Noirvember

Noirvember

30 Episodes

Whether you’re just getting started on your journey into film noir’s dark world of glamorous femme fatales and down-on-their-luck average Joes, interested in exploring new avenues, or just want to rewatch your favorites, there’s no better time of year to soak in the atmosphere of Hollywood’s shadowiest crime pictures than Noirvember. Inaugurated in 2010 by critic Marya E. Gates, Noirvember is a yearly, monthlong celebration of all things noir. Bringing together stone-cold classics like THE MALTESE FALCON and LAURA, genre-bending gems like THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, and innovative indies like MURDER BY CONTRACT, this collection will lead you down a few of noir’s darkest alleys.

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Noirvember

30 Episodes

  • Nightfall
    1:18:57
    Nightfall
    Episode 1

    Nightfall

    Episode 1

    Directed by Jacques Tourneur • 1956 • United States
    Starring Brian Keith, Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft

    Directed by Jacques Tourneur from one of the masterful, despairing novels of David Goodis, NIGHTFALL is the tale of an innocent man trapped in a senseless and lethal web of seduction and crime. The...

  • Time Without Pity
    1:28:45
    Time Without Pity
    Episode 2

    Time Without Pity

    Episode 2

    Directed by Joseph Losey • 1957 • United Kingdom
    Starring Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern

    On the day before his estranged son is scheduled to be executed for a murder he didn’t commit, an alcoholic writer (a riveting Michael Redgrave) embarks on a last-ditch attempt to save him, journeyin...

  • Hell Drivers
    1:48:19
    Hell Drivers
    Episode 3

    Hell Drivers

    Episode 3

    Directed by Cy Endfield • 1957 • United Kingdom
    Starring Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins

    Blacklisted from Hollywood, American director Cy Endfield found a fresh start in Britain, where he brought a pronounced anticapitalist punch to this exciting crime drama set in the trucking industr...

  • Murder by Contract
    1:20:29
    Murder by Contract
    Episode 4

    Murder by Contract

    Episode 4

    Directed by Irving Lerner • 1958 • United States
    Starring Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi

    Vince Edwards stars as a hired assassin whose latest “assignment” (Caprice Toriel) is about to testify against the mob. But this particular target is not so easy to get at. So he waits . . . ...

  • The Crimson Kimono
    1:21:31
    The Crimson Kimono
    Episode 5

    The Crimson Kimono

    Episode 5

    Directed by Samuel Fuller • 1959 • United States
    Starring Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta

    Pulp maestro Samuel Fuller lends his slam-bang stylistic punch to this complex, fascinating noir that doubles as a trenchant social document of 1950s America. When a stripper is murdered in LA’s...

  • Sapphire
    1:32:02
    Sapphire
    Episode 6

    Sapphire

    Episode 6

    Directed by Basil Dearden • 1959 • United Kingdom

    A beautiful female college student is found dead in a public park; the police soon discover that her murder may have been racially motivated. Basil Dearden's bold, direct police procedural, starring Nigel Patrick as the detective in charge of t...

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