Film Noir and Neo-Noir on TCM: June, 2026

Monday, June 1, 11:45 PM – Tuesday, June 2, 3:00 AM

Film Noir Double Feature

11:45 PM

ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950): In this awesome little action-packed noir, a police officer, Charles McGraw in a rare outing as a good guy, tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters. Dir. Richard Fleischer

1:15 AM

I LOVE TROUBLE (1948) Franchot Tone plays a wisecracking private eye sleuthing his way through a bevy of treacherous dames in this playful homage to Raymond Chandler, written by future TV legend Roy Huggins (77 Sunset Strip, Maverick, The Fugitive) Features an incredible supporting cast: Janet Blair, Janis Carter, Adele Jergens, Glenda Farrell, John Ireland, Raymond Burr. Dir. Sylvan Simon.

Thursday, June 4, 11:45 AM – Friday, June 5, 1:15 AM

Jazz Noir Double Bill

11:45 AM

BLUES IN THE NIGHT (1941): In this consummate jazz noir, pianist Jigger Pine (Richard Whorf) forms a quintet with his singer/wife fronting the band (Priscilla Lane). Relationship problems, criminal activity and the siren song of success all threaten the band’s devotion to jazz and the blues. A remarkable collection of talented actors contributes to the film, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson, Wallace Ford, Joyce Compton, Howard Da Silva, and a young Elia Kazan. Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer scored the film and penned the Oscar nominated title song, Blues in the Night which became a huge hit and part of the Great American Songbook. Dir. Anatole Litvak

1:15 AM

PETE KELLY’S BLUES (1955): Ex-doughboy turned jazz musician Pet Kelly (Jack Webb) leads a quartet playing at a Kansas City speakeasy during the Roaring 20s. The quartet gets crossed up with a gangster (Edmond O’Brien) and his alcoholic girlfriend (Peggy Lee). Cynical Kelly finds that he has to take a stand. Janet Leigh plays Ivy Conrad), a wealthy flapper who puts the moves on Kelly. Ella Fitzgerald makes a memorable cameo as singer Maggie Jacks. Look for Jayne Mansfield as a cigarette girl. Dir. Jack Webb

Friday, June 5, 5:00 PM – Saturday, June 6, 3:00 AM

Summer of Darkness: Eddie Muller’s Top 25

Eddie Muller presents essential noir classics.
Eddie will not be introducing the late-night neo-noirs.

5:00 PM

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941): How do I love this movie, let me count the ways… In arguably the first, and greatest, film noir, hard-boiled detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets caught up in the deadly search for a priceless statue. Along the way he tangles with a murderous liar (Mary Astor), a foppish thug (Peter Lorre) and an obese mastermind (Sydney Greenstreet). Director John Huston brilliantly adapted it from the Dashiell Hammett novel and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay. The film also garnered nominations for Best Picture and for Sydney Greenstreet, in his film debut, Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Dir. John Huston

7:00 PM

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944): Barbara Stanwyck—in a platinum blonde wig—plays Phyllis Dietrichson—the consummate femme fatale who lures insurance salesman and all-around chump Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) into a plot involving murder and insurance fraud. His friend, and insurance adjuster, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) smells a rat. Nominated for seven Oscars: Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Best Director; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture; Best Picture; Best Sound, Recording; and Best Writing, Screenplay. Dir. Billy Wilder

9:00 PM

DETOUR (1945): Ann Savage’s ferocious performance as an avaricious drifter known only as “Vera” is at the black heart of this ramshackle affair, often cited as the ultimate tale of noir fatalism, as well as one of the most creative—if impoverished—movies ever made in Hollywood. Tom Neal plays Al Roberts, a hard-luck nightclub piano player who decides to hitchhike cross-country to reunite with his estranged girlfriend. Things steadily go from bad to worse, especially once vixenish vagabond Vera gets her hooks into him. Shot in only a few days on the most minuscule budget, Ulmer’s most famous film is a delirious fever dream of paranoia and dread. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer

10:30 PM

THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (1980): In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) wants the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for future Olympic Games. A series of bombings of his properties and murders of his men while the Americans are visiting threaten his plans. The film features Pierce Bronson’s film debut. Méheux served as DP. Dir. John Mackenzie

