British Noir Movies

An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a...

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.

An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.

A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically...

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

When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady who witnessed the kidnapper using a public...

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays...

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 the small town of Quaint, Bruce Levin (Adam Templar) owns a respectable B&B establishment. Sleeping around with various women behind his wife's...

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

After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.

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

A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the...

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

Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.

Paul Banner, a "noozeman" of the Daily Comet in England, is an American working in England. He happens on a murder that leads him on a complicated...

Janet Miller (Lana Morris) is a married woman caught in awkward circumstances after police investigating a murder come up with evidence, and a...

A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.