Every film noir movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 28 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US
Directed by Billy Wilder
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWilder's masterpiece perfects the femme fatale archetype through Barbara Stanwyck's ice-cold seduction, anchored by voice-over confession that defines noir's moral decay.
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
Directed by Fritz Lang
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFritz Lang's expressionist shadows trap Christopher Cross in pathological desire, transforming a meek man into a murderer through the femme fatale's calculated manipulation.
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Directed by Robert Altman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAltman subverts noir conventions with rambling uncertainty and moral ambiguity, stripping away the genre's typical heroic detective mythology.
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Directed by Woody Allen
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.
Directed by Orson Welles
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWelles constructs visual deception and false identities through shadowy mise-en-scène, burying Nazi evil beneath small-town American normalcy.
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
✦ MovieMuse AI takePoverty and mischance conspire to destroy an innocent man—the quintessential noir premise executed with relentless inevitability and fatalistic atmosphere.
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Directed by Phil Karlson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFritz Lang's obsessive framing traps both victim and detective in inescapable visual geometry.
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Directed by Byron Haskin
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Directed by Norman Foster
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe wife's agency and independence subvert femme fatale tropes while maintaining noir's paranoid atmosphere.
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
Directed by Cy Endfield
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKen Mackintosh channels working-class corruption and moral compromise through the trucking noir subgenre.
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
✦ MovieMuse AI takePolice procedural authenticity and documentary realism ground noir in institutional detail rather than stylistic flourish.
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Directed by Arthur Lubin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe moral inversion premise—victim staging his own murder to frame his wife—demonstrates noir's fascination with identity reversal and psychological complexity.
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Directed by François Truffaut
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTruffaut weaponizes romantic correspondence and mistaken identity into neo-noir paranoia, where love becomes a con perpetrated across colonial distance.
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.
Directed by Roy William Neill
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
Directed by Lewis Allen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLewis Allen weaponizes small-town Americana, revealing noir darkness beneath picket-fence veneer.
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Directed by Felix E. Feist
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJoseph H. Lewis's dual-brother dynamic internalizes noir's moral corruption within institutional loyalty.
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
Directed by Roy William Neill
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
Directed by Elliott Nugent
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
Directed by Steve Sekely
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIdentity assumption as noir trap: Muller's facial surgery provides Faustian escape that immediately backfires, literalizing the genre's obsession with false selves.
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Directed by Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Directed by Mike Newell
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRuth Ellis's execution becomes noir tragedy through intimate domestic violence, anchoring the genre's fatalism to the historical guillotine.
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
Directed by Lee Tamahori
✦ MovieMuse AI take1950s LA corruption thriller employs noir's institutional corruption theme while subverting the genre's masculine bravado.
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Directed by Rudolph Maté
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe poisoned accountant's 24-hour death clock creates pure noir desperation, transforming an ordinary man into a driven investigator of his own murder.
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
Directed by Hugo Fregonese
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
Directed by Crane Wilbur
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.
Directed by William A. Wellman
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.
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