962 Noir Films from They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? (including TSPDT's 250 Quintessential Noir Films)

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The TSPDT 250 Quintessential Noir Films list contains 241 films that all contain three key ingredients.
1) They were all produced in the United States;
2) They were all shot in black-and-white;
3) They were all produced between 1940 to 1959.
The nine films that have been included that exclude at least one of these key ingredients are two non-American-produced noir (The Third Man and Mr. Arkadin), four color noir films (Leave Her to Heaven, Niagara, Party Girl and Slightly Scarlet), and three films from the early 1960s (Cape Fear, Underworld, U.S.A. and The Naked Kiss).

Other titles included in the list are noir precursors, modern noir, non-American noir, and additional films between 1940-1964 that have noir elements.

Section changes will be listed in this complete list (so the reader will know where in the list modern noir films begin/end, etc.).

Films 1 - 250 (The Accused through The Wrong Man) are TSPDT's 250 Quintessential Noir Films.

Films 251 - 358 (The 13th Letter through A Woman's Secret) are "More American Noir Films and/or Films with Noir Elements from 1940 to 1964" Category A: films often cited as film noir. These films weren't far away from being included on the 250 Quintessential listing, and most of them contain many - if not all - of the classic noir ingredients.

Films 359 - 513 (5 Against the House through Women's Prison) are "More American Noir Films and/or Films with Noir Elements from 1940 to 1964" Category B: films quite often cited as film noir, but not to the same degree as those listed in Category A. It must be considered that in most cases these films contain strong film noir elements.

Films 514 - 750 (The Thirteenth Hour through A Woman's Vengeance) are "More American Noir Films and/or Films with Noir Elements from 1940 to 1964" Category C: films not often cited as film noir. These films include certain film noir characteristics, even though - in many cases - they belong in other clear-cut genres, e.g. Westerns. However, it should also be acknowledged that many of these films are without doubt 'fully-blown' noirs (of the very neglected variety).

Films 751 - 825 (Another Man's Poison through Wicked as They Come) are British-produced noir (1940-1964).

Films 826 - 837 (Bob le flambeur through The Wages of Fear) are French-produced noir (1940-1964).

Films 838 - 843 (Ossessione through Stolen Identity) are classified as "other" non-American noir produced between 1940-1964: 1 Italian, 3 Japanese, 1 Mexican, and 1 Austrian, respectively.

Films 844 - 871 (The Beast of the City through You Only Live Once) are "Noir-Precursors": films that shaped the look of noir before the style came into its own during the 1940s. All are American-produced except The Green Cockatoo (UK), La Bête Humaine, Pépé le Moko, and Quai des brumes (France), and M (Germany).

Films 872 - 962 (Angel's Flight through The Salton Sea) are "Neo-Noir / Modern Noir" films made after the 'golden age' of film noir up to 2002. They are grouped them by decade, and all are American-produced, except for:
French-produced: Le Samouraï, Le deuxième souffle, Le cercle rouge, Série noire, La femme Nikita, Léon, and Mulholland Dr.
German-produced: Der amerikanische Freund
UK-produced: The Big Sleep (1978), Get Carter (1971), and Mona Lisa

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  1. 950 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  2. 952 -

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  3. 549 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  4. 911 -

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  5. 953 -

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  6. 959 -

    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  7. 906 -

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  8. 687 -

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 936 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  10. 352 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  11. 553 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  12. 956 -

    The Usual Suspects

    1995, in 24 top lists Check
  13. 948 -

    Léon

    1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check
  14. 960 -

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  15. 942 -

    L.A. Confidential

    1997, in 27 top lists Check
  16. 889 -

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  17. 211 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  18. 856 -

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  19. 223 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  20. 693 -

    Rope

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  21. 939 -

    Heat

    1995, in 23 top lists Check
  22. 66 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  23. 128 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  24. 674 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  25. 188 -

    Shadow of a Doubt

    1943, in 15 top lists Check
  26. 464 -

    Rebecca

    1940, in 23 top lists Check
  27. 913 -

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  28. 146 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  29. 227 -

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 30 top lists Check
  30. 154 -

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  31. 205 -

    Strangers on a Train

    1951, in 17 top lists Check
  32. 109 -

    The Killing

    1956, in 15 top lists Check
  33. 17 -

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  34. 929 -

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    1988, in 16 top lists Check
  35. 726 -

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  36. 894 -

    The French Connection

    1971, in 23 top lists Check
  37. 945 -

    Miller's Crossing

    1990, in 11 top lists Check
  38. 695 -

    Saboteur

    1942, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 891 -

    Dirty Harry

    1971, in 17 top lists Check
  40. 831 -

    Les diaboliques

    1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check
  41. 827 -

    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
  42. 837 -

    Le salaire de la peur

    1953 — a.k.a. The Wages of Fear, in 29 top lists Check
  43. 310 -

    The Manchurian Candidate

    1962, in 15 top lists Check
  44. 912 -

    Blood Simple

    1984, in 10 top lists Check
  45. 890 -

    The Conversation

    1974, in 23 top lists Check
  46. 215 -

    Sweet Smell of Success

    1957, in 20 top lists Check
  47. 934 -

    Dark City

    1998, in 6 top lists Check
  48. 961 -

    Road to Perdition

    2002, in 6 top lists Check
  49. 944 -

    Lost Highway

    1997, in 10 top lists Check
  50. 833 -

    Du rififi chez les hommes

    1955 — a.k.a. Rififi, in 18 top lists Check
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