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| 1 |  | Citizen Kane (1941) |  4.0000 157 reviews | PG | Drama, Mystery |
$18.26
| Newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his extravagant mansion, speaking a single word: ...more about Citizen Kane starring Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Comingore |
| 2 |  | Rebecca (1940) |  3.6061 32 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance |
$294.95
| A young woman is haunted by her new husband's dead wife, Rebecca. After a quick courtship and world ...more about Rebecca starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine |
| 3 |  | Maltese Falcon, The (1941) | 3.5377 71 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$14.92
| Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner ...more about Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor |
| 4 |  | Big Sleep, The (1946) | 3.3104 57 reviews | PG | Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$12.47
| Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye that is hired by the dying General Sternwood, a ...more about Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall |
| 5 |  | Laura (1944) | 3.2884 62 reviews | PG | Crime, Mystery, Romance, Film-Noir |
$6.59
| Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is investigating the murder of a famous advertising agent ...more about Laura starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews |
| 6 |  | Suspicion (1941) |  3.1664 35 reviews | NA | Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$7.99
| Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets ...more about Suspicion starring Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant |
| 7 |  | Detour (1945) | 3.1323 41 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$4.99
| In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. ...more about Detour starring Esther Howard and Ann Savage |
| 8 |  | And Then There Were None (1945) | 3.1173 17 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$3.00
| Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn't on the island. At ...more about And Then There Were None starring Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston |
| 9 |  | Mildred Pierce (1945) | 3.1115 45 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Film-Noir |
$12.71
| Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection. ...more about Mildred Pierce starring Joan Crawford and Jack Carson |
| 10 |  | Mask of Dimitrios, The (1944) | 3.0744 9 reviews | PG | Drama, Crime, Mystery | N/A | A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, ...more about Mask of Dimitrios starring Sydney Greenstreet and Zachary Scott |
| 11 |  | Dead of Night (1945) | 3.0715 31 reviews | NA | Horror, Mystery |
$19.91
| Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds ...more about Dead of Night starring Mervyn Johns and Roland Culver |
| 12 |  | Scarlet Street (1945) | 3.0507 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$5.00
| Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues ...more about Scarlet Street starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett |
| 13 |  | My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) | 2.9823 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir | N/A | Some sources cite this as an early example of British film noir, which is rather interesting since ...more about My Name Is Julia Ross starring Nina Foch and Dame May Whitty |
| 14 |  | Spiral Staircase, The (1946) | 2.9809 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Mystery |
$4.99
| Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, ...more about Spiral Staircase starring Dorothy McGuire and George Brent |
| 15 |  | Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) | 2.9527 25 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$13.34
| Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's ...more about Lady from Shanghai starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles |
| 16 |  | Portrait of Jennie (1948) | 2.9146 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance |
$9.99
| Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find ...more about Portrait of Jennie starring Lillian Gish and Jennifer Jones |
| 17 |  | Lured (1947) | 2.9118 7 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$19.95
| A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of ...more about Lured starring George Sanders and Lucille Ball |
| 18 |  | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) | 2.9017 11 reviews | NA | Thriller, Sci-Fi, Crime, Mystery |
$5.16
| Starting in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes rescues the inventor of a bomb-sight which the allies want ...more about Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce |
| 19 |  | Scared to Death (1947) | 2.8727 7 reviews | NA | Horror, Mystery |
$1.99
| From a slab in the morgue, a dead young woman tells the bizarre tale of how she got there, through ...more about Scared to Death starring Bela Lugosi and Roland Varno |
| 20 |  | My Favorite Brunette (1947) | 2.8688 13 reviews | NA | Mystery, Romance, Comedy |
$3.43
| Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: ...more about My Favorite Brunette starring Reginald Denny and Bob Hope |
| 21 |  | Canterbury Tale, A (1944) | 2.8644 27 reviews | NA | Drama, History, War, Mystery |
$27.95
| A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town ...more about Canterbury Tale starring Eric Portman and Sheila Sim |
| 22 |  | I Wake Up Screaming (1941) | 2.8635 14 reviews | NA | Mystery, Film-Noir |
$6.59
| Promoter Frankie Christopher, being grilled by police in the murder of model Vicky Lynn, recalls in ...more about I Wake Up Screaming starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature |
| 23 |  | Naked City, The (1948) | 2.8565 16 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$24.99
| Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, attractive blonde model, ...more about Naked City starring Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Duff |
| 24 |  | Invisible Man Returns, The (1940) | 2.8409 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$19.60
| Framed for the murder of his brother, Geoffrey Radcliffe is scheduled to hang. After a visit from ...more about Invisible Man Returns starring Cedric Hardwicke and Vincent Price |
| 25 |  | Stranger, The (1946) | 2.8368 24 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$1.99
| Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has ...more about Stranger starring Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young |
