Repeat Performance, the most requested film in the early years of the Film Noir Foundation's restoration campaign, is finally available in digital form! An amazingly original hybrid of film noir,... more
A virtually unknown remake of M, Fritz Lang's seminal 1931 thriller, El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) is a revisionist take on the tale by Argentine director Román Viñoly Barreto. Thanks to the... more
A long-lost treasure of Argentine noir rediscovered! Thanks to the efforts of the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive, director Román Viñoly Barreto's compelling 1952 thriller has... more
THE GUILTY (1947)
The Guilty, released by Monogram Pictures, is a triumph of resourcefulness for it's nomadic Viennese director, John Reinhardt. Based on a short story by legendary suspense writer... more
Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt. Rediscovered and recently restored, this film noir gem from the director of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea stars Bridges as a convict whom the Feds recruit to... more
OVERVIEW:Finally! One of the great missing films of the classic noir era - resurrected! Rescued and preserved after a five-year crusade by the Film Noir Foundation, this 1949 classic is at long last... more
Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Lisa Howard. This sharp film noir thriller has been richly restored to revisit the intense story of a woman who solicits the help of her police-lieutenant lover... more
William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain. Thought lost for all time, a dupe negative found by la Cinemathque franaise, brings this 1916 film treasure back into print and completely restored... more
This extraordinary 1952 Argentinian noir... is probably the most bedarkened, beshadowed film I've seen, full of extreme closeups, unexpected sound effects and music. It deserves to be restored and... more
Independent films produced in the shadow of Hollywood's major studios were given the less than complimentary nickname "Poverty Row," which existed in Hollywood between the 1920s and 1960s. They were... more
Largely unseen since it's original theatrical release in 1965, and almost never shown in the U.S., The Golden Head is somewhat of a Cinerama mystery, not only in it's "Emil and the Detectives" -... more