Movies: British noir

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

A motorist picks up to escaped convicts. Instead of turning them over to the police he hires them to kill his wife....

A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife....

An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax....

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

Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and not all debts are paid for with money. Leaving, it's harder than you think....

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

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counte...

A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the riv...

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

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

Anne Maitland, a female lawyer, receives an unexpected late-night visit from ex-boyfriend Guy Ransome. She agrees to let him sleep on the sofa but he must leave the next morning. When he returns home he finds that his girlfriend has been murdered. Hi...

A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs....

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre....

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)...

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...

Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist. Both boys are unaware ...

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 trail....

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 back, he does not realise that his actions are soon to catch up with him in the form of a mysterious tr...

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