My Top 100 Film Noir Watchlist

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail--and what might be love.

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs.

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

A married woman and a drifter fall in love and plot to murder her husband.

As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.

Rough, violent city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain who sends him upstate to a snowy mountain town to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.

After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes that she is dangerous.

An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

During World War II, an American expatriate helps transport a French Resistance leader and his wife to Martinique while romancing a lounge singer.