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The Night of the Hunter (film)
The Night of the Hunter (1955) is Charles Laughton's only film as director, a black-and-white Southern Gothic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as preacher Harry Powell, adapted from Davis Grubb's novel, a 1955 box-office failure now ranked in the Sight and Sound 2022 poll.
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case is Alfred Hitchcock's 1947 courtroom drama for David O. Selznick, his last film under the Selznick contract, starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, and Ann Todd, adapted from Robert Hichens' 1933 novel.
The Prowler
The Prowler (1951) is a Joseph Losey film noir starring Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes, written covertly by blacklisted Dalton Trumbo under Hugo Butler's name, produced by Sam Spiegel, and restored in 2007 by UCLA and the Film Noir Foundation.
The Set-Up
The Set-Up (1949) is a Robert Wise RKO boxing noir starring Robert Ryan as Stoker Thompson, a 35-year-old boxer whose manager secretly fixes his fight; adapted from Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem, it runs 72 minutes in real time.
The Stranger (1946 film)
The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, about a Nazi war criminal hiding in Connecticut.
The Third Man
The Third Man (1949) is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed from Graham Greene's screenplay, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, and Orson Welles as Harry Lime, set in occupied Vienna, winner of the 1949 Cannes Grand Prix and topped the BFI 100.
The Thirteenth Floor
The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Josef Rusnak's sci-fi noir adapted from Galouye's Simulacron-3 and remaking Fassbinder's Welt am Draht, follows Douglas Hall investigating his mentor's murder inside a simulated 1937 Los Angeles.
The Three Faces of Eve
The Three Faces of Eve (1957) is a Nunnally Johnson psychological drama starring Joanne Woodward as a woman with three personalities, based on the Thigpen-Cleckley case of Chris Costner Sizemore; Woodward won the Best Actress Oscar.
The Wild Goose Lake
The Wild Goose Lake (南方车站的聚会) is Diao Yinan's 2019 Chinese-French neo-noir crime film set in Wuhan, starring Hu Ge as a fugitive gang boss. Premiered in Cannes 2019 main competition; released in China December 6, 2019.
The Woman in the Window (1944 film)
The Woman in the Window is a 1944 Fritz Lang film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea, adapted by Nunnally Johnson from J.H. Wallis's Once Off Guard, famous for its dream ending.
The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man (1956) is Alfred Hitchcock's black-and-white docudrama starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles, based on the true 1953 false arrest of New York bassist Manny Balestrero, sourced from Maxwell Anderson's book and Herbert Brean's Life article.
This Gun for Hire
This Gun for Hire is a 1942 Paramount film noir directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Alan Ladd as hitman Philip Raven and Veronica Lake, adapted from Graham Greene's A Gun for Sale; an early, influential noir that launched Ladd's stardom.
Tightrope
Tightrope (1984) is an American psychological crime thriller, Richard Tuggle's directorial debut, starring Clint Eastwood as New Orleans detective Wes Block hunting a killer of prostitutes whose tastes mirror his own; it grossed $48.1 million and holds an 86% Tomatometer.
Touch of Evil
Touch of Evil (1958) is Orson Welles's film noir with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Marlene Dietrich, shot in Venice, California, released in a studio cut, and restored in 1998 by Walter Murch from Welles's 58-page December 1957 memo to Universal.
Under the Silver Lake
Under the Silver Lake is a 2018 American neo-noir mystery film directed by David Robert Mitchell, starring Andrew Garfield as a young man searching for his missing neighbor in Los Angeles.
Underworld U.S.A.
Underworld U.S.A. is a 1961 Samuel Fuller crime film, also called Underworld, U.S.A., starring Cliff Robertson as Tolly Devlin, a safecracker avenging his father's murder by infiltrating a crime syndicate; based on Joseph F. Dineen's articles, released by Columbia Pictures.
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950 film)
Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1950 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dana Andrews as a New York detective who kills a suspect and covers it up.
White Sands
White Sands (1992) is an American neo-noir thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Daniel Pyne, starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, and Samuel L. Jackson; a New Mexico sheriff impersonates a dead man with $500,000 and enters an FBI sting.
Who Killed Cock Robin
Who Killed Cock Robin? is an English nursery rhyme first published in 1744 as Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin, in which a sparrow confesses to the killing; adapted by Disney (1935), detective fiction, children's books, and a 2017 Taiwanese neo-noir film.
Witness (1985 film)
Witness (1985) is a Peter Weir thriller-romance starring Harrison Ford as detective John Book, who hides among the Amish after Lukas Haas's character witnesses a murder; it won two of eight Oscars.
You Were Never Really Here
You Were Never Really Here: 2017 Lynne Ramsay thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix as traumatized rescuer Joe, adapted from Jonathan Ames's novella; Cannes Best Actor and Best Screenplay winner, Amazon Studios release.