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Noirvember: Crime Wave

Continuing our crime cinema month with a look at a standard 1953 drama that becomes quintessential noir thanks to dialogue, characterisation and visual style.

Noirvember: Stolen Assignment

Continuing our crime movie series with a look at a pre-Hammer Horror Terence Fisher lightweight crime romp that fails to thrill.

Noirvember: Home At Seven

Continuing our crime film month with a look at a stilted but fascinating theatrical mystery that was Ralph Richardson’s sole directorial effort.

Noirvember: Night Train

Our crime movie month continues with a look at Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s unique Polish interpretation of the Hitchcockian rail thriller.

Noirvember: Branded To Kill

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Continuing our crime movie month with a look at Seijun Suzuki’s radical reinterpretation of the Japanese gangster movie.

Noirvember: The Murderer Lives At 21

Continuing our crime month with a look at Henri-Georges Clouzot’s lightweight murder mystery shot during the German occupation of France.

Noirvember: Noose For A Lady

Continuing our crime cinema series with a look at a gritty British story about a miscarriage of justice and the race to find the real killer.

Noirvember: The Naked City

Our crime movie series continues with a look at the classic, pioneering police procedural that spawned a popular TV series.

Noirvember: Portrait Of Alison

Continuing our crime movie month with a look at a flawed but interesting film adaptation of a BBC serial from 1955.

Noirvember: Walk A Tightrope

Continuing our crime cinema series with an unexpectedly gritty and twisted British B-movie thriller from the 1960s.

Noirvember: He Ran All The Way

Our crime cinema retrospective continues with a look at one of the most impressive and paranoid thrillers of the 1950s.

Noirvember: An Introduction

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Setting the scene for our month of Film Noir reviews – and explaining why we are refusing to take a narrow view of just what ‘noir’ is.