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Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eddie Muller--host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur--takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark city" of film noir in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore.
Publisher
Reel Art Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With its singular focus on the very best portrait photography of the 1940s and 1950s Hollywood film noir era, every page of this coffee-table volume is rich in brooding atmosphere. The portraits gathered here, of actors such as Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Gene Tierney, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Jack Palance, Joan Crawford and Richard Widmark, were taken by premier studio...
3) Born to kill
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 2
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A classic film noir featuring a cold-hearted killer named Sam Wild who kills two innocent people and actively pursues the woman who finds the bodies, all while being married to the woman's half-sister.
Helen Brent knows Sam Wild is more than a social climber who married her wealthy foster sister. He's a remorseless killer. And yet she finds his brash confidence, square-shouldered good looks and constant aura of menace completely irresistible.
4) Sudden fear
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy lady playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to kill her.
5) Detour
Series
Criterion collection volume 966
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run.
6) Body heat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.
Series
Fox film noir volume 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Reed confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague he must find and inoculate the killers.
8) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Videos
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.
Series
Criterion collection volume 880
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America s outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent life...
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
11) The killing
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Clay has a plan. After spending 5 years in Alcatraz, he decides that if he's going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment. He then proceeds to mastermind a brilliant criminal scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a local racetrack in which "no one will get hurt."
Killer's kiss: Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the...
12) Blast of silence
Series
Criterion collection volume 428
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron's New York City noir film is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball details of urban living and the imposing beauty of the city. At once visually ragged and artfully composed, and featuring rough, poetic narration...
13) Ministry of fear
Series
Criterion collection volume 649
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
14) Brick
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Description
Brendan Frye is a loner, someone who always knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determined to find the 'who' and 'why'.
15) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
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