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61) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Former soldier Lucky Gagin comes to a small New Mexico town on a mission to find the man who killed his best friend.
63) Laura
Series
Language
English
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Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling...
64) Nightmare alley
Series
Criterion collection volume 1078
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
"Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stanton Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous...
65) Body heat
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
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Description
A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.
Series
Shout Select volume 42
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Farewell, my lovely: "Philip Marlowe is involved in a case of deception, double-cross and murder. When Moose Malloy, a giant ex-con fresh from prison, asks to find his missing sweetheart, Marlowe winds up unconscious on the floor with a dead man next to him. The case could very well cost Marlowe his life." -- Container.
Big sleep: "Philip Marlowe is caught in a deadly case of blackmail. General Sternwood, an aged and wealthy American, is being blackmailed...
Series
Fox film noir volume 24
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
Ruth Bowman is a new bride glowing with delight as she and her charming new husband, John, set sail on the SS Monrovia for a transatlantic honeymoon. But when John inexplicably vanishes, Ruth discovers that no one on the ship has any record of his existence. As she slips into hysteria, Ruth has to prove that her marriage and John's existence is not just her own delusion. The ship's physician, Dr. Paul Manning, might be the only person on board who...
68) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
A corrupt con-man teams up with a female psychiatrist to trick people into giving them money.
69) The two Jakes
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery turned murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young woman named Laura is found murdered shortly before her wedding...
72) HIgh Sierra
Series
Criterion collection volume 1099
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
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Edgar Award Winners
Film Noir: Lost in the Shadows
Not-So-Merry Christmas
Oscar Winning/Nominated Movies Based on Books
Film Noir: Lost in the Shadows
Not-So-Merry Christmas
Oscar Winning/Nominated Movies Based on Books
Description
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner. A tribute to tough film noir crime films.
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Description
Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, and Elisha Cook Jr., The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. With its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense...
75) Gilda
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
"Johnny Farrell goes to work for Ballin Mundson, the proprietor of an illegal gambling casino in a South American city and quickly rises to become Mundson's 'main man.' All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride, Gilda-- a woman from Johnny's past. Mundson, unaware of their previous love affair, assigns Farrell the job of keeping Gilda a faithful wife. Fraught with hatred, Gilda does her best to antagonize, intimidate, and instill...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"This critical survey examines the relationships between horror and film noir. Included are the films based on popular horror/mystery radio shows, the works of Val Lewton, and Alfred Hitchcock's stories. Also discussed are gothic and costume horror noirs; the noir of recent films; and film noir aspects of the Hannibal Lecter movies and other serial-killer thrillers"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eddie Muller-host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur-takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark city" of film noir in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore. Eddie Muller's Noir Bar pairs carefully curated classic cocktails and modern noir-inspired libations with behind-the-scenes anecdotes and insights on...
78) Kiss me deadly
Series
Criterion collection volume 568
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mike Hammer, a private detective in Los Angeles, gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs, and after almost being killed himself, Mike tries to solve the murder.
79) Black Widow
Series
Fox film noir volume 22
Language
English
Description
Nancy Ordway is an aspiring writer hoping to make it big in New York at the expense of everyone around her, including Broadway producer Peter Denver, who reluctantly lets her use his apartment to work during the day. And when Peter's wife, Iris, comes home from a trip to find Nancy dead in the bathroom, the assigned detective, Lt. Bruce, soon realizes this assumed suicide is more likely a murder. Everyone Ordway knew is suddenly suspect while a series...
80) Marlowe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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A hard luck detective searches for the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress.
"A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and...
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