The Big Heat

Director: Fritz Lang 

Actors: Glenn Ford,  Gloria Grahame,  Jocelyn Brando,  Alexander Scourby,  Lee Marvin,  Jeanette Nolan,  Peter Whitney,  Willis Bouchey,  Robert Burton,  Adam Williams, Howard Wendell,  Chris Alcaide,  Michael Granger,  Dorothy Green,  Carolyn Jones,  Ric Roman 

Genres: Film Noir, Crime, Thriller 

Country: USA  

Release Year: 1953  

Duration: 1 h 29 min 

Synopsis: Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide, and his fellow officers' suspicious silence leads him to believe that they are on the gangsters' payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster's spurned girlfriend Debby.

Leave Her to Heaven

Director: John M. Stahl  

Actors: Gene Tierney,  Cornel Wilde,  Jeanne Crain,  Vincent Price,  Mary Philips,  Ray Collins,  Gene Lockhart,  Reed Hadley,  Darryl Hickman,  Chill Wills, Gertrude Astor,  Guy Beach,  Audrey Betz,  Olive Blakeney,  Ruth Clifford  

Sweet Smell of Success

Director: Alexander Mackendrick 

Actors: Burt Lancaster,  Tony Curtis,  Susan Harrison,  Martin Milner,  Jeff Donnell,  Sam Levene,  Joe Frisco,  Barbara Nichols,  Emile Meyer,  Edith Atwater,  Chico Hamilton,  Paul Horn,  Fred Katz,  Buddy Clark,  Paul Frees 

The Killing

Director: Stanley Kubrick 

Actors: Sterling Hayden,  Coleen Gray,  Vince Edwards,  Jay C. Flippen,  Ted de Corsia,  Marie Windsor,  Elisha Cook Jr.,  Joe Sawyer,  James Edwards,  Timothy Carey, Kola Kwariani,  Jay Adler,  Tito Vuolo,  Dorothy Adams,  Herbert Ellis  

Gilda

Director: Charles Vidor  

Actors: Rita Hayworth,  Glenn Ford,  George Macready,  Joseph Calleia,  Steven Geray,  Joe Sawyer,  Gerald Mohr,  Mark Roberts,  Ludwig Donath,  Donald Douglas,  Julio Abadía,  Enrique Acosta,  Ed Agresti,  Sam Appel,  Sam Ash  

White Heat

Director: Raoul Walsh

Actors: James Cagney,  Virginia Mayo,  Edmond O'Brien,  Margaret Wycherly,  Steve Cochran,  John Archer,  Wally Cassell,  Fred Clark,  Joel Allen,  Claudia Barrett,  Ray Bennett,  Marshall Bradford,  Chet Brandenburg,  John Butler