British Crime & Film Noir Lists

A list of British Crime Films is provided below. Films in Bold are considered British Film Noirs (or Brit Noir), Post-Noir or Neo-Noir by at least one source. For more information on the sources for this list, please visit the sources/resources page here.

Where films are available on DVD links are provided to either the Amazon UK or US site.

On other titles links are provided to resources where 'collector's copies' may be obtained. Click here for further details and information.

British Crime Films pre - 1939
The Pre-Film Noir Era

Blackmail (1929)
I Met A Murderer (1939)
Lodger, the (1927)
Mind of Mr Reeder, The (USA The Mysterious Mr Reeder) (1939)
On the Night of the Fire (USA The Fugitive) (1939)
Spider, The (1939)
There Ain't No Justice (1939)
They Drive By Night (1938)
Too Dangerous to Live (1939)

British Crime Films 1940 - 1959
The Classic Film Noir Era

Adventures of PC 49, The -The Case of the Guardian Angel (1949)
Another Man's Poison (1951)
Appointment With Crime (1946)
Assassin For Hire (1951)
Assignment Redhead (1956)

Bait (1950)
Bank Raiders, The (1958)
Barbados Quest (USA Murder on Approval) (1955)
Beautiful Stranger (USA Twist of Fate) (1954)
Behind the Headlines (1953)
Big Chance, The (1957)
Black Memory (1947)
Blind Man's Bluff (1952)
Blind Spot (1958)
Blood Orange (1953)
Blue Lamp, The (1950)
Blue Parrot, The (1953)
Bond of Fear (1956)
Booby Trap (1957)
Boys in Brown (1949)
Brain Machine, The (1955)
Breakout (1959)
Briggs Family, The (1940)
Brighton Rock (USA Young Scarface) (1947) Amazon US UK 
Broken Horseshoe, The (1953)

Calendar, The (1948)
Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1957)
Cloudburst (1951)
Clouded Yellow, the (1951)
Companions in Crime (1954)
Confession (1955)
Contraband Spain (1955)
Cosh Boy (1953)
Counterfeit Plan, The (1957)
Crooked Sky, The (1957)
Cross Channel (1955)

Dancing With Crime (1947)
Dangerous Assignment (1950)
Dangerous Cargo (1954)
Dangerous Voyage (USA Terror Ship) (1954)
Dark Light, The (1951)
Dark Man, The (1951)
Dark Road, The (1948)
Date With Disaster (USA Thunder Over Tangier) (1957)
Daybreak (1947)
Dead of Night (1945)

Dear Murderer (1947)
Death Over My Shoulder (1958)
Delavine Affair, The (1954)
Delayed Action (1954)
Depraved, the (1956)
Desperate Man, The (1959)
Desperate Moment (1953)
Devil's Point (USA Devil's Harbour) (1954)
Dial 999 (USA The Way Out) (1955)
Diamond, The (USA The Diamond Wizard) (1954)
Dick Barton-Special Agent (1948)
Diplomatic Passport (1954)

Embezzler, The (1954)
Escape (1948)
Escape by Night (1954)
Eyewitness (1956)

Fake, The (1953)
Fallen Idol, the (1948)
Files from Scotland Yard (1951)
Find the Lady (1956)
Fingers (1940)
Flamingo Affair, The (1948)
Flanagan Boy, the (USA Bad Blonde) (1953) Amazon US
Flannelfoot (1953)
Flesh is Weak, The (1957)
Floating Dutchman, The (1953)
Flying Scot, the (USA Mailbag Robbery) (1957)
Flying Squad, The (1940)
For Them That Trespass (1949)
Forbidden Cargo (1954)
Fortune is a Woman (USA She Played With Fire) (1957)
Frieda (1947)
Frightened Man, The (1952)

Gambler and the Lady, The (1952) Amazon US 
Gelignite Gang, The (1956)
Gideon's Day (USA Gideon of Scotland Yard) (1958)
Gilded Cage, The (1955)
Glass Cage, the (USA Glass Tomb, the) (1955) Amazon US
Gold Express, The (1955)
Good Die Young, The (1954)
Good Time Girl (1948)
Great Van Robbery, The (1959)
Green Buddha, The (1954)
Guilty? (1956)
Gunman Has Escaped, A (1948)

Hammer the Toff (1952)
Heart Within, The (1957)
Held in Trust (1949)
Hell Drivers (1957) Amazon US UK 
Hideout, The (1956)
High Jump (1959)
Hi-Jack (retitled Action Stations) (1957)
Home to Danger (1951)
Hot Ice (1952)
House Across the Lake (USA Heat Wave) (1954) Amazon US
House of Secrets (1956)
Hundred Pound Window, The (1943)

I Believe in You (1952)
I'll Get You For This (USA Lucky Nick Cain) (1951)
Impulse (1955)
Interpol (USA Pickup Alley) (1957)
Intruder, The (1953)
It Always Rains On Sunday (1947)

Joe Macbeth (1955)
Johnny on the Spot (1954)
Johnny, You're Wanted (1956)
Journey Ahead (1947)
Judgement Deferred (1952)

Key Man, The (1957)
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
King of the Underworld (1952)