12:30 AM

MONA LISA (1986): Bob Hoskins earned an Oscar nomination for this 1986 release playing an ex-con hired to drive an expensive call girl (Cathy Tyson) to her appointments. She pulls him into her quest to find her missing friend, putting them both in peril. Michael Caine contributes a chilling performance as the pair’s dangerous boss. Dir. Neil Jordan

2:30 AM

ALICE IN MOVIELAND (1940): In this short, 18-year-old Alice Purdee (Joan Leslie) wins a free trip to Hollywood. When she tries to make it in Hollywood, she learns stardom comes at a price. Features the debut of Alexis Smith. Dir. Jean Negulesco

Saturday, June 6, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Film Noir Double Feature

Two of the greatest

5:00 PM

OUT OF THE PAST (1947): In this quintessential film noir, small town gas station owner Jeff Bailey’s (Robert Mitchum) past catches up with him when a stranger passing through town recognizes him. He tells his girlfriend Ann Miller (Virginia Huston) about his previous via flashback, of course. Jeff was a private eye falls for the gangster’s moll (Jane Greer) that he’s supposed to find for her lover Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). She’s allegedly stolen $40,000 from Whit and he wants her and the dough back. As in all good noirs, nothing is really as it seems. Watch for future noir siren Rhonda Fleming as a duplicitous secretary. Based on Geoffrey Homes’ excellent pulp novel Build My Gallows High and shot by legendary cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Jacques Tourneur

7:00 PM

THE SET-UP (1949): An aging boxer (Robert Ryan) defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight, believing that he can still be a champ. Audrey Totter plays his devoted wife who begs him to retire from boxing before he’s destroyed. Dir. Robert Wise

Monday, June 8, 5:00 PM – 10:30 PM

Marilyn Monroe’s Three Noirs

5:00 PM

CLASH BY NIGHT (1952): In this film noir social realism hybrid, an embittered and world-weary woman (Barbara Stanwyck) seeks escape from her life of hard knocks in marriage, only to fall for her husband's amoral best friend (Robert Ryan). The film features a small, early role for Marilyn Monroe. Based on a play by the ever-ponderous Clifford Odets. Dir. Fritz Lang

7:00 PM

DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952): In this gritty little noir, the boyfriend (Richard Widmar), of a hotel lounge singer (Anne Bancroft) tries to get back at her for dumping him, by picking up a beautiful hotel guest, Marilyn Monroe. Unfortunately for him, she’s not what she seems, and bit by bit he realizes the truth and the danger he’s in. Based on the novel Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong. Dir. Roy Baker

8:30 PM

THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950): A hoodlum and ex-con (Sterling Hayden) hopes for one last big score that will enable him to go home to his farm in Kentucky. He falls in with a gang of small-time crooks plotting an elaborate jewel heist. Of course, you can never go home again. A young Marilyn Monroe plays a small but juicy part. The film was nominated for four Oscars including a Best Supporting Actor nod for Sam Jaffe as the mastermind undone by his passion for beautiful girls. Based on the novel by W. R. Burnett. Dir. John Huston

Friday, June 12, 5:00 PM – Saturday, June 13, 3:00 AM

Summer of Darkness: Eddie Muller’s Top 25

Eddie Muller presents essential noir classics.
Eddie will not be introducing the late-night neo-noirs

5:00 PM

SCARLET STREET (1945): A henpecked cashier and weekend painter, Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), falls for heartless tramp Kitty (Joan Bennett) whom he meets by chance. She and her pimp/boyfriend Johnny (Dan Duryea) play the sucker for everything he has. Then Chris starts to embezzle to keep his lady love happy and things go from bad to worse. Dir. Fritz Lang

7:00 PM

THE KILLERS (1946): Expanded from the Hemmingway short story, two professional killers come to a small town looking for The Swede (Burt Lancaster). An insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) unravels the tangled skein of events that led up to the hit. Ava Gardner plays Kitty, the woman who led the Swede to his doom. Dir. Robert Siodmak

