International Noir
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- DirectorE.G. de MeystStarsLouis SalouMarie DéaClaudine DupuisBelgium
- DirectorNorbert BenoîtMarcel JauniauxE.G. de MeystStarsMargueritte DehousseOmer DucarmeHarry DuprayA beautiful and mysterious femme fatale arrives out of the blue in a small village spreading conflict and discontent throughout the community until the inhabitants harass her and provoke her tragic death.Belgium
- DirectorRik KuypersIvo MichielsRoland VerhavertStarsTine BalderTone BrulinAlice De GraefA pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people to show him understanding are an orphan and two disillusioned women.Belgium
- DirectorPierre ChenalStarsAlberto ClosasElisa GalvéFlorence MarlyChile
- DirectorPierre ChenalStarsÁngel MagañaNélida BilbaoSebastián ChiolaOn the eve of his wedding, the groom thinks he has run down a cyclist with his roadster, after he had consumed too many drinks. After postponing his marriage for a while, he and his new bride are threatened by a blackmailer.Chile
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsHelmut DantineMary AndersonPaul LukasWhen a nagging wife commits suicide, her husband is threatened with a murder frame by his lawyer, unless he kills a certain female reporter for him.Canada
- DirectorJean DevaivreStarsPatricia RocRené DaryPaul DupuisPierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after the end of World War II. Pierre is engaged to a beautiful foreign young lady by the name of Helen Bering. He introduces her to his friend, which seems to trouble him. To his amazement, Helen and Paul disappear without notice. Pierre, who was beginning to feel jealous, sees his suspicion confirmed. He decides to fly to Montreal where he thinks the couple has taken refuge. Once there, he learns that his dear Helen is actually a criminal and that Paul is a policeman whose duty was to arrest her...
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsFrançoise RosayClaude DauphinHenri GuisolThe director's swansong, also a vehicle for his actress wife here a failing opera diva who kills herself. The actress later appears as different women interviewed by police: a peasant, a schoolteacher, a bargekeeper's raucous wife.Switzerland
- DirectorFranz SchnyderStarsRobert TröschRobert FreitagPaul HubschmidA young soldier in an army camp near a small Swiss village gets into an argument with his sergeant, which winds up in a fight. The soldier, believing he has killed the sergeant, flees to Zurich, determined to disguise himself and cross the border into France. However, things don't work out quite as he had planned.Switzerland
- DirectorKurt FrühStarsWalo LüöndKatrin BuschorAnnemarie DüringerSwitzerland
- DirectorGyörgy FehérStarsIldikó BánságiDjoko RosicJános DerzsiIn this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband.Hungary
- DirectorMemduh ÜnStarsFatma GirikTamer YigitHüseyin BaradanMehmet, who came to Istanbul with dreams of becoming rich, steals when he cannot find a job. He meets the dancer Fatma at the night club. As they talk, they realize that they share the same fate. They plan to get rid of Istanbul.Turkey
- DirectorU-Wei Haji SaariStarsEman MananKhalid SallehBetty BanafeZaiton seduces a drifter named Amran into murdering her elderly husband, Ibrahim, to get his money and land.Malaysia
- DirectorRichard FranklinStarsStacy KeachJamie Lee CurtisMarion EdwardA laid-back American truck driver in south Australia suspects that the driver of a green van is killing young women along his route, and plays a game of cat-and-mouse to catch him.Australia
- DirectorBill BennettStarsMatt DayFrances O'ConnorTiffany PetersAfter a robbery scam that goes bad, lovers Nikki and Al take off into the Australian outback, pursued by the police and a malevolent footballer named Zipper Doyle, and meet a number of offbeat characters.Australia
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsJovan MilicevicMarijan LovricOlivera MarkovicA group of railroad workers decide to make extra money by smuggling forbidden goods and engaging in other criminal activities.Yugoslavia sic
