Past Season:

Celebrating Film Noir

Sat 28 May — Wed 14 Sep 2022

The Garden Cinema presents an ongoing exploration of Film Noir from across the world.

June/July 2022: Classic Hollywood Noir

July/August 2022: French Noir

August/September 2022: British Noir

Past Screenings

Lift to the Scaffold PG

For his feature debut, twenty-four-year-old Louis Malle brought together a mesmerizing performance by Jeanne Moreau, evocative cinematography by Henri Decaë, and… Read More

Louis Malle, France, 1958, 88m.

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Odd Man Out PG

Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed’s psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James… Read More

Carol Reed, UK, 1946, 116m.

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It Always Rains on Sunday PG

It Always Rains on Sunday is a dark and dramatic tale set in a bombed-damaged postwar East End London. The third film… Read More

Robert Hamer, UK, 1947, 92m.

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The Third Man PG

Our screening on Sunday 4 September will be followed by a q&a with Angela Allen, who worked as script supervisor on… Read More

Carol Reed, UK, 1949, 104m.

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Night and the City PG

Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) longs for “a life of ease and plenty.” Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere… Read More

Jules Dassin, UK , 1950, 101m.

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Brighton Rock PG

Richard Attenborough is unforgettable as ‘Pinkie’, the brutal gangster who seduces and grooms a simple waitress, Rose (Carol Marsh) in the… Read More

John Boulting, UK, 1948, 92m.

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Hôtel du Nord PG

Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals – all these are found in the Hôtel du Nord, a seedy boarding-house on… Read More

Marcel Carné, France, 1938, 95m.

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Port of Shadows PG

A wonderfully atmospheric film about army deserter Jean (Jean Gabin), who arrives in Le Havre seeking a ship to take him… Read More

Marcel Carné, France, 1938, 91m.

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La Bête Humaine PG

Based on the classic Émile Zola novel, Jean Renoir's La Bête Humaine was one of the legendary director's greatest popular successes—and… Read More

Jean Renoir, France, 1938, 96m.

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The Wages of Fear 12A

In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with… Read More

Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1953, 147m.

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Les Diaboliques 12A

Before Psycho, Peeping Tom, and Repulsion, there was Les Diaboliques, a film which shocked audiences in Europe and the U.S. It… Read More

Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1955, 117m.

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Double Indemnity PG

Double Indemnity is often regarded as the best of the Hollywood noirs, a credit to Billy Wilder as director and script-writer.… Read More

Billy Wilder, USA, 1944, 108m.

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The Maltese Falcon PG

This 1941 film version of Dashiell Hammett’s ‘Sam Spade’ novel laid down the blueprint for subsequent Hollywood films noir. It also… Read More

John Huston, USA, 1941, 101m.

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Out of the Past PG

Our screening on Monday 2 June will be introduced by John Wischmeyer (City Lit). Arguably the definitive film noir, and featuring… Read More

Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1947, 97m.

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Touch of Evil 12A

A lurid tale of corruption played out in the strip joints and motel rooms of a sleazy Mexican border town, with… Read More

Orson Welles, USA, 1958, 95m.

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Kiss Me Deadly 12A

Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly is rich with symbolic allusions, complex plot threads, and nuclear paranoia about the atomic bomb. It… Read More

Robert Aldrich, USA, 1955, 106m.

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The Big Heat 15

Fritz Lang’s Hollywood film noir classic in which Glenn Ford, the ex-policeman investigating police ties to organized crime, indirectly causes the… Read More

Fritz Lang, USA, 1953, 90m.

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Laura U

Very much Otto Preminger’s film as producer and director, it has all the classic ingredients of the thriller and mystery film,… Read More

Otto Preminger , USA, 1944, 88m.

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