
The wheelchair-bound matriarch of an English family uses her handicap to cynically manipulate all those around her. Read More »
Film-Noir
The Shanghai Gesture (1941) Josef von Sternberg, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance

A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by “Mother” Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Read More »
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) Jean Negulesco, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott

A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. Read More »
The Accused (1949) William Dieterle, Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Wilma Tuttle, psychology professor, lets aggressively brash student Bill Perry drive her home. Read More »
Date with Death (1959) Harold Daniels, Gerald Mohr, Liz Renay, Robert Clarke, Crime, Film-Noir

A Hobo thrown off a train assumes the identity of a big-city police detective, found by him dead, and is assigned to rid an isolated desert town of big-time racketeers. Read More »
End of the Road (1944) George Blair, Edward Norris, John Abbott, June Storey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious “Flower Shop Murder” is innocent of the crime. Read More »
The Glass Alibi (1946) W. Lee Wilder, Paul Kelly, Douglas Fowley, Anne Gwynne

Joe Eykner (Douglas Fowley), an opportunistic newspaper reporter, persuades wealthy, Santa Monica widow Linda Vale (Maris Wrixon), to marry him. Read More »
The Man Is Armed (1956) Franklin Adreon, Dane Clark, May Wynn, William Talman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result Read More »
Step Down to Terror (1958) Harry Keller, Colleen Miller, Charles Drake, Rod Taylor, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Read More »
Fall Guy (1947) Reginald Le Borg, Robert Armstrong, Leo Penn, Teala Loring, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Tom Cochrane (Leo Penn’), full of dope (cocaine) and covered with blood, is picked up by the police and then questioned by detectives Shannon (Douglas Fowley) and Taylor (Harry Strang), but manages to escape. Read More »