Bud Corliss, a handsome college boy is so obsessed with wealth that he'll do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend Dorothy gets pregnant and is threatened with disinheritance, Bud stages her suicide, sending her plummeting from the roof of a high-rise. It's the perfect crime; until Dorothy's sister Ellen begins to unravel Bud's deadly scheme. A classic ‘hommefatale', that's still tense and creepy over half a century after its original release. find out more...

Phyllis Dietrichson is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who inspires in her nothing but contempt, but rather than leave him Phyllis decides to kill him and collect on the insurance policy she's had set up with the help of her lover, and naive partner in crime, insurance salesman Walter Neff. The only flaws in their plan are the company's reluctance to pay out so much, the diligence of Neff's increasingly suspicious colleague, (and his 'little man'), and the exemplary ruthlessness of Ph find out more...

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway. A dark and gritty thriller. find out more...

Slick gangster flick with the inimitable Bogey as hard-nosed DA Martin Ferguson. With his prime witnesses being murdered one by one, cracking the underworld gang responsible looks impossible, till he meets Teresa, the one who got away. Stylishly shot with great atmosphere and slyly witty script. find out more...

Already in trouble with his superiors over his brutal tactics and alienated from his colleagues, detective Mark Dixon's problems pile up when he accidentally kills a murder suspect and then falls in love with the dead man's wife. Where The Sidewalk Ends is a dark atmospheric noir thriller, with a classic anti hero in the form of Dana Andrews and a suitably torturous path to redemption. find out more...

The wife of a successful psychoanalyst is arrested for shoplifting and only saved from any scandal by a somewhat dubious hypnotist, but what had at first seemed like a blessing gradually desends into blackmail and murder. Whirlpool is a classy slice of noir directed by Preminger and with a script by Ben Hecht. find out more...