IMDb's Film-Noir Top 50
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Film noir ('black film') is a branch of the crime/gangster sagas from the 1930s. Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style or tone of various American films that evolved between the 1940s and 1960s. However, film noir has re-occurred in cyclical form in other years in various neo-noirs. Noirs are usually black and white films with primary moods of melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt and paranoia. They often feature a cynical, loner hero (anti-hero) and femme fatale, in a seedy big city.
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932, in 14 top lists Check -
4 +2
Ace in the Hole
1951, in 21 top lists Check -
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White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
6 -2
The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
7 +1
The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check -
8 -1
Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 26 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 30 top lists Check -
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Sweet Smell of Success
1957, in 20 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
15 +2
The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
16 -1
The Killing
1956, in 15 top lists Check -
17 +1
In a Lonely Place
1950, in 19 top lists Check -
18 +1
The Big Heat
1953, in 18 top lists Check -
19 -3
Mildred Pierce
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Lost Weekend
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
21 +2
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938, in 9 top lists Check -
22 -1
The Roaring Twenties
1939, in 8 top lists Check -
23 -1
Night and the City
1950, in 12 top lists Check -
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Shadow of a Doubt
1943, in 15 top lists Check -
25 +1
To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
26 -1
The Asphalt Jungle
1950, in 15 top lists Check -
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Nora inu
1949 — a.k.a. Stray Dog, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Set-Up
1949, in 9 top lists Check -
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Fury
1936, in 11 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Killers
1946, in 15 top lists Check -
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Key Largo
1948, in 7 top lists Check -
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Scarlet Street
1945, in 10 top lists Check -
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Nightmare Alley
1947, in 8 top lists Check -
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Muerte de un ciclista
1955 — a.k.a. Death of a Cyclist, in 5 top lists Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
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Leave Her to Heaven
1945, in 12 top lists Check -
38 +4
The Woman in the Window
1944, in 8 top lists Check -
39 +4
Brute Force
1947, in 6 top lists Check -
40 -2
Gun Crazy
1950, in 17 top lists Check -
41 -1
Odd Man Out
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
42 +6
Body and Soul
1947, in 6 top lists Check -
43 -4
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950, in 3 top lists Check -
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Pickup on South Street
1953, in 14 top lists Check -
45 -4
Caged
1950, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Fallen Idol
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Big Clock
1948, in 5 top lists Check -
48 -3
The Narrow Margin
1952, in 7 top lists Check -
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Intruder in the Dust
1949, in 5 top lists Check -
50 new
Dark Passage
1947, in 6 top lists Check
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