- DirectorJerzy KawalerowiczStarsLucyna WinnickaLeon NiemczykTeresa SzmigielównaJerzy enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something - as does the strange woman with whom he must share a sleeping compartment.Poland
- DirectorVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsVitalijus PuodziukaitisAudrone BajerciuteStasis PetronaitisIn a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.Lithuania
- DirectorYu Hyun-mokStarsMu-ryong ChoiJin Kyu KimJeong-suk MoonA pressured accountant, his war veteran brother and their dysfunctional family struggle with integrating into post-War Korean society.South Korea
- DirectorSundaram BalachanderStarsShivaji GanesanPandari BaiJawar N. SitaramanAfter an engineer is shot dead, several people around him relate different versions and the related incidents that may have led to the murder.India
- DirectorGuru DuttStarsDev AnandGeeta BaliKalpana KartikAn ace gambler is forced to join a gambling syndicate in order to pay for the treatment of his ill sister and is framed for murder when he expresses his desire to get out.India
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFarid ShawqiHind RustumYoussef ChahineA newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.Egypt
- DirectorLászló KalmárStarsKatalin KarádyTivadar UrayIstván NagyHungary
- DirectorZoltán FarkasStarsElma BullaMiklós HajmássyTibor HalmayCecil Horváth's brother is convicted of bank robbery, and Cecil vows revenge against the judge, Dr. Péter Kétzy. During a family holiday, she seduces the unsuspecting man, but in the process gets herself burned. Mary, the judge's wife, fights for her husband and for peace in the family. Cecil finds herself in a difficult situation.Hungary
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsTerence DonovanTony BonnerEd DevereauxAn armoured car company is the target of repeated heists. Company leadership is enforcing new measures in order to tighten security. The biggest danger of a new heist lies from within the company's own ranks.Australia
- DirectorAgradootStarsUttam KumarSuchitra SenKamal MitraA poor lawyer get to know that his father was jailed for a women's murder he didn't commit. To prove his father's innocence protagonist left his home to conduct his own investigation and when every situation got against him, he fought back.India
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsBelgin DorukTamer YigitEkrem BoraDirty world that a wealthy family expertly hide.Turkey
- DirectorRaj KhoslaStarsDev AnandShakilaJohnny WalkerA newspaper editor gets murdered when he was about to expose the underworld links of a rich person. So, a C.I.D inspector gets assigned to investigate the murder case.India
- DirectorÉva GárdosStarsKrisztián KolovratnikRéka TenkiJános KulkaA murder mystery set in Budapest, 1936. Just as Hungary was preparing to allign itself with Hitler, a young beautiful girl is found dead and no one wants to investigate - except Gordon a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they seem.Hungary
- DirectorBiren NagStarsBiswajeet ChatterjeeWaheeda RehmanLalita PawarIn this re-imagining of Du Maurier's Rebecca, a recently wed woman discovers the ghost of her husband's first wife still haunts their home.India
- DirectorJulián SolerStarsJosé GálvezOfelia MontescoEnrique PontónA gang of professional thieves plans how to rob the jewelry store in Bogotá and escape, not imagining that death surrounds them and all because of a red light.Colombia
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsAna ZanattiPedro OliveiraTeresa MadrugaAlvaro, a divorced journalist with a complicated love life, watches someone he doesn't know killing himself after a fight with a woman who he gave a lift. Intrigued by that mysterious sensual woman, he decides not to tell the police about the lift he gave her and investigates her by himself. He gets involved with her, but she remains too mysterious about her personal life. He ends up tangled in a web of murder, mystery and sex because of that woman, who he barely gets to know.Portugal
