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6.9

♡ 22

88%

65%

boyfriend girlfriend relationship

based on play or musical

black and white

blackmail

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Anny Ondra as Alice White

Phyllis Monkman as Gossip Woman

Alfred Hitchcock as Man on Subway

Cyril Ritchard as The Artist

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

The Lost Moment

1947

6.8

♡ 5

64%

Martin Gabel Director

John Archer as Charles

Agnes Moorehead as Juliana Borderau

Minerva Urecal as Maria

Martin Garralaga as Waiter

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.

The Wrong Man

1956

7.4

♡ 37

93%

75%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Mary Boylan as Curious Customer

Anna Karen as Miss Duffield

Henry Beckman as Prisoner at Arraignment Hearing

Vera Miles as Rose Balestrero

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Rebecca

1940

8.1

♡ 69

98%

92%

age difference

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Gladys Cooper as Beatrice Lacy

Forrester Harvey as Chalcroft

Melville Cooper as Coroner

Joan Fontaine as Mrs. de Winter

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

The Suspect

1944

7.3

♡ 10

78%

Robert Siodmak Director

Ella Raines as Mary

Lillian Bronson as Miss Crevy

Henry Daniell as Mr. Simmons

Keith Hitchcock as William Crummit

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.

Call Northside 777

1948

7.4

♡ 12

81%

74%

based on a true story

photographic evidence

police corruption

Henry Hathaway Director

Thelma Ritter as Captain's Secretary

Richard Conte as Frank Wiecek

Addison Richards as John Albertson

Robert Adler as Taxicab Driver

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

The Reckless Moment

1949

parent child relationship

7.1

♡ 9

73%

preserved film

Max Ophüls Director

Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper

John Roy as Man

Harry Harvey as Post Office Clerk

Norman Leavitt as Second Postal Clerk

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

You and Me

1938

6.8

♡ 6

86%

Fritz Lang Director

Paul Newlan as Bouncer at Danceland

Joyce Compton as Curly Blonde

Sylvia Sidney as Helen Roberts

Barton MacLane as Mickey

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

M

1951

6.7

♡ 8

60%

Joseph Losey Director

Norman Leavitt as Harry Greer - Bar Patron

Walter Burke as MacMahan

John Indrisano as Man in Mob

Gregg Palmer as Television Broadcaster

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

Double Indemnity

1944

8.3

♡ 71

97%

Billy Wilder Director

Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes

Douglas Spencer as Lou Schwartz

Eddie Hall as Man in Drug Store

Fortunio Bonanova as Sam Gorlopis

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.

Witness for the Prosecution

1957

8.4

♡ 64

100%

95%

alibi

Billy Wilder Director

John Williams as Brogan-Moore

John Roy as Courtroom Spectator

Bill Erwin as Juror

Norma Varden as Mrs. Emily Jane French

An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing testimony of the defendant's wife becomes a subject of confusion.

The Big Sleep

1946

7.9

♡ 51

96%

91%

Howard Hawks Director

Trevor Bardette as Art Huck

Regis Toomey as Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls

Louis Jean Heydt as Joe Brody

Ben Welden as Pete

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

The Killers

1946

7.7

♡ 24

100%

Robert Siodmak Director

Jack Lambert as 'Dum-Dum' Clarke

Edmond O'Brien as Jim Reardon

Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins

Bill Walker as Sam

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954

7.0

♡ 2

100%

Don Siegel Director

Frank Hagney as Convict Roberts

Leo Gordon as Crazy Mike Carnie

Robert Patten as Frank

Carleton Young as Guard Captain Barrett

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

To Have and Have Not

1944

7.8

♡ 30

95%

90%

Adventure

Howard Hawks Director

Walter Brennan as Eddie

Humphrey Bogart as Harry Morgan

Sheldon Leonard as Lt. Coyo

Lauren Bacall as Marie 'Slim' Browning

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

The Big Combo

1955