2 +
The People Against O'Hara, 1951 (John Sturges) Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien **1/2
Phantom Lady, 1944 (Robert Siodmak) Ella Raines, Franchot Tone *** +
The Phenix City Story, 1955 (Phil Karlson) **1/2
Pickings, 2018 (Usher Morgan) Elyse Price, Katie Vincent **1/2 +
Pickup, 1951 (Hugo Haas) Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon ** +
Pickup on South Street, 1953 (Samuel Fuller) Richard Widmark, Jean Peters **** +
Pitfall, 1948 (Andre de Toth) Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Raymond Burr **** +
The Place Beyond the Pines, 2012 (Derek Cianfrance) Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Ray Liotta ***
A Place In The Sun, 1951 (George Stevens) Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters ****
Please Murder Me, 1956 (Peter Godfrey) Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran **1/2 +
Plein Soleil (Purple Noon), 1960 (Rene Clement) Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforet ***1/2
Plunder of the Sun, 1953 (John Farrow) Glenn Ford **1/2
Plunder Road, 1957 (Hubert Cornfield) Gene Raymond, Elisha Cook *** +
Point Blank, 1967 (John Boorman) Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn ***
The Poison Rose, 2019 (George Gallo, Francesco Cinquemani) John Travolta, Morgan Freeman *1/2 +
Poodle Springs, 1998 (Bob Rafelson) James Caan, Dina Meyer **1/2 +
Pool of London, 1951 (Basil Dearden) Bonar Colleano, Earl Cameron **1/2
Port of New York, 1949 (Laszlo Benedek) Yul Brynner, Scott Brady ** +
Possessed, 1947 (Curtis Bernhardt) Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey **
The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946 (Tay Garnett) Lana Turner, John Garfield **** +
The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1981 (Bob Rafelson) Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange **1/2
The Pretender, 1947 (W. Lee Wilder) Albert Dekker ** +
The Price of Fear, 1956 (Abner Biberman) Merle Oberon, Lex Barker ** +
Private Hell 36, 1954 (Don Siegel) Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Steve Cochran ***1/2 +
The Prowler, 1951 (d. Joseph Losey, w. Dalton Trumbo) Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes **** +
Pulp, 1972 (Mike Hodges) Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lizabeth Scott *** +
Pursued, 1947 (Raoul Walsh) Robert Mitchum, Theresa Wright
Pushover, 1954 (Richard Quine) Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak ***
Quai des Orfevres, aka Jenny Lamour, 1947 (Henri-Georges Clouzot) Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier
Quicksand, 1950 (Irving Pichel) Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre *1/2
Race Street, 1948 (Edward L. Marin) George Raft, William Bendix, Harry Morgan **
The Racket, 1950 (Nicholas Ray) Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan **1/2
Rage in Heaven, 1941 (W.S. Van Dyke) Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders
Railroaded, 1947 (Anthony Mann) John Ireland, Hugh Beaumont **1/2
Rancho Notorious, 1952 (Fritz Lang) Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy ***1/2
Raw Deal, 1948 (Anthony Mann) Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor ***1/2 +
The Reckless Moment, 1949 (Max Ophuls) James Mason, Joan Bennett *** +
The Red House, 1947 (Delmer Daves) Edward G. Robinson, Rory Calhoun ***
Red Light, 1949 (Roy Del Ruth) George Raft, Virginia Mayo *** +
Red Rock West, 1993 (John Dahl) Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle **1/2
Reign of Terror (The Black Book), 1949 (Anthony Mann) Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl ***
Reindeer Games, 2000 (John Frankenheimer) Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron, Gary Sinise **
Reminiscence, 2021 (Lisa Joy) Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson **
Repeat Performance, 1947 (Alfred L. Werker) Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie **1/2
Requiem For a Heavyweight, 1962 (Ralph Nelson) Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason ****
Reservoir Dogs, 1992 (Quentin Tarantino) Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen **1/2
Ride the Pink Horse, 1947 (Robert Montgomery) Robert Montgomery *** +
Riffraff, 1947 (Ted Tetzlaff) Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys *** +
Rififi, 1955 (Jules Dassin) ***1/2 +
The Ring, 1952 (Kurt Neumann) Lalo Rios, Rita Moreno, Jack Elam
Riot in Cell Block 11, 1954 (Don Siegel) Neville Brand
Road House, 1948 (Jean Negulesco) Ida Lupino, Cornell Wilde, Richard Widmark ***1/2 +
Road to Perdition, 2002 (Sam Mendes) Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Daniel Craig ***1/2
Roadblock, 1951 (Harold Daniels) Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon **1/2 +
Rogue Cop, 1954 (Roy Rowland) Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh
Rogues’ Regiment, 1948 (Robert Florey) Dick Powell, Marta Toren **1/2
Rolling Thunder, 1977 (John Flynn) William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones *** +
Romeo is Bleeding, 1993 (Peter Medak) Gary Oldman, Lena Olin *1/2
Rope of Sand, 1949 (William Dieterle) Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains ***
Rusty Knife, 1958 (Toshio Masuda) Yujiro Ishihada, Mie Kitihara **1/2 +
Ruthless, 1948 (Edgar G. Ulmer) Zachary Scott, Sidney Greenstreet
Safe in Hell, 1931 (William Wellman) ***1/2
Le Samourai, 1967 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon ***1/2
Scandal Sheet, 1952 (Phil Karlson) Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford **1/2
The Scarf, 1951 (E. A. Dupont) John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge
Scarlet Street, 1945 (Fritz Lang) Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea ****1/2 +
Scene of the Crime, 1949 (Roy Rowland) Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven **1/2
Screaming Mimi, 1958 (Gerd Oswald) Anita Eckberg, Philip Carey
Sea of Love, 1989 (Harold Becker) Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin **1/2 +
Seance On a Wet Afternoon, 1964 (Bryan Forbes) Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough **1;2
Second Chance, 1953 (Rudolph Mate) Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Linda Darnell (color) **1/2
The Second Woman, 1950 (James V. Kern) Robert Young, Betsy Drake
Secret Beyond the Door, 1948 (Fritz Lang) Joan Bennett
The Sellout, 1952 (Gerald Mayer) Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter **1/2
The Set-Up, 1949 (Robert Wise) Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter **** +
Se7en, 1995 (David Fincher) Bradd Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey
The Seventh Victim, 1943 (Mark Robson, producer Val Lewton) ***
Shack Out on 101, 1955 (Edward Dein) Lee Marvin, Keenan Wynn, Terry Moore *** +
Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 (Alfred Hitchcock) Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten ***
Shadow on the Wall, 1950 (Pat Jackson) Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Nancy Davis **1/2
Shaft, 1971 (Gordon Parks) Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn ***
Shakedown, 1950 (Joseph Pevney) Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney **1/2 +
Shallow Grave, 1994 (Danny Boyle) Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor *1/2 +
The Shanghai Gesture, 1941 (Josef von Sternberg) Gene Tierney **1/2
Shattered, 1991 (Wolfgang Petersen) Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley ** +
Shed No Tears, 1948 (Jean Yarbrough) Wallace Ford, June Vincent **1/2 +
Shield for Murder, 1954 (Edmond O'Brien, Howard W. Koch) Edmond O'Brien, Marla English ***1/2 +
Shock, 1946 (Alfred L. Werker) Vincent Price **1/2 +
Shock Corridor, 1963 (Samuel Fuller) Peter Breck, Constance Towers ***1/2 +
Shockproof, 1949 (Douglas Sirk) Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight **
Shoot the Piano Player, 1960 (Francois Truffaut)
Shoot to Kill (Crime Reporter), 1947 (William Berke) *1/2
Short Cut to Hell, 1957 (James Cagney) Robert Ivers
Shutter Island, 2010 (Martin Scorsese) Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley ***
Side Street, 1950 (Anthony Mann) Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell ***
The Sign of the Ram, 1948 (John Sturges) Susan Peters, Alexander Knox ** +
The Silent Partner, 1978 (Daryl Duke) Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York ***1/2
A Simple Plan, 1998 (Sam Raimi) Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda ***
Sirocco, 1951 (Curtis Bernhardt) Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J. Cobb *** +
Slattery's Hurricane, 1949 (Andre De Toth) Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake **1/2
Sleep, My Love, 1948 (Douglas Sirk) Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche
The Sleeping City, 1950 (George Sherman) Richard Conte, Coleen Gray
Slightly Scarlet, 1956 (Alan Dwan) John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl **1/2
Small Town Crime, 2017 (Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms) John Hawkes, Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster **1/2
The Sniper, 1952 (Edward Dmytryk)
So Dark the Night, 1946 (Joseph H. Lewis) Steven Geray **1/2
So Evil, My Love, 1948 (Lewis Allen) Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Someone to Watch Over Me, 1987 (Ridley Scott) Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers ** +
Somewhere in the Night, 1946 (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) John Hodiak **1/2 +
Sorry, Wrong Number, 1948 (Anatole Litvak) Babara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster **1/2
Southside 1-1000, 1950 (Boris Ingster) Don Defore, Andrea King
Spin a Dark Web, 1956 (Vernon Sewell) Faith Domergue, Lee Patterson **1/2 +
Split Second, 1953 (Dick Powell) Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling *** +
Spring Breakers, 2012 (Harmony Korine) James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez ** +
Stage Fright, 1950 (Alfred Hitchcock) Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Todd **1/2
Stakeout on Dope Street, 1958 (Irving Kershner) *
State of Grace, 1990 (Phil Joanou) Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Ed Harris **
The Steel Trap, 1952 (Andrew L. Stone) Joseph Cotton, Theresa Wright **
Still of the Night, 1982 (Robert Benton) Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy ** +
Storm Fear, 1955 (Cornell Wilde) Cornell Wilde, Dan Duryea **1/2 +
Storm Warning, 1951 (Stuart Heisler) Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Steve Cochran, Doris Day **1/2 +
Stormy Monday, 1988 (Mike Figgis) Melanie Griffith, Sean Bean, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting ** +
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, 1945 (Robert Siodmak) George Sanders, Ella Raines ** +
Strange Bargain, 1949 (Will Price) Jeffrey Lynn, Martha Scott, Harry Morgan ** +
Strange Fascination, 1952 (Hugo Haas) Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore
Strange Illusion, 1945 (Edward G. Ullmer) Warren William
Strange Impersonation, 1946 (Anthony Mann) Brenda Marshall
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 1946 (Lewis Milestone) Barbara Stanwyck *** +
The Stranger, 1946 (Orson Welles) Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles ***
Stranger on the Third Floor, 1940 (Boris Ingster) Peter Lorre *1/2
Strangers in the Night, 1944 (Anthony Mann) William Terry, Virginia Grey ** +
Strangers On a Train, 1951 (Alfred Hitchcock) ***1/2
