Free Film-noir Movies

Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague&#39s suicide and his fellow officers&#39 suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters&#39 payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster&#39s spurned girlfriend Debbie. As Bannion and Debbie fall further and further into the Gangland&#39s insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary (including murder) to get to the truth.

The Man with the Golden Arm is a movie starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Eleanor Parker. A strung-out junkie deals with a demoralizing drug addiction while his crippled wife and card sharks pull him down.

Hell's Five Hours is a movie starring Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, and Vic Morrow. This story follows a crazed man on his way to committing suicide on the towns nuclear plant with a bomb strap to his torso after being fired from...

The Breaking Point is a movie starring John Garfield, Patricia Neal, and Phyllis Thaxter. An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on...

Hell's Half Acre is a movie starring Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, and Elsa Lanchester. An American woman goes to Hawaii to search for her husband, MIA since the war, but he's a fugitive from the law and involved in a private feud...

Human Desire is a movie starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Broderick Crawford. A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train...

Phantom Lady is a movie starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, and Alan Curtis. A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.

So Dark the Night is a movie starring Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, and Eugene Borden. A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets...

My Name Is Julia Ross is a movie starring Nina Foch, May Whitty, and George Macready. Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency, with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. 2 days...

All the King's Men is a movie starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, and Joanne Dru. The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.

<p>Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he dreams up a scheme that he thinks will finally be his ticket to financial independence. As Fabian attempts to con everyone around him to get his scheme to work, he of course only ends up conning himself. This is an interesting tale of blind ambition, self-deception, broken dreams, and how a man who always thinks he&#39s ahead of the game ends up tripping himself very badly.</p>

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&#39s 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.

Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he&#39s ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once, Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie who shot Whit and absconded with $40,000. He traces her to Acapulco...where the delectable Kathie makes Jeff forget all about Sterling... Back in the present, Whit&#39s new job for Jeff is clearly a trap, but Jeff&#39s precautions only leave him more tightly enmeshed...

Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede," who&#39s expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede&#39s life, Reardon uncovers a complex tale of treachery and crime, all linked with gorgeous, mysterious Kitty Collins.

Possessed is a movie starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, and Raymond Massey. After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

Somewhere in the Night is a movie starring John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, and Lloyd Nolan. George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old...

City That Never Sleeps is a movie starring Gig Young, Mala Powers, and William Talman. Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.

Toward the end of World War II, the allied secret service receives a partial message indicating that the Germans are researching nuclear energy to build atomic bombs. In Midwestern University, the scientist Alvah Jesper is called up by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to meet his former colleague Dr. Katerin Lodor in Switzerland and bring her to North America. However, his mission fails and Dr. Lodor is killed by the Nazis but first she informs that Alvah&#39s acquaintance Dr. Giovanni Polda is working for the Nazis in Italy. Dr. Jesper travels to Italy and with the support of the Italian partisans leaded by Pinkie and Gina, he has a meeting with Dr. Polda that is under the surveillance of the Gestapo. The scientist tells him that his daughter Maria had been abducted by the Gestapo and Alvah makes a deal with Dr. Polda, promising to release Maria first and bringing them to North America. While Pinkie travels to rescue Maria, Alvah stays with Gina and they fall in love for each ...

Hangover Square is a movie starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, and George Sanders. A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.

99 River Street is a movie starring John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, and Brad Dexter. A former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was having an affair with.

Pitfall is a movie starring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, and Jane Wyatt. Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.

Ed Hutcheson, tough editor of the New York &#39Day&#39, finds that the late owner&#39s heirs are selling the crusading paper to a strictly commercial rival. At first he sees impending unemployment as an opportunity to win back his estranged wife Nora. But when a reporter, pursuing a lead on racketeer Rienzi, is badly beaten, Hutcheson is stung into a full fledged crusade against the gangster, hoping Rienzi can be tied to a woman&#39s murder...in the 3 issues before the end of &#39The Day.&#39

In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Down-at-heal ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from the States, apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate. But Eddie isn&#39t quite what he seems as he manages to make contact with Sandy Dawson, who is obviously running some sort of big operation, and his plan is helped by acquaintance with Mariko, the secret Japanese wife of the dead American.

House of Strangers is a movie starring Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, and Richard Conte. After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a...

T-Men is a movie starring Dennis O'Keefe, Wallace Ford, and Alfred Ryder. Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.

The Red House is a movie starring Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, and Judith Anderson. An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse,...

A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison.

Female on the Beach is a movie starring Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, and Jan Sterling. Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.

He Walked by Night is a movie starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, and Roy Roberts. This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Sudden Fear is a movie starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, and Gloria Grahame. After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.

You Only Live Once is a movie starring Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, and Barton MacLane. The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives...

Kansas City Confidential is a movie starring John Payne, Coleen Gray, and Preston Foster. An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

Lured is a movie starring George Sanders, Lucille Ball, and Charles Coburn. A serial killer in London is murdering young women he meets through the personal columns of newspapers. He announces each of his murders to the police by...

The Girl in Black Stockings is a movie starring Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, and Mamie Van Doren. A party girl is murdered, and everyone at a Utah motel is a suspect.

Flaxy Martin is a movie starring Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, and Dorothy Malone. Unscrupulous showgirl Flaxy Martin involves young attorney Walter Colby with mobster Hap Richie. A girl is murdered, with the evidence pointing to...

Black Widow is a movie starring Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, and Gene Tierney. A young writer insinuates herself into the life of a Broadway producer.

The Sniper is a movie starring Arthur Franz, Adolphe Menjou, and Gerald Mohr. A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant.

The Man Who Cheated Himself is a movie starring Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, and John Dall. A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.