Los Angeles film noir (1933-53)

En gammal general upptäcker att hans dotter är utsatt för utpressning. Han anlitar privatdetektiven Philip Marlowe och snart är...

Joe Gillis är en ung filmmanusförfattare med ekonomiska bekymmer. Av en slump träffar han den f.d. stumfilmsstjärnan Norma...

A wife convinces her husband to fake his death so they can collect on the life insurance. However, he doesn't know that she has...

A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los...

Den psykopatiske Cody Jarrett är gangsterledare. Efter ett tågrån överlämnar han sig själv till polisen för tidigare brott, för...

Roy "Mad Dog" Earle bryts ut ur fängelse av en gammal bekant, som vill ha hjälp med ett rån. När rånet sedan går snett och en man...

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in this gripping film noir from Academy Award-winning director Billy Wilder. A...

Polisen Dave Bannion undersöker ett självmord som visar sig ha kopplingar till korruption på hög nivå. Hans fru omkommer av en...

Janet Spencer (Linda Stirling) has a blow-out and walks into the Armstrong Chemical Company to ask John Armstrong (Tristram Coffin...

A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and...

A woman who heads a sportswear manufacturing company is found dead. Although it is ruled a suicide, the police detective in charge...

A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line.

LA ex-cop Vince Kane is a bail-bondsman who bails out the suspect of a securities bonds robbery but his client disappears,...

2 people - a middle-aged stockbroker and a young widow are passengers on the same flight from California to Hawaii. For different...

A private detective is approached by a wealthy entertainment executive to stop a blackmail scheme against him. Although he hasn't...

Newspaperman helps girl find her sister's illegitimate baby, gets mixed up in baby-adoption racket.

An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal...

The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the...

A man believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one who actually killed her using...

A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.