British Noir Movies

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

In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he...

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 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...

Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.

When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is...

A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.

Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling....

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

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

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

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

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who...

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

A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in...

A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.

In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her...

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)