Best movies — filmnoir on Prime Video : our Top 20

1955 · Charles Laughton

Set against the bleak backdrop of Depression-era West Virginia, a murderous clergyman relentlessly pursues two children who alone hold the secret location of a hidden cache of money.

With Billy Chapin, Robert Mitchum, Sally Jane Bruce, Lillian Gish, Shelley Winters, James Gleason and Evelyn Varden

1947 · Orson Welles

A charming drifter finds himself drawn into a perilous triangle with a ruthless, corrupt tycoon and his alluring, enigmatic wife, forced to navigate desire, loyalty and betrayal.

With Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford and Gus Schilling

1947 · Curtis Bernhardt

Discovered roaming the streets of Los Angeles, a woman in a profound catatonic state slowly recounts to a doctor the tangled chain of events that brought her there.

With Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, John Ridgely and Moroni Olsen

1948 · John Reinhardt

After their close friend vanishes, a couple sets out to find them and, piece by piece, unravels disturbing clues that point to a hate-motivated plot — ultimately convincing them that antisemitic forces are responsible for the disappearance.

With John Ireland, Jane Randolph, Sheldon Leonard, Roman Bohnen, George Tyne, Morgan Farley and Ellen Lowe

1946 · Alfred Zeisler

At a reunion at Kamp Koral, SpongeBob and his friends find themselves hunted by a shadowy presence in the woods as campers begin to vanish, one after another.

With Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, Francis Pierlot, Nestor Paiva, James Cardwell and Almira Sessions