Best Film-Noir Movies of the 1950s

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  Sunset Blvd. (1950)

  Passed

  Drama, Film-Noir

  1h50

  8.499%

  A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

  Director

  • Billy Wilder

  Cast

  • William Holden
  • Gloria Swanson
  • Erich von Stroheim
  • Nancy Olson

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  The Killing (1956)

  Approved

  Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

  1h24

  8.098%

  Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

  Director

  • Stanley Kubrick

  Cast

  • Sterling Hayden
  • Coleen Gray
  • Vince Edwards
  • Jay C. Flippen

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  The Night of the Hunter (1955)

  Not Rated

  Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

  1h32

  8.095%

  A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

  Director

  • Charles Laughton

  Cast

  • Robert Mitchum
  • Shelley Winters
  • Lillian Gish
  • James Gleason

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  Touch of Evil (1958)

  PG-13

  Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

  1h35

  8.095%

  A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.

  Director

  • Orson Welles

  Cast

  • Charlton Heston
  • Orson Welles
  • Janet Leigh
  • Joseph Calleia

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  Strangers on a Train (1951)

  PG

  Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

  1h41

  7.998%

  A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.

  Director

  • Alfred Hitchcock

  Cast

  • Farley Granger
  • Robert Walker
  • Ruth Roman
  • Leo G. Carroll

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