Key Largois a thrilling criminal noir featuring a stellar cast and a romance that sparks from a life-or-death situation.

The visit turns perilous when he encounters a dangerous mobster and his henchmen holding the hotel guests hostage.

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Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) and Vivian (Lauren Bacall) chat over drinks in ‘Key Largo’

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The love between T.R.

This film noir classic explores the inevitability of fate and the consequences of past choices.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell looking at each other in Fallen Angel (1945)

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Jeff tracks her to Mexico, where they fall in love and plot to escape Whit’s grasp.

They are without question the ultimate film noir couple.

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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in Key Largo looking at the camera.

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A former soldier travels to a remote hotel in Key Largo to honor the memory of a friend who died in combat. The visit turns perilous when he encounters a dangerous mobster and his henchmen holding the hotel guests hostage. With a hurricane looming, the veteran must use his skills and bravery to outsmart the gangsters and ensure the safety of everyone trapped inside.

Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd looking from behind a wall in This Gun for Hire (1942)

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Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman looking at each other lovingly in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Notorious’

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Ava Gardner leaning against a piano with Burt Lancaster standing behind her in The Killers (1946)

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Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney looking at each other in Laura (1944)

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Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer in Out of the Past looking at each other at a bar.

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Jeff Bailey, a seemingly ordinary gas station owner, is drawn back into a web of intrigue and danger when his former employer, Whit Sterling, sends an associate to find him. Revealing his true identity as ex-private detective Jeff Markham, he recalls his assignment to locate Whit’s elusive mistress, Kathie Moffat, who vanished with a fortune. Jeff tracks her to Mexico, where they fall in love and plot to escape Whit’s grasp.

Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in Gilda

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Gilda revolves around Johnny Farrell, a small-time gambler who is saved from a mugging by the enigmatic Ballin Mundson. Farrell becomes Mundson’s right-hand man, only to discover that Mundson’s new wife, Gilda, is his former lover. The film explores the love, betrayal, and revenge in Farrell and Gilda’s tumultuous relationship unfolds against the backdrop of Mundson’s shady casino operations in Buenos Aires​.

Barbara Stanwyck standing behind a door as Fred MacMurray stands in the doorway in Double Indemnity

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A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) and Vivian Rutledge (Lauren Bacall) in ‘The Big Sleep’ (1946)

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