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24 results for “1940s noir”

Fallen Angels

1993 ★ 6.6

A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The ep

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Mob City

2013 ★ 6.8

Based on the real-life accounts of the cops and gangsters of 1940's Los Angeles, this is the seductive story of the violent crime underbelly of America's most g

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Devil in a Blue Dress

1995 ★ 6.5

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious w

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Trouble Is My Business

2018 ★ 4.7

Private eye Roland Drake cracks cases and romances femme fatales in 1940's Los Angeles while corrupt cop Det Barry Tate rules the city. A tale told in the class

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988 ★ 7.5

Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the st

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It's Called 'Murder', Baby

1983 ★ 7.0

In 1940s Los Angeles, private investigator Nick Popodopolis, is hired by actress Dixie Ray, to find her blackmailer. Edited R version of adult film, Dixie Ray H

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The Black Dahlia

2006 ★ 5.6

In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspi

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The Man Who Wasn't There

2001 ★ 7.5

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Dor

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Key Largo

1948 ★ 7.5

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at g

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Bad Day at Black Rock

1955 ★ 7.3

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and m

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Nicolás de Jesús' Now You See Me...

2026 ★ 0.0

Struggling fair owner Kesselring (Nicolás de Jesús) is given a unique opportunity to restore the fair to its former glory when his friend Dr. Goodkat (Fredy Roq

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Intruder in the Dust

1949 ★ 7.3

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white

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Cast a Deadly Spell

1991 ★ 6.1

In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome. TV Movie Mystery Comedy Horror Fantas

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True Confessions

1981 ★ 6.1

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute. True Confessions is a 1981 crime and drama film released in t

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The Stranger

1946 ★ 7.2

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distingu

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Dark Passage

1947 ★ 7.3

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence. Thriller Mystery thriller mystery noir fire esc

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Laura

1944 ★ 7.6

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. Drama Mystery atmospheric mystery drama noir jealousy obsession advertising exp

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Barton Fink

1991 ★ 7.5

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood. Comedy Drama Thriller surreal dark

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The Singing Detective

1986 ★ 7.5

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations. Drama Mystery psyc

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Nightmare Alley

2021 ★ 6.9

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than

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Joseph H. Lewis

Joseph H. Lewis was an American film director born on April 6, 1907, in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for his work in film noir from the late 1940s

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Charles McGraw

Charles McGraw, born Charles Crisp Butters, was an American stage, film, and television actor whose career spanned more than three decades. He was born on May 1

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The Old Gun

1975 ★ 7.5

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive

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The Invisible Man's Revenge

1944 ★ 5.6

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a dia

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