NOIR CITY: Chicago 2025

Previous Film Festival

September 5 – September 11, 2025

NOIR CITY: CHICAGO 2025 steps out of the shadows on September 5th-11th! Featuring over a dozen classic noir films on the big screen, hosted by EDDIE MULLER and ALAN K. RODE.

Femme fatales ignite the screen this year, with a focus on films that shine a spotlight on women whose cinematic legacy is entwined with the rise of film noir.

Screenings from Friday, September 5th-Sunday, September 7th will be hosted by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder and host of TCM's Noir Alley.

Screenings on Monday, September 8th-Thursday, September 11th will be presented by FNF board member Alan K. Rode, author of Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film.

Festival Pricing

Series Pass - $125 GA / $100 Music Box Members (Grants admission into all screenings in NOIR CITY: CHICAGO 2025)

Individual Screenings - $12.50 GA / $11.50 Senior (Available at the Box Office Only) / $10 Music Box Members

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Previously in this Festival

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Alias Nick Beal

This Faustian tale of soul corruption has campaigning politician Thomas Mitchell making a devilish pact with slick fixer Nick Beal (Ray Milland)—who m... Read more

John Farrow
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Cry Danger

Cry Danger

When Rocky Mulloy (Dick Powell) is sprung from prison after serving five years on a robbery charge, he returns to Los Angeles looking to settle things... Read more

Robert Parrish
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Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning

World War II paratrooper Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) gets sucked into a maelstrom of mayhem and murder after his jump-mate Johnny Drake disappears o... Read more

John Cromwell
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Detour

Detour

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 u... Read more

Edgar G. Ulmer
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The Grifters

The Grifters

The best movie ever made from a book by Jim Thompson, America’s preeminent writer of noir fiction. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) is a young grifter blithel... Read more

Stephen Frears
100 min
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Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy is the most audacious work of “outlaw cinema” made during the classic Hollywood era. Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo blasts through t... Read more

Joseph H. Lewis
97 min
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The Hot Spot

The Hot Spot

This steamy slice of sordid small-town noir was adapted by novelist Charles Williams in 1962 as a never-produced vehicle for Robert Mitchum. Twenty-ei... Read more

Dennis Hopper
130 min
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The Killing

You’ll think you’ve died and gone to hardboiled heaven. Or is it hell? Kubrick was only twenty-eight when he unleashed this twisty and twisted masterp... Read more

Stanley Kubrick
80 min
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Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet

Philip Marlowe, the quintessential L.A. private eye, searches for an ex-con’s girlfriend, but, as always, winds up swimming in deceit and double-cross... Read more

Edward Dmytryk
95 min
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My True Story

My True Story

In the midst of his halcyon days as one of the busiest talents in show business, Mickey Rooney directed this unusual drama produced in association wit... Read more

Mickey Rooney
67 min
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Out of the Past

Out of the Past

Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas vie for the honor of being betrayed by Jane Greer, the most desirable of devil dolls, in this quintessential noir mast... Read more

Jacques Tourneur
97 min
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Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady

Loyal and lovely Ella Raines is “one hep kitten” as she high-heels her way through the noir demimonde, searching for the one woman who can save her bo... Read more

Robert Siodmak
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The Prowler

The Prowler

Losey’s greatest American film, from a script by legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, is resurrected in all its bleak splendor in this 35mm restorati... Read more

Joseph Losey
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The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

Joan Bennett gives a compelling performance as Lucia Harper, a suburban housewife who covers up for her teenage daughter when she accidentally kills h... Read more

Max Ophüls
82 min
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Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

On the night of his retirement, aging, mild-mannered cashier Christopher Cross becomes an accidental hero rescuing a gorgeous young woman, Kitty March... Read more

Fritz Lang
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Barbara Stanwyck dominates the screen as a coldly ruthless industrial heiress whose passion is reignited by the return of a childhood flame with whom... Read more

Lewis Milestone
116 min
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Tension

Tension

Audrey Totter pulls out all the stops portraying her ultimate “bad girl,” vile voluptuary Claire Quimby, in one of the most underrated noir films of t... Read more

John Berry
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The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

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Fritz Lang
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