Vacation Noir

Vacation Noir

10 Episodes

Unlucky vacationers discover that crime doesn’t take a holiday in these deceptively sunny, seductively dark thrillers set amid scenic beaches, luxury resorts, and picture-postcard locales. Honeymooners find themselves caught up in a disturbing domestic drama in the lurid, Technicolor Marilyn Monroe sizzler NIAGARA. Languorous days by the pool with Alain Delon and Romy Schneider take a deadly turn in the sultry suspense master class LA PISCINE. And a Mediterranean cruise is the setting for a most delicious murder mystery in the diabolically entertaining, all-star whodunnit THE LAST OF SHEILA. With gorgeous scenery, swimsuit-clad stars, and shadowy intrigue, these lusciously overheated entertainments are the perfect summer escape—no sunscreen required.

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Vacation Noir

10 Episodes

  • Vacation Noir Teaser
    00:58
    Vacation Noir Teaser
    Episode 1

    Vacation Noir Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Purple Noon
    1:57:36
    Purple Noon
    Episode 2

    Purple Noon

    Episode 2

    Directed by René Clément • 1960 • France, Italy
    Starring Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt

    Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful when PURPLE NOON was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s vicious novel “The Talented Mr. R...

  • The Last of Sheila
    1:59:18
    The Last of Sheila
    Episode 3

    The Last of Sheila

    Episode 3

    Directed by Herbert Ross • 1973 • United States Starring Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn

    Wittily scripted by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim, this eccentric, all-star whodunnit is a ...

  • La piscine
    2:03:47
    La piscine
    Episode 4

    La piscine

    Episode 4

    Directed by Jacques Deray • 1969 • France
    Starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet

    The bright sun of the French Riviera is deceptive in this alluring work of slow-burn suspense from thriller specialist Jacques Deray and legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. Formerly one of Euro...

  • Kansas City Confidential
    1:39:34
    Kansas City Confidential
    Episode 5

    Kansas City Confidential

    Episode 5

    Directed by Phil Karlson • 1952 • United States Starring John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster

    B-noir specialist Phil Karlson brings a gritty pulp punch to this slam-bang heist thriller with a plot tha...

  • His Kind of Woman
    2:00:06
    His Kind of Woman
    Episode 6

    His Kind of Woman

    Episode 6

    Directed by John Farrow • 1951 • United States
    Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price

    This offbeat noir gem from genre specialist John Farrow brings together a crackerjack cast—including Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Raymond Burr, and Vincent Price (playing, appropriately, a ham ac...

  • Female on the Beach
    1:36:52
    Female on the Beach
    Episode 7

    Female on the Beach

    Episode 7

    Directed by Joseph Pevney • 1955 • United States Starring Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling

    This steamy noir melodrama casts a fiery and glamorous Joan Crawford as a wealthy gambler’s widow wh...

  • Desert Fury
    1:36:00
    Desert Fury
    Episode 8

    Desert Fury

    Episode 8

    Directed by Lewis Allen • 1947 • United States
    Starring John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster

    Lurid Technicolor, deep-dish melodrama, and gay subtext abound in this pulpy noir firecracker. In the desert town of Chuckawalla, Nevada, tempers flare, passions spark, and violence erupts when Pa...

  • Brighton Rock
    1:32:37
    Brighton Rock
    Episode 9

    Brighton Rock

    Episode 9

    Directed by John Boulting • 1948 • United Kingdom
    Starring Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell

    One of darkest and most sordid of all British noirs, this startlingly bleak, violent adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene delves into the seedy underbelly of the seaside reso...

  • The Lady From Shanghai
    1:27:41
    The Lady From Shanghai
    Episode 10

    The Lady From Shanghai

    Episode 10

    Directed by Orson Welles • 1947 • United States
    Starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane

    Orson Welles’s puzzle-box noir scrambles the conventions of the genre to create a triumph of Hollywood surrealism. The director stars as an unwitting Irish sailor who finds himself drawn into a w...

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