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. 1 -

    The Accused

    1949, in 1 top list Check
  2. 3 -

    Act of Violence

    1948, in 4 top lists Check
  3. 6 -

    Armored Car Robbery

    1950, in 1 top list Check
  4. 12 -

    Beyond the Forest

    1949, in 1 top list Check
  5. 15 -

    The Big Heat

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
  6. 19 -

    Black Tuesday

    1954, in 1 top list Check
  7. 29 -

    The Burglar

    1957, in 2 top lists Check
  8. 31 -

    Cape Fear

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
  9. 33 -

    Caught

    1949, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 40 -

    Conflict

    1945, in 1 top list Check
  11. 41 -

    Cornered

    1945, in 1 top list Check
  12. 50 -

    D.O.A.

    1949, in 5 top lists Check
  13. 56 -

    Dark Passage

    1947, in 5 top lists Check
  14. 57 -

    The Dark Past

    1948, in 1 top list Check
  15. 61 -

    Desperate

    1947, in 2 top lists Check
  16. 82 -

    He Walked by Night

    1948, in 2 top lists Check
  17. 86 -

    The Hitch-Hiker

    1953, in 7 top lists Check
  18. 102 -

    Journey Into Fear

    1943, in 2 top lists Check
  19. 106 -

    The Killer That Stalked New York

    1950 — a.k.a. Frightened City, in 1 top list Check
  20. 118 -

    Leave Her to Heaven

    1945, in 12 top lists Check
  21. 126 -

    M

    1951, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 142 -

    The Narrow Margin

    1952, in 7 top lists Check
  23. 143 -

    Niagara

    1953, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 155 -

    Odds Against Tomorrow

    1959, in 3 top lists Check
  25. 158 -

    Out of the Past

    1947, in 16 top lists Check
  26. 159 -

    Panic in the Streets

    1950, in 5 top lists Check
  27. 163 -

    Pickup on South Street

    1953, in 14 top lists Check
  28. 164 -

    Pitfall

    1948, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 169 -

    The Prowler

    1951, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 183 -

    Scarlet Street

    1945, in 10 top lists Check
  31. 188 -

    Shadow of a Doubt

    1943, in 15 top lists Check
  32. 190 -

    Shock

    1946, in 1 top list Check
  33. 197 -

    Sorry, Wrong Number

    1948, in 2 top lists Check
  34. 205 -

    Strangers on a Train

    1951, in 17 top lists Check
  35. 209 -

    Sudden Fear

    1952, in 2 top lists Check
  36. 212 -

    The Suspect

    1944, in 1 top list Check
  37. 214 -

    Suspicion

    1941, in 4 top lists Check
  38. 222 -

    Thieves' Highway

    1949, in 5 top lists Check
  39. 223 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  40. 227 -

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 30 top lists Check
  41. 231 -

    Undercurrent

    1946, in 1 top list Check
  42. 232 -

    Underworld, U.S.A.

    1961 — a.k.a. Underworld U.S.A., in 3 top lists Check
  43. 239 -

    Where Danger Lives

    1950, in 2 top lists Check
  44. 244 -

    The Window

    1949, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 257 -

    The Beat Generation

    1959, in 1 top list Check
  46. 260 -

    The Big Night

    1951, in 1 top list Check
  47. 278 -

    Don't Bother to Knock

    1952, in 1 top list Check
  48. 280 -

    Experiment Perilous

    1944, in 1 top list Check
  49. 284 -

    Fourteen Hours

    1951, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 299 -

    Johnny Eager

    1941, in 1 top list Check
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