Stray Dog (Nora inu), 1949 (Akira Kurosawa) Toshiro Mifune ***1/2
Street of Chance, 1942 (Jack Hively) Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor
Street of Sinners, 1957 (William Berke) George Montgomery, Geraldine Brooks *1/2
The Street With No Name, 1948 (William Keighley) Richard Widmark, Mark Stevens ***
The Strip, 1951 (Laszlo Kardos) Mickey Rooney **
Sudden Fear, 1952 (David Miller) Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame ***
Suddenly, 1954 (Lewis Allen) Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Gates **
Sunset Boulevard, 1950 (Billy Wilder) William Holden, Gloria Swanson ***** +
The Suspect, 1945 (Robert Siodmak) Charles Laughton, Ella Raines
Suspense, 1946 (Frank Tuttle) Barry Sullivan, Belita, Albert Dekker **1/2 +
Sweet Smell of Success, 1957 (Alexander Mackendrick) Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis ****1/2 +
T-Men, 1947 (Anthony Mann) Dennis O’Keefe, Charles McGraw ***1/2 +
Take Aim at the Police Van, 1960 (Seijun Suzuki) Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki **1/2 +
The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999 (Anthony Minghella) Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow ***1/2
Talk About a Stranger, 1952 (David Bradley) George Murphy, Nancy Davis **
The Tall Target, 1951 (Anthony Mann) Dick Powell **1/2
Los Tallos Amargos (The Bitter Stems), 1956 (Fernando Ayala) Carlos Cores, Aida Luz, Vassili Lambrinos ****
Targets, 1968 (Peter Bogdanovich) Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly **1/2
The Tattered Dress, 1957 (Jack Arnold) Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain **
The Tattooed Stranger, 1950 (Edward Montagne) John Miles, Patricia Barry ** +
Temptation, 1946 (Irving Pichel) Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin **1/2
Tension, 1949 (John Berry) Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse ***1/2 +
Terror Street, 1953 (Montgomery Tully) Dan Duryea **1/2 +
They Drive By Night, 1940 (Raoul Walsh) George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino ***
They Live By Night, 1949 (Nicholas Ray) Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell **** +
They Made Me a Criminal, 1939 (Busby Berkeley) John Garfield, Claude Raines, Ann Sheridan **1/2
They Made Me a Killer, 1946 (William C. Thomas) Robert Lowery
They Won’t Believe Me, 1947 (Irving Pichel) Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer ***1/2 +
The Thief, 1952 (Russell Rouse) Ray Milland **
Thieves’ Highway, 1949 (Jules Dassin) Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb **** +
The Third Man, 1949 (Carol Reed) Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten **** +
This Gun for Hire, 1942 (Frank Tuttle) Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake ***1/2 +
This Side of the Law, 1950 (Richard L. Bare) Kent Smith, Viveca Lindfors, Janis Paige **1/2 +
This Woman is Dangerous, 1952 (Felix E. Feist) Joan Crawford, David Brian ** +
The Threat, 1949 (Felix E. Feist) Charles McGraw ** +
Three Strangers, 1946 (Jean Negulesco) Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre ***
Thunder Road, 1958 (Arthur Ripley) Robert Mitchum ***1/2 +
Tight Spot, 1955 (Phil Karlson) Brian Keith, Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson **
Timetable, 1956 (Mark Stevens) Mark Stevens, Felicia Farr **1/2
To the Ends of the Earth, 1948 (Robert Stevenson) Dick Powell **1/2
To Live and Die in L.A., 1985 (William Friedkin) William Petersen, Willem Defoe ***1/2
Tokyo Drifter, 1966 (Seijun Suzuki) Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara ***1/2
Tomorrow is Another Day, 1951 (Felix E. Feist) Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran ***1/2 +
Tony Rome, 1967 (Gordon Douglas) Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands **1/2 +
Too Late, 2015 (Dennis Hauck) John Hawkes **1/2 +
Too Late for Tears, 1949 (Byron Haskin) Dan Duryea ***1/2 +
Touch of Evil, 1958 (Orson Welles) Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles **** +
The Town, 2010 (Ben Affleck) Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm ***
Trance, 2013 (Danny Boyle) James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel **1/2 +
Trapped, 1949 (Richard Fleischer) Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton **1/2
Trouble in Mind, 1985 (Alan Rudolph) Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold *** +
True Romance, 1993 (Tony Scott) Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken ** +
Try and Get Me! (The Sound of Fury), 1950 (Cy Endfield) Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy ***
The Turning Point, 1952 (William Dieterle) William Holden, Edmond O'Brien ***
Twilight, 1998 (Robert Benton) Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, James Garner ***1/2 +
Twisted, 2004 (Philip Kaufman) Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia *
The Two Faces of January, 2014 (Hossein Amini) Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac ***
The Two Jakes, 1990 (Jack Nicholson) Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel *** +
Two Men in Manhattan, 1959 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Jean-Pierre Melville, Pierre Grasset **
The Two Mrs. Carrolls, 1947 (Peter Godfrey) Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck **
Two O'Clock Courage, 1945 (Anthony Mann) Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford **
Two of a Kind, 1951 (Henry Levin) Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth Scott, Terry Moore **1/2 +
U-Turn, 1997 (Oliver Stone) Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte *1/2
Uncut Gems, 2019 (Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie) Adam Sandler, Julia Fox *1/2 +
Under the Gun, 1951 (Ted Tetzlaff) Richard Conte, Audrey Totter
Under the Silver Lake, 2018 (David Robert Mitchell) Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough * +
The Undercover Man, 1949 (Joseph H. Lewis) Glenn Ford, Nina Foch ***
Undercurrent, 1946 (Vincente Minnelli) Robert Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum **1/2
The Underneath, 1995 (Steven Soderbergh) Peter Gallagher, Allison Elliott **1/2 +
Undertow, 1949 (William Castle) Scott Brady, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett **1/2
The Underworld Story, 1950 (Cy Endfield) Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall **1/2
Underworld U.S.A., 1961 (Samuel Fuller) Cliff Robertson *** +
The Unfaithful, 1947 (Vincent Sherman) Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott **1/2 +
The Unholy Four (A Stranger Came Home), 1954 (Terence Fisher) Paulette Godard, William Sylvester ** +
The Unholy Wife, 1957 (John Farrow) Diana Dors, Rod Steiger *1/2
Union Station, 1950 (Rudolph Mate) William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, Nancy Olson **1/2
The Unknown Man, 1951 (Richard Thorpe) Walter Pidgeon
The Unseen, 1945 (Lewis Allen) Joel McCrae, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall **
The Unsuspected, 1947 (Michael Curtiz) Claude Rains **1/2 +
Upgrade, 2018 (Leigh Whannell) Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel **1/2 +
The Usual Suspects, 1995 (Bryan Singer) Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne ***
El Vampiro Negro (The Black Vampire), 1953 (Roman Vinoly Barreto) Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada ****
The Verdict, 1946 (Don Siegel) Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre **1/2
Vertigo, 1958 (Alfred Hitchcock) James Stewart, Kim Novak ****
Vice Squad, 1953 (Arnold Laven) Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard *** +
Vicki, 1953 (Harry Horner) Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Richard Boone **1/2 +
Violence, 1947 (Jack Bernhard) Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea, Sheldon Leonard ** +
Violent Saturday, 1955 (Richard Fleischer) Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally *** +
Voice in the Wind, 1944 (Arthur Ripley) Francis Lederer
The Wages of Fear, 1953 (Henri-Georges Clouzot) Yves Montand, Charles Vanel **** +
Walk a Crooked Mile, 1948 (Gordon Douglas) Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe **1/2 +
Walk East on Beacon, 1952 (Alfred L. Werker) George Murphy, Virginia Gilmore *1/2 +
Walk Softly, Stranger, 1950 (Robert Stevenson) Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli ** +
Wander, 2020 (April Mullen) Tommy Lee Jones, Aaron Eckhart 1/2* +
Warning Shot, 1967 (Buzz Kulik) David Janssen, Joan Collins **
The Web, 1947 (Michael Gordon) Edmond O’Brien, Vincent Price, Ella Raines **1/2
When Strangers Marry (Betrayed), 1944 (William Castle) Robert Mitchum, Kim Hunter *1/2
Where Danger Lives, 1950 (John Farrow) Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains **1/2
Where the Money Is, 2000 (Marek Kanievska) Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino ** +
Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1950 (Otto Preminger) Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney **** +
While the City Sleeps, 1956 (Fritz Lang) Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Ida Lupino ***
Whiplash, 1948 (Lewis Seiler) Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden ** +
Whirlpool, 1949 (Otto Preminger) Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer **1/2
Whispering City, 1947 (Fyodor Otsep) Paul Lukas, Mary Anderson, Helmut Dantine ** +
Whispering Footsteps, 1943 (Howard Bretherton) John Hubbard, Rita Quigley
Whistle Stop, 1946 (Leonide Moguy) George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor MacGlaglen **
White Heat, 1949 (Raoul Walsh) James Cagney, Edmond O’Brien, Virginia Mayo **** +
Who'll Stop the Rain, 1978 (Karel Reisz) Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld ***1/2
Wicked Woman, 1953 (Russell Rouse) Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton *** +
Wind River, 2017 (Taylor Sheridan) Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen ***
The Window, 1949 (Ted Tetzlaff) Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart ***
Without Warning!, 1952 (Arnold Laven)
Witness to Murder, 1954 (Roy Rowland) Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders **1/2 +
The Woman Chaser, 1999 (Robinson Devor) Patrick Warburton ***
Woman in Hiding, 1949 (Michael Gordon) Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally **
The Woman in the Window, 1944 (Fritz Lang) Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett ***1/2 +
The Woman on the Beach, 1947 (Jean Renoir) Robert Ryan, Joan Bennett **
The Woman on Pier 13 (aka I Married a Communist), 1949 (Robert Stevenson) Laraine Day, Robert Ryan **
Woman on the Run, 1950 (Norman Foster) Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe ***
A Woman’s Secret, 1949 (Nicholas Ray) Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame ** +
Women in the Night, 1948 (William Rowland)
Women’s Prison, 1955 (Lewis Seiler) Ida Lupino, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter
World for Ransom, 1954 (Robert Aldrich) Dan Duryea **1/2
The Wrong Man, 1956 (Alfred Hitchcock) Henry Fonda ***
The Yakuza, 1975 (Sidney Pollack) Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura ***
Year of the Dragon, 1985 (Michael Cimino) Mickey Rourke, John Lone
You Only Live Once, 1937 (Fritz Lang) Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sydney ***
Zone 414, 2021 (Andrew Baird) Guy Pearce, Matilda Lutz **
+ Film reviewed by The Noirharajah on The Nattering Nabob of Noir page.
