The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time
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This list acknowledges the classics of the genre, the big-budget studio noirs and the cheapest of B noirs made on the fringes of the Hollywood studio system. But we’ve also taken a more expansive view of noir, allowing room for supreme examples of the proto-noirs that anticipated the genre and the neo-noirs that resulted from the genre being rebooted in the midst of the Cold War, seemingly absorbing the world’s darkest and deepest fears.
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In a Lonely Place
1950, in 19 top lists Check -
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Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
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Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 30 top lists Check -
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Chinatown
1974, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Big Heat
1953, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Long Goodbye
1973, in 15 top lists Check -
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Detour
1945, in 16 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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Pickup on South Street
1953, in 14 top lists Check -
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Scarlet Street
1945, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 27 top lists Check -
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Sweet Smell of Success
1957, in 20 top lists Check -
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On Dangerous Ground
1951, in 3 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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Tirez sur le pianiste
1960 — a.k.a. Shoot the Piano Player, in 10 top lists Check -
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Le samouraï
1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check -
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Blue Velvet
1986, in 27 top lists Check -
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1976, in 8 top lists Check -
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Night Moves
1975, in 6 top lists Check -
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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The Wrong Man
1956, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Woman in the Window
1944, in 8 top lists Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
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They Live by Night
1948, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Reckless Moment
1949, in 8 top lists Check -
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Daisy Kenyon
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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Night and the City
1950, in 12 top lists Check -
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Ace in the Hole
1951, in 21 top lists Check -
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Odd Man Out
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
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Lost Highway
1997, in 10 top lists Check -
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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
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You Only Live Once
1937, in 7 top lists Check -
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Mulholland Dr.
2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check -
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Underworld, U.S.A.
1961 — a.k.a. Underworld U.S.A., in 3 top lists Check -
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Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
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Tengoku to jigoku
1963 — a.k.a. High and Low, in 16 top lists Check -
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Murder by Contract
1958, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Killing
1956, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Narrow Margin
1952, in 7 top lists Check -
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Moonrise
1948, in 4 top lists Check -
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Point Blank
1967, in 15 top lists Check -
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Force of Evil
1948, in 13 top lists Check -
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Femme Fatale
2002, in 5 top lists Check -
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Act of Violence
1948, in 4 top lists Check
Last updated on Apr 21, 2019; source