100 Greatest 'Film Noir' Movies

Lew · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:40 am Post subject: 100 Greatest 'Film Noir' Movies

100 Greatest 'Film Noir' Movies
Edited By: Lew
List Begun 1-7-08

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1. The Maltese Falcon - (1941, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor)
2. Double Indemnity - (1944, Billy Wilder) (Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson)
3. The Big Sleep - (1946, Howard Hawks) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely)
4. Sunset Boulevard - (1950, Billy Wilder) (Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim)
5. The Third Man - (1949, Carol Reed) (Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli)
6. M - (1931, Fritz Lang) (Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke)
7. Notorious - (1946, Alfred Hitchcock) (Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern)
8. Touch Of Evil - (1958, Orson Welles) (Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Dennis Weaver)
9. Criss Cross - (1949, Robert Siodmak) (Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Stephen McNally)
10. Strangers On A Train - (1951, Alfred Hitchcock) (Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker)
11. Out Of The Past - (1947, Jacques Tourneur) (Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jane Greer)
12. The Big Combo - (1955, Joseph H. Lewis) (Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace)
13. The Night Of The Hunter - (1955, Charles Laughton) (Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish)
14. The Killing - (1956, Stanley Kubrick) (Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards)
15. Key Largo - (1948, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson)
16. I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang - (1932, Mervyn LeRoy) (Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Preston Foster)
17. Ace In The Hole - (1951, Billy Wilder) (Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Richard Benedict)
18. Laura - (1944, Otto Preminger) (Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price)
19. White Heat - (1949, Raoul Walsh) (James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran)
20. The Lost Weekend - (1945, Billy Wilder) (Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry)
21. Angels With Dirty Faces - (1938, Michael Curtiz) (James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart)
22. Rififi - (1955, Jules Dassin) (Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey)
23. Sweet Smell of Success - (1957, Alexander Mackendrick) (Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Martin Milner)
24. The Blue Dahlia - (1946, George Marshall) (Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva)
25. Night And The City - (1950, Jules Dassin) (Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Herbert Lom)
26. The Set-Up - (1949, Robert Wise) (Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter)
27. Scarface - (1932, Howard Hawks) (Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Boris Karloff)
28. Shadow Of A Doubt - (1943, Alfred Hitchcock) (Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey)
29. The Big Heat - (1953, Fritz Lang) (Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin)
30. The Asphalt Jungle - (1950, John Huston) (Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe, James Whitmore)
31. Nightmare Alley - (1947, Edmund Goulding) (Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray)
32. Body And Soul - (1947, Robert Rossen) (John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, William Conrad)
33. In A Lonely Place - (1950, Nicholas Ray) (Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy)
34. The Lady from Shanghai - (1947, Orson Welles) (Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane)
35. Ossessione - (1943, Luchino Visconti) (Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani)
36. The Woman in the Window - (1944, Fritz Lang) (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey)
37. Pickup On South Street - (1953, Samuel Fuller) (Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter)
38. Scarlet Street - (1945, Fritz Lang) (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea)
39. Kiss Of Death - (1947, Henry Hathaway) (Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark)
40. Gun Crazy (aka: Deadly Is The Female) - (1950, Joseph H. Lewis) (Peggy Cummins, John Dall)
41. Mildred Pierce - (1945, Michael Curtiz) (Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Eve Arden)
42. Where The Sidewalk Ends - (1950, Otto Preminger) (Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill)
43. The Naked City - (1948, Jules Dassin) (Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart)
44. Gilda - (1946, Charles Vidor) (Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready)
45. Murder, My Sweet - (1944, Edward Dmytryk) (Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley)
46. Kiss Me Deadly - (1955, Robert Aldrich) (Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart)
47. Sudden Fear - (1952, ) (Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Mike Connors)
48. This Gun For Hire - (1942, Frank Tuttle) (Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Alan Ladd)
49. Dark Passage - (1947, Delmer Daves) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead)