- DirectorVáclav KrskaStarsEduard CupákJosef VinklárJana DítetováDan, Freddy and Carda are roaming about Prague thinking of how to get some money. They decide to break into the box-office of a cinema, but a passer-by interferes. Freddy loses his jacket in the fight, but all three young men escape at the end. Freddy is afraid to return home and is hiding at the docks. The police identify him from his papers, which they found in the jacket. At the docks Freddy meets the customs officer Tonka and stirs her to pity with a made-up story about a bullying father.Czech
- DirectorTian-Lin WangStarsHelen Li MeiRoy ChiaoChing TienHong Kong
- DirectorVáclav MarhoulStarsTomás HanákVilma CibulkováPavel LiskaInspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe, a romantic cowboy, who takes the law into his own hands in the rough prairie of a large city. He is honest, skeptical and hardworking. He toils away on the cases that he solves after numerous mistakes, while often being tormented and beaten up by criminals and even the police. In this world of violence, mistrust and corruption, everything is for sale. Everything except him.Czech
- DirectorDavid OndricekStarsIvan TrojanSebastian KochSona NorisováIn the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?Czech
- DirectorBorivoj ZemanStarsKarel HögerEduard DubskýVjaceslav IrmanovThe post office in Liderice is attacked by robbers who kill the clerk Klecka, wound Munk and force Jirí Valta to hand over the cash. Munk, with his light injuries, is hailed as a hero whereas Valta is generally considered a coward. At the insistence of her parents, Valta's fiancee Helena leaves him. Valta moves away, and looks after Klecka's wife and small daughter, however, he is still plagued by the question as to whether he acted correctly.Czech
- DirectorMartin FricStarsDana MedrickáJaroslav MarvanElla NollováInspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknamed The Cat. He rightly suspects that Cat will go and pick up his last loot which the police didn't manage to find and that he will want revenge on Karta who helped get him behind bars. At the hospital, Cat's ex-lover Fróny hopelessly falls for doctor Chrudimský and decides to start a new life. She still refuses to help the inspector in his search for The Cat and Karta.Czech
- DirectorJirí WeissStarsJirina SejbalováCzech
- DirectorJindrich PolákStarsSvatopluk MatyásJirí AdamíraZdenek KryzánekA robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery away in a stolen car and that very night hide the loot tens of kilometers outside Prague in a forest. Then the three robbers part with each other. One of them, Burian, leaves in the same car, the other two, Duda and Hovorka, take to flight in another car, which soon ends up in a car crash. Hovorka dies in the accident, but Duda survives and hides in an abandoned cottage. Burian is arrested, Duda is traced out by a police dog. Duda confesses to the robbery to the criminologist Málek, but refuses to say where is the jewelery. The robber then begins to shoot and Málek kills him in self-defense. The court fails to prove Litera's involvement in the robbery and the only one convicted is Burian. The disappointed Málek leaves the police and begins to work as a cab driver.Czech
- DirectorMiroslav CikánStarsOtomar KorbelárMarie GlázrováHelena BusováCzech
- DirectorCarl SchultzStarsRay BarrettRobyn NevinGuy DolemanOn Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.Australia
- DirectorAna Luísa GuimarãesStarsAfonso MeloRosa Castro AndréGuilherme FilipePortugal
- DirectorYing CheungCheong ChoiStarsYing CheungYin PakLap Ban ChanAn unauthorised reprise of Hitchcock's Vertigo. The film is based on the same plot with some alterations, most significantly the detective is prone to a heart attack instead of vertigo.Hong Kong
- DirectorPei ChanWui NgJi ZhuStarsXuexian BaiLau-Kuen ChengWai-Sum ChengAdapted from Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" 1954 film by a collective of Cantonese filmmakers to commemorate the death of comedian Yi Qiushui.Hong Kong
- DirectorLi KaoHan Hsiang LiStarsPaul Chang ChungMan CheungXiaoyu DengLong unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has to quit school.Hong Kong