5 Against the House, 1955 (Phil Karlson) Brian Keith, Kim Novak **1/2 +
5 Steps to Danger, 1957 (Henry S. Kesler) Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden **
The 13th Letter, 1951 (Otto Preminger) Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer
52 Pick-Up, 1986 (John Frankenheimer) Roy Scheider, Ann Margaret, John Glover *** +
99 River Street, 1953 (Phil Karlson) John Payne, Evelyn Keyes *** +
711 Ocean Drive, 1950 (Joseph M. Newman) Edmond O’Brien, Joanne Dru *** +
8 Million Ways to Die, 1986 (Hal Ashby) Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Andy Garcia **1/2
Abandoned, 1949 (Joseph M. Newman) Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Raymond Burr *** +
Accomplice, 1946 (Walter Colmes) 1/2* +
The Accused, 1949 (William Dieterle) Loretta Young, Bob Cummings, Wendell Corey *** +
Ace in the Hole, 1951 (Billy Wilder) Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling **** +
Across 110th Street, 1972 (Barry Shear) Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto **1/2 +
Act of Violence, 1948 (Fred Zinnemann) Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor **** +
Address Unknown, 1944 (William Cameron Menzies) Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond **1/2
Affair in Havana, 1957 (Laszlo Benedek) John Cassavetes, Raymond Burr, Sara Shane **1/2
Affair in Trinidad, 1952 (Vincent Sherman) Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth **1/2 +
After Dark, My Sweet, 1990 (James Foley) Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern **** +
Against All Odds, 1984 (Taylor Hackford) Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods *** +
Agnes of God, 1985 (Norman Jewison) Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly
Alias Nick Beal, 1949 (John Farrow) Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell **1/2
All My Sons, 1948 (Irving Reis) Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster
All Night Long, 1962 (Basil Dearden) Patrick McGoohan
Allotment Wives, 1945 (William Nigh) Kay Francis, Paul Kelly **1/2 +
The Amazing Mr. X, 1948 (Bernard Vorhaus)
The American Friend, 1977 (Wim Wenders) Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper ***
Among the Living, 1941 (Stuart Heisler) Susan Hayward
An Act of Murder, 1948 (Michael Gordon) Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien **1/2 +
Angel Face, 1952 (Otto Preminger) Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons *** +
Angel Heart, 1987 (Alan Parker) Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet *** +
Anti Matter, 2017 (Keir Burrows) Yaiza Figueroa, Philippa Carson **1/2 +
Apology for Murder, 1945 (Sam Newfield) Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage *1/2 +
Appointment With Danger, 1951 (Lewis Allen) Alan Ladd **1/2 +
The Argyle Secrets, 1948 (Cy Endfield) William Gargan, Marjorie Lord ***
Arkansas, 2020 (Clark Duke) Liam Hemsworth, Michael Kenneth Williams ***
Armored Car Robbery, 1950 (Richard Fleischer) Charles McGraw, William Talman *** +
Ashes and Diamonds, 1958 (Andrzej Wajda) Zbigniew Cybulski **** +
The Asphalt Jungle, 1950 (John Huston) Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe **** +
Assignment Paris, 1952 (Robert Parrish) Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, George Sanders, Audrey Totter **1/2
At Close Range, 1986 (James Foley) Sean Penn, Christopher Walken *** +
Backfire, 1950 (Vincent Sherman) Edmund O’Brien, Viveca Lindfors **1/2 +
Bad Blonde (aka The Flanagan Boy), 1953 (Reginald Le Borg) Barbara Payton, Tony Wright ** +
Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018 (Drew Goddard) Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo **
Bait, 1954 (Hugo Haas) Cleo Moore, John Agar, Hugo Haas ** +
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, 2007 (Sidney Lumet) Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke ***1/2 +
Behind Green Lights, 1946 (Otto Brower) William Gargan, Carole Landis, John Ireland *1/2 +
Behind Locked Doors, 1948 (Budd Boetticher)
Behind the High Wall, 1956 (Abner Biberman) Tom Tully, Sylvia Sidney, John Gavin **1/2 +
Berlin Express, 1948 (Jacques Tourneur) Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan **1/2 +
La Bestia Debe Morir (The Beast Must Die), 1952 (Roman Vinoli Barreto) Narciso Ibanez Menta ***
Between Midnight and Dawn, 1950 (Gordon Douglas) Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm **1/2 +
Beware My Lovely, 1952 (Harry Horner) Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan **1/2
Bewitched, 1945 (Arch Oboler) Phyllis Thaxter, Edmund Gwenn ** +
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, 1956 (Fritz Lang) Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine *** +
Beyond the Forest, 1949 (King Vidor) Bette Davis, Joseph Cotton
The Big Bang, 2011 (Tony Krantz) Antonio Banderas **
The Big Bluff, 1955 (W. Lee Wilder) Rosemarie Bowe *** +
The Big Caper, 1957 (Robert Stevens) Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory **
The Big Clock, 1948 (John Farrow) Ray Milland, Charles Laughton ***1/2 +
The Big Combo, 1955 (Joseph H. Lewis) Cornell Wilde, Richard Conte ***1/2 +
The Big Heat, 1953 (Fritz Lang) Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin **** +
The Big Knife, 1955 (Robert Aldrich) Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger ***1/2
The Big Night, 1951 (Joseph Losey) John Drew Barrymore **1/2
The Big Operator, 1959 (Charles F. Haas) Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren ** +
The Big Sleep, 1946 (Howard Hawks) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall **** +
The Big Sleep, 1978 (Michael Winner) Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, James Stewart **1/2 +
The Big Steal, 1949 (Don Siegel) Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer *** +
The Bigamist, 1953 (Ida Lupino) Edmond O'Brien, Ida Lupino, Joan Fontaine *** +
Black Angel, 1946 (Roy William Neal) Dan Duryea, Peter Lorre *** +
The Black Dahlia, 2006 (Brian DePalma) Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson ** +
Black Gravel, 1961 (Helmut Kautner) Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg ***
Black Tuesday, 1954 (Hugo Fregonese) Edward G. Robinson, Peter Graves, Jean Parker *** +
Black Widow, 1954 (Nunnally Johnson) Van Heflin, Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, George Raft **1/2 +
Blade Runner, 1982 (Ridley Scott) Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer **** +
Blade Runner 2049, 2017 (Denis Villeneuve) Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford ***
Blast of Silence, 1961 (Allen Baron) Allen Baron *** +
The Blind Goddess, 1948 (Harold French) Eric Portman, Anne Crawford
Blonde Ice, 1948 (Jack Bernhard) Leslie Brooks **1/2 +
Blood and Money, 2020 (John Barr) Tom Berenger **1/2 +
Blood and Wine, 1996 (Bob Rafelson) Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Dorff, Michael Caine ***1/2
Blood Simple, 1984 (Joel and Ethan Coen) ***1/2 +
The Blue Dahlia, 1946 (George Marshall, written by Raymond Chandler) ***1/2 +
The Blue Gardenia, 1953 (Fritz Lang) Anne Baxter, Richard Conte **1/2 +
Blue Ruin, 2013 (Jeremy Saulnier) Macon Blair, Amy Hargreaves ***
A Blueprint for Murder, 1953 (Andrew L. Stone)
Blues in the Night, 1941 (Anatole Litvak) Richard Whorf, Priscilla Lane, Lloyd Nolan *** +
Bob Le Flambeur, 1956 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Roger Duchesne **1/2 +
Body and Soul, 1947 (Robert Rossen) John Garfield, Lili Palmer **** +
Body Heat, 1981 (Lawrence Kasdan) William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Ted Danson, Richard Crenna **** +
Bodyguard, 1948 (Richard Fleischer) Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane ** +
Boomerang!, 1947 (Elia Kazan) Dana Andrews
Border Incident, 1949 (Anthony Mann) Ricardo Montalban ***1/2 +
Borderline, 1950 (William A. Seiter) Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor ** +
Born to Be Bad, 1950 (Nicholas Ray) Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott **1/2
Born to Kill, 1947 (Robert Wise) Laurence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak ***1/2 +
Boulevard Nights, 1979 (Michael Pressman) Richard Yniguez
Bound, 1996 (The Wachowskis) Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano **1/2
Branded to Kill, 1967 (Seijun Suzuki) Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara ***1/2
The Brasher Doubloon, 1947 (John Brahm) George Montgomery, Nancy Guild **1/2 +
The Breaking Point, 1950 (Michael Curtiz) John Garfield, Patricia Neal **** +
Breathless, 1960 (Jean-Luc Godard) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg **** +
Breathless, 1983 (Jim McBride) Richard Gere, Valerie Kaprisky **1/2
The Bribe, 1949 (Robert Z. Leonard) Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price **1/2
Brick, 2005 (Rian Johnson) Joseph Gordon-Levitt ***1/2 +
Brighton Rock, 1947 (John Boulting) ***
Broken City, 2013 (Allen Hughes) Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones ** +
Brooklyn's Finest, 2009 (Antoine Fuqua) Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke ***
The Brothers Rico, 1957 (Phil Karlson) Richard Conte **1/2 +
Brown's Requiem, 1998 (Jason Freeland) Michael Rooker, Selma Blair **1/2 +
Brute Force, 1947 (Jules Dassin) Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn *** +
A Bullet for Joey, 1955 (Lewis Allen) George Raft, Edward G. Robinson ** +
Bunny Lake is Missing, 1965 (Otto Preminger) Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley ***
The Burglar, 1957 (Paul Wendkos, w. David Goodis) Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield ***1/2 +
The Burglars, 1971 (Henri Verneuil) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon ** +
The Burnt Orange Heresy, 2020 (Giuseppe Capotondi) Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger *** +
Bury Me Dead, 1947 (Bernard Vorhaus) * +
Cage of Evil, 1960 (Edward L. Cahn) Ron Foster, Patricia Blair ** +
Caged, 1950 (John Cromwell) Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead *** +
Calcutta, 1947 (John Farrow) Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix **1/2 +
Call Northside 777, 1948 (Henry Hathaway) James Stewart, Richard Conte **1/2 +
