Directed By Joseph M. Newman • 1953 • United States Starring Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Carl Betz

All aboard for suspense in this eerily atmospheric, fog-shrouded maritime thriller in which newly married heir...

Directed by John M. Stahl • 1945 • United States
Starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain

Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he...

Directed by René Clément • 1960 • France, Italy
Starring Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt

Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful when PURPLE NOON was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s vicious novel “The Talented Mr. R...

Directed by Herbert Ross • 1973 • United States Starring Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn

Wittily scripted by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim, this eccentric, all-star whodunnit is a ...

Directed by Jacques Deray • 1969 • France
Starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet

The bright sun of the French Riviera is deceptive in this alluring work of slow-burn suspense from thriller specialist Jacques Deray and legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. Formerly one of Euro...

Directed by Roy Ward Baker • 1953 • United States
Starring Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan

Megawealthy industrialist Donald Carson III (Robert Ryan) breaks his leg while on a trip through the Mojave desert, and rather than find help, his scheming wife (Rhonda Fleming) and her lover...

Directed by Phil Karlson • 1952 • United States Starring John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster

B-noir specialist Phil Karlson brings a gritty pulp punch to this slam-bang heist thriller with a plot tha...

Directed by John Farrow • 1951 • United States
Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price

This offbeat noir gem from genre specialist John Farrow brings together a crackerjack cast—including Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Raymond Burr, and Vincent Price (playing, appropriately, a ham ac...

Directed by Joseph Pevney • 1955 • United States Starring Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling

This steamy noir melodrama casts a fiery and glamorous Joan Crawford as a wealthy gambler’s widow wh...

Directed by Lewis Allen • 1947 • United States
Starring John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster

Lurid Technicolor, deep-dish melodrama, and gay subtext abound in this pulpy noir firecracker. In the desert town of Chuckawalla, Nevada, tempers flare, passions spark, and violence erupts when Pa...

Directed by John Boulting • 1948 • United Kingdom
Starring Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell

One of darkest and most sordid of all British noirs, this startlingly bleak, violent adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene delves into the seedy underbelly of the seaside reso...

Directed by Orson Welles • 1947 • United States
Starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane

Orson Welles’s puzzle-box noir scrambles the conventions of the genre to create a triumph of Hollywood surrealism. The director stars as an unwitting Irish sailor who finds himself drawn into a w...