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Movies in the genre Film-Noir

  • Spellbound

    8

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Edwardes arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwardes is in fact a paranoid amnesiac impostor. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.

  • The Killing

    8

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    Crooks plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

  • Shadow of a Doubt

    8

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    Young Charlie Newton not only shares a name with her favorite uncle, but a special bond. At times she feels the charming man is the only one who understands her need to be extraordinary and that she is better than the tiny town she lives in. So, when life is too dull she calls on him to visit. However, upon the arrival of two detectives, one of whom becomes very close to young Charlie, and a series of unusual clues concerning the mysterious ‘Merry Widow Murderer’, her Uncle Charlie’s behavior begins to change. Young Charlie starts to suspect that the man she once idolised is not what he seems and as her world shatters, she realizes that her life may be in danger.

  • Vertigo

    8

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend’s wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

  • The Wrong Man

    7

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero - Manny to his friends - is a string bassist, a devoted husband and father, and a practicing Catholic. His $85 a week gig playing in the jazz combo at the Stork Club is barely enough to make ends meet. The Balestreros' lives will become a little more difficult with the major dental bills his wife Rose will be incurring. As such, Manny decides to see if he can borrow off of Rose's life insurance policy. But when he enters the insurance office, he is identified by some of the clerks as the man that held up the office twice a few months earlier. Manny cooperates with the police as he has nothing to hide. Manny learns that he is a suspect in not only those hold ups, but a series of other hold ups in the same Jackson Heights neighborhood in New York City where they live. The more that Manny cooperates, the more guilty he appears to the police. With the help of Frank O'Connor…

  • Suspicion

    7

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. He begins to court Lina and before long they are married. It is only after the honeymoon that she discovers his true character and she starts to become suspicious when Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky is killed mysteriously.

  • Notorious

    7

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father’s Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.

  • Rebecca

    7

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    A shy ladies’ companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley.

  • Killers Kiss

    7

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    As a man waits at a train station for his girl, he tells us about the recent past and we segue into a long flashback.

  • Saboteur

    7

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.

  • Strangers on a Train

    7

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder… a theory which he plans to implement.

  • Touch of Evil

    6

    I have watched this movie once, which was on .

    Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town.