Captain Carey, U.S.A., 1950 (Mitchell Leisen) Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix **1/2
The Captive City, 1952 (Robert Wise) John Forsythe **1/2
The Card Counter, 2021 (Paul Schrader) Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan *** +
Cash on Demand, 1961 (Quentin Lawrence) Peter Cushing, Andre Morrell ***
Casque d'Or, 1952 (Jacques Becker) Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani ****
Caught, 1949 (Max Ophuls) Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, James Mason ** +
Cause for Alarm, 1951 (Tay Garnett) Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan **1/2 +
Le Cercle Rouge, 1970 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Alain Delon, Andre Bourvil ****
Champion, 1949 (Mark Robson) Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy
Chandler, 1971 (Paul Magwood) Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Charles McGraw * +
The Chase, 1946 (Arthur Ripley) Robert Cummings *1/2 +
Chicago Calling, 1951 (John Reinhardt) Dan Duryea, Mary Anderson *** +
Chicago Deadline, 1949 (Lewis Allen) Alan Ladd, Donna Reed
China Moon, 1994 (John Bailey) Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Benicio del Toro ** +
Chinatown, 1974 (Roman Polanski) Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston ***** +
Chinatown at Midnight, 1949 (Seymour Friedman) Hurd Hatfield **1/2
Christmas Holiday, 1944 (Robert Siodmak) Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly ** +
City of Fear, 1959 (Irving Lerner) Vince Edwards ** +
City of Tiny Lights, 2016 (Pete Travis) Riz Ahmed **1/2
City That Never Sleeps, 1953 (John H. Auer) Gig Young, William Talman ***1/2 +
Clash By Night, 1952 (Fritz Lang) Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas **1/2
The Clay Pigeon, 1949 (Richard Fleischer) Bill Williams, Barbara Hale ** +
Cloudburst, 1951 (Francis Searle) Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars *** +
Cold in July, 2014 (Jim Mickle) Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson ** +
Collateral, 2004 (Michael Mann) Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx **1/2 +
A Colt is My Passport, 1967 (Takashi Nomura) Joe Shishido, Jerry Fujido, Chitose Kobayashi ***1/2 +
The Come On, 1956 (Russell Birdwell) Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden ** +
Conflict, 1945 (Curtis Bernhardt) Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet **
The Conspirators, 1944 (Jean Negulesco) Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid
The Conversation, 1974 (Francis Ford Coppola) Gene Hackman ****
The Cooler, 2003 (Wayne Cramer) William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello ***
Cop, 1988 (James B. Harris) James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren ***
Cop Hater, 1959 (William Berke) Robert Loggia, Gerald O'Laughlin, Vincent Gardenia **1/2 +
Cornered, 1945 (Edward Dmytryck) Dick Powell, Walter Slezak *** +
Cover Up, 1949 (Alfred E. Green) Dennis O'Keefe, William Bendix **1/2
Crack-Up, 1946 (Irving Reis) Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor **1/2 +
Crime of Passion, 1957 (Gerd Oswald) Sterling Hayden, Barbara Stanwyck ***1/2 +
Crime Wave, 1954 (André de Toth) Sterling Hayden **1/2 +
The Crimson Kimono, 1959 (Samuel Fuller) *** +
Criss Cross, 1949 (Robert Siodmak) Burt Lancaster, Dan Duryea **** +
The Crooked Way, 1949 (Robert Florey) John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Percy Helton *** +
The Crooked Web, 1955 (Nathan Juran) Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning **
Crossfire, 1947 (Edward Dmytryck) Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum ***
Crossroads, 1942 (Jack Conway) William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor, Basil Rathbone **1/2
Croupier, 1998 (Mike Hodges) Clive Owen ***
Cruel Gun Story, 1964 (Takumi Furukawa) Joe Shishido, Chieko Matsubara *** +
Cry Danger, 1951 (Robert Parrish) Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, William Conrad *** +
A Cry In the Night, 1956 (Frank Tuttle) Edmond O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr
Cry of the City, 1948 (Robert Siodmak) Richard Conte, Victor Mature *** +
Cry of the Hunted, 1953 (Joseph H. Lewis) Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan **1/2 +
Cry Terror, 1958 (Andrew L. Stone) James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson **1/2 +
Cry Vengeance, 1954 (Mark Stevens) Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer *** +
Cutter's Way, 1981 (Ivan Passer) Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn ***
D.O.A., 1950 (Rudolph Maté) Edmond O'Brien **** +
D.O.A., 1988 (Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton) Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan ** +
The Damned Don’t Cry, 1950 (Vincent Sherman) Joan Crawford, Steve Cochrane **1/2 +
Danger Signal, 1945 (Robert Florey) Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson ** +
Dangerous Passage, 1944 (William Berke) Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks
A Dangerous Profession, 1949 (Ted Tetzlaff) George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O'Brien ** +
Dark City, 1950 (William Dieterle) Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott **1/2 +
Dark City, 1998 (Alex Proyas) Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt **1/2
The Dark Corner, 1946 (Henry Hathaway) Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens ***
The Dark Mirror, 1946 (Robert Siodmak) Olivia de Havilland
Dark Passage, 1947 (Delmer Daves) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall *** +
The Dark Past, 1948 (Rudolph Mate) William Holden, Lee J. Cobb, Nina Foch ** +
Dark Waters, 1944 (Andre De Toth) Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone
Dead Again, 1991 (Kenneth Brannagh) Kenneth Brannagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia **1/2 +
Dead Man Down, 2013 (Neils Arden Oplev) Colin Ferrell, Noomi Rapace, Isabelle Huppert ** +
Dead Reckoning, 1947 (John Cromwell) Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott ***1/2 +
Deadline at Dawn, 1946 (Harold Clurman) Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas **1/2
Deadline USA, 1952 (Richard Brooks) Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter ***1/2
Dear Murderer, 1947 (Arthur Crabtree) Eric Portman, Greta Gynt *** +
Death in Small Doses, 1957 (Joseph M. Newman) Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors **1/2 +
Death of a Cyclist, 1955 (Juan Antonio Bardem) Lucia Bose, Alberto Closas, Carlos Casaravilla ****
Deception, 1946 (Irving Rapper) Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains *** +
Decision to Leave, 2022 (Park Chan-wook) Tang Wei, Park Hae-il ***1/2
Decoy, 1946 (Jack Bernhard) Jean Gillie **1/2 +
Deep Cover, 1992 (Bill Duke) Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Charles Martin Smith **1/2
The Departed, 2006 (Martin Scorsese) Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon **** +
Deported, 1950 (Robert Siodmak) Jeff Chandler, Marta Toren
Desert Fury, 1947 (Lewis Allen) Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor **1/2
Desperate, 1947 (Anthony Mann) Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr **1/2 +
The Desperate Hours, 1955 (William Wyler) Humphrey Bogart, Frederic March ***
Destination Murder, 1950 (Edward L. Cahn) **1/2 +
Destiny, 1944 (Reginald Le Borg) Gloria Jean, Alan Curtis
Destroyer, 2018 (Karyn Kusama) Nicole Kidman *** +
The Detective, 1968 (Gordon Douglas) Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman **1/2
Detective Story, 1951 (William Wyler) Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker ***
Detour, 1945 (Edgar G. Ulmer) Tom Neal, Ann Savage ****1/2 +
Le Deuxieme Souffle, 1966 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse ***
Devil in a Blue Dress, 1995 (Carl Franklin) Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, Don Cheadle ***1/2 +
The Devil Thumbs a Ride, 1947 (Felix E. Feist) Lawrence Tierney
Dial 1119, 1950 (Gerald Mayer) Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field **1/2
The Disappearance of Alice Creed, 2009 (J Blakeson) Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan *** +
Dishonored Lady, 1947 (Robert Stevenson) Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe **1/2
Do You Know This Voice?, 1964 (Frank Nesbitt) Dan Duryea, Isa Miranda **1/2 +
Don’t Bother to Knock, 1952 (Roy Ward Baker) Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark **1/2
Door-to-Door Maniac (Five Minutes to Live), 1961 (Bill Karn) Johnny Cash, Cay Forrester *1/2
A Double Life, 1947 (George Cukor) Ronald Colman, Edmond O'Brien
Double Indemnity, 1944 (Billy Wilder) ***** +
Le Doulos, 1963 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani ***1/2
Down Three Dark Streets, 1954 (Arnold Laven) Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer **1/2 +
Dragged Across Concrete, 2018 (S. Craig Zahler) Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles * +
Drive a Crooked Road, 1954 (Richard Quine) Mickey Rooney *** +
Drive, 2011 (Nicolas Winding Refn) Ryan Gosling, Cary Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks ***
The Driver, 1978 (Walter Hill) Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani **1/2 +
The Drop, 2014 (Michael R. Roskam) Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, Noomi Rapace ***1/2 +
The Drowning Pool, 1975 (Stuart Rosenberg) Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward **1/2 +
Edge of Doom, 1950 (Mark Robson) Dana Andrews, Farley Granger
Elena, 2012 (Andrey Zvyagintsev) Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov ***1/2 +
Elevator to the Gallows, 1958 (Louis Malle) Jeanne Moreau ***1/2 +
Emily the Criminal, 2022 (John Patton Ford) Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi ***1/2
The Enforcer, 1951 (Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh) Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia **1/2 +
Escape in the Fog, 1945 (Bud Boetticher) Otto Kruger, Nina Foch **1/2
Experiment in Terror, 1962 (Blake Edwards) Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers
The Face Behind the Mask, 1941 (Robert Florey) Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes ***1/2 +
Fall Guy, 1947 (Reginald Le Borg) Elisha Cook, Jr.
