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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Among the Living
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The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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Black Angel
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Crimson Kimono
1959, in 1 top list Check -
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D.O.A.
1949, in 5 top lists Check -
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Dark Waters
1944, in 1 top list Check -
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Dead Reckoning
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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Deadline at Dawn
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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Fallen Angel
1945, in 2 top lists Check -
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In a Lonely Place
1950, in 19 top lists Check -
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Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
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Lady in the Lake
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Lodger
1944, in 2 top lists Check -
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Night and the City
1950, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Red House
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ride the Pink Horse
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Second Woman
1950 — a.k.a. Ellen, in 1 top list Check -
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Secret Beyond the Door...
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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Spellbound
1945, in 8 top lists Check -
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Street of Chance
1942, in 1 top list Check -
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Suspicion
1941, in 4 top lists Check -
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Talk About a Stranger
1952, in 1 top list Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Unsuspected
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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When Strangers Marry
1944, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Fallen Sparrow
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Fear
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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The Guilty
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
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A Kiss Before Dying
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Lady on a Train
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Murder Is My Beat
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Night Without Sleep
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Sleep, My Love
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The Spiral Staircase
1946, in 6 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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A Woman's Secret
1949, in 1 top list Check -
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Accomplice
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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Accused of Murder
1956, in 1 top list Check -
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Alias Nick Beal
1949 — a.k.a. The Contact Man, in 2 top lists Check -
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Backfire
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Backlash
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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Dangerous Crossing
1953, in 1 top list Check -
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Experiment in Terror
1962 — a.k.a. The Grip of Fear, in 1 top list Check -
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Female on the Beach
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The Great Flamarion
1945, in 1 top list Check -
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The Green Glove
1952 — a.k.a. The Gauntlet, in 1 top list Check -
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Hell's Half Acre
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High Tide
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Hunt the Man Down
1950, in 1 top list Check
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