Sissy Spacek narrates a killing spree across the Dakota plains; Malick's debut.
A Johannesburg gang leader steals a car with a baby in the back seat.
Bogart and Bacall in a Chandler plot so tangled even the author could not say who killed the chauffeur.
Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by the police and the underworld; Lang's first sound film.
Bogart as Sam Spade and 'the stuff that dreams are made of'; the first film noir.
An insurance salesman and a bored wife plan the perfect murder; Wilder and Chandler write the noir rulebook.
A retired Buenos Aires investigator writes a novel about a 25-year-old rape and murder.
Robert Mitchum cannot escape a woman or a past; the noir with the best cigarette lighting.
Brando as the longshoreman who "coulda been a contender".
A police chief murders his mistress and leaves clues to prove he cannot be touched.
Popeye Doyle chases a heroin ring under the El; the car-versus-train chase.
A Black Philadelphia detective and a Mississippi sheriff solve a murder they cannot stand to share.
Two murderesses and one lawyer in Jazz Age Chicago; "Cell Block Tango".
An illiterate teenager enters a French prison and leaves running the place.
Two boys grow up in a Rio favela; one takes a camera, the other a gun.
A writer is tried for her husband's death, with only their blind son as witness.
A shoe executive must choose between his fortune and a kidnapped boy.
Little Italy, small-time hoods and the film that started De Niro and Scorsese.
The Osage murders of the 1920s, told as a marriage.
A disgraced journalist and a hacker reopen a forty-year-old disappearance.
Kubrick's racetrack heist told out of order; the film that got him noticed.
A wife disappears and a media circus decides her husband did it.
The first Kurosawa-Mifune film: a slum doctor and a tubercular gangster.
A rookie detective loses his pistol in postwar Tokyo and hunts it through the heat.
The unsolved San Francisco case, told through the people it consumed.
A guilt-ridden detective cannot sleep through the Alaskan midnight sun.
Watch the classic film Killer's Kiss directed by Stanley Kubrick
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