Drama

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The Accused

The Accused

Drama · Thriller · Film Noir

The story of a woman’s successful self-defense during a struggle which leads to the death of her attacker.

Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal

Drama · Film Noir · Crime

Joseph Foster is an honest district attorney who wants to run for governor in order to clean up the criminal underworld. Blocked by corrupt political forces, Foster would practically have to make a deal with the Devil to reach his goal.

All My Sons

All My Sons

Drama · Film Noir

All My Sons is a wartime tragedy of a family torn apart and forced to come to terms with their inner demons.

Among the Living

Among the Living

Film Noir · Drama · Thriller

A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.

Back Street (1941)

Back Street (1941)

Romance · Drama

Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his “back street” woman upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.

Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun

War · Thriller · Drama

An American newspaperman working in Tokyo prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, finds himself in possession of an enemy plan for world domination. Amidst political intrigue and crossed loyalties, he must now find a way to warn the outside world.

Body and Soul (Special Edition)

Body and Soul (Special Edition)

Drama · Sports · Film Noir

A strong-willed young prizefighter whose ruthless quest for a shot at the title forces him to mortgage his humanity to a corrupt boxing syndicate.

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

Drama · Film Noir

When a journalist winds up dead while investigating gang-related murders, Ida Arnold sets out to find the truth. On the trail of the true murderer, she becomes romantically involved with young hoodlum Pinke Brown ...but unbeknownst to Ida, Pinkie is the very murderer she's looking for!

China

China

War · Drama

An American gasoline salesman in 1941 China, joins a band of guerrillas on a daring heist.

Cobra Woman (Special Edition)

Cobra Woman (Special Edition)

Adventure · Romance · Drama

After Ramu discovers that his fiancée Tollea has been kidnapped by a lost tribe and taken to a Pacific isle, he and his friend Kado set out across the seas to find her. They soon discover that the island paradise is ruled by Tollea’s evil twin Naja, the Cobra Woman, who commands all str…

Corridor of Mirrors

Corridor of Mirrors

Drama · Mystery

An artist obsessed with the past surrounds himself with Renaissance artwork, infatuated with the notion that he and his lover are reincarnations of the lovers in a centuries-old painting.

The Damned

The Damned

War · Drama · World Cinema

Set during the closing days of WWII this gritty, claustrophobic mix of Film Noir and psychological suspense follows the doomed escape of a group of Nazi's as they flee for South America aboard a submarine hoping to evade their fate in Europe

Dead of Night (4KUHD)

Dead of Night (4KUHD)

Horror · 4K UHD DISC · Thriller

A group of strangers, mysteriously gathered at an isolated country estate, recount chilling tales of the supernatural.

The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat

Horror · Drama · Cult

Bela Lugosi stars as a scientist who commands a mutant bat to avenge himself upon his enemies (using a specially formulated after-shave lotion as the targeting device). Even as he takes diabolical pleasure in such a ludicrous premise, Lugosi invests the character with an underlying sense of tragedy,…

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema III [Abandoned / The Lady Gambles / The Sleeping City]

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema III [Abandoned / The Lady Gambles / The Sleeping City]

Crime · Drama · Film Noir

This collection features three film noir classics.

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV [Calcutta / An Act of Murder / Six Bridges to Cross]

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV [Calcutta / An Act of Murder / Six Bridges to Cross]

Crime · Drama · Film Noir

This collection features three film noir classics.

For Whom the Bells Tolls (Special Edition)

For Whom the Bells Tolls (Special Edition)

War · Drama · History

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

MOM AND DAD (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE    Volume 1)

MOM AND DAD (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE    Volume 1)

Drama

In the 75 years since its initial release, Kroger Babb’s Mom and Dad has achieved mythical cinematic status. It was a film that, during the height of the Production Code, not only dared to address issues of venereal disease and unexpected pregnancy but presented graphic footage of bodies scarr…

She Should'a Said 'NO'!/Devil's Sleep (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 6)

She Should'a Said 'NO'!/Devil's Sleep (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 6)

Drama · Exploitation

“She Should’a Said ‘NO’!” stars Lila Leeds as a party girl recruited by a hard-boiled cop to take down the sinister dope-pusher responsible for the addiction and death of her brother. George Weiss loaded his gymnasium pill-mill thriller "Devil’s Sleep" with three …

Test Tube Babies/Guilty Parents (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures, Vol. 7)

Test Tube Babies/Guilty Parents (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures, Vol. 7)

Drama

Cathy and George seem like the perfect postwar American couple, but a medical deficiency deprives them of the children that will complete their happy home.

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Film Noir · Romance · Drama

Jay Gatsby works his way from poor fisherman to extravagant Long Island millionaire and then risks it all to woo back his former love.

