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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The 3rd Voice
1960, in 0 top lists Check -
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Accomplice
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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Affair in Havana
1957, in 1 top list Check -
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Affair in Reno
1956, in 0 top lists Check -
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Angel's Flight
1965, in 0 top lists Check -
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Apology for Murder
1945, in 1 top list Check -
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Appointment with a Shadow
1957, in 1 top list Check -
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Below the Deadline
1946, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Big Punch
1948, in 0 top lists Check -
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Blonde Alibi
1946, in 0 top lists Check -
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Circumstantial Evidence
1945, in 1 top list Check -
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City of Chance
1940, in 0 top lists Check -
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Cry Tough
1959, in 1 top list Check -
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Dangerous Intruder
1945, in 1 top list Check -
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Date with Death
1959, in 1 top list Check -
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End of the Road
1944, in 0 top lists Check -
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Four Boys and a Gun
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
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Girl in 313
1940, in 0 top lists Check -
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Guilt Is My Shadow
1950, in 0 top lists Check -
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Hell Bound
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
787 -
Hidden Homicide
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
418 -
Hit and Run
1957, in 1 top list Check -
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I, Jane Doe
1948 — a.k.a. Diary of a Bride, in 1 top list Check -
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The Lady Confesses
1945, in 1 top list Check -
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The Louisiana Hussy
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
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Man of Courage
1943, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Man Who Died Twice
1958, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1958, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Midnight Story
1957, in 1 top list Check -
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Money Madness
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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New Orleans After Dark
1958, in 0 top lists Check -
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Nightbeat
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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Open Secret
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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Revolt in the Big House
1958, in 0 top lists Check -
864 -
Rio
1939, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sealed Lips
1942, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sensualidad
1951, in 0 top lists Check -
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Shed No Tears
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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Short Cut to Hell
1957, in 1 top list Check -
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The Spider
1945, in 1 top list Check -
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Step Down to Terror
1958, in 1 top list Check -
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The Strange Mr. Gregory
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Subway in the Sky
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Trap
1959, in 1 top list Check -
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Valerie
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
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Violence
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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The Weapon
1956, in 0 top lists Check -
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Whispering Footsteps
1943, in 1 top list Check -
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Why Must I Die?
1960 — a.k.a. 13 Steps to Death, in 0 top lists Check
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