Wikipedia's List of Film Noir: Classic American noir, 1957-1959
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- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsJohn CassavetesRaymond BurrSara ShaneSongwriter falls in love with a crippled man's wife.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsMickey RooneyCarolyn JonesCedric HardwickeGeorge "Babyface" Nelson became one of the most important gangsters of 1930's Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone, he allied himself with John Dillinger.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsRichard ConteDianne FosterKathryn GrantA retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDan DuryeaJayne MansfieldMartha VickersDan Duryea and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City.
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsBrian KeithBeverly GarlandDick ForanIn Chicago, a crime syndicate tries to take over a labor union by killing its whistle blower treasurer and framing the honest union boss for the murder.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsBarbara StanwyckSterling HaydenRaymond BurrKathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
- DirectorVincent ShermanRobert AldrichStarsLee J. CobbKerwin MathewsGia ScalaThe struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.
- DirectorHugo HaasStarsCleo MooreHugo HaasVince EdwardsA mechanic wants his boss's younger wife for himself, and plans on using a junkyard car to run him over, then dismantling it.
- DirectorRussell RouseStarsJack PalanceHarold J. StoneEdward PlattSan Quentin prison inmate Arnie Judlow asks his twin brother Bill and his wife Ruth to assist him in a daring escape plan.
- DirectorVictor SavilleGeorge WhiteStarsRobert BrayWhitney BlakeDonald RandolphPrivate eye Mike Hammer passes over beautiful women and corpses to find stolen jewels.
- DirectorAbner BibermanStarsRay DantonColleen MillerMerry AndersA mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Realizing that he can't handle the pressures of big-city life, and not wanting to commit the kinds of crimes that got him put away in the first place, he hops a bus heading out of the city and winds up in a small coastal town. Taking a room in a small motel, he falls for the daughter of the motel's owner, and everything seems to be going well for him, until the girl's father starts to get suspicious about his past.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsAldo RayAnne BancroftBrian KeithThrough a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.
- DirectorHubert CornfieldStarsGene RaymondJeanne CooperWayne MorrisFive men rob a train in Utah of 10 million dollars in gold and head to Los Angeles in 3 trucks hoping to meet up with their beautiful accomplice and leave the country.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsPhilip CareyBetty GarrettJohn Drew BarrymoreThree young thugs rob a farmhouse, kill the owner and take his stenographer hostage but the woman's estranged husband, a police detective, starts investigating her disappearance.
- DirectorJames CagneyStarsWilliam BishopRobert IversGeorgann JohnsonA hired killer's latest contract goes awry when he's paid with stolen money and finds himself embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with those who hired him.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsRichard EganJan SterlingDan DuryeaA brave longshoreman lingers on after being gunned down by 3 racketeers, as a determined assistant D.A. searches hard for fearful witnesses against the men.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsBurt LancasterTony CurtisSusan HarrisonPowerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJeff ChandlerJeanne CrainJack CarsonAfter top lawyer James Blane gets an acquittal for Michael Reston who killed another man for sexually roughing up his trophy wife, the murderous town sheriff frames him for bribing a juror in the case.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsJune KenneyFay SpainJohn BrinkleyA delinquent girls' gang pursues a nice ingenue linked romantically to the male leader of a rival gang, and apparently to the murder of one of their members.
- DirectorRichard CarlsonStarsGeorge NaderJoanna MooreBrian KeithGeorge Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when he is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDarren McGavinMargaret HayesWarren StevensFact-based story of a rookie cop who takes on a crime syndicate involved in corrupting government officials in Brooklyn, New York.
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsJames MasonRod SteigerInger StevensDuped by former Army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time-bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb-threats to extort money from airlines.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsSusan HaywardSimon OaklandVirginia VincentA prostitute sentenced to death for murder pleads her innocence.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsEli WallachRobert KeithRichard JaeckelIn San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried to the U. S. by unsuspecting overseas travelers.
- DirectorIrving LernerStarsVince EdwardsPhillip PineHerschel BernardiClaude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.