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Your all time favourite Noir films?


What are your all time favourite Noir films?

I love many Noir films, but these are the ones I love the most.

Farewell My Lovely (1944)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Big Combo (1955)
This Gun For Hire (1942)



Go to bed Frank or this is going to get ugly .

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In no Particular order here are a few that stood out for me.

Criss-Cross (1949)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Killers (1946)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
Cry Danger (1951)
Dedee d' Anvers (1948)
The Killing (1956)
Odds against Tomorrow (1959)
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Federal Agent at Large (1950)
Hans le Marin (1949)
Get Outta Town 1960
Lonely Heart Bandits (1950)
The Set-Up (1949)
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
Night and the City (1950)
Pool of London (1951)
Port of 40 Thieves (1944)
Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Raw Deal (1948)
Roses are Red (1947)
Act of Violence (1948)
Shakedown (1950)
Smooth as Silk (1946)
Stolen Identity (1953)
SUNSET BLVD (1950)
The Shop on Sly Corner (1947)
The Tiger Woman (1945)
Undercover Girl (1950)
Dear Murderer (1947





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Not to forget these Bogie film noire classics:
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Conflict
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Dark Passage
In a Lonely Place

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I'm partial to the really visually dark ones so my list would be....

Armored Car Robbery
The Asphalt Jungle
The Big Combo
Black Angel
Crime Wave
Criss Cross
The Crooked Way
Crossfire
The Dark Corner
Dead Reckoning
Detour
Double Indemnity
Edge of Doom
Fallen Angel
He Walked By Night
Killer's Kiss
The Killers
The Killing
Kiss Me Deadly
The Narrow Margin
Night And The City
99 River Street
The Phantom Lady
Raw Deal
Red Light
Scarlet Street
The Strange Lives of Martha Ivers
Sudden Fear
Storm Warning
T Men
The Set-Up
They Live By Night
They Made me a Fugitive
Touch Of Evil
Where Danger Lives
Where The Sidewalk Ends
The Window

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Film Noir - Feature Films

Rated 10
The Maltese Falcon (1941) {My #25 Ranked Film}

Rated 9
Double Indemnity (1944) {My #70 Ranked Film}

Rated 8
Notorious (1946) {My #209 Ranked Film}
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) {My #211 Ranked Film}
Laura (1944) {My #241 Ranked Film}
Caged (1950) {My #256 Ranked Film}
Rebecca (1940) {My #262 Ranked Film}
Strangers on a Train (1951) {My #294 Ranked Film}
The Letter (1940) {My #321 Ranked Film}
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) {My #322 Ranked Film}
No Way Out (1950) {My #357 Ranked Film}
The Face Behind the Mask (1941) {My #361 Ranked Film}
Rope of Sand (1949) {My #390 Ranked Film}
Sudden Fear (1952) {My #439 Ranked Film}
Sunset Blvd. (1950) {My #440 Ranked Film}
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) {My #441 Ranked Film}
I Walk Alone (1948) {My #446 Ranked Film}
Kiss of Death (1947) {My #447 Ranked Film}

Rated 7
Ace in the Hole (1951)
A Woman's Face (1941)
Baby Face Nelson (1957)
Beyond the Forest (1949)
Born to Kill (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Conflict (1945)
Dead End (1937)
Fourteen Hours (1951)
Gaslight (1944)
Gilda (1946)
I Confess (1953)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
Lured (1947)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Niagara (1953)
Out of the Past (1947)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Possessed (1947)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Dark Mirror (1946)
The Killers (1946)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Suspect (1944)
13 Rue Madeleine (1946)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
White Heat (1949)
You and Me (1938)

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Gun Crazy (1950)--my all-time favorite.
The Asphalt Jungle--my other all-time favorite.
Act of Violence--unaccountably underseen. Van Heflin and Robert Ryan in a first-rate noir.
Pitfall--believable, great acting, outstanding script.
Out of the Past--pure noir.
Detour--low-budget, but unforgettable.
Touch of Evil--combines a sleazy story with high-quality talent and production.
Notorious--my favorite Hitchcock.
Double Indemnity--can be re-watched over and over and...
The Big Heat--has it all, and Gloria Grahame, too!
Too Late for Tears--Lizbeth Scott is lushly evil, with Dan Duryea's best performance.
Criss Cross--divinely duplicitous Duryea.
Blue Gardenia--Fritz Lang's intense look at self-paranoia and a bit of a foot fetish.

I hope everybody watches all of these, but at least catch the first five!

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Here is my top 20 favourites:-

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls063355223/

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Scarlet Street
Sunset Boulevard
The Red House
On Dangerous Ground
No Man of Her Own
Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Woman on the Run
Double Indemnity
In a Lonely Place
Tension

If Baby Face or Night of the Hunter qualified then they would top this list.

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You left out OUT OF The PAST; One of the Greatest!

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