The Street With No Name
(1948) [G]

Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, femme fatales and moral conflict. The FBI files are filled with many...  More

Lost Highway
(1997) [R]

After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.  More

The Big Combo
(1955) [M]

Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because it's costing the department too much money with no results. Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown by going to Brown's girlfriend, Susan Lowell.

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Kiss Me Deadly
(1955) [M]

When callous thugs beat Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) senseless and viciously murder the gorgeous blonde he’s been trying to help, the hard-boiled detective retaliates the only way he can: by hitting first and asking questions later. Cutting a brutal swathe through the city’s sleazy underside,...  More

Secret Beyond The Door
(1948) [PG]

In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. However, there she finds her dream man -- a handsome, mysterious stranger who spots her in a crowd. In a matter...  More

Two Days In The Valley
(1996)

A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to...  More

Scarface (Special Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1983) [R]

Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana, one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film, in this gripping crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Directed by hit-maker Brian DePalma and produced by Martin Bregman who brought both Godfather legends...  More

L.A. Confidential
(1997) [MA]

L.A. Confidential is "tough, gorgeous and vastly entertaining", "a genuine masterpiece that will knock your socks off" and won the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Director Curtis Hanson and a terrific cast serve up a "ravishing, thrilling tale of...  More

Twilight (1998)
(1998) [M]

Some people can buy their way out of anything. Except the past. Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a...  More

The Gingerbread Man
(1998) [M]

Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon arrested and subpoenas her ex-husband Pete to testify against Dixon...  More

Affair In Trinidad
(1952) [PG]

When Steve Emery arrives in Trinidad at the urgent request of his brother, he is stunned to find that his brother has not only been murdered, but that his brother's wife Chris is succumbing to the seduction attempts of the murderer. His feelings are further exacerbated when he discovers that he,...  More

Killer's Kiss
(1955) [PG]

Stanley Kubrick fans will adore the masterful composition of "Killer's Kiss" - an inexpensive Film-Noir gem made for a night out at the Drive-in theatre. Davy Gordon (Jamie Smith) is a boxer who is past his prime. His sexy neighbor Gloria Price (Irene Kane) is a for-hire-by-lonely-men dancer (how...  More

The Killing
(1956) [PG]

When ex-con Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) says he has a plan to make a killing, everybody wants to be in on the action. Especially when the plan is to steal $2 million in a racetrack robbery scheme in which "no one will get hurt". But despite all their careful plotting, Clay and his men have...  More

Point Blank
(1967) [M]

There are two kinds of people in this up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can't tell them apart. One man's quest for revenge: an action classic from the director of Deliverance. They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they...  More

Out Of The Past
(1947) [PG]

Everything you want in a film noir you'll find in Out Of The Past. A tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good. A drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good. A moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark's grin. Plus double-crosses and fall guys. Shadowy rooms and...  More

Rififi
(1955) [PG]

In Jules Dassin's classic noir Rififi, Jean Servais plays Tony le Stephanois, a master thief with a battered face and a tubercular cough, souvenirs of a recent stint in the pen. The aging Tony is reluctant to return to a life of crime, but when he realises his girlfriend has thrown him over for a...  More

The Man Who Wasn't There
(2001) [MA]

1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano...  More

Sorry, Wrong Number
(1948) [M]

Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for he husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between two men planning a murder. She becomes increasingly desperate as she tries to work out who the victim is so the crime...  More

The Third Man
(1949) [PG]

Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime, and Joseph Cotten plays his childhood friend, Holly Martins, in this all-time classic thriller scripted by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed. Martins searches for Lime through the seedy underworld of postwar Vienna and gets caught up in a web of love,...  More

The Long Goodbye
(1973) [M]

Elliot Gould "gives one of his best performances" (Esquire) as a quirky, mischievous Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman's "fascinating and original" (Newsweek) send-up of Raymond Chandler's classic detective story. Co-starring Nina Van Pallandt and Sterling Hayden and written by Leigh Brackett (The...  More

The Cooler
(2003) [MA]

Everything Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) touches turns sour, particularly a past gambling habit that has left him seriously in debt to Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), a violent old-school wise guy who runs the Shangri-La Casino. Having realised the potential of Bernie's seemingly contagious bad...  More

Panic in the Streets
(1950) [PG]

Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and moral conflict. In this suspenseful melodrama,...  More

When Will I Be Loved?
(2004) [MA]

James Toback, a writer and director known for provocative explorations of race and sexual relations such as "Black and White" and "Two Girls and a Guy" has created a femme fatale for the 21st Century. Vera (Neve Campbell) is a beautiful, privileged, capricious young New Yorker exploring the...  More

Stray Dog
(1949) [M]

Rookie detective Murakumi (Toshiro Mifune) is pick-pocketed on a bus and his police pistol is stolen. A frantic search for the gun leads him to the Tokyo underworld. The gun has been passed to a gangster who uses it in the murder of a woman. Deseperate to solve the crime, Murakumi turns to senior...  More

Sin City
(2005) [MA]

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark. Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home. Crooked cops. Sexy dames. Desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge. Others lust after redemption. And then there are those hoping for a...  More

Somewhere in the Night
(1946) [PG]

George Taylor returns from the WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.  More

The Beat My Heart Skipped
(2005) [M]

Romain Duris gives an extraordinarily intense performance as a young man torn between a life of crime and music in Jacques Audiard's smash hit noir thriller. Set in a seedy and dangerous Paris underworld, Duris plays Tom, who seems set to follow the crooked path of his sleazy father as a ruthless...  More

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
(2005) [MA]

Petty thief Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) stumbles into an actors audition whilst on the run and before he knows what's happening is whisked off to Hollywood for a screen test. Harry is teamed with ruthless, relentlessly tough and gay private eye Perry van Shrike (Val Kilmer), nicknamed Gay...  More

High and Low
(1963) [PG]

yle thriller. A ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo's young son, takes the chauffeur's boy by mistake – but still demands the ransom. Gondo is left with an agonising choice, since paying the ransom will ruin him. Meanwhile the tenacious Inspector Tokuro is...  More

Where the Sidewalk Ends
(1950) [PG]

Dana Andrews stars as brutal cop Mark Dixon who previously had been in trouble with his superiors for his brutal methods. When Dixon accidently kills a murder suspect he knows his career will be over if he is discovered. He decides to dispose of the body and pin the murder on someone else....  More