Double Indemnity, I Walked With A Zombie & The Usual Suspects

Double Indemnity (1944) is an Academy Award nominated film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. The movie was directed by Billy Wilder. The story was based on a 1927 crime perpetrated by a married Queens woman and her lover. One of the all-time great American films, and one of the very first in the film noir genre, Double Indemnity has been intriguing audiences for more than sixty years. Ruth (Brown Snyder) persuaded her boyfriend, Judd Gray, to kill her husband Albert after having her spouse take out a big insurance policy—with a double-indemnity clause. The murderers were quickly identified and arrested.
Opening scene - Insurance salesman and ladies man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) stumbles into his boss' office, bleeding and broken. He lights a cigarette, and begins to record a dying man's confession. From the very beginning, we know the film isn't going to end well.

I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur. It was the second horror film from producer Val Lewton for RKO Pictures. Betsy Connell (Frances Dee), a Canadian nurse, relates in a voiceover narration and tells the story of how she "walked with a zombie."
The premiere attraction of this film has to be the cinematography and direction. Having been shot in 1943, the vast and expansive shots of today are out of the question, but the film doesn’t suffer one bit from this. Jacques Tourneur doesn’t have a huge array of moving shots, but what he does do is have the camera in the perfect spot every single time, portraying amazing depth and haunting shadows.

The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American noir film written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. The Film shot a $6million budget for the making of the film. The film tells the story of Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey), a small-time con man who is the subject of a police interrogation. He tells his interrogator, a convoluted story about events leading to a massacre and a massive fire that has just taken place on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro Bay. Using flashback and narration, Verbal's story becomes increasingly complex as he tries to explain why he and his partners-in-crime were on the boat.
Opening scene - its very effective with the use of low key lighting and the disguised figure's face not being shown creating many questiones to intrigue viewers and create suspense. The men are manipulated by forces unseen and best unspoken. Told in flashback, the movie zips back and forth through time and place, telling the story of these five men, a couple of cops, and one master criminal whose name is mentioned only in hushed tones: Keyser Soze