FILM NOIR


Examples


Film Noir
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Selection of Greatest Film Noir:
Classic Film Noir (1940-1958) Title Screens

100 Greatest Film Noirs of All-Time


Greatest Early and Classic Film Noir:
I Am a Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
Fury (1936)
Pépé le Moko (1937, Fr.)
You Only Live Once (1937)
La Bête Humaine (1938, Fr.) (aka The Human Beast)
The Letter (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
They Drive By Night (1940)
High Sierra (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
The Glass Key (1942)
Moontide (1942)
This Gun For Hire (1942)
The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Journey Into Fear (1943)
Obsession (1943, It.) (aka Ossessione)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Christmas Holiday (1944)
Dark Waters (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Laura (1944)
The Lodger (1944)
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
Ministry of Fear (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Phantom Lady (1944)
The Suspect (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Cornered (1945)
Detour (1945)
Dillinger (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Johnny Angel (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Crack-Up (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Gilda (1946)
The Killers (1946)
The Man I Love (1946)
Notorious (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Undercurrent (1946)
Body and Soul (1947)
Boomerang! (1947)
Born to Kill (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Crossfire (1947)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Dark Passage (1947)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
Desperate (1947)
A Double Life (1947)
Fear in the Night (1947)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Lady in the Lake (1947)
The Man I Love (1947)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947, UK)
Out of the Past (1947)
Possessed (1947)
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Secret Beyond the Door... (1947)
T-Men (1947)
The Unsuspected (1947)
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
Act of Violence (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
Brighton Rock (1948, UK)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Cry of the City (1948)
The Dark Past (1948)
The Fallen Idol (1948, UK)
Force of Evil (1948)
He Walked By Night (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
They Live By Night (1948)
Moonrise (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
Pitfall (1948)
Raw Deal (1948)
Road House (1948)
Ruthless (1948)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Beyond the Forest (1949)
The Big Steal (1949)
Border Incident (1949)
Caught (1949)
Champion (1949)
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
Criss Cross (1949)
Gun Crazy (1949) (or 1950) (aka Deadly is the Female)
House of Strangers (1949)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
Shockproof (1949)
Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
Tension (1949)
They Live By Night (1949)
Thieves' Highway (1949)
The Third Man (1949, UK)
White Heat (1949)
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Backfire (1950)
The Breaking Point (1950)
Caged (1950)
Dark City (1950)
Dial 1119 (1950)
D. O. A. (1950)
The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
Mystery Street (1950)
Night and the City (1950)
Outrage (1950)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Side Street (1950)
The Sound of Fury (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Detective Story (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
The Lost One (1951, Germany) (aka Der Verlorene)
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
The Prowler (1951)
The Racket (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
Clash By Night (1952)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Macao (1952)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
Scandal Sheet (1952)
The Sniper (1952)
Sudden Fear (1952)
Angel Face (1953)
The Big Heat (1953)
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Niagara (1953)
99 River Street (1953)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Crime Wave (1954)
Hell's Half Acre (1954)
Human Desire (1954)
Pushover (1954)
The Big Combo (1955)
The Big Knife (1955)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Diabolique (1955, Fr.)
House of Bamboo (1955)
Illegal (1955)
Killer's Kiss (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Crime in the Streets (1956)
The Killing (1956)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
The Brothers Rico (1957)
Crime of Passion (1957)
Nightfall (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Cry Terror! (1958)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Fr.) (aka Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud)
I Want to Live! (1958)
The Lineup (1958)
Murder by Contract (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

Greatest Modern Film Noir (Post-Noir or Neo-Noir):
Breathless (1960, Fr.) (aka À bout de souffle)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960, Fr.) (aka Tirez Sur Le Pianiste)
Underworld USA (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
High and Low (1963, Jp.)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Naked Kiss (1964)
Point Blank (1967)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Le Samourai (1967, Fr/It.)
Madigan (1968)
Dirty Harry 'series' (1971-88)
The French Connection (1971)
Klute (1971)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)
Serpico (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
Death Wish (1974)
The Parallax View (1974)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Hustle (1975)
Night Moves (1975)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The American Friend (1977, W.Germ/Fr.)
The Late Show (1977)
The Big Sleep (1978)
The Long Good Friday (1980, UK)
Raging Bull (1980)
Atlantic City (1981)
Body Heat (1981)
Cutter's Way (1981)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Hammett (1983)
Against All Odds (1984)
Blood Simple (1984)
The Element of Crime (1984, Dan.) (aka Forbrydelsens Element)
Subway (1985, Fr.)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Manhunter (1986)
Angel Heart (1987)
Black Widow (1987)
House of Games (1987)
D. O. A. (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Kill Me Again (1989)
After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
The Grifters (1990)
The Hot Spot (1990)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
The Two Jakes (1990)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Dead Again (1991)
A Kiss Before Dying (1991)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Night and the City (1992)
One False Move (1992)
The Public Eye (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Red Rock West (1993)
The Last Seduction (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Heat (1995)
Se7en (1995)
Strange Days (1995)
The Underneath (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Bound (1996)
Fargo (1996)
Face/Off (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lost Highway (1997)
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Dark City (1998)
A Simple Plan (1998)
Memento (2000)
Sexy Beast (2000)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Insomnia (2002)
Oldboy (2003)
Collateral (2004)
Brick (2005)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Sin City (2005)
The Departed (2006)
Zodiac (2007)
Drive (2011)
Inherent Vice (2014)



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