Free film noir and mystery movies
29 titles on the air now, made between 1927 and 1959 - about 40 hours of viewing in all. 29 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 0 are shorts. 3 are silent films presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score.
The complete crime, mystery and film noir lineup on Starlite TV. These titles are in the U.S. public domain, most because their copyrights were never renewed, and every title page lists the evidence we found.
They air 24/7 on Case Files; Wednesday prime time is Noir Wednesday.
Where to start
Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.
- D.O.A. (1950) 83 min · Case Files
D.O.A. has one of the greatest opening hooks in movie history. A man walks through the long corridors of a police headquarters, steps into the homicide division and announces that he wants to report a murder. - The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 91 min · Case Files
The Lodger is where Alfred Hitchcock became "Hitchcock". It was his third feature as a director and his first thriller, and he later called it the first true "Hitchcock picture". - Reefer Madness (1936) 68 min · Laugh Track
Reefer Madness began life in 1936 as Tell Your Children, a low-budget morality tale produced by George Hirliman and directed by Louis J. Gasnier, a veteran of the silent era. It was financed by a church group and meant to warn parents about the supposed dangers of marijuana. - Scarlet Street (1945) 101 min · Case Files
After the success of their thriller The Woman in the Window (1944), director Fritz Lang, producer Walter Wanger and actress Joan Bennett (Wanger's wife) formed their own company, Diana Productions, and reunited Bennett with co-stars Edward G. Robinson and Dan Duryea. - The Stranger (1946) 91 min · Case Files
The Stranger was Orson Welles' third completed feature as a director, made a few years after Citizen Kane, at a time when Hollywood studios were wary of his reputation for going over budget. - Dressed to Kill (1946) 69 min · Case Files
- Impact (1949) 111 min · Case Files
- Murder! (1930) 102 min · Case Files
