Flavorwire - 50 International Film Noir Classics

A liberated small-town girl stands on trial to determine whether she killed her lover in a crime of passion or in premeditation.

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

The wife of a gangster, discarded after she is raped by another man, turns to prostitution.

Grace Chang seduces as Hong Kong's most sensual Carmen ever. The torrid passions of Bizet's famous opera gets a postmodern reading when it is transposed to the noir-like setting of Hong Kong's Wanchai district. One of the most exhilarating and energetic musicals in the Chinese language.

Doctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.

A thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist occupiers of Finland. Tapiovaara stresses the divided loyalties of the Finnish bourgeoisie, torn between preserving their privileged economic position and taking a risky stand for an independent Finland.

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.

The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in him getting enmeshed in blackmail and murder.

A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.

An American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

A bunch of scoundrels and members of the Spanish youth, who until now have not paid attention more than in the police stations. They are a group of friends who survive as they can in the suburbs of Madrid.

An amnesiac woman discovers her past was that of criminal.

André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André left more than twenty years before. As Gabrielle has just died, André accepts to accommodate Catherine first, then gives her a job in his restaurant before finally marrying her. But the angel-faced young lady might well be a devil in disguise.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

Released from prison, a gangster (Michitaro Mizushima) retrieves diamonds sought by fellow yakuza.

After a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.

Two separate episodes that have in common the door that separates good from evil.