- DirectorSava MrmakStarsLjuba TadicZoran RistanovicStevo ZigonA Serbian adaptation of Simenon novel. When an ominous note predicting the time and place of a death finds its way to Maigret's desk in Paris, his investigation brings him to Saint-Fiacre, the place of his birth. It isn't long before a darkness descends on Maigret and the town, as the prediction becomes a brutal reality and the Inspector discovers he is not welcome in the place he once called home.Yugoslavia sic
- DirectorMarika BeikuAleksandr GordonAndrei TarkovskyStarsYuliy FaytAleksandr GordonValentin VinogradovTwo men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man they must kill.Russia
- DirectorNikolai IlyinskyStarsVladimir SamoylovValentinas MasalskisLembit UlfsakCommissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police.Russia
- DirectorLaurie McInnesStarsAden YoungDavid FieldBill HunterCharacters adrift in an isolated landscape collide with the past and each other as they unravel the secrets of a dead man's dreams. A moody meditation on anti-heroism, the film pays tribute to the black and white style of cinema noir.Australia
- DirectorEddie DavisStarsTom TryonCarolyn JonesRick JasonA man discovers that he has been deliberately poisoned and hasn't long to live. In the short time he has left, he determines to find out who poisoned him and why.Australia
- DirectorRobert D. WebbStarsJames BrolinJacqueline BissetClaire TrevorSouth African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists.South Africa
- DirectorBéla TarrÁgnes HranitzkyStarsMiroslav KrobotTilda SwintonErika BókAfter witnessing a crime during his night shift as railway switchman near the docks, a man finds a briefcase full of money. While he and his family step up their living standards, others start looking for the disappeared case.
- DirectorSemyon AranovichStarsOleg BorisovEvgeniya SimonovaLarisa MalevannayaThe story of the trial of the trade Union boss Jack Rafferty. With great force and astute critical insight, corruption and crime are exposed, accompanying the advancement of Western leaders to power.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsMilúBarreto PoeiraAugusto Fraga
- DirectorIvan GovarStarsPhilippe NicaudJacqueline MaillanMarie DaëmsSet between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur Wens, who infiltrates their hideout using various comic disguises, bumps them off one by one and rescues the little girl.
- DirectorKarl AntonStarsIta RinaVera BaranovskayaJosef RovenskýA prostitute in an act of pity is keeping chaste company with a condemned man through the night before he is to be hung.
- DirectorArvo KruusementStarsTõnu KarkAarne ÜkskülaRein MalmstenBased on the novel by D. Hemmet "Glass Key". On the eve of the senate elections, the head of the large trust Paul Medvig, the leader of the city mafia, is doing everything to re-elect his man - Senator Henry. However, the unexpected murder of the senator's son confuses Medwig's cards: his employee, formerly a private investigator, Ned Beaumont, returns to the old craft - and undertakes to investigate this case, with clear grounds to consider Henry to be the murderer himself.
- DirectorLee Man-heeStarsJeong-suk MoonJin Kyu KimSeong-ja BangA man wants to leave his mistress so he can marry the daughter of the director of the hospital. However, complications ensue and the devil in this man is released.
- DirectorKim Ki-youngStarsJin Kyu KimJeung-nyeo JuEun-shim LeeA composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
- DirectorLee Man-heeStarsJeong-suk MoonDong-he JangDae-yeob LeeThe wife of a gangster, discarded after she is raped by another man, turns to prostitution.
- DirectorCraig MonahanStarsHugo WeavingTony MartinAaron JefferyA duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.
- DirectorGyörgy FehérStarsPéter HaumannJános DerzsiJudit PogányWhen a schoolgirl is found murdered in the woods, a retiring detective tries to find her murderer.
- DirectorAndrey BenkendorfStarsArmen DzhigarkhanyanNikolay YeryomenkoEkaterina StrizhenovaThe granddaughter of a former military officer is brutally raped by several neighborhood hooligans. The man, seeing that the police cannot do much (especially since one of them has a high-ranking father, a policeman), decides to bring the rapists to justice himself. Under the pretext of a hunting trip, he buys a sniper rifle at the bazaar.