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Charles Laughton • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Orson Welles • Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Crime • Film Noir • Mystery
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
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Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
Crime Thriller • Crime • Femme Fatale
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Gothic Film
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Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
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Billy Wilder • Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson
Drama • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Edgar G. Ulmer • Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Femme Fatale
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Film Noir
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Samuel Fuller • Starring: Thelma Ritter, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters
Femme Fatale • Film Noir • Political Thriller
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Crime Thriller
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John Huston • Starring: Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Glenn Ford
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Carol Reed • Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
British Noir • Childhood Drama • Drama
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Robert Wise • Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Drama • Film Noir • Sports Drama
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
Con Artist / Hustler • Crime Drama • Crime
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
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Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson • Starring: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
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George Cukor • Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Based-on-Theatre • Film Noir • Period Film
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Boris Ingster • Starring: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet
Drama • Film Noir • Mystery
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Orson Welles • Starring: Richard Long, Edward G. Robinson, Philip Merivale
Detective Film • Drama • Film Noir
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Charles Vidor • Starring: Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Rita Hayworth
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Ida Lupino • Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Crime Thriller • Crime • Drama
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Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Gerard Buhr, Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime
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Delmer Daves • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Film Noir • Mystery • Romance
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John M. Stahl • Starring: Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Cornel Wilde
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
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Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Drama • Film Noir • Media Satire
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Robert Arthur, Jan Sterling
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
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John Farrow • Starring: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
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Lance Comfort • Starring: Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed, George Thorpe
Based-on-Theatre • British Noir • Crime Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Film Noir • Mystery • Political Thriller
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
Drama • Film Noir • Medical Drama
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Frank Tuttle • Starring: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
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Tay Garnett • Starring: Leon Ames, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn
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John Huston • Starring: Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Drama • Film Noir • Foreign Language Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Margaret Lindsay, Jess Barker, Dan Duryea
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Edmund Goulding • Starring: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Helen Walker
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime
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Archie Mayo • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Addiction Drama • Drama • Film Noir
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Jeff Corey
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Humphrey Bogart
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Femme Fatale
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Orson Welles • Starring: Everett Sloane, Rita Hayworth, Ted de Corsia
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Crime Drama
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Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer • Starring: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Anthology Film • British Noir • Film Noir
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Frank Silvera, Phil Stevenson, David Vaughan
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