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Before directing his first feature, Henri-Georges Clouzot spent ten years learning the ropes. During this prolific period as a screenwriter he learned cinematic grammar and began to forge his style.
My cousin from Warsaw: Archibald Burel, tired of the infidelities of his wife Lucienne with his best friend Hubert, asks his Polish cousin Sonia, passing through Paris, to seduce Hubert so that Lucienne comes back to him.
Dragnet night: Georget, a sailor...
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The Yards: Recently released from prison, Leo Handler just wants to get his life back on track. But when he takes a job with his powerful Uncle Frank and reconnects with his old friend Willie, Leo finds himself unwittingly drawn into a world of sabotage, high-stakes payoffs and even murder.
The Lookout: "Chris "Slapshot" Pratt, whose once-bright future has been dimmed by a head injury, is a night janitor at a bank. Lonely and frustrated, Chris falls...
523) Cornered
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Film noir classic collection volume 5, disc 1
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Cornered: an ex-RCAF pilot stalks the Nazi collaborator who murdered his bridge, but no one can describe the mysterious man.
Desperate: an Everyman who accepts what he thinks is an honest trucking job, only to find he's the driver in a botched heist that puts Brodie and his bride on the run from the cops and the cons who planned the job.
524) Not as a stranger
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An egotistical, aspiring physician who expects perfection from those around him struggles with his own shortcomings.
525) Force of evil
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Lawyer Joe Morse works for a powerful gangster, Tucker, who wishes to consolidate and control the numbers racket in New York City. This requires absorbing many smaller outfits, one of which is run by Morse's older brother Leo. One of the brothers relishes his life in the underworld while the other is disgusted by it and seeks to minimize its impact. Sadly, tragedy befalls both.
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Former P.O.W. Bill Saunders is living in England and scarred with unstable and violent tendencies. After killing a man in a bar fight, he flees the scene and manages to find cover in the home of Nurse Jane Wharton who agrees to take him in and believes his version of the story being an accident. Now in love, Nurse Wharton tries to secure Saunders a job delivering medical supplies after being released from prison for fighting with a police officer....
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Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Rich and strange: Adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma, and Val...
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Caucasian and Japanese-American Korean War army buddies Corbett and Shigeta now work side by side in the LA homicide squad. When stripper Gloria Pall is murdered, they are sent to investigate. Both are smitten by the lovely Victoria Shaw, who is implicated in the crime. Corbett becomes jealous of Shigeta, who is deeply hurt, feeling that Corbett's animosity is borne of racism. Their friendship, and the central romance, is resolved after the detectives...
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Bleak Street is the latest provocation from Mexican master Arturo Ripstein, a surreally entertaining neo-noir based on a true crime that shocked Mexico. This tracks the nocturnal adventures and ill fated encounter between two desperate old prostitutes and twin mini luchadores.
530) Human desire
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Korean War vet Jeff Warren returns to his job as a railroad engineer and quickly succumbs to his boss's wife, Vicki Buckley. Thus begins a tangled web of suspicion, sex, and murder involving Vicki and her brutish husband Carl. Adapted by Alfred Hayes (Clash by Night) and shot by Burnett Guffey (Bonnie and Clyde), Lang's spellbinding masterpiece evokes a powerful emotional landscape of greed, jealousy, and Human Desire.
532) Take one false step
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A twisted mystery noir in which married college professor Andrew Gentling is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. The very next day, Catherine vanishes. Andrew's friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested. But this only puts Andrew in a deadlier kind of danger when the trail leads him to the crime-ridden streets of San Francisco.
533) Quai des orfèvres
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Set in 1940s Paris, a singer, her piano-playing husband and their devoted confidante try to cover one another's tracks when a high-society acquaintance is murdered.
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"When a Cuban man is killed on a New York street, the investigation leads to Havana and the man known as Palinov running an alien smuggling ring. Pete Karczag is the immigration detective assigned to the case in Havana. To infiltrate the ring, he poses as a Hungarian refugee desperate to gain passage to America. While negotiating his trip, he meets and falls for beautiful Marianne Lorress, who is also hoping to make the illegal journey. It's a Latin...
535) Tangier
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The beautiful Maria Montez is determined to bring a Nazi collaborator to justice in this exotic, suspense-filled noir. In the North African city of Tangier, where every secret has its price, Rita, a café dancer from Madrid, catches the eye of down-and-out war correspondent Paul Kenyon. Together, with the help of Pepe, a young, local entrepreneur, they battle a Nazi war criminal who's working incognito as a military governor
536) Enter Arsene Lupin
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The charming French thief Arsene Lupin steals a priceless emerald from the beautiful English heiress Stacie Kanares while en route to Paris on the Orient Express.
537) A woman's face
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"When Anna Holm looks at aristocratic Torsten Barring, she sees romance. When Torsten looks at her, he sees horror: a web of scar tissue that twists her face into a grotesque mask. Eager to win Torsten's love, Anna endures 12 plastic surgeries and emerges a beauty. Lovely, says Torsten, but could you do just one more favor? Murder the little boy who stands between me and a vast inheritance"--Container.
538) Crime wave: Decoy
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Crime wave (1954 ; 74 min.): "Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter"--Amazon.com.
Decoy (1946 ; 76 min.): "A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash"--Amazon.com.
539) Pulp fiction
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The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
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Consists of three classics film noir films: The red house featuring Edward G. Robinson, Frank Sinatra's Suddenly and the absolute film noir gem, Kansas City confidential with John Payne.
The red House: A farmer tries to keep the curious away and protect the secret of the sinister decaying old house deep in the woods.
Suddenly: A gang of hired assassins plans to murder the President, during his stopover in a small, sleepy town called Suddenly.
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