british noir
106 movies and shows
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Fri, 28 Dec 2018
In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
The Man Between
Wed, 18 Nov 1953
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
No Trace
Fri, 08 Sep 1950
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
Hell Drivers
Tue, 23 Jul 1957
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Footsteps in the Fog
Wed, 14 Sep 1955
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
The Criminal
Tue, 13 Sep 1960
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
The Good Die Young
Tue, 02 Mar 1954
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Mon, 01 Dec 1952
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
Brighton Rock
Fri, 09 Jan 1948
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
Corridor of Mirrors
Mon, 23 Feb 1948
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
The Lodger
Wed, 19 Jan 1944
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
Sat, 30 Oct 1948
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.
The Blue Lamp
Thu, 19 Jan 1950
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Odd Man Out
Thu, 30 Jan 1947
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
They Drive by Night
Thu, 01 Dec 1938
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
Blind Date
Sat, 01 Aug 1959
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
The Saint's Return
Mon, 12 Oct 1953
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Good-Time Girl
Wed, 28 Apr 1948
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
The Upturned Glass
Tue, 17 Jun 1947
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
The Sleeping Tiger
Mon, 21 Jun 1954
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.