Movies: British noir

A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies. Before he can do this, he is murdered. His niece (Gyn...

Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder....

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl....

Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for ...

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

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

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

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

Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing....

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

Nightclub employee Joan Foster (Kay Callard) assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring....

A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter....

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 phone box. Though her recollection is vague, she volunteers to act as bait for the killer – telling the press t...

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

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 killing....

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 attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn ...

A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts....

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

Janet Miller (Lana Morris) is a married woman caught in awkward circumstances after police investigating a murder come up with evidence, and a potentially lethal motive, which lead them to suspect her of committing the crime. Their suspicions increas...

In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomplices disguised as German jewelers to see the boss...