Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, and Claire Trevor in Dead End (1937)

Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson in Mona Lisa (1986)

William Holden, Nancy Olson, and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Here you will find a comprehensive list of some of the most enjoyable Film Noir movies available on Amazon Prime and affiliated streaming services. These titles have storylines and filming locations in Los Angeles.

Rhonda Fleming and Dick Powell in Cry Danger (1951)

Can there even be a thing like 'nearly good B-pictures'? At first I wasn't so sure either. But after years of watching B-movies, more often than not I stumbled across a B-picture which I wouldn't exactly consider to be a good (or even brillant) one. On the other hand it didn't reach the absolute bottoms of z-grade moviedom that connoisseurs of this kind of pictures are used to either. It was simply a movie which, in terms of B-pictures, was competently done, had all those ingredients we love so much in this kind of movies, yes, possibly it was even done bad for all the right reasons. But nevertheless, it didn't click with me, didn't offer that special something which makes B-pictures so enjoyable. What you can expect on this list are B-pictures which are not bad per se, they are more like near misses which can still offer plenty for the B-movie fan. Especially if you are a fan of a certain subgenre, actor or whatever. So have fun browsing through the nearly, but not quite, good B-pictures of the 1930s. 

If you're up to it, don't hesitate to leave a comment.

PS: The movies are sorted by year and not necessarily by my preference. This list is by no means complete as I will add new worthwhile films as I stumble across them.

George Arliss, Alice Joyce, and H.B. Warner in The Green Goddess (1930)

Films listed on IMDB with the tag / genre film noir ( 827 films ) , which ain't . Horror / foreign / early / silent noirs on their list are all given a pass . Not including some films i've yet to see . See also my lists of Almost Noir , and Watched In The Pursuit Of Noir

Coley Wallace in The Joe Louis Story (1953)

Keith Larsen in Son of Belle Starr (1953)

Luther Adler, Pamela Britton, and Edmond O'Brien in D.O.A. (1949)

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