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the sound of your racing heart

So cute and clever.
My password is password.

i was gonna watch Frankenstein tomorrow, i think.
as for this month, well it's Noirvember tho, isn't it?
the sound of your racing heart

It was the only Val Lewton horror I hadn't watched, so I corrected that right before Halloween. Great film! I'm intentionally watching lighter things so far this month… other than Frankenstein of course
"Praise be to Allah." - President Donald J. Trump, Easter Sunday 04/05/2026

YES, i would call this horror noir in my books and it's one of my favs!!
the sound of your racing heart

Does this count? It's borderline, but I think the first half qualifies at least!
"Praise be to Allah." - President Donald J. Trump, Easter Sunday 04/05/2026

Here is another one that people tend to forget.
This is one of my all time faves!
Leave Her To Heaven….
Full Movie!!!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night!

YES i watched it earlier this year (before i made this thread) and i agree, it's really really good. very dreamlike, well, nightmarish even and i second your recommendation here. it's a must see.
the sound of your racing heart

I just watched this one again! It's been years!
If you haven't seen it, this is a MUST in Film Noir…
Here's the movie!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night!

Body and Soul
(Robert Rossen, 1947) 8/10 rewatch
Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he wins fight after fight, but soon an unethical promoter named Roberts begins to show an interest in Charley, and Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
stars: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, Joseph Pevney
writer: Abraham Polonsky
suck it.

Sin City
My password is password.

Yes, not the usual obnoxiously cutie child actress. I loved her in The Curse of the Cat People. So believable as a regular kid.
If you can’t say something nice, say something clever but devastating.

yes, and also child actress Ann Carter left quite the mark here.
the sound of your racing heart

I love The Two Mrs. Carrolls. Stanwyck was, as ever, terrific. Bogart was creepy.
If you can’t say something nice, say something clever but devastating.

Dark Passage
(Delmer Daves, 1947) 8/10 rewatch
Vincent Parry has just escaped from prison after being locked up for a crime he did not commit - murdering his wife. On the outside, Vincent finds that his face is betraying him, literally, so he finds a plastic surgery to give him new features. After getting a ride out of town from a stranger, Vincent crosses paths with a young woman who lets him stay in her apartment while he heals and continues to try and clear his name.
stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead, Clifton Young
writer: Delmer Daves | orig. novel: David Goodis
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
(Peter Godfrey, 1947) 7/10 rewatch
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn’t tell her he’s already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
stars: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom, Ann Carter
writer: Thomas Job | orig. play: Marguerite Veiller
the sound of your racing heart

i have seen this, yes. in fact, i remember it was one of the very first classic films i've ever seen in my life and therefore has a special place in my heart. i rewatched it then last year and it hold up just well. the film was shot on location in the streets of Berlin with all these ruins and destroyed buildings and streets being all real which makes it one of the most realistic anti/war films ever put on film. Hildegard Knef became a huge German film star afterwards, too.
the sound of your racing heart

@Sophienoire
Have you seen Muderers Among Us (1946)? It’s a German film originally titled Die Mörder sind unter uns. Although Susanne Wallner looks pretty healthy for a concentration camp survivor, it’s a really good story. Cinematography is grim and grimy, showing just how ugly post WWII Germany looked. The American version is in German with English subtitles.
If you can’t say something nice, say something clever but devastating.

Night and the City (1950) Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney

Kiss Me Deadly. Brilliant.
Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, and Wesley Addy. It also features Maxine Cooper and Cloris Leachman appearing in their feature film debuts. The film follows a private investigator in Los Angeles who becomes embroiled in a complex mystery after picking up a female hitchhiker.

Abandoned
(Joseph M. Newman, 1949) 6/10 rewatch
An expose of the baby-profiteering racket as told through the story of an unwed mother whose family and friends start an investigation as to the whereabouts of her baby. This leads to and through an organized gang led by a society matron. The girl is found dead, and while it looks like a suicide, the girl's sister and a newspaper reporter think it is murder.
stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall, Raymond Burr, Marjorie Rambeau, Jeanette Nolan
writer: Irwin Gielgud, William Bowers | orig. story: Irwin Gielgud
https://letterboxd.com/film/abandoned/
https://mubi.com/en/de/films/abandoned-1949
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041084/reference/
the sound of your racing heart

Not my cup of tea.
Chopper: I'm just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture

a film noir is a highly stylised genre of American crime dramas from the 1940s and 1950s, characterized by dark, cynical themes, morally ambiguous characters like the "femme fatale" and doomed anti-heroes, complex plots with unhappy endings, and a distinctive visual style featuring stark lighting, deep shadows, and off-balance camera angles, all rooted in German Expressionism and American hard-boiled fiction. the term, which means "black film" in French, refers to the genre's dark mood and visual elements.
the sound of your racing heart

What's a Noir movie.
Chopper: I'm just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture