Double Indemnity

“A hard-boiled thriller that helped define the meaning of film noir, bringing together a weak, brash insurance salesman and a bitchy Los Angeles housewife to plot the murder of her heavily insured husband, then play a cat-and-mouse game with an ace claims investigator. Greatly improving on Cain's novel, the film approaches perfection with its crackling dialogue, total absence of sentimentality, and depiction of Los Angeles as a new kind of anonymous, amoral, amorphous city.”