British Noir Movies

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections...

A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go...

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...

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the...

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...

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...

An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who...

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 novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the...

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

When crime journalist Lee McKenzie finds his wife murdered, he uncovers a twisted mystery that forces him to confront his past.

A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in...

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.

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

A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.

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...

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)

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

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