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Force of Evil (1948)

Summary: An unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Abraham Polonsky

Writers: Abraham Polonsky

, Ira Wolfert

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Enterprise Productions, Roberts Pictures Inc.

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Favorite Attractions, Mundus Television, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), Republic Pictures Home Video, Paramount Television, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Olive Films, The Criterion Channel, Worldvision Enterprises

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 948,000

International: $ 217,000

Call Northside 777 (1948)

Summary: Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Henry Hathaway

Writers: Jerome Cady

, Jay Dratler

, Leonard Hoffman

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)

Summary: John Blandish is worth $100 million. His heiress daughter is soon to be wed to Foster Harvey, who believes she's a cold, unfeeling woman, despite loving her. Her cold emotional state is in large part due to leading a restricted li...

Release Date: April 15, 1948

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: St. John Legh Clowes

Writers: James Hadley Chase

, St. John Legh Clowes

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Tudor-Alliance

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, VCI Entertainment, Sinister Cinema

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Naked City (1948)

Summary: A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.

Release Date: March 04, 1948

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Jules Dassin

Writers: Albert Maltz

, Malvin Wald

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mark Hellinger Productions, Universal International Pictures (UI)

Distributor: Distributors Corporation of America (DCA), Screen Gems, The Roan Group, Kino Video, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, YouTube

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,400,000

He Walked by Night (1948)

Summary: This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Directors: Alfred L. Werker

, Anthony Mann

Writers: John C. Higgins

, Crane Wilbur

, Harry Essex

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Bryan Foy Productions

Distributor: Kino International, Lumivision, Alpha Video Distributors, MGM Home Entertainment, Reel Media International, Film Detective, Classic Flix, Netflix, Stream Go Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Road House (1948)

Summary: A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

Release Date: November 04, 1948

Genres: Action, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Jean Negulesco

Writers: Edward Chodorov

, Margaret Gruen

, Oscar Saul

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: National Telefilm Associates (NTA), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

Summary: While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and attempts to prevent it.

Release Date: September 24, 1948

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Director: Anatole Litvak

Writer: Lucille Fletcher

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Hal Wallis Productions

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

They Live by Night (1948)

Summary: An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

Release Date: November 05, 1949

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Romance

Director: Nicholas Ray

Writers: Charles Schnee

, Nicholas Ray

, Edward Anderson

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, Vértice 360, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 808,397

The Dark Past (1948)

Summary: An escaped psychopathic killer who takes the family and neighbors of police psychologist hostage reveals a recurring nightmare to the doctor.

Release Date: April 25, 1949

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Director: Rudolph Maté

Writers: Malvin Wald

, Oscar Saul

, Philip MacDonald

Runtime: 1 h 13 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Television, Sony Pictures Television International

Country: United States

Language: English

The Hunted (1948)

Summary: Despite her pleas of innocence, an honest cop arrests his own girlfriend for her alleged part in a jewel robbery and he keeps hounding her after her release from prison, even though he still loves her.

Release Date: April 07, 1948

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Jack Bernhard

Writer: Steve Fisher

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Passed

Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 400,000

Raw Deal (1948)

Summary: Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Raymond Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him.

Release Date: May 26, 1948

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Anthony Mann

Writers: Leopold Atlas

, John C. Higgins

, Arnold B. Armstrong

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Edward Small Productions, Reliance Pictures

Distributor: Eagle-Lion Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Crossfire (1947)

Summary: A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?

Release Date: August 15, 1947

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Writers: John Paxton

, Richard Brooks

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, Image Entertainment, Turner Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Boomerang! (1947)

Summary: The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

Release Date: February 28, 1947

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Elia Kazan

Writers: Richard Murphy

, Fulton Oursler

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,140,000

Body and Soul (1947)

Summary: A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.

Release Date: November 11, 1947

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir, Sport

Director: Robert Rossen

Writer: Abraham Polonsky

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Enterprise Productions

Distributor: Favorite Attractions, Mundus Television, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), NTA Home Entertainment, Republic Pictures Home Video, Artisan Entertainment, Olive Films, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Summary: Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

Release Date: April 14, 1948

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Orson Welles

Writers: Sherwood King

, Orson Welles

, William Castle

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mercury Productions

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures Television, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Columbia Tristar Television Distribution, Columbia TriStar Domestic Television, Sony Pictures Television, Sony Pictures Television International, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,300,000

Out of the Past (1947)

Summary: A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Writers: Daniel Mainwaring

, James M. Cain

, Frank Fenton

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: C&C Television Corporation, Image Entertainment, Turner Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Nightmare Alley (1947)

Summary: The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

Release Date: October 28, 1947

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Edmund Goulding

Writers: Jules Furthman

, William Lindsay Gresham

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Brute Force (1947)

Summary: At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Jules Dassin

Writers: Richard Brooks

, Robert Patterson

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Mark Hellinger Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Distributors Corporation of America (DCA), Screen Gems, The Roan Group, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Kino Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Kiss of Death (1947)

Summary: A crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Henry Hathaway