Movies like Nightfall
If Nightfall's mix of film noir and model stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Nightfall's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Double Indemnity
1944 · Directed by Billy Wilder · 107 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also crime and thriller
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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Pickup on South Street
1953 · Directed by Samuel Fuller · 80 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also thriller and crime · From the same decade (1950s)
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet.
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Brute Force
1947 · Directed by Jules Dassin · 98 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also crime and thriller
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's…
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · Directed by Orson Welles · 87 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also crime and thriller
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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The Naked City
1948 · Directed by Jules Dassin · 96 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also crime and thriller
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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Vertigo
1958 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 128 min8.1
Why you'll like itWith Bess Flowers · Shares: film noir · From the same decade (1950s)
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Ministry of Fear
1944 · Directed by Fritz Lang · 86 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also crime and thriller
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and…
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Killer's Kiss
1955 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 68 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also thriller and crime · From the same decade (1950s)
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria.
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Mildred Pierce
1945 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 111 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: film noir
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Directed by John Huston · 113 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · From the same decade (1950s)
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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Night and the City
1950 · Directed by Jules Dassin · 95 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · From the same decade (1950s)
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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Detour
1945 · Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer · 68 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: film noir
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.