Fallen Angel, 1945 (Otto Preminger) Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell *** +
The Fallen Sparrow, 1943 (Richard Wallace) John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara **1/2 +
Farewell, My Lovely, 1975 (Dick Richards) Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling ***1/2 *
Fargo, 1996 (Joel and Ethan Coen) Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi **** +
Fear, 1946 (Alfred Zeisler) Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne ** +
Fear in the Night, 1947 (Maxwell Shane) Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley
Female Jungle, 1956 (Bruno VeSota) Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine
Female on the Beach, 1955 (Joseph Pevney) Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler ** +
The File on Thelma Jordon, 1950 (Robert Siodmak) Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey **1/2
Final Analysis, 1992 (Phil Joanou) Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts *1/2 +
Finger Man, 1955 (Harold D. Schuster) Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker
Finger of Guilt (aka The Intimate Stranger), 1956 (Joseph Losey) Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy **1/2 +
First Snow, 2006 (Mark Fergus) Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, J.K. Simmons **1/2
Five Days (Paid to Kill), 1954 (Montgomery Tully) Dane Clark
Five Steps to Danger, 1957 (Henry S. Kesler) Sterling Hayden, Ruth Roman **1/2
The Flame, 1947 (John H. Auer) John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Broderick Crawford ** +
Flame of the Islands, 1956 (Edward Ludwig) Yvonne DeCarlo, Howard Duff, Zachary Scott ** +
Flamingo Road, 1949 (Michael Curtiz) Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet **1/2
Flaxy Martin, 1949 (Richard L. Bare) Zachary Scott, Virginia Mayo, Elisha Cook Jr., Dorothy Malone **
Flight to Nowhere, 1946 (William Rowland) Alan Curtis *1/2
Fly By Night, 1942 (Robert Siodmak) Richard Carlson, Nancy Kelly
Follow Me Quietly, 1949 (Anthony Mann) William Lundigan **
Following, 1998 (Christopher Nolan) **1/2 +
For You I Die, 1947 (John Reinhardt) Cathy Downs, Paul Langton **1/2 +
Forbidden, 1953 (Rudolf Mate) Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru, Lyle Bettger **1/2
Force of Evil, 1948 (Abraham Polonsky) John Garfield, Thomas Gomez ****1/2 +
Foreign Intrigue, 1956 (Sheldon Reynolds) Robert Mitchum, Genevieve Page, Ingrid Thulin **1/2 +
Framed, 1947 (Richard Wallace) Glenn Ford, Janis Carter *** +
Frantic, 1988 (Roman Polanski) Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner ***
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 1973 (Peter Yates) Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle **** +
Fury, 1948 (Phil Karlson) Preston Foster
The Gambler and the Lady, 1952 (Pat Jenkins/Sam Newfield) Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron **
Gambling House, 1950 (Ted Tetzlaff) Victor Mature, William Bendix **1/2 +
The Gangster, 1947 (Gordon Wiles) Barry Sullivan **1/2
The Garment Jungle, 1957 (Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich) Lee J. Cobb, Gia Scala, Richard Boone
Gaslight, 1944 (George Cukor) Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer ***
Gattaca, 1997 (Andrew Niccol) Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Alan Arkin ***
Get Carter, 1971 (Mike Hodges) Michael Caine, Britt Ekland ***1/2
The Getaway, 1972 (Sam Peckinpah) Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw **1/2
Gilda, 1946 (Charles Vidor) Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford ***1/2 +
The Girl Hunters, 1963 (Roy Rowland) Mickey Spillane, Lloyd Nolan ** +
The Girl in Black Stockings, 1957 (Howard W. Koch) Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren *1/2 +
The Glass Key, 1942 (Stuart Heisler) Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake ***
The Glass Wall, 1953 (Maxwell Shane) Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame ***1/2 +
Gloria, 1980 (John Cassavetes) Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen ***
Gone Girl, 2014 (David Fincher) Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike **1/2
The Good Die Young, 1955 (Lewis Gilbert) Laurence Harvey, Richard Basehart **1/2 +
The Great Flamarion, 1945 (Anthony Mann) **1/2 +
The Green Glove, 1952 (Rudolph Mate) Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks **1/2 +
The Grifters, 1990 (Stephen Frears) John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening **** +
The Groundstar Conspiracy, 1972 (Lamont Johnson) George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin **1/2 +
Guest in the House, 1944 (John Brahm) Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy
The Guilty, 1947 (John Reinhardt) Bonita Granville, Don Castle **
Guilty Bystander, 1950 (Joseph Lerner) Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson **
Gumshoe, 1971 (Stephen Frears) Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw **1/2 +
Gun Crazy, 1950 (d. Joseph H. Lewis, w. Dalton Trumbo) **** +
The Gun Runners, 1958 (Don Siegel) Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert **1/2 +
Gunman in the Streets, 1950 (Frank Tuttle) Dane Clark, Simone Signoret **1/2 +
Guns, Girls and Gangsters, 1959 (Edward L. Cahn) Mamie Van Doren **1/2 +
Hammett, 1982 (Wim Wenders) Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle ***
Hangmen Also Die, 1943 (Fritz Lang) **1/2
Hangover Square, 1945 (John Brahm) Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders **1/2
Hard Eight, 1996 (Paul Thomas Anderson) Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly ***
Hardcore, 1979 (Paul Schrader) George C. Scott, Peter Boyle ***
The Harder They Fall, 1956 (Mark Robson) Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger ***
Harper, 1966 (Jack Smight) Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh ***
He Ran All the Way, 1951 (John Barry, w. Dalton Trumbo) John Garfield **1/2
He Walked By Night, 1948 (Anthony Mann) Richard Basehart **1/2
Heat, 1995 (Michael Mann) Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Diane Venora **** +
Heat Wave (aka The House Across the Lake), 1954 (Ken Hughes) Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke *** +
Heist, 2001 (David Mamet) Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito **1/2
Hell Bound, 1957 (William J. Hole, Jr.) John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman *** +
Hell Drivers, 1957 (Cy Endfield) Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins ***
Hell on Frisco Bay, 1955 (Frank Tuttle) Alan Ladd, Joanne Dru, Edward G. Robinson ** +
Hell or High Water, 2016 (David Mackenzie) Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster ***1/2
Hell’s Half Acre, 1954 (John H. Auer) Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes ** +
Hell's Island, 1955 (Phil Karlson) John Payne, Mary Murphy (color) ** +
Hickey & Boggs, 1972 (Robert Culp) Bill Cosby, Robert Culp **1/2
High and Low, 1963 (Akira Kurosawa) Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai **** +
High Sierra, 1941 (Raoul Walsh) Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie **** +
High Tide, 1947 (John Reinhardt) Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop **1/2 +
High Wall, 1947 (Curtis Bernhardt) Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter **1/2 +
Highway Dragnet, 1954 (Nathan Juran) Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix **1/2 +
Highway 301, 1950 (Andrew L. Stone) Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey **1/2 +
Highway West, 1941 (William C. McGann) Arthur Kennedy, Brenda Marshall **
His Kind of Woman, 1951 (John Farrow) Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price *** +
The Hit, 1984 (Stephen Frears) Terrence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol ***
Hit and Run, 1957 (Hugo Haas) Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Vince Edwards **1/2
Hit Me, 1996 (Steven Shainberg) Elias Koteas, William H. Macy
The Hitch-Hiker, 1952 (Ida Lupino) Edmond O’Brien, William Talman ***1/2 +
Hollow Triumph (The Scar), 1948 (Steve Sekely) Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett ***
Hollywood Story, 1951 (William Castle) Richard Conte, Julie Adams ** +
Hollywoodland, 2006 (Allen Coulter) Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane *** +
Homicide, 1949 (Felix Jacoves) Robert Douglas, Robert Alda ** +
The Hoodlum, 1951 (Max Nosseck) Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts *** +
Hoodlum Empire, 1952 (Joseph Kane) Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor
The Hot Spot, 1990 (Dennis Hopper) Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly **1/2
House by the River, 1950 (Fritz Lang) Louis Hayward
House of Bamboo, 1955 (Samuel Fuller) Robert Ryan, Robert Stack *** +
House of Numbers, 1957 (Russell Rouse) Jack Palance
House of Strangers, 1949 (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward
The House on 92nd Street, 1945 (Henry Hathaway)
The House on Telegraph Hill, 1951 (Robert Wise) **1/2
The Housemaid, 1960 (Kim Ki-young) Kim Jin-kyu, Lee Eun-shim *** +
The Houston Story, 1956 (William Castle) Gene Barry, Barbara Hale **1/2
Human Desire, 1954 (Fritz Lang) Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame *** +
Hunt the Man Down, 1951 (George Archainbaud) Gig Young, James Anderson **
The Hunted, 1948 (Jack Bernhard) Preston Foster, Belita
Hustle, 1975 (Robert Aldrich) Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson *** +
I Am Waiting, 1957 (Koreyoshi Kurahara) Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara ***1/2 +
I Confess, 1953 (Alfred Hitchcock) Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter **1/2 +
I Died a Thousand Times, 1955 (Stuart Heisler) Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin **1/2 +
I Love Trouble, 1948 (S. Sylvan Simon) Franchot Tone, Janet Blair **1/2 +
I, the Jury, 1953 (Harry Essex) Biff Elliot **1/2
I Wake Up Screaming, 1941 (H. Bruce Humberstone) Betty Grable, Victor Mature *** +
I Walk Alone, 1948 (Byron Haskin) Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott ***
I Want to Live! 1958 (Robert Wise) Susan Hayward **1/2
I Was a Communist for the FBI, 1951 (Gordon Douglas) Frank Lovejoy * +
I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes, 1948 (William Nigh) Don Castle, Elyse Knox *1/2 +
Illegal, 1955 (Lewis Allen) Edward G. Robinson **1/2 +
I'm Your Woman, 2020 (Julia Hart) Rachel Brosnahan, Arinze Kene *** +
Impact, 1949 (Arthur Lubin) Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines *** +
In a Lonely Place, 1950 (Nicholas Ray) **** +
Indestructible Man, 1956 (Jack Pollexfen) Lon Chaney, Jr., Max Showalter *1/2 +
The Indian Runner, 1991 (Sean Penn) Viggo Mortensen, David Morse, Patricia Arquette ** +
Inferno, 1953 (Roy Ward Baker) Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming **1/2 +
Inside Job, 1946 (Jean Yarbrough) Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford
Ivy, 1947 (Sam Wood) Joan Fontaine, Herbert Marshall
Jackie Brown, 1997 (Quentin Tarantino) Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert DeNiro ***1/2
Jagged Edge, 1985 (Richard Marquand) Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Robert Loggia **1/2
Jeopardy, 1953 (John Sturges) Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker ***
Jigsaw, 1949 (Fletcher Markle) Franchot Tone
Johnny Angel, 1945 (Edward L. Marin) George Raft, Claire Trevor **1/2 +
Johnny Apollo, 1940 (Henry Hathaway) Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan **1/2
Johnny Cool, 1963 (William Asher) Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery **
Johnny Eager, 1941 (Mervyn LeRoy) Robert Taylor, Lana Turner *** +
Johnny Guitar, 1954 (Nicholas Ray) Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge ***1/2 +
Johnny Handsome, 1989 (Walter Hill) Mickey Rourke, Elizabeth McGovern, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman **1/2
Johnny O’Clock, 1947 (Robert Rossen) Dick Powell ***
Johnny One-Eye, 1950 (Robert Florey) Pat O’Brien *** +