Hangmen Also Die

Hangmen Also Die

War · Thriller · Drama

Beautifully shot by James Wong Howe and tightly scripted by Brecht and Lang in their only collaboration, this noir-like espionage thriller is set in occupied Czechoslovakia and revolves around the successful plot by the Czech resistance to assassinate Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia "H…

The Hour Before the Dawn

The Hour Before the Dawn

War · Thriller · Drama

A beautiful Austrian refugee marries a scholarly English pacifist. But what neither he nor anyone else suspects is that she is actually a Nazi agent, and her main concern is finding the location of a secret airfield in order to help Hitler’s planned invasion.

I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone

Drama · Thriller · Film Noir

Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) returns to New York after 14 years in prison. Noll Turner (Kirk Douglas), Frankie's former partner in bootlegging, is now a wealthy nightclub manager, and Frankie intends to collect his half of the nightclub's profits.

Immensee/The Great Sacrifice

Immensee/The Great Sacrifice

Drama

Immensee stars Kristina Söderbaum as Elisabeth, a woman in love with Reinhardt, a brillian

It Always Rains on Sunday

It Always Rains on Sunday

Drama · Thriller · Film Noir

An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, despite her moving on to have a new family.

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow

Drama

What would happen if someone could get tomorrow's newspaper headlines today? This charming comedy tells the story of a turn of the century newspaper reporter (Dick Powell) who wishes he could scoop his colleagues by knowing about events before they occur. This sparkling black and white film was mast…

Kiss the Blood off My Hands

Kiss the Blood off My Hands

Drama · Film Noir · Crime

After killing a man in a bar fight, a former POW flees the scene and manages to find cover in the home of a nurse. But a racketeer who witnessed the murder threatens to turn him into the police unless he agrees to assist in a crime.

Larceny

Larceny

Drama · Film Noir · Crime

A smooth-talking grifter tries to swindle a wealthy war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial but winds up falling in love with her instead.

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

Drama

A would-be writer’s dissatisfaction with life leads to a self-destructive three-day binge.

Love Letters

Love Letters

Romance · Drama · Mystery

Love Letters is a romantic film noir about a lovely, trusting young woman who suffers from amnesia after her husband’s violent death.

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan

Drama · Film Noir

A New York gangster is unwillingly drafted into the army and deserts but becomes patriotic when he stumbles upon foreign spies bent on stealing American military secrets.

Macbeth (Special Edition)

Macbeth (Special Edition)

Drama · History

Orson Welles adapts, produces, directs and stars as the titular Scottish lord who is tragically undone by his own vaulting ambition.

Man-Eater of Kumaon

Man-Eater of Kumaon

Thriller · Drama · Action

A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts their native customs and beliefs.

Monsieur Vincent

Monsieur Vincent

Historic Drama · Drama · World Cinema

Monsieur Vincent is a compassionate and beautiful film about the remarkably selfless life of Saint Vincent de Paul, who devoted his life to caring for the poor and the sick, through poverty and plague.

Munchhausen

Munchhausen

Adventure · Comedy · Drama

Starring hypnotic, blond superstar Hans Albers, this lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting, and a rich color palette.

Never Fear

Never Fear

Noir · Drama

Carol Williams is a beautiful young dancer whose body, and promising career, is suddenly crippled by polio. Carol’s dance partner and fiancé, Guy Richards, wants to see her through her illness, but the angry, self-pitying Carol prefers to go it alone.

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

Drama

Based on Charles Dickens’s classic novel, Nicholas Nickleby tells the story of the eponymous young hero and his attempts to save his family and friends from the clutches of his greedy Uncle Ralph.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Drama · Thriller · Film Noir

When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancé Elliott Carson probes her relationship to stage mentalist John Triton.

The North Star / Armored Attack

The North Star / Armored Attack

Romance · War · Drama

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.

Not Wanted

Not Wanted

Drama

In Ida Lupino's directorial debut Not Wanted, young and naive "unwed mother" Sally Forrest's life spirals out of control after her musician beau (Leo Penn) ditches her for an out-of-town gig, despite the presence of another man (Keefe Brasselle) determined to win her heart.

O.S.S.

O.S.S.

War · Drama · Thriller

A cunning captain (Alan Ladd) of an O.S.S. team is sent undercover into Nazi-occupied France to blow up a railway tunnel.

