British Noir Movies

A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.

A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.

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

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 woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

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

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

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...

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

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.

A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.

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

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

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...

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...

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)

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

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...