Johnny Stool Pigeon, 1949 (William Castle) Dan Duryea, Howard Duff, Shelley Winters **1/2 +
Journey Into Fear, 1943 (Norman Foster) Joseph Cotton, Dolores del Rio, Orson Welles **1/2 +
Julia, 2008 (Erick Zonca) Tilda Swinton, Aidan Gould *** +
Julie, 1956 (Andrew L. Stone) Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan ** +
Kansas City Confidential, 1952 (Phil Karlson) John Payne, Coleen Gray *** +
Key Largo, 1948 (John Huston) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson **** +
Key Witness, 1947 (D. Ross Lederman) John Beal ** +
Kid Glove Killer, 1942 (Fred Zinnemann) Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt **1/2
Kill Me Again, 1989 (John Dahl) Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer **1/2 +
The Kill-Off, 1990 (Maggie Greenwald)
The Killer Inside Me, 2010 (Michael Winterbottom) Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson
The Killer Is Loose, 1956 (Bud Boetticher) Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey **
The Killer That Stalked New York, 1950 (Earl McEvoy) Evelyn Keyes **1/2 +
Killer’s Kiss, 1955 (Stanley Kubrick) **1/2 +
The Killers, 1946 (Robert Siodmak) Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien **** +
The Killers, 1964 (Don Siegel) Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes ***
The Killing, 1956 (Stanley Kubrick, co-w. Jim Thompson) Sterling Hayden ***1/2 +
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, 1976 (John Cassavetes) Ben Gazzara **1/2 +
Killing Them Softly, 2012 (Andrew Dominik) Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, James Gandolfini **
A Kiss Before Dying, 1956 (Gerd Oswald) Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter ***
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, 1948 (Norman Foster) Burt Lancaster, Joan Fontaine ***
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 2005 (Shane Black) Robert Downey Jr., Michelle Monaghan, Val Kilmer *** +
Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 (Robert Aldrich) Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman **** +
Kiss of Death, 1947 (Henry Hathaway) Victor Mature, Richard Widmark *** +
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, 1950 (Gordon Douglas) James Cagney, Barbara Payton ***1/2 +
Knock On Any Door, 1949 (Nicholas Ray) Humphrey Bogart, John Derek
L.A. Confidential, 1997 (Curtis Hanson) Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger ***1/2
The Lady Confesses, 1945 (Sam Newfield) Mary Beth Hughes, Hugh Beaumont
The Lady From Shanghai, 1947 (Orson Welles) Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles ***1/2 +
Lady in Cement, 1968 (Gordon Douglas) Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker *1/2 +
Lady in the Lake, 1947 (Robert Montgomery) Robert Montgomery ** +
Lady on a Train, 1945 (Charles David) Deanna Durbin, Dan Duryea **1/2
A Lady Without Passport, 1950 (Joseph H. Lewis) Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak **1/2 +
Larceny, 1948 (George Sherman) John Payne, Dan Duryea, Joan Caulfield, Shelley Winters ** +
The Las Vegas Story, 1952 (Robert Stevenson) Victor Mature, Jane Russell, Vincent Price **1/2
Last Embrace, 1979 (Jonathan Demme) Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin ** +
The Last Seduction, 1994 (John Dahl) Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman *** +
The Last Stop In Yuma County, 2024 (Francis Galluppi) Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue **1/2 +
Laura, 1944 (Otto Preminger) Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney ***1/2 +
Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 (John M. Stahl) Gene Tierney ***1/2
The Letter, 1940 (William Wyler) Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall ***1/2
Lightning Strikes Twice, 1951 (King Vidor) Ruth Roman, Richard Todd **
The Limey, 1999 (Steven Soderbergh) Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren *** +
The Limping Man, 1953 (Cy Endfield) Lloyd Bridges **1/2
The Lineup, 1958 (Don Siegel) Eli Wallach *** +
Loan Shark, 1952 (Seymour Friedman) George Raft *1/2
The Locket, 1946 (John Brahm) Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne **1/2 +
The Locksmith, 2023 (Nicolas Harvard) Ryan Phillippe, Kate Bosworth *1/2 +
London Fields, 2018 (Matthew Cullen) Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Johnny Depp 1/2* +
The Long Good Friday, 1980 (John Mackenzie) Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren ***1/2 +
The Long Goodbye, 1973 (Robert Altman) Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden ***1/2 +
The Long Haul, 1957 (Ken Hughes) Victor Mature, Diana Dors ***
The Long Night, 1947 (Anatole Litvak) Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price **1/2 +
The Long Wait, 1954 (Victor Saville) Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn
The Lookout, 2007 (Scott Frank) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode ***
Loophole, 1954 (Harold D. Schuster) Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Charles McGraw **1/2 +
Lost Highway, 1997 (David Lynch) Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette ** +
The Lost Weekend, 1945 (Billy Wilder) Ray Milland ***1/2 +
Lured, 1947 (Douglas Sirk) George Sanders, Lucille Ball **
M, 1931 (Fritz Lang) Peter Lorre ****
M, 1951 (Joseph Losey) David Wayne, Howard Da Silva ***
Macao, 1952 (Nicholas Ray) Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell **1/2 +
The Maltese Falcon, 1941 (John Huston) Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre ****1/2 +
Man Bait (aka The Last Page), 1952 (Terence Fisher) George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Diana Dors **1/2 +
The Man I Love, 1947 (Raoul Walsh) Ida Lupino, Robert Alda **1/2 +
Man in the Dark, 1953 (Lew Landers) Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter ** +
The Man Who Cheated Himself, 1950 (Felix E. Feist) Lee J. Cobb, John Dall **
The Man Who Wasn’t There, 2001 (Joel and Ethan Coen) Billy Bob Thornton ***
The Man With My Face, 1951 (Edward Montagne) Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews **1/2 +
Manhandled, 1949 (Lewis R. Foster) Dorothy Lamour, Dan Duryea, Sterling Hayden **1/2
Manpower, 1941 (Raoul Walsh) George Raft, Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich *** +
Marlowe, 1969 (Paul Bogart) James Garner, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee **1/2
Marlowe, 2022 (Neil Jordan) Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange **1/2
The Mask of Dimitrios, 1944 (Jean Negulesco) Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Peter Lorre ***
Mean Streets, 1973 (Martin Scorsese) Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro **** +
Memento, 2000 (Christopher Nolan) Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano ***1/2 +
The Midnight Story, 1957 (Joseph Pevney) Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan
Mildred Pierce, 1945 (Michael Curtiz) Joan Crawford ***1/2
Miller’s Crossing, 1990 (Joel and Ethan Coen) ***1/2 +
Ministry of Fear, 1944 (Fritz Lang) Ray Milland ***
The Missing Person, 2008 (Noah Buschell) Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan *** +
The Mob, 1951 (Robert Parrish) Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler **1/2
Mona Lisa, 1986 (Neil Jordan) Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine ***
Moonrise, 1948 (Frank Borzage) Dane Clark, Gail Russell ** +
Moontide, 1942 (Fritz Lang) Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Claude Rains ***
The Morning After, 1986 (Sidney Lumet) Jeff Bridges, Jane Fonda **1/2
Motherless Brooklyn, 2019 (Edward Norton) Edward Norton, Alec Baldwin **1/2
Mr. Arkadin (Confidential Report), 1955 (Orson Welles) Orson Welles, Robert Arden ***
Mulholland Drive, 2001 (David Lynch) Naomi Watts ****
Mulholland Falls, 1996 (Lee Tamahori) Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Melanie Griffith ** +
Murder by Contract, 1958 (Irving Lerner) Vince Edwards **1/2 +
Murder is My Beat, 1955 (Edward G. Ulmer) Paul Langton, Barbara Payton ** +
Murder, My Sweet, 1944 (Edward Dmytryck) Dick Powell **** +
My Gun Is Quick, 1957 (George White and Victor Saville) Robert Bray **1/2 +
My Name is Julia Ross, 1945 (Joseph H. Lewis) Nina Foch *** +
Mysterious Intruder, 1946 (William Castle) Richard Dix
Mystery Street, 1950 (John Sturges) Ricardo Montalban **1/2 +
Naked Alibi, 1954 (Jerry Hopper) Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame *1/2 +
The Naked City, 1948 (Jules Dassin) Barry Fitzgerald *** +
The Naked Kiss, 1964 (Samuel Fuller) Constance Towers *** +
The Naked Street, 1955 (Maxwell Shane) Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft ** +
The Narrow Margin, 1952 (Richard Fleischer) Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor ***1/2 +
Narrow Margin, 1990 (Peter Hyams) Gene Hackman, Anne Archer **1/2 +
Never Die Alone, 2004 (Ernest R. Dickerson) DMX, Michael Ealy, David Arquette
New York Confidential, 1955 (Russell Rouse) Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte ***
Niagara, 1953 (Henry Hathaway) Joseph Cotton, Marilyn Monroe **1/2
Night and the City, 1950 (Jules Dassin) Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney ****1/2 +
The Night Clerk, 2020 (Michael Cristofer) Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas *1/2 +
Night Editor, 1946 (Henry Levin) **1/2 +
Night Has a Thousand Eyes, 1948 (John Farrow) Edward G. Robinson **1/2
The Night Holds Terror, 1955 (Andrew L. Stone) Vince Edwards, Jack Kelly **1/2 +
Night Moves, 1975 (Arthur Penn) Gene Hackman, Susan Clark ***1/2 +
The Night of the Hunter, 1955 (Charles Laughton) Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish **** +
The Night Runner, 1957 (Abner Biberman) Ray Danton
Night Without Sleep, 1952 (Roy Ward Baker) Gary Merrill, Linda Darnell
Nightcrawler, 2014 (Dan Gilroy) Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed ***
Nightfall, 1957 (Jacques Tourneur) Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft *** +
Nightmare, 1956 (Maxwell Shane) Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy **1/2 +
Nightmare Alley, 1947 (Edmund Goulding) Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Colleen Gray **** +
Nightmare Alley, 2021 (Guillermo del Toro) Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett *** +
The Nile Hilton Incident, 2017 (Tarik Saleh) Fares Fares, Hania Amar ***1/2 +
No Country for Old Men, 2007 (Joel and Ethan Coen) Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin ****
No Man of Her Own, 1950 (Mitchell Leisen) Barbara Stanwyck **1/2
No Man's Woman, 1955 (Franklin Adreon) Marie Windsor ** +
No Questions Asked, 1951 (Harold F. Kress) Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, Jean Hagen **1/2 +
No Sudden Move, 2021 (Steven Soderbergh) Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Ray Liotta ***1/2 +
No Way Out, 1950 (Joseph L. Mankeiwicz) Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell ***
Nobody Lives Forever, 1946 (Jean Negulesco) John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan **1/2
Nocturne, 1946 (Edwin L. Marin) George Raft **1/2 +
Nora Prentiss, 1947 (Vincent Sherman) Anne Sheridan *** +
Notorious, 1946 (Alfred Hitchcock) Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman ***1/2
Nowhere to Go, 1958 (Seth Holt) Maggie Smith, George Nader ** +
Odd Man Out, 1947 (Carol Reed) James Mason, Kathleen Ryan, Robert Newton ****1/2 +
Odds Against Tomorrow, 1959 (Robert Wise) Harry Belfonte, Robert Ryan **** +
On Dangerous Ground, 1952 (Nicholas Ray) Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino ***1/2 +
Once a Thief, 1965 (Ralph Nelson) Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin **1/2
One False Move, 1992 (Carl Franklin) Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams ***1/2
One Girl’s Confession, 1953 (Hugo Haas) Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas **1/2
One Way Street, 1950 (Hugo Fregonese) James Mason, Dan Duryea, Marta Toren *** +
Ossessione, 1943 (Luchino Visconti) ***