The Outlaw

The Outlaw

Western · Comedy · Drama

The Outlaw follows the friendship of Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel, Rose of Cimarron) and fellow outlaw Doc Holliday (Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), as they both pursue the affections of Holliday's girlfriend, Rio (Jane Russell), while being chased through the desert by Sheriff Pat G…

Paracelsus

Paracelsus

Drama · World Cinema · Biography

A physician, alchemist, and spiritual guru, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. And, like its subject, this 1943 film is shrouded in mystery, even though it was  directed by one of the supreme stylists of the German cinema: G.W. Pabst.

Les Parents Terribles (The Storm Within)

Les Parents Terribles (The Storm Within)

Drama · World Cinema

A rediscovered classic by director Jean Cocteau. When Michel, who's 22, tells his parents he is in love, his parents are distressed by the declaration for different reasons.

Port of Freedom

Port of Freedom

Drama · World Cinema

Under the direction of Helmut Käutner (Black Gravel), German heartthrob Hans Albers stars as Hannes, a former sailor who now works as an entertainer, playing his accordion in the streets and cabarets of the garish red light district of Hamburg.

The Queen of Spades (Special Edition)

The Queen of Spades (Special Edition)

Horror · Drama

A gambling craze is sweeping 19th-century St. Petersburg, yet a dashing Russian army captain is too impoverished to participate. But when he learns that an aging countess may hold the ultimate key to gambling riches, the desperate young officer will stop at nothing to steal the sinister secret for h…

Saigon

Saigon

Drama · Thriller · Film Noir

After World War II, Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike is terminally-ill. In order to finance one last wild trip for his friend, he accepts a lucrative flying job from a crooked profiteer. 

Sands of Iwo Jima (4KUHD)

Sands of Iwo Jima (4KUHD)

Action · War · Drama

Feared by many and hated by all, Marine Sgt. John Stryker’s training is soon put to the test in a full-scale assault against the Japanese on Iwo Jima—an infamous battle that will live forever in one of cinema’s most iconic scenes, the flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi.

Scarlet Street (4KUHD)

Scarlet Street (4KUHD)

Drama · 4K UHD DISC · Film Noir

When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett) from the rain slicked gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, and revenge. SCARLET STREET is Fritz Lang's 1945 remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 …

Secret Beyond the Door (Special Edition)

Secret Beyond the Door (Special Edition)

Thriller · Drama · Film Noir

Celia, a bored heiress meets a mysterious architect named Mark. They fall in love and are soon married and settled into Mark’s New England estate, where Celia finds herself seemingly suffocating within the terrifying confines of her husband’s mansion.

Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners

Adventure · Romance · Comedy

Deported from every South Sea island on which she has ever performed, sexy saloon singer Bijou Blanche uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

The Shepherd of the Hills

The Shepherd of the Hills

Adventure · Western · Drama

Burdened from boyhood by a family tragedy, a hillbilly moonshiner's life is driven by the need to avenge his mother’s abandonment by an uncaring father.

So Evil My Love

So Evil My Love

Drama · Film Noir · Crime

In the late 19th century, an English widow falls hopelessly in love with a charming-but-dangerous criminal who’s renting a room in her boarding house, and soon descends into a life of crime.

So Proudly We Hail

So Proudly We Hail

Romance · War · Drama

Claudette Colbert shines as Lt. Janet Davidson, in charge of nine nurses serving in the Pacific. From the bombing of Pearl Harbor to the time they are shipped home, these extraordinary women tirelessly treat the wounded despite constant reminders of danger, romance and heartbreak.

The Southerner

The Southerner

Drama

After achieving worldwide acclaim for such films as La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game, French filmmaker Jean Renoir wrote and directed this adaptation of George Sessions Perrys novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand. The story follows the struggles of an idealistic farmer (Zachary Scott) trying t…

The Spider Woman Strikes Back

The Spider Woman Strikes Back

Horror · Drama · Thriller

A caretaker discovers that her employer, aided by a hideously deformed household servant has used the blood of her predecessors to create a death serum when it is mixed with spider venom—and that her own blood is now being harvested at night, while she is in a drugged sleep, to continue the ex…

The Stranger

The Stranger

Spies · Drama · Thriller

In the Academy Award-nominated THE STRANGER, legendary director Orson Welles delved into the suspense film, crafting a baroque postwar thriller that drew upon the style of his previous work, while laying the groundwork for his later film noir classics. Edward G. Robinson stars as a government agent …

Strangers in the House (aka Les Inconnus dans la Maison)

Strangers in the House (aka Les Inconnus dans la Maison)

Drama · Mystery · Crime

Raimu is brilliant as the alcoholic ex-attorney Hector Loursat, disillusioned with life and living with his daughter, Nicole, in a vast and shabby mansion. One night, they hear gunshots echoing from upstairs and discover a dead man lying on an old bed in the attic.

The Suspect

The Suspect

Drama · Thriller · Film Noir

An unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action.