Suspense

Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors,...

Jim Jarmusch combines his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller. In one of his defining roles,...

Roman Polanski (REPULSION) orchestrates a mental menage a trois in this slyly absurd tale of paranoia from the directors golden 1960s period. Donald Pleasance (HALLOWEEN) and Frangoise Dorliac (THE SOFT SKIN) star as a withdrawn couple whose isolated...

After making such American noir classics as Brute Force and The Naked City, the blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious robbery in the City of...

Before he became a sensation with the twisty revenge story MEMENTO, Christopher Nolan (THE DARK KNIGHT) fashioned this low-budget, black-and-white, 16 mm neo-noir with comparable precision and cunning. Supplying irrefutable evidence of Nolan's...

Alain Delon (The Leopard) was at his most impossibly beautiful when Purple Noon (Plein soleil) was released and made him an instant star. This ripe colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's vicious novel the Talented Mr. Ripley directed by the...

In this atomic adaptation of Mickey Spillane's novel, directed by Robert Aldrich (WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, THE DIRTY DOZEN), the good manners of the 1950s are blown to smithereens. Ralph Meeker (PATHS OF GLORY, THE DIRTY DOZEN) stars as snarling...

Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having...

Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. It's iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship,...

With it's giddily complex noir plot and widescreen, color-drenched images, Made in U.S.A was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc Godard's early-sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies. Yet this chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of...

Rock Hudson (ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS) is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. SECONDS, directed by John Frankenheimer (THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE), concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with...

Tense Cold War drama about a squad of American bombers, that, through an erroneous radio transmission, is sent to deliver a nuclear payload on the Soviet Union... and is unable to be called back. Racing against time, the U.S. president (Henry Fonda) and...