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Movies: Best "british noir" Movies


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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch(2018)

3.4/5 (with 1,786 votes)

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

Brighton Rock(1948)

1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 45 votes)

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

Hell Drivers(1957)

NR
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

Odd Man Out(1947)

NR
| 1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 76 votes)

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

The Blue Lamp(1950)

1h 24min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

The Man Between(1953)

NR
| 1h 40min | Thriller
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

The Good Die Young(1954)

1h 40min | Crime
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.

Blind Date(1959)

1h 35min | Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By(1952)

NR
| 1h 22min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.

They Drive by Night(1938)

1h 24min | Crime, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

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The Criminal(1960)

1h 37min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.

Corridor of Mirrors(1948)

3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

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The Last Page(1952)

NR
| 1h 24min | Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

Cast a Dark Shadow(1955)

NR
| 1h 22min | Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 21 votes)

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.

The Marker(2017)

1h 22min | Crime, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.

Directed by Justin Edgar

Footsteps in the Fog(1955)

NR
| 1h 30min | Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands(1948)

NR
| 1h 19min | Drama, Crime, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he in kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.

Chase a Crooked Shadow(1958)

NR
| 1h 27min | Mystery, Drama
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

Cosh Boy(1953)

NR
| 1h 15min | Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Joan Collins

Obsession(1949)

NR
| 1h 36min | Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

Directed by Edward Dmytryk - With Robert Newton

Yield to the Night(1956)

NR
| 1h 39min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

Frieda(1947)

NR
| 1h 38min | Drama, War
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.

Home at Seven(1952)

1h 25min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

The Gambler and the Lady(1952)

NR
| 1h 12min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

Directed by Sam Newfield - With Dane Clark

36 Hours(1953)

NR
| 1h 20min | Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.

Directed by Montgomery Tully - With Dan Duryea

Wanted for Murder(1946)

1h 41min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

Violent Playground(1958)

1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.

The Sleeping Tiger(1954)

1h 29min | Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

Blackout(1954)

NR
| 1h 27min | Crime, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

When a beautiful girl offers Casey Morrow a lot of money for a mystery job, Morrow doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood perhaps a little more caution should have been exercised. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality.

The Flanagan Boy(1953)

1h 21min | Crime
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.

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