Leave Her to Heaven
A gorgeous socialite reveals a violent jealousy soon after marrying a successful novelist.
Category: Film Noir
Key Largo
This movie was the last of the four films that would feature the husband and wife duo of Bogart and Bacall. It’s also a film noir classic.
Gaslight
This classic noir is set in the Edwardian era, and features Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotten. The story pushes against many of the previously accepted ideals in Hollywood films.
Chinatown
“‘Course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” – John Huston as Noah Cross
In a Lonely Place
“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” – Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele
Night and the City
“You could have been anything. Anything. You had brains… ambition. You worked harder than any 10 men. But the wrong things. Always the wrong things…” – Gene Tierney as Mary Bristol
The Asphalt Jungle
“One way or another, we all work for our vice.” – Sam Jaffe as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
Nocturnal Animals
“When you love someone you have to be careful with it, you might never get it again.” – Jake Gyllenhaal as Edward Sheffield
Did You See That One? 