Last Page, the (USA Man Bait) (1952) Amazon US
Late at Night (1946)
Limping Man, The (1953)
London Belongs to Me (USA Dulcimer Street) (1948)
Long Arm, The (USA The Third Key) (1956)
Long Haul, The (1957)
Long Memory, The (1953)
Lost Hours, The (USA The Big Frame) (1952)

Man Accused (1959)
Man From Tangier (1957)
Man In Grey, The (1943)
Man Inside, The (1958)
Man In The Shadow (1957)
Man on the Run (1949)
Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The (USA Paris Express) (1953)
Man Who Wouldn't Talk, the (1958)
Man With a Gun (1958)
Mark of the Phoenix (1958)
Matter of Murder, A (1949)
Mine Own Executioner (1947)
Missing Million, The (1942)
Model For Murder (1959)
Morning Call (1957)
Murder at Scotland Yard (1952)
Murder By Proxy (USA Blackout) (1954)
My Brother's Keeper (1948)
My Death is a Mockery (1952)
Mysterious Mr Nicholson, The (1947)

Naked Fury (1959)
Night and the City (1950)
Night Beat (1948)
No Orchids For Miss Blandish (1948)
No Road Back (1957)
No Safety Ahead (1959)
No Way Back (1949)
Noose (USA The Silk Noose) (1948)
Now Barabbas was a robber . . . (1949)
Nowhere to Go (1958)

Obsession (USA Hidden Room, the) (1949)
October Man, the (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
On the Run (1958)
Once a Crook (1941)
Once a Sinner (1950)
One Way Out (1955)

Park Plaza 605 (1953)
Passing Stranger, The (1954)
Passport to Shame (USA Room 43) (1959)
Police Dog (1955)
Pool of London (1951)
Portrait of Alison (USA Postmark for Danger) (1955)
Prize of Gold, A (1955)

Quiet Woman, The (1951)

Radio Cab Murder (1954)
Recoil (1953)
Ringer, The (1952)
River Beat (1954)
River Patrol (1948)
Robbery With Violence (1959)
Rough and the Smooth, the (USA Portrait of a Sinner) (1959)

Sail Into Danger (1957)
Saint Meets the Tiger, The (1941)
Saint's Return, The (USA The Saint's Girl Friday) (1953)
Salute the Toff (1952)
Scarlet Thread (1951)
Second Mate, The (1951)
Secret Place, The (1957)
Secret Tent, The (1956)
Secret, The (1955)
Send For Paul Temple (1946)
Ship That Died of Shame, The (1955)
Shop at Sly Corner, The (USA The Code of Scotland Yard) (1947)
Six Men, The (1951)
Sleeping Tiger, The (1954)
Small Back Room, the (1949)
 
Small Voice, The (USA Hideout) (1948)
Soho Incident (USA Spin a Dark Web) (1956)
Stolen Face (1952)  Amazon US 
Stranger at My Door (1950)
Stranger Came Home, A (USA Unholy Four, the) (1953)
Street Corner (USA Both Sides of the Law) (1953)
Stryker of the Yard (1953)
Subway in the Sky (1959)
Suspected Person (1942)

Tangier Assignment (1955)
That Woman Opposite (USA City After Midnight) (1957)
There is Another Sun (USA Wall of Death) (1950)
They Came By Night (1940)
They Made Me A Fugitive (USA I Became A Criminal) (1947)
They Never Learn (1956)
Third Man, The (1949)
Third Party Risk (USA Big Deadly Game, the) (1954)
Third Time Lucky (1949)
13 East Street (1952)
36 Hours (USA Terror Street) (1953)
Three Crooked Men (1958)
Three Steps to the Gallows (USA White Fire) (1953)
Tiger by the Tail (USA Crossup) (1955)
Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
Time Without Pity (1957)
Too Young to Love (1959)
Track the Man Down (1955)
Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
Turn the Key Softly (1953)
Two for Danger (1940)

Undercover Girl (1958)
Upturned Glass, the (1947)

Vengeance is Mine (1949)
Voice Within, The (1945)

Wanted for Murder (1946)
Weapon, the (1956)
West of Suez (USA Fighting Wildcats) (1957)
Whispering Smith Hits London (USA Whispering Smith Versus Scotland Yard (1952)
White Trap, The (1959)
Wide Boy (1952)
Wings of Danger (1952)
Witness, The (1959)
Woman of Mystery, A (1958)
Woman's Temptation, A (1959)
Wrong Number (1959)

Yellow Balloon, The (1952)
Yield to the Night (USA Blonde Sinner) (1956)

 

British Crime Films 1960 - 1975
The Post-Noir Era

Act of Murder (1964)
Ambush in Leopard Street (1962)
Attempt to Kill (1961)

Backfire! (1962)
Blue Movie Blackmail (Italy Servizio di Scorta) (Britain/ Italy, 1973)
Bomb in the High Street (1961)
Brannigan (1975)
Break, The (1962)
Breath of Life (1962)
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)

