Hammer Noir
The crime films , the fifties noirs , plus the psychological thrillers - most of which are variations of Les Diaboliques .
See also the Dick Barton and PC 49 films .
See also the Dick Barton and PC 49 films .
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- DirectorBen R. HartStarsJohn BlytheWally PatchStan PaskinRiver detectives go undercover to foil a ruthless gang of nylon smugglers.
- DirectorGordon KyleLionel TomlinsonStarsRaymond LovellKay BannermanRobert WyndhamA man searching for a cache of diamonds rescues a Dutch cutter from a concentration camp and murders his partner, throwing the blame on the former's daughter.
- DirectorGodfrey GraysonStarsValentine DyallJulia LangHugh GriffithA young woman goes missing under strange circumstances. A friend of hers tries to find out what happened and it almost leads to another case of a missing young woman. Dr. Morrell has his hands full trying to solve this case.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsHy HazellBruce LesterElsie WagstaffAn actress is persuaded by her boyfriend, the head of a private-detective agency, to take a job as a housekeeper in the home of a wealthy elderly woman. It seems that no one has seen the woman for a while, and her new young husband is claiming that she is ill and doesn't want to see anybody and is refusing to let anyone in the house.
- DirectorGodfrey GraysonStarsHugh MoxeyJeannette TregarthenAnthony ForwoodWhen the reclusive invalid daughter of Lady Harling is found dead, a young lady is suspected of murdering her.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsMichael MedwinGarry MarshYvonne OwenA man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves.
- DirectorGodfrey GraysonStarsJimmy HanleyValentine DyallChristine SilverIn London in 1904, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsHelen ShinglerClement McCallinSheila BurrellA husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns out that he may not be the killer after all.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsAlbert LievenDavid GreeneNorman MacOwanThe crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsRobert PrestonElizabeth SellarsColin TapleyA Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsChristine NordenRobert AyresJennifer JayneMark Sherwin ( Robert Ayres) is the victim of a brutal beating and car theft. The thief dies in a crash; Mark suffers from amnesia, and recuperates on a horse-training property. Discovering a clue, he returns home to find he had been declared dead, his wife welcomes him back, only to plan a real death for him so she and his best friend (with whom she is having an affair) can get his substantial wealth.
- DirectorCharles SaundersStarsPatrick BarrJane BaxterJulie SomersAn older doctor in a rural area takes on a younger physician as his partner. When the older doctor's wife is found murdered, the man becomes the chief suspect, especially when he suddenly disappears. His new partner. not believing that he did it, sets out to discover the real killer.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsGeorge BrentMarguerite ChapmanRaymond HuntleyThe married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in him getting enmeshed in blackmail and murder.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsZachary ScottRobert BeattyNaomi ChanceWhen his girlfriend's brother's cargo plane is lost at sea, nagging questions arise, and pilot Richard Van Ness gets caught in a web of blackmail and smuggling.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsRosamund JohnHugh SinclairGuy MiddletonA female lawyer hears a knock on her door one night and discovers that it is an old boyfriend, whose current girlfriend has thrown him out, and he needs a place to stay the night. 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. His former lover agrees to defend him without telling the court that he spent the night with her. Complications ensue.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPaul HenreidLizabeth ScottAndré MorellA doctor repairs a female inmate's disfigured face to match the lovely woman who left him, and marries her, only to find out how abusive she is.
- DirectorSam NewfieldPat JacksonStarsCesar RomeroLois MaxwellBernadette O'FarrellAn English woman asks an American detective visiting London to help find her brother's killer.
- DirectorPatrick JenkinsSam NewfieldStarsDane ClarkKathleen ByronNaomi ChanceA social-climbing American with a business in illegal gambling falls in love with a blue blood, but gangsters and a jealous ex-girlfriend stand in the way of happiness.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPaul HenreidLois MaxwellKieron MooreA wrongly convicted murderer escapes prison to find the real killer.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsBarbara PaytonFrederick ValkJohn SlaterA scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsHoward DuffEva BartokAlan WheatleyA small group of closely-guarded British scientists test their first rocket amidst indications of matrimonial strife in the community. After the partial failure of the firing, a couple go missing - have they gone off together or are their murdered bodies circling the earth in the remains of the rocket?
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsTom ConwayMila ParélyNaomi ChanceDischarged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsLouis HaywardNaomi ChanceSydney TaflerA private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsDan DuryeaElsie AlbiinGudrun UreAn American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsAlex NicolEleanor SummerfieldJohn SalewNewly arrived in Britain, a jet-lagged musician impulsively goes to the apartment of a beautiful blues singer he's just met and hours later is accused of her murder.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsDane ClarkBelinda LeeBetty Ann DaviesA broke American in London meets a woman who offers to pay him for a marriage of convenience. He agrees, but awakes bloodied in a strange place, having unknowingly become entangled in her father's murder.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsAlex NicolHillary BrookeSidney JamesAn American writer living in England gets entangled in a scheme by a beautiful blonde to murder her rich husband.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsDane ClarkCecile ChevreauPaul CarpenterA failed business deal forces James Nevill to blackmail his weak-willed friend into murdering him so that his wife can collect his insurance, but circumstances suddenly change.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPaulette GoddardWilliam SylvesterPatrick HoltA man on a fishing trip with three of his friends receives a blow to the head that makes him lose his memory. Three years later it all comes back to him, but on the day it does one of the men who was on the trip with him turns up dead.
