Police detective sergeant Jeff Andrews is working on a case involving a gang of shoplifters Read More »
Film-Noir
The Reckless Moment (1949) Max Ophüls, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks
In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper Read More »
Crack-Up (1946) Irving Reis, Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night Read More »
On Dangerous Ground (1951) Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects Read More »
Underworld (1927) Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson, George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
‘Nobody helps me — I help them!’ boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed Read More »
5 Fingers (1952) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie
Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious and extremely efficient valet for the British ambassador Read More »
Danger Woman (1946) Lewis D. Collins, Don Porter, Brenda Joyce, Patricia Morison
An atomic scientist who was one of the brains behind the A-bomb is now working in private life Read More »
Ladies in Retirement (1941) Charles Vidor, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes
In the late nineteenth century, Ellen Creed works as the live-in companion to Miss Leonora Fiske Read More »
The Amazing Mr. X (1948) Bernard Vorhaus, Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow Read More »
The House on 92nd Street (1945) Henry Hathaway, William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso
Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. Read More »
All My Sons (1948) Irving Reis, Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians
All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing. Read More »
The Miami Story (1954) Fred F. Sears, Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler, John Baer
When Miamia, Florida became national headquarters for a ten billion dollar crime syndicate ruled by crime-czar Tomy Brill (Luther Adler) Read More »
Spellbound (1945) Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Read More »
Follow Me Quietly (1949) Richard Fleischer, William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey
For six months, a strangler has terrorized the city. Calling himself The Judge, he’s a self-appointed destroyer of ‘evil’ who only strikes on rainy nights. Read More »
The Desperate Hours (1955) William Wyler, Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy
After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house Read More »