Cairo (1963)
Calculated Risk (1963)
Cash on Demand (1961)
Challenge, The (1960)
Circus of Fear
Clash By Night (USA Escape By Night) (1963)
Clegg (1969)
Compelled (1960)
Criminal, The (USA The Concrete Jungle) (1960)
Crossroads to Crime (1960)
Crosstrap (1962)

Danger By My Side (1962)
Dangerous Afternoon (1961)
Dead Cert (1974)
Dead Lucky (1960)
Deadfall (1967)
Death is a Woman (1966)
Devil's Daffodil, The (Britain/West Germany, 1962)

Echo of Barbara (1961)
Eleven Harrowhouse (1974)
Enter Inspector Duval (1961)

Face of a Stranger (1964)
Fast Kill, The (1972)
Feet of Clay (1960)
File of the Golden Goose, The (1968)
Five to One (1963)
Fourth Square, The (1961)
Freedom to Die (1962)
Freelance (1975)
Frightened City, The (1961)

Gang War (1962)
Gaolbreak (1962)
Gentle Trap, The (1960)
Get Carter (1970)
Girl in the Headlines (1963)
Gumshoe (1971)
Guy Called Caesar, A (1962)

He Who Rides a Tiger (1965)
Hell is a City (1960)
Hell is Empty (Britain/ Czechoslovakia, 1967)
Hi-Jackers, The (1963)

Impact (1963)
Incident at Midnight (1963)
Information Received (1961)
Informers, The (1963)
Italian Job, The (1969)

Jackpot (1960)
Juggernaut (1974)
Jungle Street (1961)

Kaleidoscope (1966)
Kill (1962)

League of Gentlemen, The (1960)

Main Chance, The (1964)
Man at the Carlton Tower (1961)
Man Detained (1961)
Man in the Back Seat, The (1961)
Man of Violence (1970)
Man Who Couldn't Walk, The (1960)
Man Who Was Nobody, The (1960)
Marked One, The (1963)
Maroc 7 (1966)
Marriage of Convenience (1960)
Marseille Contract, The (USA The Destructors) (Britain/ France, 1974)
Moment of Danger (USA Malaga) (1960)
MoonSpinners, The (1964)

Never Back Losers (1961)
Never Let Go (1960)
Night Without Pity (1962)
Number Six (1962)
Offbeat (1961)

On the Run (1963)
Only When I Larf (1968)

Painted Smile, The (1962)
Panic (1963)
Payroll (1961)
Perfect Friday (1970)
Performance (1970)
Piccadilly Third Stop (1960)
Pit of Darkness (1961)
Place to Go, A (1963)
Poor Cow (1967)
Price of Silence, The (1960)
Primitives, The (1962)
Prize of Arms, A (1962)
Professionals, The (1960)
Pulp (1972)
Puppet on a Chain (1970)

Rag Doll (1961)
Ragman's Daughter, The (1972)
Redneck (Italy Senza Ragione) (Britain/Italy, 1972)
Return to Sender (1963)
Rivals, The (1963)
Robbery (1967)

Secret Partner, The (1961)
Set-Up, The (1963)
Seven Keys (1962)
Shakedown, The (1960)
Share Out, The (1962)
Shatter (Britain/Hong Kong, 1974)
Sicilians, The (1964)
Sitting Target (1972)
Small World of Sammy Lee, The (1963)
So Evil So Young (1961)
Strange Affair, The (1968)
Strip Poker (USA The Big Switch) (1968)
Strongroom (1962)
Switch, The (1963)

Time to Remember (1962)
Tomorrow At Ten (1962)
Too Hot to Handle (USA Playgirl After Dark) (1960)
Touch of Death (1962)
Touch of the Other, A (1970)
Traitor's Gate (1964)
Transatlantic (1961)
Trygon Factor, The (1967)
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill (1965)
Two Living One Dead (Britain/ Sweden, 1961)

Unstoppable Man, The (1960)

Villain (1971)

Walking Stick, The (1970)

 

British Crime Films 1976 onwards
The Neo-Noir Era

Bellman and True (1987)
Big Man, The (1990)
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1986)
Bitch, The (1979)
Black Panther, The (1978)
Buster (1988)

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl) (1990)

Disappearance, The (Britain/ Canada, 1977)
Double Exposure (1977)
Double X. (1992)
Empire State (1987)

Face (1997)
For Queen and Country (Britain/USA, 1989)
Give Us Tomorrow (1979)
Green Ice (1981)

Hard Men (Britain/ France, 1997)
Hit, The (1984)

i.d. (1995)
Innocent Sleep, The (1995)

Krays, The (1990)

Let Him Have It (1991)
London Kills Me (1991)
Long Good Friday, The (1981)
Loophole (1981)

McVicar (1980)
Mona Lisa (1986)

Near Room, The (1997)
North Sea Hijack (1980)

Parker (Britain/ West Germany, 1985)
Prayer For the Dying, A (1988)

Shallow Grave (1995)
Shopping (1994)
Silver Bears (1978)
Skyground (1983)
Smack and Thistle (1991)
Smalltime (1997)
Squeeze, The (1977)
Stormy Monday (1987)
Sweeney 2 (1978)
Sweeney! (1977)

Trainspotting (1996)

Young Americans, The (1993)

 
 
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