Movies: British noir

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings....

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery....

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton....

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper....

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc....

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money....

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unabl...

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries....

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover....

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife....

When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences....

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row....

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong....

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity....

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death....

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot....

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him....

John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indif...

A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend....

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her k...