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TSPDT's 250 Quintessential Noir Films (1940-1964)

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The 250 Quintessential Noir Films listing 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 colour 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).

List has been curated by Bill Georgaris on They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

186
61%

711 Ocean Drive

 

 

150
73%

99 River Street

 

 

1
75%

The Accused

 

 

2
78%

Ace in the Hole

 

 

3
74%

Act of Violence

 

 

4
63%

Among the Living

 

 

5
71%

Angel Face

 

 

6
65%

Armored Car Robbery

 

 

7
76%

The Asphalt Jungle

 

 

8
59%

Behind Locked Doors

 

 

9
69%

Berlin Express

 

 

10
65%

Beware, My Lovely

 

 

11
69%

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

 

 

12
72%

Beyond the Forest

 

 

13
74%

The Big Clock

 

 

14
73%

The Big Combo

 

 

15
77%

The Big Heat

 

 

16
71%

The Big Knife

 

 

17
76%

The Big Sleep

 

 

18
65%

Black Angel

 

 

19
70%

Black Tuesday

 

 

20
72%

The Blue Dahlia

 

 

21
70%

The Blue Gardenia

 

 

22
74%

Body and Soul

 

 

23
71%

Boomerang!

 

 

24
62%

Border Incident

 

 

25
71%

Born to Kill

 

 

26
61%

The Brasher Doubloon

 

 

27
76%

The Breaking Point

 

 

28
72%

Brute Force

 

 

29
64%

The Burglar

 

 

30
73%

Call Northside 777

 

 

31
76%

Cape Fear

 

 

32
65%

The Captive City

 

 

33
70%

Caught

 

 

34
65%

Cause for Alarm!

 

 

35
75%

Champion

 

 

36
63%

The Chase

 

 

37
65%

Christmas Holiday

 

 

38
67%

City That Never Sleeps

 

 

39
67%

Clash by Night

 

 

40
73%

Conflict

 

 

41
64%

Cornered

 

 

42
66%

Crack-Up

 

 

43
65%

Crime of Passion

 

 

44
72%

Crime Wave

 

 

45
73%

The Crimson Kimono

 

 

46
72%

Criss Cross

 

 

47
71%

Crossfire

 

 

48
71%

Cry Danger

 

 

49
72%

Cry of the City

 

 

50
67%

D.O.A.

 

 

51
72%

The Damned Don't Cry

 

 

52
66%

Danger Signal

 

 

53
65%

Dark City

 

 

54
70%

The Dark Corner

 

 

55
72%

The Dark Mirror

 

 

56
76%

Dark Passage

 

 

57
57%

The Dark Past

 

 

58
66%

Dark Waters

 

 

59
72%

Dead Reckoning

 

 

60
73%

Deadline at Dawn

 

 

61
72%

Desperate

 

 

62
75%

The Desperate Hours

 

 

63
61%

Destination Murder

 

 

64
72%

Detective Story

 

 

65
73%

Detour

 

 

66
80%

Double Indemnity

 

 

67
72%

Drive a Crooked Road

 

 

68
65%

Edge of Doom

 

 

69
74%

The Enforcer

 

 

70
69%

Fallen Angel

 

 

71
61%

Fear in the Night

 

 

72
69%

The File on Thelma Jordon

 

 

73
65%

Follow Me Quietly

 

 

74
72%

Force of Evil

 

 

75
68%

Framed

 

 

76
75%

Gilda

 

 

77
72%

The Glass Key

 

 

78
60%

Guilty Bystander

 

 

79
76%

Gun Crazy

 

 

80
72%

Hangover Square

 

 

81
71%

He Ran All the Way

 

 

82
69%

He Walked by Night

 

 

83
73%

High Sierra

 

 

84
64%

High Wall

 

 

85
70%

His Kind of Woman

 

 

86
67%

The Hitch-Hiker

 

 

87
65%

Hollow Triumph

 

 

88
68%

House by the River

 

 

89
75%

House of Strangers

 

 

90
68%

The House on 92nd Street

 

 

91
73%

Human Desire

 

 

93
70%

I Wake Up Screaming

 

 

94
72%

I Walk Alone

 

 

95
55%

I Was a Communist for the FBI

 

 

96
59%

I, the Jury

 

 

97
67%

Impact

 

 

98
77%

In a Lonely Place

 

 

99
70%

Jeopardy

 

 

100
64%

Johnny Angel

 

 

101
66%

Johnny O'Clock

 

 

102
66%

Journey into Fear

 

 

103
72%

Kansas City Confidential

 

 

104
75%

Key Largo

 

 

105
70%

The Killer is Loose

 

 

106
64%

The Killer That Stalked New York

 

 

107
64%

Killer's Kiss

 

 

108
75%

The Killers

 

 

109
76%

The Killing

 

 

110
74%

Kiss Me Deadly

 

 

111
75%

Kiss of Death

 

 

112
65%

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

 

 

113
74%

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

 

 

114
74%

The Lady from Shanghai

 

 

115
65%

Lady in the Lake

 

 

116
58%

A Lady Without Passport

 

 

117
77%

Laura

 

 

118
76%

Leave Her to Heaven

 

 

119
73%

The Letter

 

 

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