| 26 |  | Black Angel (1946) | 2.8100 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$8.89
| Kirk Bennett is falsely sentenced to death for killing blackmailer Mavis Marlowe, ex-wife of ...more about Black Angel starring Dan Duryea and June Vincent |
| 27 |  | Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) | 2.8086 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Comedy |
$37.01
| Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a day of leisure, but when they make a trip to the ...more about Shadow of the Thin Man starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 28 |  | Man with Nine Lives, The (1940) | 2.7700 9 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$4.79
| Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an ...more about Man with Nine Lives starring Boris Karloff and Roger Pryor |
| 29 |  | Seventh Victim, The (1943) |  2.7372 25 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Mystery |
$44.96
| Mary Gibson, a naive orphan, goes to Manhatten to find her missing sister Jacqueline. Her ...more about Seventh Victim starring Tom Conway and Jean Brooks |
| 30 |  | Isle of the Dead (1945) | 2.7363 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Mystery |
$12.71
| On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If ...more about Isle of the Dead starring Boris Karloff and Ellen Drew |
| 31 |  | Blue Dahlia, The (1946) | 2.7183 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir | N/A | When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend ...more about Blue Dahlia starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake |
| 32 |  | He Walked by Night (1948) | 2.7109 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$4.99
| When a police officer is gunned down by a man whom he had stopped to question, a city-wide dragnet ...more about He Walked by Night starring Richard Basehart and Scott Brady |
| 33 |  | Kid Glove Killer (1942) | 2.6921 5 reviews | PG | Drama, Crime, Mystery | N/A | First feature film from director Fred Zinneman is a snappy little "B" feature that features Van ...more about Kid Glove Killer starring Van Heflin and Marsha Hunt |
| 34 |  | Woman in Green, The (1945) | 2.6894 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Crime, Mystery |
$4.99
| Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death ...more about Woman in Green starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce |
| 35 |  | Dead Reckoning (1947) | 2.6834 18 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$13.34
| Rip Murdock and Johnny Darke are en route to Washington when Johnny disappears and then turns up ...more about Dead Reckoning starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott |
| 36 |  | Devil Bat, The (1940) | 2.6534 13 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Crime, Mystery, Comedy |
$2.87
| Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became ...more about Devil Bat starring Bela Lugosi and Suzanne Kaaren |
| 37 |  | Green for Danger (1946) | 2.6315 10 reviews | NA | Mystery |
$24.99
| In a rural English hospital during WW2, a postman dies on the operating table and the nurse states ...more about Green for Danger starring Sally Gray and Henry Edwards |
| 38 |  | Impact (1949) | 2.6300 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$6.99
| No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to ...more about Impact starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines |
| 39 |  | Terror by Night (1946) | 2.6261 12 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$3.99
| Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous ...more about Terror by Night starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce |
| 40 |  | Song of the Thin Man (1947) | 2.6118 6 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Comedy |
$37.01
| Nick and Nora Charles are attending a charity benefit aboard a gambling ship. The festive ...more about Song of the Thin Man starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 41 |  | Charlie Chan in Black Magic (1944) | 2.5981 6 reviews | NA | Mystery |
$5.99
| ...more about Charlie Chan in Black Magic starring Sidney Toler and Joseph Crehan |
| 42 |  | Ghost Ship, The (1943) | 2.5946 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$44.96
| Tom Merriam signs on the ship Altair as third officer under Captain Stone. At first things look ...more about Ghost Ship starring Richard Dix and Russell Wade |
| 43 |  | Between Two Worlds (1944) | 2.5630 6 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | N/A | Several people are killed in a London air raid. They each awake aboard a strange ship which will ...more about Between Two Worlds starring John Garfield and Paul Henreid |
| 44 |  | Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945) | 2.5376 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Comedy, Family |
$37.01
| Nick and Nora Charles return home to spend time with Nick's family. But Daddy isn't pround of Nick ...more about Thin Man Goes Home starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 45 | | Just Before Dawn (1946) | 2.5113 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery | N/A | In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner ...more about Just Before Dawn starring Warner Baxter and Adele Roberts |
| 46 |  | Fingers at the Window (1942) | 2.5113 3 reviews | NA | Thriller, Mystery, Comedy, Film-Noir | N/A | The City of Chicago is gripped by an Axe Murderer. The streets are empty at night as there has been ...more about Fingers at the Window starring Lew Ayres and Laraine Day |
| 47 | | Grand Central Murder (1942) | 2.5113 3 reviews | NA | Mystery, Film-Noir | N/A | A convict being escorted in for retrial escapes at Grand Central and threatens his old girlfriend ...more about Grand Central Murder starring Van Heflin and Patricia Dane |
| 48 |  | Tall in the Saddle (1944) | 2.4985 5 reviews | NA | Western, Mystery, Romance |
$6.84
| When a stranger arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been ...more about Tall in the Saddle starring John Wayne and Ella Raines |
| 49 |  | Jade Mask, The (1945) | 2.4766 5 reviews | NA | Mystery |
$4.86
| Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab, secret ...more about Jade Mask starring Sidney Toler and Edwin Luke |
| 50 | | Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940) | 2.4702 6 reviews | NA | Mystery | N/A | A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and ...more about Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum starring Sidney Toler and C. Henry Gordon |
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