50. The Postman Always Rings Twice - (1946, Tay Garnett) (Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway)
51. Fury - (1936, Fritz Lang) (Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot)
52. Leave Her To Heaven - (1945, John M. Stahl) (Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Vincent Price)
53. D.O.A. - (1950, Rudolph Maté) (Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Beverly Garland)
54. Kansas City Confidential - (1952, Phil Karlson) (John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster)
55. Force Of Evil - (1948, Abraham Polonsky) (John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor)
56. Crossfire - (1947, Edward Dmytryk) (Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame)
57. The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers - (1946, Lewis Milestone) (Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas)
58. House Of Strangers - (1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) (Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward)
59. Scandal Sheet - (1952, Phil Karlson) (Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek, Harry Morgan)
60. The Wrong Man - (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) (Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle)
61. Odds Against Tomorrow - (1959, Robert Wise) (Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters)
62. Raw Deal - (1948, Anthony Mann) (Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland)
63. Act of Violence - (1948, Fred Zinnemann) (Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor)
64. The Stranger - (1946, Orson Welles) (Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles)
65. You Only Live Once - (1937, Fritz Lang) (Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, Barton MacLane)
66. Angel Face - (1952, Otto Preminger) (Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman)
67. Pitfall - (1948, André De Toth) (Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr)
68. Detour - (1945, Edgar G. Ulmer) (Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald)
69. On Dangerous Ground - (1952, Nicholas Ray) (Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond)
70. Panic In The Streets - (1950, Elia Kazan) (Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes)
71. Possessed - (1947, Curtis Bernhardt) (Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey)
72. Human Desire - (1954, Fritz Lang) (Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford)
73. The Street With No Name - (1948, William Keighley) (Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan)
74. Fallen Angel - (1945, Otto Preminger) (Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, John Carradine)
75. Phantom Lady - (1944, Robert Siodmak) (Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis)
76. Cry of the City - (1948, Robert Siodmak) (Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Shelley Winters)
77. Dead Reckoning - (1947, John Cromwell) (Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky)
78. T-Men - (1947, Anthony Mann) (Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, June Lockhart)
79. Party Girl - (1958, Nicholas Ray) (Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland)
80. The File On Thelma Jordon - (1950, Robert Siodmak) (Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly)
81. The Brasher Doubloon - (1947, John Brahm) (George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis)
82. Clash by Night - (1952, Fritz Lang) (Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe)
83. Mystery Street - (1950, John Sturges) (Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett)
84. Niagara - (1953, Henry Hathaway) (Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter)
85. While The City Sleeps - (1956, Fritz Lang) (Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders)
86. Side Street - (1950, Anthony Mann) (Joe Norson, Ellen Norson, James Craig)
87. The Big Knife - (1955, Robert Aldrich) (Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters)
88. Border Incident - (1949, Anthony Mann) (Pablo Rodriguez, Jack Bearnes, Howard Da Silva)
89. Desperate - (1947, Anthony Mann) (Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Jason Robards Sr.)
90. Whirlpool - (1949, Otto Preminger) (Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer)
91. Journey Into Fear - (1943, Norman Foster, Orson Welles) (Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio)
92. Undercurrent - (1946, Vincente Minnelli) (Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum)
93. Hollow Triumph - (1948, Steve Sekely) (Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz)
94. Beyond A Reasonable Doubt - (1956, Fritz Lang) (Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer)
95. House Of Bamboo - (1955, Samuel Fuller) (Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi)
96. Lady in the Lake - (1947, Robert Montgomery) (Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan)
97. The Two Mrs. Carrolls - (1947, Peter Godfrey) (Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith)
98. Roadblock - (1951, Harold Daniels) (Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore, Louis Jean Heydt)
99. Where Danger Lives - (1950, John Farrow) (Robert Mitchum, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan)
100. Stranger On The Third Floor - (1940, Boris Ingster) (Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet)

