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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Champion
1949, in 2 top lists Check -
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Deadline at Dawn
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
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Human Desire
1954, in 3 top lists Check -
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Nightmare
1956, in 1 top list Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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Spellbound
1945, in 8 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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Suspense
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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They Live by Night
1948, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Woman on the Beach
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
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Experiment Perilous
1944, in 1 top list Check -
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To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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Flamingo Road
1949, in 1 top list Check -
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Humoresque
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Lost Moment
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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Love from a Stranger
1947 — a.k.a. A Stranger Walked In, in 1 top list Check -
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The Paradine Case
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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A Place in the Sun
1951, in 13 top lists Check -
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Pursued
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
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Tomorrow Is Forever
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Arch of Triumph
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The Argyle Secrets
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1952, in 9 top lists Check -
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Black Magic
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Blonde Alibi
1946, in 0 top lists Check -
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Borderline
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Cargo to Capetown
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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City of Shadows
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Cloak and Dagger
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The Cruel Tower
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Daisy Kenyon
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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Diplomatic Courier
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The Face Behind the Mask
1941, in 2 top lists Check -
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Flesh and Fantasy
1943, in 0 top lists Check -
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Forbidden
1953, in 1 top list Check -
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The Furies
1950, in 3 top lists Check -
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Girl in 313
1940, in 0 top lists Check -
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Love Letters
1945, in 0 top lists Check -
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Night Into Morning
1951, in 0 top lists Check -
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Night Unto Night
1949, in 0 top lists Check -
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On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check -
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Portrait of Jennie
1948, in 5 top lists Check -
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Ramrod
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
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Rawhide
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Ruby Gentry
1952, in 2 top lists Check -
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947 — a.k.a. A Woman Destroyed, in 0 top lists Check -
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Station West
1948, in 1 top list Check
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