- DirectorDaniel BirtStarsLloyd BridgesFinlay CurrieMaureen SwansonAn American on vacation in Spain gets mixed up with a smuggling ring.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsRichard ConteMari AldonPeter IllingA race driver must choose between his love for racing and his wife. His buddy's accident will help him to choose, and his loyal ways will get him a new friend - his main rival.Motor racing drama starring Richard Conte , included in Hammer Film Noir DVD series .
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsJohn IrelandHonor BlackmanGeoffrey KeenCrowds flock to a carnival sideshow to see "The Starving Man", a heavyset man who claims he can go 70 days without eating. However, a couple of murders occur at the carnival, resulting in the police becoming involved.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsForrest TuckerEva BartokMarius GoringAn adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJack WarnerRichard WordsworthProfessor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
- DirectorPeter CotesStarsMargo LorenzDavid MarkhamDouglas WilmerMrs Jorgensen receives a visitor at her hotel waiting for her husband. Does he know her husband, Does he have a mysterious past and is he the Right Person?
- DirectorElmo WilliamsBert GlazerStarsBeverly MichaelsJoan RiceThora HirdComedy and drama as three women, including one with her baby, escape from prison.
- DirectorElmo WilliamsStarsBeverly MichaelsJim DavisJoan RiceU.S. State Department agent Kent Foster, on the trail of a murderous traitor, Nick Randall, hopes to trap Randall through singer/stripper Angela Booth. The latter has promised to marry Randall on New Year's Eve even though she is not to see him until then. However, she lands in prison after a quarrel with influential Julius Lord, during which she defended herself with a broken mirror. Foster arranges for her escape with the aid of "Granny" Ramsey in hope that she will lead him to Randall. The plan is snarled when another girl prisoner with her infant joins the escape and Angel slips away. She manages to meet Randall, and, when he slaps her, she realizes that all she has heard about him is true.US version of Women Without Men
- DirectorLeslie NormanJoseph LoseyStarsDean JaggerEdward ChapmanLeo McKernA radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJohn LongdenSidney JamesProfessor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsPeter van EyckBetta St. JohnMandy MillerAlthough the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.
- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsPhilip FriendHonor BlackmanMervyn JohnsWhen a pharmacist accidentally prescribes poison instead of painkillers, the race is on to find the killer pills.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsJack PalanceJeff ChandlerMartine CarolAfter 1945, six German ex-soldiers are hired to defuse unexploded Allied bombs in the ruins of Berlin.
- DirectorCyril FrankelStarsGwen WatfordPatrick AllenFelix AylmerIn Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsStanley BakerJohn CrawfordDonald PleasenceIn Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsClaude DauphinDiane CilentoRonald LewisAfter surviving a traumatic car accident, a race car driver travels to the Cote D'Azur to recover but is plagued by an urge to strangle his wife.
- DirectorSeth HoltStarsSusan StrasbergAnn ToddRonald LewisA wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsAndré MorellBarbara ShelleyWilliam LucasA house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.Horror , but nice and black and white .
- DirectorQuentin LawrenceStarsPeter CushingAndré MorellRichard VernonA charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsJanette ScottOliver ReedSheila BurrellA man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsMacdonald CareyShirley Anne FieldViveca LindforsAn American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
- DirectorMichael CarrerasStarsKerwin MathewsNadia GrayDonald HoustonAn American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsDavid KnightMoira RedmondJennie LindenThe nights of young private-school student Janet are troubled by horrible dreams in which her mother, who is actually locked up in a mental institution, haunts her. When her persistent nightmares get her expelled and sent home, those visions insist on continuing to plague her at home.
- DirectorSilvio NarizzanoStarsTallulah BankheadStefanie PowersPeter VaughanA young woman is terrorized by her deceased fiancé's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsRobert WebberAnthony NewlandsJennifer JayneAfter a car accident in England, an American develops amnesia and tries to find his true identity, using various clues, but ends-up in the midst of a mysterious murder.
- DirectorSeth HoltStarsBette DavisWendy CraigJill BennettThere's just something not quite right when Bette Davis stars as an English nanny. And is her 10-year-old charge an emotionally disturbed murderer or just an insolent brat?
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerAlvin RakoffStarsBette DavisSheila HancockJack HedleyThree sons who work in the family construction business help their overbearing mother celebrate her anniversary to her late husband.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsStefanie PowersJames OlsonMargaretta ScottA young American woman Susan Roberts goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer, staying with his eccentric relatives.
- DirectorPeter CollinsonStarsRita TushinghamShane BriantJames BolamA timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.
- DirectorJimmy SangsterStarsJudy GeesonJoan CollinsRalph BatesA young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her husband to a boys' school, and finds herself being terrorized by a mysterious one-armed man, but nobody believes her.
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsElliott GouldCybill ShepherdAngela LansburyWhile travelling by rail in interwar Nazi Germany, a young socialite finds that a fellow female passenger has disappeared from the train, but nobody else remembers her having been on board.Ill advised remake of the Hitchcock classic .