25 Greatest Neo-Noir films (1960 - present day)
Modern films that incorporate the moods, themes, and atmosphere of classic Film Noirs.

1. Chinatown - (1974, Roman Polansk) (Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)
2. L.A. Confidential - (1997, Curtis Hanson) (Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce)
3. The Manchurian Candidate - (1962, John Frankenheimer) (Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey)
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - (2005, Shane Black) (Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan)
5. Se7en - (1995, David Fincher) (Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow)
6. Cape Fear - (1962, J. Lee Thompson) (Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen)
7. Blade Runner - (1982, Ridley Scott) (Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah)
8. Blood Simple - (1984, Joel Coen) (John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya)
9. Sin City - (2005, Frank Miller) (Jessica Alba, Benicio Del Toro, Bruce Willis)
10. The Usual Suspects - (1995, Bryan Singer) (Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro)
11. Body Heat - (1981, Lawrence Kasdan) (William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna)
12. Klute - (1971, Alan J. Pakula) (Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider)
13. Le Samouraï - (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville) (Alain Delon, Francois Périer, Nathalie Delon)
14. The Grifters - (1990, Stephen Frears) (Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening)
15. Tirez sur le pianiste (aka Shoot The Pianist) - (1960, François Truffaut) (Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois)
16. Fargo - (1996, Joel Coen) (William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Kristin Rudrüd, Peter Stormare)
17. Night Moves - (1975, Arthur Penn) (Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, James Woods)
18. Hammett - (1982, Wim Wenders) (Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner)
19. Devil In A Blue Dress - (1995, Carl Franklin) (Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals)
20. Blue Velvet - (1986, David Lynch) (Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper)
21. The Naked Kiss - (1964, Samuel Fuller) (Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante)
22. Dark City - (1998, Alex Proyas) (William Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland)
23. Shock Corridor - (1963, Samuel Fuller) (Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans)
24. The Man Who Wasn't There - (2001, Joel Coen) (Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand)
25. The Public Eye - (1992, Howard Franklin) (Joe Pesci, Richard Riehle, Bryan Travis Smith)

Cruz · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:27 am Post subject:

Interesting lists. I don't know much about the genre, but I've enjoyed nearly all the neo-noir movies on there.

Would a movie like Lucky Number Slevin fall under the Neo-Noir category?

Creeps · Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 4991 Location: D:

Nice lists. I think Brick could be added to the bottom half of the neo-noir list, and M seems like it should be top 5 or even top 3.

Epic89 · Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 100 Location: Phoenix

Fine lists except for one glaring problem; Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, whether as a film noir or as any other kind of movie, is NOT better than Se7en- at all.

Other than that, good job

Pat Friend · Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 6397 Location: Philly

that and it sucked BIG TIME. i wouldn't have it above any of the stuff on that list aside from maybe sin city of the man who wasn't there, but i wouldn't have either 3 of these in the top 25

i never really got why double indemnity was so amazing either , i certainly think Big Sleep is much better acted/directed and it is mor einteresting to me as well. i dont know much about noir film elements though, so if that's the criteria then i understand its placement as well as KKBB's.

Tyminator1600 · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject:

Nice to see Kansas City Confidential get a nod. Very underrated, solid film.

octopussois · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

I think Children of Men is a good one.

that_guy1 · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 7715 Location: In a snuggie

Touch of Evil should be number 1.

Turd · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 21404 Location: WACKY DELLY YEAH

American Gangster should be one

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Rock Rulz · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

Does anyone care to explain what film noir is?

aborted · Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 71 Location: Downtown

Where is Pulp Fiction? lol

tommorello · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

good to see Double Indemnity so high. I say it might actually make No 1 were it not for Maltese Falcon's extreme popularity
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tommorello · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject:

I'm thinking Blue Velvet should be higher on the neo-noir list. Also, would Lucky Number Slevin be considered a neo-noir movie?
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plugman · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject:

The Man Who Wasn't There should be in the top 5 of the new film Noirs.
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plugman · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:25 am Post subject:

Hmm, I've never considered Sunset Blvd. a Noir, but I guess it is. That being the case my list would be.

1. M
2. The Third Man
3. Sunset Blvd.
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. Double Indemnity
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