9:00 PM

NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947): Tyrone Power gives the performance of a lifetime in a change-of-pace role as a carnival con man that masters a mind-reading act, after killing the act’s originator and seducing his wife (Joan Blondell). He then teams up with an unethical psychiatrist (Helen Walker) to scam wealthy clients, an excellent adaptation of the highly disturbing novel by William Lindsay Gresham. Dir: Edmund Goulding

11:00 PM

THE YAKUZA (1974): Retired detective Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) returns to Japan after many years to help old friend George Tanner (Brian Keith) whose daughter was kidnapped by a Yakuza boss that he was trying to business with. Harry starts by visiting his old flame, Eiko (Kishi Keiko), and enlists her brother, Ken (Takakura Ken), to help him search. Dir. Sydney Pollack

1:00 AM

THE FIRST DEADLY SIN (1980): New York police sergeant Edward Delaney (Frank Sinatra) tries to catch a serial killer while dealing with the worsening health of his wife (Faye Dunaway). Sinatra won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Delaney. Based on the novel by Lawrence Sanders. Dir. Brian G. Hutton

Friday, June 19, 3:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Hitchcock Marathon

3:00 AM

THE LODGER (1926): The master of suspense himself considered this adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes novel "the first true Hitchcock picture". A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering blonde women. A mysterious man (Ivor Novello) takes a room where the daughter of the house is a blonde model. Her detective boyfriend, fueled by jealousy, begins to suspect the lodger is "The Avenger". Look for Hitchcock's first cameo. Remade in 1932 (again with Novello), in 1944 with Laird Cregar, and in 1954 with Jack Palance as the Man in the Attic. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

4:45 AM

YOUNG AND INNOCENT (a.k.a THE GIRL WAS YOUNG) (1937) Writer Robert Tisdall (Derrick de Marney) discovers the body of his married girlfriend, actress Christine Clay (Pamela Carme) washed up on shore. He takes advantage of a courthouse mix up and winds up on the lam with the police chief's daughter, Erica Burgoyne (Nova Pilbeam). Based on Josephine’s 1936 novel A Shilling for Candles. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

6:15 AM

THE WRONG MAN (1956): In this gritty documentary style noir, victims of a robbery misidentify a musician (Henry Fonda) for the culprit, destroying the lives of him and his wife (Vera Miles). This film was based on the true story of Manny Ballestro and used extensive locations shooting in New York City. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

8:15 AM

THE LADY VANISHES (1938): A young bride-to-be Iris (Margaret Lockwood), traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty), who then disappears into thin air. When no believes Miss Froy even existed outside Iris’ imagination, including Dr. Hartz (Paul Lukas), a brain surgeon, she turns investigator and finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. A young musicologist (Michael Redgrave) helps her with her quest. based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

10:00 AM

NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): Foreign agents mistake suave and swinging advertising man Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) for a spy. He takes it on the lam and encounters a beautiful blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who may or may not be trusted. This film earned three Oscar nominations: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color; Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen; and Best Film Editing. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

11:45 AM

SUSPICION (1941): A handsome gambler Johnny Aysgarth (Cary Grant) pursues the shy and wealthy Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine). He courts and marries her. After the honeymoon she discovers unsettling things about his character. She becomes increasingly suspicious of him when Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky (Nigel Bruce) dies mysteriously. Based on Anthony Berkeley Cox’s outstanding novel After the Fact. Seriously, read the book. Fontaine won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work in the film. Composer Franz Waxman was nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture. The film also earned a nomination for Best Picture. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Saturday, June 20, 2:45 – 5:00 PM

Noir Double Feature

5:45 PM

BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967): In this critically acclaimed and deeply influential classic, the legendary bank robbers and lovers (Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway) embark on a crime spree during the Depression era Dust Bowl of the 1930s and become folk heroes. Their crimes quickly spiral from petty theft to bank robbery, but tensions between the couple and the other members of their gang—getaway driver C.W. (Michael J. Pollard), Clyde's older brother Buck (Gene Hackman) and Buck's wife, Blanche (Estelle Parsons). The film won two Oscars, Estelle Parsons for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Burnett Guffey for Best Cinematography, an additional eight nominations. Dir. Arthur Penn

