Round The World With Film Noir
Classic American Films Noir not set in the naked city , or even the U.S.A .
( Not counting Mexico , or London and Britain - too many , will do separate lists )
( Not counting Mexico , or London and Britain - too many , will do separate lists )
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- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsRita HayworthGlenn FordAlexander ScourbyNightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.Trinidad
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsRita HayworthGlenn FordGeorge MacreadyA small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.Buenos Aires , Argentina
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsJohn CassavetesRaymond BurrSara ShaneSongwriter falls in love with a crippled man's wife.Cuba
- DirectorJosef von SternbergMel FerrerNicholas RayStarsRobert MitchumJane RussellWilliam BendixNick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?Macao
- DirectorLeslie FentonStarsAlan LaddVeronica LakeDouglas DickAfter WW2, two army buddies, one of them terminally-ill, embark on a series of adventures in South-East Asia and run across a dangerous criminal and his pretty secretary.Vietnam
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsFred MacMurrayAva GardnerRoland CulverAfter WW2, an American skipper returns to Singapore to retrieve his hidden stash of pearls and finds his lost fiancée who now has amnesia.Singapore
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsAlan LaddGail RussellWilliam BendixNeale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. After their buddy Bill is murdered, they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.Calcutta
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGene TierneyWalter HustonVictor MatureIn Shanghai, dragon lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out of business.Shanghai
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsGene BarryBeverly TylerAllison HayesDuring the Cold War, an American secret agent must find a kidnapped Arab prince who is being used by the Soviets to gain leverage against America's plans to install missiles in a Middle-Eastern country.Hong Kong
- DirectorNorman FosterOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDolores Del RíoAn American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.Turkey , Greece
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsPeter LorreSydney GreenstreetZachary ScottMystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued after the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.Turkey , Greece , Bulgaria
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsHumphrey BogartAlexander KnoxFlorence MarlyAn American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.Tokyo
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsAudie MurphyEddie AlbertPatricia OwensThe Cuban misadventures of a Florida smuggler, at the time of the Cuban Revolution.Cuba
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsHumphrey BogartLauren BacallWalter BrennanDuring World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.Martinique
- DirectorArthur RipleyStarsRobert CummingsMichèle MorganSteve CochranChuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.Cuba
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsLee J. CobbPatricia MedinaEdward ArnoldMiami cop Bart Scott tracks down, in Cuba, a fugitive witness who can shed light in a double homicide and about the activities of a Miami mob lawyer who uses murder and blackmail in order to force the legalization of gambling in Florida.Cuba
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJohn GarfieldPatricia NealPhyllis ThaxterAn otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.Cuba
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsDick PowellWalter SlezakMicheline CheirelCanadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.France , then Buenos Aires
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsJennifer JonesJohn GarfieldPedro ArmendárizIn 1930's Cuba, a bank clerk and an American mercenary assist a revolutionary group in a plan to kill the President but the Cuban Secret Police chief and the dictator's military complicate the plan's execution.Cuba
- DirectorEdward MontagneStarsBarry NelsonCarole MathewsLynn AinleyA man arrives home one night to find that a look- alike has taken over his life completely.Puerto Rico
- DirectorRay MillandStarsRay MillandMaureen O'HaraClaude RainsHigh stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal. A smuggler is hired to kidnap the rich husband of an American woman who's just arrived in Lisbon.Lisbon
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsRay MillandArlene DahlWendell CoreyIn Jamaica, amid murder and deceit, a schooner skipper and a land developer search for the sunken ship containing proof regarding the identity of the true heirs of a legendary Jamaican estate.Jamaica
- DirectorDorrell McGowanStuart E. McGowanStarsFlorence MarlyLee FrederickKatsuhiko HaidaA Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.Tokyo , Japan
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsRobert RyanRobert StackShirley YamaguchiPlanted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.Japan
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsDick PowellMärta TorénVincent PriceA post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.Vietnam