The Big Knife

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 25 Oct 1955 · English

Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.

The Dark Corner

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 9 Apr 1946 · English

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

Double Indemnity

Movie · 8.1 / 10 · 6 Jul 1944 · English

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

Plunder Road

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 5 Dec 1957 · English

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

Pushover

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 14 Jul 1954 · English

A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

Force of Evil

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 24 Aug 1950 · English

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

Nightfall

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 9 Nov 1956 · English

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

An Inspector Calls

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 16 Mar 1954 · English

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?

No Man of Her Own

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 21 Feb 1950 · English

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Mildred Pierce

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 20 Oct 1945 · English

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

The Big Combo

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 13 Feb 1955 · English

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

Johnny Eager

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 9 Dec 1941 · English

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.