British Noir Movies

Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio...

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)

In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling...

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great...

Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover,...

A motorist picks up to escaped convicts. Instead of turning them over to the police he hires them to kill his wife.

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

Anne Maitland, a female lawyer, receives an unexpected late-night visit from ex-boyfriend Guy Ransome. She agrees to let him sleep on the sofa but he...

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas...

A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in...

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.

A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.

Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and...