film noir – Stream On Demand

‘The Woman in the Window’ – Fritz Lang’s nightmare noir on Criterion Channel

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Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett star in Fritz Lang’s film noir nightmare come to life.

Leaving soon: Victor Mature and Richard Conte hear the ‘Cry of the City’ on Criterion Channel

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Robert Siodmak directs this crime drama of a desperate gangster and a driven cop, one of his darkest film noirs, seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis

Leaving soon: Richard Conte drives the ‘Thieves’ Highway’ on Criterion Channel

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Jules Dassin directs this film noir drama set in the cutthroat world of long haul trucking, independent drivers, and the San Francisco produce market run by a crime boss.

‘Man Hunt’ – Fritz Lang’s anti-Nazi thriller on Criterion Channel

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Walter Pidgeon stars as a big game hunter who goes after the biggest game of all – Adolph Hitler – in this 1941 film noir set in the early days of World War II.

Orson Welles is Harry Lime on Carol Reed's classic

Continental noir: ‘The Third Man’ on Criterion Channel

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Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles star in Carol Reed’s continental film noir set in the rubble of post-war Vienna. It placed in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films ever made.

Leaving soon: ‘Caught’ – Cinderella noir on Criterion Channel

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Melodrama and social commentary meet film noir in this drama of romance, wealth, and power from Max Ophuls, starring James Mason (in his American film debut), Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan.

‘Kansas City Confidential’ – the original reservoir dogs on Prime Video and Paramount+

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Phil Karson directs John Payne in this lean, mean B crime thriller, a two-fisted film noir with a wicked hook and a memorable supporting cast.

Burl Ives and Robert Ryan star in the western noir by Andre de Toth

‘Day of the Outlaw’ – snowbound western noir on Criterion Channel and free on Hoopla

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Robert Ryan and Burl Ives star in this tense, noir-tinged western set in a snowbound mountain town on the high frontier.

‘The Blue Gardenia’ on Prime Video

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Anne Baxter is young woman who becomes the suspect in a lurid murder case in Fritz Lang’s 1953 film noir.

Lee J. Cobb is ‘The Man Who Cheated Himself’ – free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, DVD, film noir, Free, Kanopy, suspense, SVOD 11/29/2022 Sean Axmaker

Lee J. Cobb is a Homicide Detective having an affair with married socialite Jane Wyatt when a murder tangles them both in a cover-up that unravels in this forgotten film noir.