Classic

Based on a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat (author of The Cruel Sea) and directed by Basil Dearden (The Blue Lamp, The League Of Gentleman) The Ship That Died Of Shame takes place during the bleak aftermath of the Second World War a crew of navy...

Universal Noir #2 - focusing on the celebrated film noir output of Universal Pictures - collects six crime classics from Hollywood's golden age. Starring the cream of US and British acting talent - including Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, Phyllis Calvert,...

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (Went the Day Well?, Dead of Night), They Made Me a Fugitive is a prime example of British film noir. Trevor Howard (Who?, The Missionary) plays Clem Morgan, an RAF officer during the war, now unemployed since...

Marlene Dietrich (Blonde Venus) took a break from her classic run of films with Josef von Sternberg to make The Song of Songs, an atmospheric romantic drama co-starring Brian Aherne (A Bullet Is Waiting) and Lionel Atwill (The Devil Is a Woman). Peasant...

Howard Hawks (Twentieth Century) made his first film for Columbia Pictures with this pre-Code prison movie. The great Walter Huston (Dragonwyck) stars as a district attorney-turned-prison warden who gets to witness first-hand the effects of his...

In the 18th century, Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) is forced into marriage with Prince George Louis (Peter Bull), an aristocrat destined to inherit the British crown. But after he becomes king, Sophie meets suave Swedish mercenary Count Philip...

The second film Howard Hawks (The Criminal Code) made at Columbia Pictures is among his greatest works. John Barrymore plays a theatre impresario down on his luck. Carole Lombard is his former protégé, now a major star. When the two meet by chance...

Frank Capra directs Spender Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in this classic satirical comedy. Tracy plays Grant Matthews, a prospective candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, backed by his mistress, newspaper mogul Kay Thorndyke (Angela...

Based upon a short ghost story by celebrated Russian author Alexander Pushkin, THE QUEEN OF SPADES is considered legendary filmmaker Thorold Dickinson's most accomplished piece of work. Starring Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes) and Dame Edith Evans...

THE SLEEPING TIGER is a 1954 British noir directed by Joseph Losey (under the credit of Victor Hanbury, due to his blacklisting in the McCarthy era). This was the first collaboration between Dirk Bogarde and Losey, marking the beginning of one of British...

Starring Vince Edwards (City of Fear) and Herschel Bernardi (The Front), Murder by Contract is a bleak investigation into the mind of a professional killer. Tasked with murdering a witness in a criminal trial, contract killer Claude has second thoughts...

Screen legends Ginger Rogers (Swing Time), Edward G Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking) and Brian Keith (5 Against the House) team up for this tense film noir drama. US attorney Lloyd Hallet offers gangster's moll Sherry Conley a deal - she will walk...

Six years after their success in film noir classic Gilda, Glenn Ford (The Undercover Man, Experiment in Terror) and Rita Hayworth (The Lady from Shanghai) reunited for Affair in Trinidad. When Caribbean nightclub dancer Chris learns that her husband has...

Broderick Crawford (The Undercover Man) goes up against the Mob in this exposé of underworld involvement in America's docklands. After failing to apprehend a cop-killer, Detective Johnny Damico must rescue his reputation by going undercover on the...

Edmund O'Brien (The Web) gets involved in the mob's bookmaking racket in 711 Ocean Drive, also starring Joanne Dru (Red River), and Otto Kruger (Escape in the Fog). Telephone operator Mal Granger uses his technical knowledge to run an illegal bookmaking...