(Very) weird noir
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- DirectorAntonio SanteanStarsArlene MartelJohn HoytElisha Cook Jr.Two detectives investigate the murder of a local businessman by a mysterious woman.
- DirectorJohn ParkerBruno VeSotaStarsAdrienne BarrettBruno VeSotaBen RosemanThis film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
- DirectorArthur J. BeckhardJoseph LernerStarsRichard CooganRosemary PettitFrank AlbertsonPolice investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater.
- DirectorDaniel BirtStarsValerie HobsonRichard ToddChristine NordenA writer eloping with his mistress by train has second thoughts, pulls the emergency brake, bails out and witnesses the train's collision with another train, events eventually leading to murder and a police manhunt.
- DirectorIrvin BerwickStarsJonathan KiddLyn StattenFrank ArvidsonA car wreck gives Pete amnesia. He becomes an evangelist with a preacher's help. His new success leads his ex and her boyfriend to blackmail him over missing money. As his memory returns, Pete believes he killed the other driver.
- DirectorJean-Denis BonanStarsClaude MerlinSolange PradelMyriam MézièresParis, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène's ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation... What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?
- DirectorLeslie StevensStarsKate ManxCorey AllenWarren OatesAn arrogant criminal offers to seduce a woman for his dim, sexually inexperienced partner.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielDuilio MarzioLautaro MurúaAlbertina, a pretty but wet university student, is hired by a bedridden widow to take care of her and her four children. Helping out around the house she soon discovers the kids live a life of their own, independent of their mother, who neglects them. The atmosphere of the place is both fascinating and unhealthy and Albertina gradually finds herself stuck in it so that although a young lawyer falls for her, she won't follow him out of the house...