The Other Woman, 1954 (Hugo Haas) Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas
Out of the Blue, 2022 (Neil LaBute) Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson *1/2 +
Out of Sight, 1998 (Steven Soderbergh) George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez ***1/2
Out of the Fog, 1941 (Anatole Litvak) John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell **1/2
Out of the Past, 1947 (Jacques Tourneur) Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas ****1/2 +
Out of Time, 2003 (Carl Franklin) Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes **
Over-Exposed, 1956 (Lewis Seiler) Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna ** +
The Ox-Bow Incident, 1943 (William Wellman) Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews ****
Pale Flower, 1964 (Masahiro Shinoda) Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga ***1/2 +
Palmetto, 1998 (Volker Schlondorff) Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon *1/2 +
Panic In the Streets, 1950 (Elia Kazan) Richard Widmark ***1/2 +
Park Row, 1952 (Sam Fuller) **1/2
Party Girl, 1958 (Nicholas Ray) Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse **1/2 +
The People Against O'Hara, 1951 (John Sturges) Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien **1/2
Phantom Lady, 1944 (Robert Siodmak) Ella Raines, Franchot Tone *** +
The Phenix City Story, 1955 (Phil Karlson) **1/2
Pickings, 2018 (Usher Morgan) Elyse Price, Katie Vincent **1/2 +
Pickup, 1951 (Hugo Haas) Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon ** +
Pickup on South Street, 1953 (Samuel Fuller) Richard Widmark, Jean Peters **** +
Pitfall, 1948 (Andre de Toth) Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Raymond Burr **** +
The Place Beyond the Pines, 2012 (Derek Cianfrance) Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Ray Liotta ***
A Place In The Sun, 1951 (George Stevens) Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters ****
Please Murder Me, 1956 (Peter Godfrey) Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran **1/2 +
Plein Soleil (Purple Noon), 1960 (Rene Clement) Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforet ***1/2
Plunder of the Sun, 1953 (John Farrow) Glenn Ford **1/2
Plunder Road, 1957 (Hubert Cornfield) Gene Raymond, Elisha Cook *** +
Point Blank, 1967 (John Boorman) Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn ***
The Poison Rose, 2019 (George Gallo, Francesco Cinquemani) John Travolta, Morgan Freeman *1/2 +
Poodle Springs, 1998 (Bob Rafelson) James Caan, Dina Meyer **1/2 +
Pool of London, 1951 (Basil Dearden) Bonar Colleano, Earl Cameron **1/2
Port of New York, 1949 (Laszlo Benedek) Yul Brynner, Scott Brady ** +
Possessed, 1947 (Curtis Bernhardt) Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey **
The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946 (Tay Garnett) Lana Turner, John Garfield **** +
The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1981 (Bob Rafelson) Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange **1/2
The Pretender, 1947 (W. Lee Wilder) Albert Dekker ** +
The Price of Fear, 1956 (Abner Biberman) Merle Oberon, Lex Barker ** +
Private Hell 36, 1954 (Don Siegel) Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Steve Cochran ***1/2 +
The Prowler, 1951 (d. Joseph Losey, w. Dalton Trumbo) Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes **** +
Pulp, 1972 (Mike Hodges) Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lizabeth Scott *** +
Pursued, 1947 (Raoul Walsh) Robert Mitchum, Theresa Wright
Pushover, 1954 (Richard Quine) Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak ***
Quai des Orfevres, aka Jenny Lamour, 1947 (Henri-Georges Clouzot) Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier
Quicksand, 1950 (Irving Pichel) Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre *1/2
Race Street, 1948 (Edward L. Marin) George Raft, William Bendix, Harry Morgan **
The Racket, 1950 (Nicholas Ray) Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan **1/2
Rage in Heaven, 1941 (W.S. Van Dyke) Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders
Railroaded, 1947 (Anthony Mann) John Ireland, Hugh Beaumont **1/2
Rancho Notorious, 1952 (Fritz Lang) Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy ***1/2
Raw Deal, 1948 (Anthony Mann) Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor ***1/2 +
The Reckless Moment, 1949 (Max Ophuls) James Mason, Joan Bennett *** +
The Red House, 1947 (Delmer Daves) Edward G. Robinson, Rory Calhoun ***
Red Light, 1949 (Roy Del Ruth) George Raft, Virginia Mayo *** +
Red Rock West, 1993 (John Dahl) Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle **1/2
Reign of Terror (The Black Book), 1949 (Anthony Mann) Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl ***
Reindeer Games, 2000 (John Frankenheimer) Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron, Gary Sinise **
Reminiscence, 2021 (Lisa Joy) Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson **
Repeat Performance, 1947 (Alfred L. Werker) Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie **1/2
Requiem For a Heavyweight, 1962 (Ralph Nelson) Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason ****
Reservoir Dogs, 1992 (Quentin Tarantino) Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen **1/2
Ride the Pink Horse, 1947 (Robert Montgomery) Robert Montgomery *** +
Riffraff, 1947 (Ted Tetzlaff) Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys *** +
Rififi, 1955 (Jules Dassin) ***1/2 +
The Ring, 1952 (Kurt Neumann) Lalo Rios, Rita Moreno, Jack Elam
Riot in Cell Block 11, 1954 (Don Siegel) Neville Brand
Road House, 1948 (Jean Negulesco) Ida Lupino, Cornell Wilde, Richard Widmark ***1/2 +
Road to Perdition, 2002 (Sam Mendes) Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Daniel Craig ***1/2
Roadblock, 1951 (Harold Daniels) Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon **1/2 +
Rogue Cop, 1954 (Roy Rowland) Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh
Rogues’ Regiment, 1948 (Robert Florey) Dick Powell, Marta Toren **1/2
Rolling Thunder, 1977 (John Flynn) William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones *** +
Romeo is Bleeding, 1993 (Peter Medak) Gary Oldman, Lena Olin *1/2
Rope of Sand, 1949 (William Dieterle) Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains ***
Rusty Knife, 1958 (Toshio Masuda) Yujiro Ishihada, Mie Kitihara **1/2 +
Ruthless, 1948 (Edgar G. Ulmer) Zachary Scott, Sidney Greenstreet
Safe in Hell, 1931 (William Wellman) ***1/2
Le Samourai, 1967 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon ***1/2
Scandal Sheet, 1952 (Phil Karlson) Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford **1/2
The Scarf, 1951 (E. A. Dupont) John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge
Scarlet Street, 1945 (Fritz Lang) Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea ****1/2 +
Scene of the Crime, 1949 (Roy Rowland) Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven **1/2
Screaming Mimi, 1958 (Gerd Oswald) Anita Eckberg, Philip Carey
Sea of Love, 1989 (Harold Becker) Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin **1/2 +
Seance On a Wet Afternoon, 1964 (Bryan Forbes) Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough **1;2
Second Chance, 1953 (Rudolph Mate) Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Linda Darnell (color) **1/2
The Second Woman, 1950 (James V. Kern) Robert Young, Betsy Drake
Secret Beyond the Door, 1948 (Fritz Lang) Joan Bennett
The Sellout, 1952 (Gerald Mayer) Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter **1/2
The Set-Up, 1949 (Robert Wise) Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter **** +
Se7en, 1995 (David Fincher) Bradd Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey
The Seventh Victim, 1943 (Mark Robson, producer Val Lewton) ***
Shack Out on 101, 1955 (Edward Dein) Lee Marvin, Keenan Wynn, Terry Moore *** +
Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 (Alfred Hitchcock) Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten ***
Shadow on the Wall, 1950 (Pat Jackson) Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Nancy Davis **1/2
Shaft, 1971 (Gordon Parks) Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn ***
Shakedown, 1950 (Joseph Pevney) Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney **1/2 +
Shallow Grave, 1994 (Danny Boyle) Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor *1/2 +
The Shanghai Gesture, 1941 (Josef von Sternberg) Gene Tierney **1/2
Shattered, 1991 (Wolfgang Petersen) Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley ** +
Shed No Tears, 1948 (Jean Yarbrough) Wallace Ford, June Vincent **1/2 +
Shield for Murder, 1954 (Edmond O'Brien, Howard W. Koch) Edmond O'Brien, Marla English ***1/2 +
Shock, 1946 (Alfred L. Werker) Vincent Price **1/2 +
Shock Corridor, 1963 (Samuel Fuller) Peter Breck, Constance Towers ***1/2 +
Shockproof, 1949 (Douglas Sirk) Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight **
Shoot the Piano Player, 1960 (Francois Truffaut)
Shoot to Kill (Crime Reporter), 1947 (William Berke) *1/2
Short Cut to Hell, 1957 (James Cagney) Robert Ivers
Shutter Island, 2010 (Martin Scorsese) Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley ***
Side Street, 1950 (Anthony Mann) Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell ***
The Sign of the Ram, 1948 (John Sturges) Susan Peters, Alexander Knox ** +
The Silent Partner, 1978 (Daryl Duke) Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York ***1/2
A Simple Plan, 1998 (Sam Raimi) Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda ***
Sirocco, 1951 (Curtis Bernhardt) Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J. Cobb *** +
Slattery's Hurricane, 1949 (Andre De Toth) Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake **1/2
Sleep, My Love, 1948 (Douglas Sirk) Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche
The Sleeping City, 1950 (George Sherman) Richard Conte, Coleen Gray
Slightly Scarlet, 1956 (Alan Dwan) John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl **1/2
Small Town Crime, 2017 (Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms) John Hawkes, Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster **1/2
The Sniper, 1952 (Edward Dmytryk)
So Dark the Night, 1946 (Joseph H. Lewis) Steven Geray **1/2
So Evil, My Love, 1948 (Lewis Allen) Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Someone to Watch Over Me, 1987 (Ridley Scott) Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers ** +
Somewhere in the Night, 1946 (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) John Hodiak **1/2 +
Sorry, Wrong Number, 1948 (Anatole Litvak) Babara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster **1/2
Southside 1-1000, 1950 (Boris Ingster) Don Defore, Andrea King
Spin a Dark Web, 1956 (Vernon Sewell) Faith Domergue, Lee Patterson **1/2 +
Split Second, 1953 (Dick Powell) Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling *** +
Spring Breakers, 2012 (Harmony Korine) James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez ** +
Stage Fright, 1950 (Alfred Hitchcock) Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Todd **1/2
Stakeout on Dope Street, 1958 (Irving Kershner) *
State of Grace, 1990 (Phil Joanou) Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Ed Harris **
The Steel Trap, 1952 (Andrew L. Stone) Joseph Cotton, Theresa Wright **
Still of the Night, 1982 (Robert Benton) Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy ** +
Storm Fear, 1955 (Cornell Wilde) Cornell Wilde, Dan Duryea **1/2 +
Storm Warning, 1951 (Stuart Heisler) Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Steve Cochran, Doris Day **1/2 +
Stormy Monday, 1988 (Mike Figgis) Melanie Griffith, Sean Bean, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting ** +
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, 1945 (Robert Siodmak) George Sanders, Ella Raines ** +
