Los Angeles film noir (1933-53)

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

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

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...

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

A man is told he has only a week to live after doctors found he is suffering from a deadly luminous toxin with no antidote. He had...

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

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,...

Nicholas Lawrence, a young stockbroker, embezzles a million dollars worth of cash and stock, planning to flee to Shanghai. En...

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...

Bill Bailey is a Los Angeles bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up...

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

Police procedural film following a few cases assigned to LAPD captain of detectives Barney Barnaby.

A well-planned robbery goes awry, with tough cop Cordell in pursuit.