8:00 PM

REAR WINDOW (1954): A wheelchair-bound photographer passes the time of his disability by spying on his neighbors. One day he witnesses a murder. Or does he? This iconic mystery was adapted from a story by Cornell Woolrich and earned a Best Writing, Screenplay Oscar nomination for screenwriter John Michael Hayes. The film earned three more Oscar nods for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Color and Best Sound, Recording. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Friday, June 26, 3:45 AM – 5:00 PM

TCM Salutes Peter Lorre

Here are the noirs...

3:45 AM

M (1931): Peter Lorre is unforgettable as serial killer Hans Beckert, preying on children and whistling “In the Hall of the Mountain King” as he works. When the ensuing police crackdown proves bad for criminal business, all of Berlin’s underworld joins the manhunt for Beckert. This classic crime thriller was Fritz Lang’s first sound film, as well as the director’s personal favorite. Dir. Fritz Lang

5:45 AM

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934): A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland. Things escalate quickly when the daughter is kidnapped, and the parents (Leslie Banks and Edna Best) must rely on themselves to save her. This tense thriller featured Peter Lorre’s first performance in an English language film. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

8:30 AM

STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940): Peter Lorre is the Stranger, haunting a reporter (John McGuire) whose testimony sentenced a possibly innocent man (Elisha Cook Jr.) to death. Can the writer's girlfriend (Margaret Tallichet) uncover the truth in time? A revelatory burst of hallucinatory cinema, featuring a prolonged dream sequence that was the initial injection of noir expressionism into Hollywood's bloodstream. Shot by the incomparable D.P. Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Boris Ingster

9:45 AM

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941): How do I love this movie, let me count the ways… In arguably the first, and greatest, film noir, hard-boiled detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets caught up in the deadly search for a priceless statue. Along the way he tangles with a murderous liar (Mary Astor), a foppish thug (Peter Lorre) and an obese mastermind (Sydney Greenstreet). Director John Huston brilliantly adapted it from the Dashiell Hammett novel and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay. The film also garnered nominations for Best Picture and for Sydney Greenstreet, in his film debut, Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Dir. John Huston

11:45 AM

THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS (1944): The eternal noir duo of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre star in this film adaptation of the Eric Ambler novel which also features Zachary Scott in his film debut. Novelist Cornelius Leyden (Lorre) investigates the mysterious death of international criminal Dimitrios Makopoulus (Scott) after Dimitrios’ body is discovered in Istanbul. The mysterious Peters (Greenstreet) encourages Leyden and promises him a financial reward. But what is Peters’ motivation for the investigation? The always wonderful character actress Fay Emerson plays a supporting role as a lover formerly fleeced by Dimitrios. Dir. Jean Negulesco

1:30 PM

THREE STRANGERS (1946): Noir strays into the supernatural realm in this fantastic tale of three strangers (Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Geraldine Fitzgerald) whose fates entwine with a mysterious Chinese idol and a winning lottery ticket. Deeply cynical, gloriously atmospheric Screenplay by John Huston and Howard Koch. Dir. Jean Negulesco

Friday, June 26, 5:00 PM – Saturday, June 27, 5:30 AM

Summer of Darkness: Eddie Muller’s Top 25

Eddie Muller presents essential noir classics.
Eddie will not be introducing the late-night neo-noirs

5:00 PM

OUT OF THE PAST (1947): In this quintessential film noir, small town gas station owner Jeff Bailey’s (Robert Mitchum) past catches up with him when a stranger passing through town recognizes him. He tells his girlfriend Ann Miller (Virginia Huston) about his previous via flashback, of course. Jeff was a private eye falls for the gangster’s moll (Jane Greer) that he’s supposed to find for her lover Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). She’s allegedly stolen $40,000 from Whit and he wants her and the dough back. As in all good noirs, nothing is really as it seems. Watch for future noir siren Rhonda Fleming as a duplicitous secretary. Based on Geoffrey Homes’ excellent pulp novel Build My Gallows High and shot by legendary cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Jacques Tourneur

