Noir & noir-ish

Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.

Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on Billie jeopardizes her plans.

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf; then meets a tall dark man Alexis, who seems to know all about such things.

A detective falls in love with the diamonds--and the girlfriend--of a thief he's pursuing.

Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.

A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.

When a brutal police detective Lt. murders a bookmaker's runner for $25,000 in cash, a deaf mute sees him do it and now he finds he must kill again to cover his tracks.

An invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.

An FBI agent investigates the murder of his partner by taking over the 3 cases he was working on, determined to find his killer.

A successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.

An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may have committed murder.

The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

A married movie studio executive's life starts to unravel when he is stalked by a seductively beautiful woman he claims he does not know.

When a reporter helps his girlfriend murder her rich husband, an innocent man gets the blame and faces execution.

Johnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force. In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way. Will Johnny be next in line?

A reserved professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder.

The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

Convict Johnny is forced to participate in a prison break by fellow inmate Matt. They escape and separate. Johnny falls for waitress Hope and hides in a roadhouse where he thwarts a hold-up. But soon Matt shows up - ready to use his gun.

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

A party girl is murdered, and everyone at a Utah motel is a suspect.

A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.

Intolerant of the weaknesses of others, especially those closest to him, an ego-driven aspiring physician comes to grips with his own imperfections.

A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.