1945 · Film noir
Detour
Listen to a stranded pianist explain his journey, then consider the distance between his account and the decisions it describes.
67 min · Subtitles: English
Genres
Film noir
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Follow suspicion, chance and compromised choices through these crime stories. Compare intimate suspense with investigations that reach beyond a single suspect.
1946 · Film noir · Thriller
The Stranger
Watch an investigation unsettle an apparently ordinary town, with a marriage caught between trust and evidence.
91 min · Subtitles: English
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Collection no. #0391 minThe Stranger
Orson Welles
91 min · Subtitles: English
In a quiet Connecticut town, a respected teacher is preparing for marriage and restoring an old clock. A visiting war-crimes investigator suspects…
Collection no. #0584 minThe Chase
Arthur Ripley
84 min · Subtitles: English
Returning a stranger's wallet earns a penniless veteran a job driving for a Miami gangster. The man's frightened wife asks the new chauffeur to help…
Collection no. #13100 minToo Late for Tears
Byron Haskin
100 min · Subtitles: English
A bag of cash lands in a married couple's car through a stranger's mistake. The husband wants to return it; his wife sees the life she believes she…
Collection no. #1481 minThree Steps North
W. Lee Wilder
81 min · Subtitles: English
A disgraced American veteran returns to Italy to recover money he hid before going to prison. The country has moved on, and the people watching him…
Collection no. #3296 minGuest in the House
John Brahm
96 min · Subtitles: English
A doctor's fragile fiancée is welcomed into his relatives' comfortable home. Beneath her apparent dependence, she begins manipulating the…
Collection no. #3674 minPlease Murder Me
Peter Godfrey
74 min · Subtitles: English
A lawyer successfully defends the woman he loves against the charge of killing her husband, who was also his friend. What he discovers after the…
Collection no. #3974 minBlonde Ice
Jack Bernhard
74 min · Subtitles: English
A society columnist marries into wealth without abandoning the lover she has left behind. When her husband threatens the arrangement, she starts…
Collection no. #4371 minThe Sun Sets at Dawn
Paul Sloane
71 min · Subtitles: English
A condemned young man waits through the final night before his scheduled execution while his girlfriend remains nearby. Journalists covering the…
Collection no. #4499 minThe Strange Woman
Edgar G. Ulmer
99 min · Subtitles: English
In nineteenth-century Maine, Jenny sees marriage to a wealthy older man as a way out of a violent childhood. The security she gains does not quiet…
Collection no. #4582 minHollow Triumph
Steve Sekely
82 min · Subtitles: English
A criminal fleeing the consequences of a failed robbery discovers a doctor who looks almost exactly like him. One facial scar appears to be the only…
Collection no. #5379 minThe Bigamist
Ida Lupino
79 min · Subtitles: English
A couple applying to adopt a child invite an official investigation into their lives. The husband's frequent business trips soon reveal a second…
Collection no. #57110 minImpact
Arthur Lubin
110 min · Subtitles: English
A prosperous businessman survives an attempt on his life and realizes that his wife helped arrange it. Believed dead, he takes refuge in a small town…
Collection no. #58114 minThe Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Lewis Milestone
114 min · Subtitles: English
A breakdown brings a returning drifter back to the industrial town where he grew up. Two childhood companions now occupy positions of wealth and…
Collection no. #6171 minJigsaw
Fletcher Markle
71 min · Subtitles: English
A prosecutor begins questioning a death that has been dismissed as suicide, then follows the murder of a journalist toward an extremist organization.…
Collection no. #6281 minWhistle Stop
Léonide Moguy
81 min · Subtitles: English
Mary returns to the small town she left two years earlier and reopens a rivalry between two men from her past. One is embittered by her absence; the…
Collection no. #6380 minTime Table
Mark Stevens
80 min · Subtitles: English
A carefully staged medical emergency allows thieves to steal a large payroll from a moving train. An insurance investigator and a railway detective…
Collection no. #6488 minThe Green Glove
Rudolph Maté
88 min · Subtitles: English
An American veteran returns to France in search of a jewelled religious relic he encountered during the war. A guide becomes involved in his journey,…
Collection no. #7084 minDishonored Lady
Robert Stevenson
84 min · Subtitles: English
A successful fashion editor reaches a crisis and tries to leave her exhausting social and professional life behind. With a psychiatrist's…