7:00 PM

RAW DEAL (1948): Ostensibly a revenge tale of a hoodlum (Dennis O’Keefe) breaking out of jail to wreak revenge on the criminal boss (Raymond Burr) that betrayed him, the heart of this film is its tragic but realistic love triangle. Seemingly good-girl Marsha Hunt and seemingly bad-girl Claire Trevor struggle for the love of O’Keefe’ homme fatale, all three characters and their relationships prove much more morally and emotionally complex than expected. Stunning visuals provided by the iconic Hollywood noir cinematographer John Alton. Dir. Anthony Mann

8:30 PM

MOONRISE (1948): Relentlessly romantic optimist Frank Borzage is the last director you'd expect to turn out an effective film noir, but this brilliantly directed drama was his sound-era masterpiece. Dane Clark gives a bruised and brooding performance as a young man convinced that his father's "bad blood" has sealed his miserable fate. Can he be saved by the love of angelic Gail Russell? Featuring strong supporting performances by Ethel Barrymore, Rex Ingram, Lloyd Bridges, and Harry Morgan. An extremely rare noir outing for Republic Pictures. Dir. Frank Borzage

10:15 PM

HARPER (1966): In this neo-noir, soon to be divorced private eye (Paul Newman) sets out to find the missing millionaire husband for his crippled wife (Lauren Bacall). The trail leads to a religious cult and a kidnapping plot. His investigation also leads him to Shelley Winters as a faded starlet. Janet Leigh plays his estranged wife whom Harper still loves. Dir. Jack Smight

12:30 AM

THE DROWNING POOL (1975): In this neo-noir, private dick Lew Harper (Paul Newman) is in the Louisiana bayou working on a blackmail case involving the daughter (Melanie Griffith) of his old flame, Iris Devereau (Joanne Woodward). As he tries to solve the case, he becomes entangled in a power struggle between Iris and a local oil tycoon. Dir. Stuart Rosenberg

Saturday, June 27, 12:45 PM

BULLITT (1968): When mobsters kill the witness Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) was assigned to protect, he uses unorthodox methods to investigate the case. Beautiful San Francisco location work and a breathtaking car chase sequence add additional pleasure to watching this fine neo-noir, not to mention the iconic Lalo Schifrin score. Dir. Peter Yates

Monday, June 29, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Lavender Noir

3:30 PM

VICTIM (1961): Brit noir meets social consciousness in this fine drama. Closeted and married barrister Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) risks both his career and personal life to expose the blackmailers who prey on gay men afraid of England’s criminal prosecution of homosexuals and who drove his friend to suicide. The film also portrays his relationship with his wife (Sylvia Syms) and the impact of his actions on their marriage in a complex and empathetic manner. The film, while negatively affecting star Bogarde’s career, did help shift public opinion about the anti-sodomy laws in the U.K. England and Wales decriminalized most consensual homosexual conduct in 1967. Dir. Basil Dearden

5:15 PM

GILDA (1946): A gambler (Glenn Ford) discovers an old flame (Rita Hayworth) in South America, but she's married to his new boss (George Macready), and… um… friend—homoerotic noir at its best. If that weren’t enough, there’s Hayworth’s incredibly steamy rendition of “Put the Blame on Mame” Whoof! Dir. Charles Vidor

Tuesday, June 30 1:15 PM – 5:00 PM

Noir Double Bill

1:15 PM

CORNERED (1945): Dick Powell stars as a World War II vet out to revenge the murder of his wife who died fighting for the French Resistance. He suspects the man who ordered the execution of her and her comrades faked his own death. He sets out to find him. For my two cents, Powell gives his best acting performance as the physically and psychologically wounded vet. Dir. Edward Dmytryk

3:15 PM

THE LONG NIGHT (1947): This inferior American remake of Marcel Carné’s Le jour se lève (1939) opens with protagonist Joe Adams (Henry Fonda) wanted for murder and trapped by the police in his apartment. Flashbacks reveal how he got there. Vincent Price gives a memorable supporting performance as his nemesis, dog act maestro Maximilian the Great. Dir. Anatole Litvak