Strange Bargain, 1949 (Will Price) Jeffrey Lynn, Martha Scott, Harry Morgan ** +
Strange Fascination, 1952 (Hugo Haas) Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore
Strange Illusion, 1945 (Edward G. Ullmer) Warren William
Strange Impersonation, 1946 (Anthony Mann) Brenda Marshall
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 1946 (Lewis Milestone) Barbara Stanwyck *** +
The Stranger, 1946 (Orson Welles) Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles ***
Stranger on the Third Floor, 1940 (Boris Ingster) Peter Lorre *1/2
Strangers in the Night, 1944 (Anthony Mann) William Terry, Virginia Grey ** +
Strangers On a Train, 1951 (Alfred Hitchcock) ***1/2
Stray Dog (Nora inu), 1949 (Akira Kurosawa) Toshiro Mifune ***1/2
Street of Chance, 1942 (Jack Hively) Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor
Street of Sinners, 1957 (William Berke) George Montgomery, Geraldine Brooks *1/2
The Street With No Name, 1948 (William Keighley) Richard Widmark, Mark Stevens ***
The Strip, 1951 (Laszlo Kardos) Mickey Rooney **
Sudden Fear, 1952 (David Miller) Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame ***
Suddenly, 1954 (Lewis Allen) Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Gates **
Sunset Boulevard, 1950 (Billy Wilder) William Holden, Gloria Swanson ***** +
The Suspect, 1945 (Robert Siodmak) Charles Laughton, Ella Raines
Suspense, 1946 (Frank Tuttle) Barry Sullivan, Belita, Albert Dekker **1/2 +
Sweet Smell of Success, 1957 (Alexander Mackendrick) Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis ****1/2 +
T-Men, 1947 (Anthony Mann) Dennis O’Keefe, Charles McGraw ***1/2 +
Take Aim at the Police Van, 1960 (Seijun Suzuki) Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki **1/2 +
The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999 (Anthony Minghella) Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow ***1/2
Talk About a Stranger, 1952 (David Bradley) George Murphy, Nancy Davis **
The Tall Target, 1951 (Anthony Mann) Dick Powell **1/2
Los Tallos Amargos (The Bitter Stems), 1956 (Fernando Ayala) Carlos Cores, Aida Luz, Vassili Lambrinos ****
Targets, 1968 (Peter Bogdanovich) Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly **1/2
The Tattered Dress, 1957 (Jack Arnold) Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain **
The Tattooed Stranger, 1950 (Edward Montagne) John Miles, Patricia Barry ** +
Temptation, 1946 (Irving Pichel) Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin **1/2
Tension, 1949 (John Berry) Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse ***1/2 +
Terror Street, 1953 (Montgomery Tully) Dan Duryea **1/2 +
They Drive By Night, 1940 (Raoul Walsh) George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino ***
They Live By Night, 1949 (Nicholas Ray) Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell **** +
They Made Me a Criminal, 1939 (Busby Berkeley) John Garfield, Claude Raines, Ann Sheridan **1/2
They Made Me a Killer, 1946 (William C. Thomas) Robert Lowery
They Won’t Believe Me, 1947 (Irving Pichel) Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer ***1/2 +
The Thief, 1952 (Russell Rouse) Ray Milland **
Thieves’ Highway, 1949 (Jules Dassin) Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb **** +
The Third Man, 1949 (Carol Reed) Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten **** +
This Gun for Hire, 1942 (Frank Tuttle) Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake ***1/2 +
This Side of the Law, 1950 (Richard L. Bare) Kent Smith, Viveca Lindfors, Janis Paige **1/2 +
This Woman is Dangerous, 1952 (Felix E. Feist) Joan Crawford, David Brian ** +
The Threat, 1949 (Felix E. Feist) Charles McGraw ** +
Three Strangers, 1946 (Jean Negulesco) Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre ***
Thunder Road, 1958 (Arthur Ripley) Robert Mitchum ***1/2 +
Tight Spot, 1955 (Phil Karlson) Brian Keith, Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson **
Timetable, 1956 (Mark Stevens) Mark Stevens, Felicia Farr **1/2
To the Ends of the Earth, 1948 (Robert Stevenson) Dick Powell **1/2
To Live and Die in L.A., 1985 (William Friedkin) William Petersen, Willem Defoe ***1/2
Tokyo Drifter, 1966 (Seijun Suzuki) Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara ***1/2
Tomorrow is Another Day, 1951 (Felix E. Feist) Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran ***1/2 +
Tony Rome, 1967 (Gordon Douglas) Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands **1/2 +
Too Late, 2015 (Dennis Hauck) John Hawkes **1/2 +
Too Late for Tears, 1949 (Byron Haskin) Dan Duryea ***1/2 +
Touch of Evil, 1958 (Orson Welles) Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles **** +
The Town, 2010 (Ben Affleck) Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm ***
Trance, 2013 (Danny Boyle) James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel **1/2 +
Trapped, 1949 (Richard Fleischer) Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton **1/2
Trouble in Mind, 1985 (Alan Rudolph) Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold *** +
True Romance, 1993 (Tony Scott) Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken ** +
Try and Get Me! (The Sound of Fury), 1950 (Cy Endfield) Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy ***
The Turning Point, 1952 (William Dieterle) William Holden, Edmond O'Brien ***
Twilight, 1998 (Robert Benton) Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, James Garner ***1/2 +
Twisted, 2004 (Philip Kaufman) Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia *
The Two Faces of January, 2014 (Hossein Amini) Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac ***
The Two Jakes, 1990 (Jack Nicholson) Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel *** +
Two Men in Manhattan, 1959 (Jean-Pierre Melville) Jean-Pierre Melville, Pierre Grasset **
The Two Mrs. Carrolls, 1947 (Peter Godfrey) Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck **
Two O'Clock Courage, 1945 (Anthony Mann) Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford **
Two of a Kind, 1951 (Henry Levin) Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth Scott, Terry Moore **1/2 +
U-Turn, 1997 (Oliver Stone) Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte *1/2
Uncut Gems, 2019 (Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie) Adam Sandler, Julia Fox *1/2 +
Under the Gun, 1951 (Ted Tetzlaff) Richard Conte, Audrey Totter
Under the Silver Lake, 2018 (David Robert Mitchell) Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough * +
The Undercover Man, 1949 (Joseph H. Lewis) Glenn Ford, Nina Foch ***
Undercurrent, 1946 (Vincente Minnelli) Robert Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum **1/2
The Underneath, 1995 (Steven Soderbergh) Peter Gallagher, Allison Elliott **1/2 +
Undertow, 1949 (William Castle) Scott Brady, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett **1/2
The Underworld Story, 1950 (Cy Endfield) Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall **1/2
Underworld U.S.A., 1961 (Samuel Fuller) Cliff Robertson *** +
The Unfaithful, 1947 (Vincent Sherman) Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott **1/2 +
The Unholy Four (A Stranger Came Home), 1954 (Terence Fisher) Paulette Godard, William Sylvester ** +
The Unholy Wife, 1957 (John Farrow) Diana Dors, Rod Steiger *1/2
Union Station, 1950 (Rudolph Mate) William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, Nancy Olson **1/2
The Unknown Man, 1951 (Richard Thorpe) Walter Pidgeon
The Unseen, 1945 (Lewis Allen) Joel McCrae, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall **
The Unsuspected, 1947 (Michael Curtiz) Claude Rains **1/2 +
Upgrade, 2018 (Leigh Whannell) Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel **1/2 +
The Usual Suspects, 1995 (Bryan Singer) Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne ***
El Vampiro Negro (The Black Vampire), 1953 (Roman Vinoly Barreto) Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada ****
The Verdict, 1946 (Don Siegel) Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre **1/2
Vertigo, 1958 (Alfred Hitchcock) James Stewart, Kim Novak ****
Vice Squad, 1953 (Arnold Laven) Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard *** +
Vicki, 1953 (Harry Horner) Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Richard Boone **1/2 +
Violence, 1947 (Jack Bernhard) Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea, Sheldon Leonard ** +
Violent Saturday, 1955 (Richard Fleischer) Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally *** +
Voice in the Wind, 1944 (Arthur Ripley) Francis Lederer
The Wages of Fear, 1953 (Henri-Georges Clouzot) Yves Montand, Charles Vanel **** +
Walk a Crooked Mile, 1948 (Gordon Douglas) Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe **1/2 +
Walk East on Beacon, 1952 (Alfred L. Werker) George Murphy, Virginia Gilmore *1/2 +
Walk Softly, Stranger, 1950 (Robert Stevenson) Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli ** +
Wander, 2020 (April Mullen) Tommy Lee Jones, Aaron Eckhart 1/2* +
Warning Shot, 1967 (Buzz Kulik) David Janssen, Joan Collins **
The Web, 1947 (Michael Gordon) Edmond O’Brien, Vincent Price, Ella Raines **1/2
When Strangers Marry (Betrayed), 1944 (William Castle) Robert Mitchum, Kim Hunter *1/2
Where Danger Lives, 1950 (John Farrow) Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains **1/2
Where the Money Is, 2000 (Marek Kanievska) Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino ** +
Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1950 (Otto Preminger) Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney **** +
While the City Sleeps, 1956 (Fritz Lang) Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Ida Lupino ***
Whiplash, 1948 (Lewis Seiler) Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden ** +
Whirlpool, 1949 (Otto Preminger) Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer **1/2
Whispering City, 1947 (Fyodor Otsep) Paul Lukas, Mary Anderson, Helmut Dantine ** +
Whispering Footsteps, 1943 (Howard Bretherton) John Hubbard, Rita Quigley
Whistle Stop, 1946 (Leonide Moguy) George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor MacGlaglen **
White Heat, 1949 (Raoul Walsh) James Cagney, Edmond O’Brien, Virginia Mayo **** +
Who'll Stop the Rain, 1978 (Karel Reisz) Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld ***1/2
Wicked Woman, 1953 (Russell Rouse) Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton *** +
Wind River, 2017 (Taylor Sheridan) Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen ***
The Window, 1949 (Ted Tetzlaff) Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart ***
Without Warning!, 1952 (Arnold Laven)
Witness to Murder, 1954 (Roy Rowland) Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders **1/2 +
The Woman Chaser, 1999 (Robinson Devor) Patrick Warburton ***
Woman in Hiding, 1949 (Michael Gordon) Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally **
The Woman in the Window, 1944 (Fritz Lang) Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett ***1/2 +
The Woman on the Beach, 1947 (Jean Renoir) Robert Ryan, Joan Bennett **
The Woman on Pier 13 (aka I Married a Communist), 1949 (Robert Stevenson) Laraine Day, Robert Ryan **
Woman on the Run, 1950 (Norman Foster) Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe ***
A Woman’s Secret, 1949 (Nicholas Ray) Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame ** +
Women in the Night, 1948 (William Rowland)
Women’s Prison, 1955 (Lewis Seiler) Ida Lupino, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter
World for Ransom, 1954 (Robert Aldrich) Dan Duryea **1/2
The Wrong Man, 1956 (Alfred Hitchcock) Henry Fonda ***
The Yakuza, 1975 (Sidney Pollack) Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura ***
Year of the Dragon, 1985 (Michael Cimino) Mickey Rourke, John Lone
You Only Live Once, 1937 (Fritz Lang) Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sydney ***
Zone 414, 2021 (Andrew Baird) Guy Pearce, Matilda Lutz **
