July 18–27, 2025
Welcome to the Guild Cinema's 21st Annual Film Noir Festival!
The festival is made up of five double features, meaning that you can watch one or both movies for the price of a single ticket. If you want to watch both movies, it has to be within the same day. Tickets purchased for the final showing of the night are not double feature admission.
Fri July 18 – Sat July 19
DOUBLE FEATURE #1:
SERIAL KILLER NOIR
JULY 18–19 (FRI–SAT): 4:00, 8:15pm
Classic German thriller with Peter Lorre as a child serial killer!
[Dir. Fritz Lang - 1931- 99m - In German with English subtitles]
JULY 18–19 (FRI–SAT): 6:15pm only!
Michael Powell’s controversial psych-horror landmark of a film studio tech documenting fear as he kills people while filming them.
[Dir. Michael Powell - 1960 - 86m]
Admission to watch ONE OR BOTH MOVIES (same price):
Admission to watch only FRITZ LANG'S M:
Sun July 20 – Mon July 21
DOUBLE FEATURE #2:
BLACK ICON NOIR
JULY 20–21 (SUN–MON): 4:00, 8:15pm
A fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten racist ex-con (Robert Ryan) and a debt-ridden nightclub singer (Henry Belafonte) to pull off a bank job.
[Dir. Robert Wise - 1959 - 96m]
JULY 20–21 (SUN–MON): 6:15pm only!
The budding friendship of two NYC longshoremen, a drifter (John Cassavetes), and a gang boss (Sidney Poiter) is threatened by a notably repugnant co-worker.
[Dir. Martin Ritt - 1957 - 85m]
Admission to watch ONE OR BOTH MOVIES (same price):
Admission to watch only ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW:
Tue July 22 – Wed July 23
DOUBLE FEATURE #3:
HOODLUM NOIR
JULY 22–23 (TUE–WED): 4:15, 8:30pm
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign. Starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, and Brian Donlevy.
[Dir. Stuart Heisler - 1942 - 85m]
JULY 22–23 (TUE–WED): 6:15pm only!
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder. Starring Richard Widmark.
[Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 1950 - 106m]
Admission to watch ONE OR BOTH MOVIES (same price):
Admission to watch only THE GLASS KEY:
Thu July 24 – Fri July 25
DOUBLE FEATURE #4:
WOMEN IN PERIL NOIR
JULY 24–25 (THU–FRI): 4:30, 8:30pm
A mentally disturbed handyman (Robert Ryan) on the run, for reasons even he doesn’t understand, takes a job at the house of a lonely war widow (Ida Lupino) in 1918.
[Dir. Harry Horner - 1952 - 77m]
JULY 24–25 (THU–FRI): 6:30pm only!
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums. Starring Olivia De Havilland and James Caan in his feature debut!
[Dir. Walter Grauman - 1964 - 94m]
Admission to watch ONE OR BOTH MOVIES (same price):
Admission to watch only BEWARE, MY LOVELY:
Sat July 26 – Sun July 27
DOUBLE FEATURE #5:
80s & 90s SLEAZE NOIR
JULY 26–27 (SAT–SUN): 3:30, 8:15pm
An extramarital fling between a L.A. construction magnate (Roy Schneider) and his stripper mistress Cini (Kelly Preston) leads to three strangers blackmailing him for a six-figure sum. Also starring Ann Margret, Clarence Williams III, and Vanity.
[Dir. John Frankenheimer - 1986 - 110m]
JULY 26–27 (SAT–SUN): 5:45pm only!
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank. Starring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly, and Virginia Madsen.
[Dir. Dennis Hopper - 1990 - 130m]
Admission to watch ONE OR BOTH MOVIES (same price):
Admission to watch only 52 PICK-UP: