# 🕵️ FILMS - NOIR ❗= letterbox ⓒ = criterion 🔪 = horror 🌏= foreign ♻️ = rewatch 🎄= holiday ⭐= priority 🤪= psychotronic ❤️ = liked 🔎= icm noir alley [Noir](https://letterboxd.com/jbutts15/list/noir/) [They Shoot Noir](https://letterboxd.com/necronomxmortis/list/they-shoot-pictures-dont-they-1000-noir-films/) [Heart of Noir](https://letterboxd.com/lambear1982/list/heart-of-noir-all-films/by/popular/) [TCM Noir Alley](https://letterboxd.com/tmroj/list/every-film-on-tcm-noir-alley/) ## Round #6 - Noirvember 2026 - [ ] Double Indemnity (1944) ♻️ 107m 7.3 - [ ] D.O.A. (1950) ♻️ - [ ] Detour (1945) ♻️ - [ ] Ace in the Hole (1951) 111m 8.1 ♻️ - [ ] Out of the Past (1947) ♻️ - [ ] The Glass Key (1942) 85m 7.0 ♻️ - [ ] Scarlet Street (1945) 7.8 102m ♻️ - [ ] The Big Heat (1953) ♻️ - [ ] Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) 7.0 81m ♻️ - [ ] Phantom Lady (1944) 7.2 87m ♻️ - [ ] Kiss Me Deadly (1955) 106m 7.5 ♻️ - [ ] The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) ♻️ - [ ] The Thin Man (1934) 91m 7.9 ♻️ - [ ] Casablanca (1942) 102m 8.5 ♻️ - [ ] Sunset Blvd (1950) 8.4 110m ♻️ - [ ] The Night of the Hunter (1955) 93m 8.0 ♻️ - [ ] Nightmare Alley (1947) 110m 7.7 ♻️ - [ ] The Maltese Falcon (1941) 100m 8.0 ♻️ crit - [ ] The Big Sleep (1946) ♻️ 114m 7.9 crit - [ ] Touch of Evil (1958) 95m 7.9 ♻️ - [ ] Chinatown (1974) ♻️ 130m 8.1 hbo - [ ] The Two Jakes (1990) 6.1 137m hbo - [ ] The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) 7.5 113m crit ♻️ - [ ] The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) 122m 6.6 - [ ] The Man Without a Face (1950) 91m 6.8 mex noir / horror 🌏 🔪⭐ - [ ] The Beast Must Die (1952) 104m 7.5 🌏Argentina noir ⭐🔎 - [ ] Él (1953) 92m 7.9 ⭐ 🌏 - [ ] Black Gravel (1961) 110m 7.4 🌏- German noir 🔎 - [ ] Red Fish (1955) 95m 7.6 ⭐ 🌏 yt - [ ] Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) 90m 7.1 🔎 - [ ] The Scarlet Hour (1956) 95m 6.9 yt - [ ] Roadblock (1951) 73m 6.6 - [ ] Trapped (1949) 78m 6.4 Llyod bridges - [ ] Bob Le Flambeur (1956) 103m 7.6 🌏❗ⓒ 🔎- french - [ ] Ossessione (1943) 140m 7.6 🌏 Italian ❗ - [ ] Colorado Territory (1949) 94m 7.2 ⭐ - mcrea & mayo; Raoul Walsh dl - [ ] Ramrod (1947) 6.8 94m - mcrea & veronica lake yt - [ ] Roughshod (1949) 88m 6.6 - [ ] The Racket (1951) 88m 6.7 - [ ] Hell Is a City (1960) - 98m 7.0 hammer - [ ] Queen Bee (1955) 95m 6.7 - Joan Crawford dl - [ ] Conflict (1945) 86m 7.1 ⭐ 🔎 - [ ] Over-exposed (1956) 80m 6.1 🔎 - [ ] Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) 78m 6.2 - [ ] Remember Last Night? (1935) 81m 6.6 whale screwball? - crit ⭐ - [ ] Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) - [ ] The Long Haul (1957) 88m 6.7 - [ ] The Tattered Dress (1957) 93m 6.5 - [ ] The Glass Web (1953) 81m 6.6 🤪 - [ ] Ivy (1947) 99m 7.0 - [ ] Whispering City (1947) - Canadian noir 98m 6.2 / La forteresse (1947) 🌏 - [ ] The 13th Letter (1951) - le corbeau remake 85m 6.3 - [ ] The Unholy Four (1954) 80m 5.6 🤪 - hammer / terrance - [ ] Beyond the Forest 1949 97 6.8 - [ ] Nocturne (1946) 87m 6.5 hbo - [ ] Red Light (1949) 83m 6.4 hbo - [ ] Fly By Night (1942) 74m 6.5 - zippy b-noir with screwball elemen t - [ ] Underworld U.S.A. (1961) 99m 7.3 - [ ] City That Never Sleeps (1953) 90m 6.7 - [ ] Black Tuesday (1954) 80m 6.7 ed Robinson - [ ] Nightmare (1956) 89m 6.4 ed Robinson prime - [ ] Crime of Passion (1956) - [ ] The Sound of Fury (1950) - [ ] Swamp Water (1941) 90m 7.0 - [ ] Inner Sanctum (1948) 62m 6.0 🤪 - [ ] Night Must Fall (1937) 116m 7.2 - [ ] The Accused (1949) 101m 6.8 - [ ] Daughter of Darkness (1948) 91m 6.6 - [ ] Rancho Notorious (1952) 86m 6.8 🤪 - [ ] Street of Chance (1942) 74m 6.3 - [ ] Two O’Clock Courage (1945) 68m 6.4 - anthony mann - [ ] Killer’s Kiss (1955) 68m 6.5 - Kubrick - [ ] The Long Night (1947) Vincent Price and Henry Fonda - [ ] Shockproof (1949) 79m 6.5 - [ ] Beyond the Forest (1949) 97m 6.9 Bette Davis + Joseph cotton - [ ] The Night Holds Terror 1955 86m 6.3 - [ ] Nightmare (1964) 83m 6.7 - [ ] The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) - [ ] Drive a Crooked Road (1954) - [ ] Dark Waters (1944) - [ ] Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) 80m 5.3 - [ ] Brainstorm (1965) - captain pike - [ ] Farewell, My Lovely (1975) - [ ] Play It Again, Sam (1972) - [ ] Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014) - [ ] Cornered (1945) 102m 6.6 nazi hunter - [ ] Party Girl (1958) 99m 7.0 - offbeat noir musical - [ ] Madeleine (1950) 6.9 101m - [ ] Flesh and Fantasy (1943) 93m 6.9 - [ ] Cause for Alarm! (1951) 74m 6.4 - [ ] Jeopardy (1953) 69m 6.7 - [ ] Impact (1949) 111m 7.0 kan - [ ] Fly-By-Night (1942) 74m 6.5 - [ ] Whistling in the Dark (1941) 6.6 78m - [ ] Trapped (1949) 78m 6.4 - [ ] The Strange Woman (1946) 6.5 100m - [ ] Behind Green Lights (1946) 6.4 64m - [ ] The Argyle Secrets (1948) 64m 6.3 - [ ] Three Strangers (1946) 6.9 92m - [ ] The Secret Fury (1950) 85m 6.6 - [ ] Cloak and Dagger (1946) 106m 6.6 - [ ] Somewhere in the Night (1946) 110m 7.0 ## Noir Round #5 - 2025 - [x] Night Must Fall (1964) 92m 6.5 ⭐ - [x] The Garment Jungle (1957) 6.6 87m yt - [x] Cry of the City (1948) 95m 7.2 yt - [x] Dark Mountain (1944) 57m - park ranger yt - [x] Bewitched (1945) 65m 5.6 🤪⭐️ dl - [x] Alaska Seas (1954) - alaskan salmon noir w/ Robert Ryan 78m 6.0 yt ⭐️ - [x] The Threat (1949) 66m 6.7 -dl ⭐ - [x] Hell’s Half Acre (1954) - Hawaiian/tiki noir? 90m 6.2 yt ⭐️❤️ - [x] Blackout (1954) 87m 6.2 - hammer - crit 🤪 - [x] Hammett (1982) 97m 6.4 ⭐ Wim Wenders - yt - [x] Deep Valley (1947) 104m 6.8 ida lupino dl - [x] Tension (1949) 95m 7.3 ❤️ - [x] The Unsuspected (1947) 103m 7.2 hbo - [x] The Lineup (1958) 87m 7.3 yt tubi - [x] Where Danger Lives (1950) 82m 6.7 hob - [x] 99 River Street (1953) 83m 7.4 - [x] Blood Orange (1953) - 76m 5.2 hammer 🤪yt - [x] Black Glove / Face the Music (1954) 84m 5.6 - amz 🤪 - [x] Guilty Bystander (1950) 91m 6.2 - crit - [x] Framed (1947) 82m 6.9 - [x] Donald's Crime (1949) 8m - [x] How to be a Detective (1952) - [x] The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) - [x] The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) - [x] Side Street (1949) 83m 7.0 Anthony Mann ⭐ - [x] Cry Danger (1951) 79m 7.3 it - [x] The Cheap Detective (1978) 92m 6.4 yt - [x] Border Incident (1949) 94m 7.0 - Anthony mann - [x] He Walked By Night (1948) 7.0 79m 🤪 - [x] Pickup (1951) 78m 6.7 🔎 ❤️ - [x] High Tide (1947) 72m 6.4 🔎 - [x] I Walk Alone (1947) 97m 7.0 🔎 - [x] Yield to the Night (1956) 99m 7.1 - [x] Crimewave (1953) 73m 7.3 hbo 🔎 - [x] The Damned Don’t Cry (1950) - 103m 7.1 Joan Crawford 🔎 ❤️ - [x] The Harder They Fall (1956) 109m 7.5 🔎 ❤️ - [x] The Ogre of Athens (1956) 🌏 103m 7.9 - greek ⭐ dl - [x] Try and Get Me! (1950) 85m 7.2 - [x] Body and Soul (1947) 104m 7.6 - [x] Pushover (1954) 88m 7.1 🔎 - [x] City That Never Sleeps (1953) 90 m 6.7 - [x] The Burglar (1957) 90m 6.6 🤪 🔎 - [x] I Love Trouble (1948) 93m 6.7 🔎 - [x] Victims of Sin (1951) 84m 7.5 🌏 Mex noir ⭐ ⓒ crit ❤️ - [x] Cairo Station (1958) 77m 7.5❗ⓒ crit - Arab noir - [x] Reign of Terror (1949) 87m 6.9 - French Revolution noir ❤️ - [x] Rawhide (1951) 7.1 89m - tyrone power - [x] Terror in a Texas Town (1958) 81m 6.8 ⭐ - prime - [x] Johnny O’Clock (1947) 95m 6.8 🔎 dick powell - [x] Detective Story (1951) 103m 7.5 - [x] Intruder in the Dust (1949) 87m 7.6 hbo 🔎 - [x] Laura (1944) 7.9 88m ♻️ - [x] Backfire (1950) 91m 6.6 🎄 - [x] High Wall (1947) 99m 6.9 🔎 - nightmare ally-esqe - [x] Deep Cover (1992) 108m 7.1 ⓒ ⭐ prime 🎄 - [x] Farewell, My Lovely (1975) 95m 7.0 prime - [x] The Big Sleep (1978) 5.8m 99m - [x] Satan Met a Lady (1936) - Maltese falcon 2nd attempt; comedic 74m 5.8 - [x] The Big Sleep (1946) ♻️ 114m 7.9 crit - [x] Touch of Evil (1958) 95m 7.9 ♻️ - [ ] The Thin Man (1934) 91m 7.9 ♻️ - [ ] Double Indemnity (1944) ♻️ 107m 7.3 ## Noir Round #4 - 2024 - [x] The Big Knife (1955) 111m 6.8 - [x] Shack Out on 101 (1955) 80m - [x] Cloudburst (1951) 83m 6.6 ❤️ - [x] Sleep, My Love (1948) 97m 6.8 - [x] The Web (1947) 87m 7.1 - [x] Out of the Fog (1941) 85m 6.8 - [x] Whirlpool (1950) 98m 6.7 - [x] The Man I Love (1946) 96m 6.6 crit - [x] The Lodger (1944) 84m 7.1 - [x] Decoy (1946) 76m 6.8 ❤️ - [x] Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) 7.0 81m ❤️ - [x] Deadline at Dawn (1946) 83m 6.8 - [x] Thunder on the Hill (1951) 6.8 84m - [x] The Bribe (1949) 98m 6.6 - [x] White Heat (1949) 114m 8.1 ❗ - [x] Hell Drivers (1957) 108m 7.2❗crit - [x] It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) 92m 7.1 kan❗ - [x] The Roaring Twenties (1939) 104m❗ⓒ - [x] Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) 97m 7.9 ❗ - [x] The Night of the Hunter (1955) 93m 8.0 ♻️❤️ - [x] Secret Beyond the Door… (1947) 99m 6.6❗ - [x] Caught (1949) 88m❗7.0 - [x] The Chase (1946) 86m 6.4 kan - [x] The Naked City (1948) crit hbo 7.6 99m ❗ⓒ - [x] Sudden Fear (1952) 7.5 110m kan - [x] The Maltese Falcon (1941) 100m 8.0 ♻️ crit - [x] The Maltese Falcon (1931) - 6.8 80m 1st attempt; precode - [x] Pépé le Moko (1937) 94m 🌏❗ⓒ crit ❤️ - [x] Algiers (1938) 96m - remake of Pepe le moko - [x] Fear in the Night (1947) 72m 6.4 - [x] Black Angel (1946) 81m 6.9 - [x] Corridor of Mirrors (1948) 105m 6.5 kan - [x] Obsession (1949) 7.3 96m ❤️ - [x] So Evil My Love (1948) 6.9 109m - [x] Nightfall (1956) 78m 7.1 crit ❤️ - [x] The Sea Wolf (1941) 100m 7.5 ❤️ - [x] The Sniper (1952) 88m 7.1 crit - [x] Act of Violence (1948) 7.4 82m - [x] Mystery Street (1950) 93m 7.2 - [x] Mr. Soft Touch (1949) 6.6 93m 🎄 - [x] I, the Jury (1951) 🎄🤪 87m 6.1 - [x] My Gun Is Quick (1957) 91m 6.1 🤪 - [x] Kiss Me Deadly (1955) 106m 7.5 ♻️ - [x] Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) ♻️ 104 m 7.7 - [x] Rooty Toot Toot (1951) 7m - [x] Who Killed Who? (1943) 8m - [x] Lady on a Train (1945) 6.7 94m - [x] You and Me (1938) 6.8 94m crit ❗ - [x] Born to Kill (1947) 92m 7.2 - [x] Born to be Bad (1950) 94m 6.6 - [x] Death of a Cyclist (1955) 88m 7.7 🌏ⓒ crit ❤️ - [x] The Bitter Stems (1956) 7.6 90m 🌏❤️ - [x] Nightmare Alley (1947) 110m 7.7 ♻️ - [x] The Other (1946) 98m 7.5 🌏🎄 - Mex noir ⭐ - [x] The Night of the Hunter (1955) 93m 8.0 ♻️ ## Noir Round #3 - 2023 - [x] Screaming Mimi (1958) 79m 5.8 ⭐️ - [x] The Petrified Forest (1955) - 90m 7.7 - [x] The Petrified Forest (1936) 82m 7.5 ⭐️ - [x] So Long at Fair (1950) ⭐️ 7.1 - [x] Murder by Contract (1958) 81m 7.3 - [x] The Suspect (1944) 85m 7.4 - [x] Road House (1948) 7.2 95m ⭐️ - [x] My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) 65m 7.0 - [x] Storm Warning (1951) 93m 7.2 ⭐️ - [x] Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) 76m 6.9 - [x] On Dangerous Ground (1951) 82m 7.2 - [x] Snake Pit (1948) 7.6 107m ⭐️ - [x] The Blue Gardenia (1953) 88m 6.9 - [x] Edge of Doom (1950) 99m 6.4 - [x] Caged (1950) 96m 7.6 ⭐️ - [x] Moontide (1942) 94m 6.8 ⭐️ - [x] Split Second (1953) 85m 6.8 ⭐️ - [x] Body Heat (1981) 113m 7.4 ⭐️ - [x] Angel Face (1953) 91m 7.2 ⭐️ - [x] Fallen Angel (1945) 7.0 ⭐️ - [x] Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) 64m 6.8 ⭐️ - [x] Kiss of Death (1947) 98m 7.4 - [x] Clash by Night (1952) 105m 7.0 - [x] Outrage (1950) - [x] The Dark Mirror (1946) 85m 7.1 - [x] Pitfall (1948) 86m 7.1 - [x] Violent Saturday (1955) 90m ⭐️ 6.9 - [x] Desert Fury (1947) 6.5 96m ⭐️ - [x] Raw Deal (1948) 79m 7.2 ⭐️ - [x] T-Men (1947) 92m 6.9 ⭐️ - [x] Man Bait (1952) 84m 6.3 - [x] The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) 7.4 116m - [x] Stolen Face (1952) 72m 6.0 - [x] The Locket (1946) 85m 7.1 ⭐️ - [x] The Fallen Idol (1948) 96m 7.6 - [x] The Prowler (1951) 93m 7.2 - [x] The Killers (1964) 93m 7.0 ⭐️ - [x] His Kind of Woman (1951) 120m 7.0m⭐️ - [x] Dead Reckoning (1947) 100m 7.1 - [x] Running Time (1997) 68m 6.8 ⭐️ - [x] The Phenix City Story (1955) 7.2 100m ⭐️ - [x] Fury (1936) 92m 7.9 ⭐️ - [x] You Only Live Once (1937) 86m ⭐️ - [x] All Night Long (1962) 91m 7.1 - [x] The Reckless Moment (1949) 82m 7.1 - [x] Not Wanted (1949) 91m 6.8 - [x] Girl with Hyacinths (1950) 🌏 ⭐️ 🎄7.6 89m - [x] Ladies in Retirement (1941) 91m 7.1 - [x] They Drive by Night (1940) 7.2 95m ⭐️ - [x] Thieves' Highway (1949) 94m 7.5 ⭐️ - [x] Pursued (1947) 101m 7.2 - [x] The Letter (1940) 95m 7.6 - [x] The Red House (1947) 100m 6.7 ⭐️ kan - [x] Repeat Performance (1947) - nyt time travel 91m 6.8 ⛬ - [x] Lured (1947) 102m 7.0 ⭐️ kan - lucilee ball hunting a serial killer - [x] Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) 96m 7.4 ⭐️❗ - [x] No Way Out (1950) 106m 7.4❗ - [x] Woman on the Run (1950) 77m 7.2 - [x] Suddenly (1954) 77m ## Noir Round #2 - 2022 - [x] Scarlet Street (1945) - 7.8 102m - [x] The Dark Corner (1946) - 7.1 99m - [x] The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) 7.5 113m crit * - [x] The Narrow Margin (1952) 7.7 71m - [x] Call Northside 777 (1948) 7.4 111m - [x] This Gun for Hire (1942) 7.4 81m - [x] The Glass Key (1942) 85m 7.0 - [x] The Set-Up (1949) - noir sports 73m 7.9 hbo - [x] Too Late for Tears (1949) 99m 7.3 kan amz - [x] Hangover Square (1945) 78m 7.4 * - [x] The Stranger (1946) 95m 7.3 prime man - [x] Ride the Pink Horse (1947) 101m 7.3 - [x] The Big Combo (1955) 88m 7.3 kan - [x] Kansas City Confidential (1952) - [x] The Big Clock (1948) 95m 7.6 - [x] Ministry of Fear (1944) 86m 7.1 - [x] Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) 7.4 79m - [x] They Live by Night (1949) 96m 7.4 hbo - [x] The Blue Dahlia (1946) 7.1 96m - [x] Crossfire (1947) 86m 7.3 - [x] Brute Force (1947) 7.6 98m * - [x] Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) 95m 7.6 * - [x] Panic in the Streets (1950) 96m 7.2 - [x] Force of Evil (1948) 79m 7.2 crit - [x] Ruby Gentry (1952) 82m 6.7 - [x] The Tall Target (1951) 7.3 78m - [x] The Breaking Point (1950) 97m 7.5 crit * - [x] The Window (1949) 73m 7.4 - [x] The Woman in the Window (1944) - 107m 7.7 * - [x] Thunder Road (1958) 92m 6.6 - [x] The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) 62m 6.8 - [x] Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982) * 6.8 98m - [x] House of Bamboo (1955) 6.8 102m - [x] Cape Fear (1962) 105m 7.7 - [x] To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) 116m 7.3 * - [x] Point Blank (1967) 92m 7.3 - [x] Night and the City (1950) 96m 7.9 yt - [x] Elevator to the Gallows / Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958) - 88m 8.0 hbo * - [x] Christmas Holiday (1944) 93m 6.5 - [x] Odd Man Out (1947) 7.7 116m hbo/crit - [x] Brighton Rock (1948) 7.3 92m - [x] Dark Passage (1947) 106m 7.5* - [x] Sexy Beast (2000) 7.3 89m buy amp - [x] Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) 7.5 103m * - [x] Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.4 110m * ## Noir Round #1 - 2021 - [x] Double Indemnity (1944) * - [x] The Maltese Falcon (1941) - [x] The Big Sleep (1946) - [x] Kiss Me Deadly (1955) * - [x] D.O.A. (1950) - [x] Nightmare Alley (1947) * - [x] The Killing (1956) * - [x] Out of the Past (1947) - [x] Rebecca (1940) - [x] Laura (1944) - [x] Detour (1945) - [x] The Hitch-Hiker (1953) - [x] The Asphalt Jungle (1950) - [x] Notorious (1946) - [x] Chinatown (1974) - [x] Blood Simple (1984) - [x] The Lady from Shanghai (1947) - [x] Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - [x] L.A. Confidential (1997) - [x] Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - [x] The Long Goodbye (1973) - [x] The Third Man (1949) - [x] Inherent Vice (2014) * - [x] Alphaville (1965) - [x] The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - [x] In a Lonely Place (1950) - [x] Gaslight (1940) - [x] Nightcrawler (2014) - [x] Under the Silver Lake (2018) - [x] Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) - [x] Rififi (1955) - [x] Spellbound (1945) - [x] Cat People (1942) - [x] Angel Heart (1987) - [x] Gun Crazy (1950) - [x] Touch of Evil (1958) - [x] Key Largo (1948) - [x] Ace in the Hole (1951) * - [x] M (1931) * - [x] Le Samouraï (1967) - [x] Sunset Boulevard (1950) * - [x] The Big Heat (1953) - [x] Gilda (1946) - [x] Pickup South Street (1953) - [x] A Colt Is My Passport (1967) - [x] The Killers (1946) - [x] Murder, My Sweet (1944) - [x] High and Low (1963) - 143m 8.4 - [x] Stray Dog (1949) - 122m 7.9 - [x] Casablanca (1942) - 8.5 102m - [x] The Lost Weekend (1945) - drunk 4 day drinking bout 7.9 101m - [x] Pale Flower (1964) - j-noir -------------------------------- ## Noir Notes Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style, point-of-view, or tone of a film. "The 'most American film' genre, because no society could have created a world so filled with doom, fate, fear and betrayal, unless it were essentially naive and optimistic. "- Roger Ebert Scarlet Street (1945) - "circus of dopes who are duped into doing extra dopey things all due to assumptions" Golden Age of Film Noir (1941-1958) The Maltese Falcon (1941) as the first and Touch of Evil (1958) as the last motion picture of the classic film noir era. https://letterboxd.com/jbutts15/list/noir/by/popular/ antecedent noir era (1900-1939) classic era (1940-1965) neo-noir (1966-present) Horror noir * Eyes of Laura Mars * Angel Heart * Cat People Tech Noir *alphaville *blade runner Neo-noir * Long goodbye * Blood simple comedy noir * Who Framed Roger Rabbit * The Cheap Detective * Inherent Vice Kurosawa and Japanese Noir * High and Low, about an executive who must negotiate with a deadly kidnapper; * The Bad Sleep Well, about an ordinary man hunting down his father’s killer * Stray Dog, about a rookie cop who loses his gun to a pickpocket on a crowded bus. Key Lime Pie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auyXxSEpAbo&feature=emb_title Great noir list w/ descriptions https://filmnoir.art.blog/essential-films-noir/ Great noir list www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/30-essential-noir-films-that-you-need-to-watch/ Director - Fritz Lang Cinematographer - John Seitz Noir subgenres: * Neo-noir * Tech-Noir * Western-Noir * Horror-Noir * Noir Comedies shamus - slang for a private investigator pdq - pretty damn quick plot coupon - an object sought by a character in a story in order to achieve some objective, having little purpose beyond advancing the plot; macguffin; deus ex machina "Neat" = without ice "Messy" = with ice Purists say that "classic film noir" concluded in 1959 with "Touch of Evil" Here’s a couple of “rules” of noir. There are two types of dames in these kind of stories: The femme fatal The good girl Madonna and the whore The good girl is too good to take seriously and the femme fatal or damsel in distress is luring the detective away from some moral good or some goal he has for the case. Proto-noir https://letterboxd.com/coleroulain/list/the-definitive-proto-noir-list-or-noir-prior/ Noir might be a mood, but that’s a bit amorphous, like Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of hard-core pornography: “I know it when I see it.” bright lights and deep black shadows Film noir translates from French as “black film,” but that’s misleading because these aren't French films. The term was, however, coined by French critics. It’s actually German cinematographers and directors like John F. Seitz and Fritz Lang that deserve the most credit for shaping the style. They applied the fundamentals of expressionism to the gritty American crime story, inverting the internal turmoil and anguish of private eyes and volatile gangsters so they’re visible on the surface. A majority of film noirs were set in Los Angeles due to the film industry’s presence but also to sell the City of Angels short of being angelic Film noir is often identified with a visual style; melodramas Dame with a Past and a Hero with No Future Common Motifs of Classic Film Noir Films * Narrative Monologuing * Femme Fatales * Paranoia and Betrayal * Jazz Music * Chiaroscuro Lighting (kee aa ruh skyur ow) * Mysterious Histories and Flashbacks mawkish - excessively and objectionably sentimental 1. An antihero protagonist: Neo-noir films revolve around antiheroes, who are often private detectives with ambiguous moral codes and cynical worldviews. These antiheroes typically share character traits with the villains they oppose. 2. A femme fatale: Another classic film noir archetype found in neo-noir movies is the femme fatale, a mysterious character who typically seduces and betrays the protagonist. 3. A conspiratorial plot: Neo-noirs typically follow an antihero unraveling a sinister conspiracy involving powerful criminals and corrupt systems. Neo-noir films center on themes of paranoia and isolation. 4. High-contrast lighting: Similar to its predecessor genre, neo-noirs use a distinct contrast between light and shadow to increase suspense. This lighting technique is known as chiaroscuro. Neo-noir film directors refer to 'classic noir' in the use of tilted camera angles, interplay of light and shadows, unbalanced framing; blurring of the lines between good and bad and right and wrong, and thematic motifs including revenge, paranoia, and alienation. Western Noir - Westerns are obsessed with justice—finding it, upholding it—while noir is focused on the evasion and subversion of it https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/all-film-noir-ranked-calculated https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Ida_Lupino_1937.jpg -------------------------------- MASTER LIST -------------------------------- Rewatches - [x] Big Lebowski (1998) 117m 8.1 ⭐️♻️ - [x] Kiss Me Deadly (1955) 106m 7.5 ♻️ - [ ] Casablanca (1942) 102m 8.5 ♻️ - [ ] Sunset Boulevard (1950) 110m 8.4 ♻️ - [x] Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) ♻️ - [ ] Ace in the Hole (1951) 111m 8.1 ♻️ Foreign - [ ] Él (1953) 92m 7.9 ⭐ 🌏 - [ ] Red Fish (1955) 95m 7.6 ⭐ 🌏 - [ ] The Man Without a Face (1950) 91m 6.8 🌏 🔪⭐ - [ ] The Beast Must Die (1952) 104m 7.5 🌏Argentina noir ⭐ - [ ] Never Open the Door (1952) ⭐ 80m 7.3 Argentina noir ⭐ - [ ] Victims of Sin (1951) 84m 7.5 crit 🌏 - Mex noir ⭐ crit - [ ] La Bête Humaine (1938) 98m crit 🌏⭐ - [ ] The Pearl (1947) 🌏 86m 7.4 - [ ] Panique (1946) 99m 7.9 🌏ⓒ crit - [ ] Ossessione (1943) 140m 7.6 🌏 Italian - [ ] Bob Le Flambeur (1956) 103m 7.6 🌏❗ⓒ - french - [ ] Black Gravel (1961) 110m 7.4 🌏- German noir - [ ] Cosh Boy (1953) 75m 6.1 British - [ ] I Am Waiting (1957) 91m 7.0 🌏- j noir - [ ] Cruel Gun Story (1964) 87m 7.2 🌏 - j noir - [ ] Quai des Orfevres (1947) 108m 7.7 🌏 - french - [ ] Shoot the Piano Player (1960) 7.4 92m 🌏❗ⓒ - french - [ ] Underworld Beauty (1958) 87m 7.0 🌏- j noir - [ ] Dragnet Girl (1933) 🌏- j noir - [ ] Black Sun (1964) 95m 6.8 🌏 - j noir - [ ] It Was Not in Vain / It Was Not Useless (1957) 97m - [ ] A Woman in the Typhoon Area 1948 68m 6.8 j -noir - [ ] Murderers and Thieves (1956) 85m 6.9 🌏 - [ ] Black Sun (1964) 95m 6.8 🌏 - j noir - [x] Black Vampire (1953) ⭐ 7.4 90m Arg. noir ⭐ "feminist" reworking of M Western - [x] Silver Lode (1954) 81m 6.8❗ - [ ] Colorado Territory (1949) 94m 7.2 ⭐ - mcrea & mayo; Raoul Walsh - [ ] Ramrod (1947) 6.8 94m - mcrea & veronica lake - [ ] Terror in a Texas Town (1958) 81m 6.8 ⭐ - [ ] Rancho Notorious (1952) 86m 6.8 🤪 - [ ] Canyon Passage (1946) 92m 6.9 ⭐ - [ ] I Shot Jesse James (1949) 81m crit max 6.8 - [ ] Lust for Gold (1949) 90m 6.8 - Ida Lupino - [ ] Rawhide (1951) 7.1 89m - tyrone power - [ ] Station West (1948) 87m - dick Powell 6.6 - [ ] Roughshod (1949) 88m 6.6 - [ ] Man with the Gun (1955) 83m 6.7 - Mitchum - [ ] Cave of Outlaws (1951) 76m 5.9 - Carlsbad ops - [ ] Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) 80m 6.8 - [ ] Black Patch (1957) - [x] Track of the Cat (1954) 104m 6.4 🎄 - [x] The Furies (1950) 109m 7.3 - [x] Yellow Sky (1948) 98m 7.4 - [x] Lonely are the Brave (1962) 107m - [x] The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) Psychotronic Noir - [ ] The Burglar (1957) 90m ⭐️ 6.6 🤪 - [x] Bewitched (1945) 65m 5.6 ⭐️🤪 - [ ] Inner Sanctum (1948) 62m 6.0 🤪 - [ ] The Glass Web (1953) 81m 6.6 🤪 - [x] He Walked By Night (1948) 7.0 79m 🤪⭐️ Hammer Noir - [x] Blood Orange (1953) - hammer 🤪 - [ ] Hell Is a City (1960) - 98m 7.0 hammer - [x] Blackout (1954) 87m 6.2 - hammer - crit 🤪 - [x] Black Glove / Face the Music (1954) 84m 5.6 - amz 🤪 - [ ] The Unholy Four (1954) 80m 5.6 🤪 - hammer / terrance Neo-noir - [x] Deep Cover (1992) 108m 7.1 ⓒ - [x] Body Double (1984) 114m 6.8 ⭐️❗ - [x] Bound (1996) 109m 7.3❗ⓒ - [x] Love Lies Bleeding (2024) 104m 6.7 - [ ] The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) 122m 6.6 - [ ] The Two Jakes (1990) 6.1 137m hbo - [ ] Positive I.D. (1986) - [ ] Killer Joe (2011) 102m 6.7 - [ ] Cold in July (2014) 109m 6.7 kan - [ ] White Sands (1992) 100m 6.0 ⭐️kan - [ ] Cutter’s Way (1981) 105m 6.8❗ - [ ] Hard Eight (1996) 102m 7.1 - [ ] King of New York (1990) - [ ] The Grifters (1990) - [ ] The Cooler (2003) 101m 6.9 prim - [ ] The Big Sleep (1978) 5.8m 99m crit Proto-noir - [ ] The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) 6.7 65m - [ ] Tip-Off Girls (1938) Bogart - [ ] The Harder They Fall (1956) 7.5 109m ⭐️ - [ ] Conflict (1945) 86m 7.1 - [ ] The Two Mrs Carrols (1947) 99m 6.8 Anthony Mann - [x] Raw Deal (1948) 79m 7.2 ⭐️ - [x] T-Men (1947) 92m 6.9 ⭐️ Neo-noir - [x] Body Heat (1981) 113m 7.4 ⭐️ - [x] The Killers (1964) 93m 7.0 ⭐️ - [x] Running Time (1997) 68m - [x] Lone Star (1996) 135m 7.4 ⭐️❗ - [x] Body Double (1984) 114m 6.8 ⭐️❗ - [ ] Cutter’s Way (1981) 105m 6.8❗ - [x] The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) 116m 7.5 ⭐️ - [x] Barton Fink (1991) 117m 7.6❗ - [ ] The Grifters (1990) 6.9 110m - [ ] Mona Lisa (1986) 104m 7.3❗ - [ ] The Last Seduction (1994) 110m ⭐️❗ - [x] Nightmare Alley (2021) 7.0 150m hbo ⭐️ - [ ] Black Widow (1987) - [ ] Bound (1996) 105m❗⭐️ - [ ] The Grifters (1990) 6.9 110m - [ ] White Sands (1992) 100m kan pri 6.0 ⭐️ - [ ] Cold in July (2014) 109m 6.7 kan ⭐️ - [ ] The Cooler (2003) - [ ] The Two Jakes (1990) 6.1 137m hob - [ ] The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) 122m 6.6 - [ ] Collateral (2004) ⭐️ - [ ] Hard Eight (1996) - [ ] Following (1998) - [ ] Kansas City (1996) - [ ] Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014) - [ ] Positive I.D. (1986) - [x] The Big Easy (1986) - [ ] Killer Joe (2011) 102m - [ ] China Moon (1994) - [ ] Jade (1995) - [ ] Light Sleeper - [ ] The Morning After (1986) 103m 5.9 - [ ] Hollywoodland (2006) - [ ] Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) 6.2 - [ ] Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) - [ ] The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) 7.3 135m - [ ] The Black Dahlia (2006) 5.6 121m - [ ] The American Friend (1977) - [ ] Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) Proto-noir - [x] Fury (1936) 92m 7.9 ⭐️ - [x] You Only Live Once (1937) 86m ⭐️ - [x] The Roaring Twenties (1939) 104m ⭐️❗ - [ ] The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) ⭐️ - [x] You and Me (1938) ❗ - [x] Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) 97m 7.9 ⭐️❗ - [x] Algiers (1938) 96m - remake of Pepe le moko - [x] Pépé le Moko (1937) 94m 🌏❗ⓒ - [x] The Maltese Falcon (1931) - 1st attempt; precode - [ ] Satan Met a Lady (1936) - Maltese falcon 2nd attempt; comedic - [ ] La Bête Humaine (1938) 🌏 100m❗ French Noir - [x] Le Corbeau (1943) 92m 7.8 🌏 - [ ] Breathless (1960) 7.7 90m * hbo cri 🌏❗ⓒ - [ ] La Bête Humaine (1938) 🌏ⓒ - [ ] Bob Le Flambeur (1956) 103m 7.6 🌏❗ⓒ - [ ] Quai des Orfevres (1947) 108m 7.7 🌏 - [ ] Shoot the Piano Player (1960) 7.4 92m 🌏❗ⓒ - [x] Pépé le Moko (1937) 94m 🌏❗ⓒ - [x] Le Trou (1960) 🌏❗ⓒ Gangster Noir - [x] Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) 97m 7.9 ⭐️❗ - [x] The Roaring Twenties (1939) 104m ⭐️❗ - [x] White Heat (1949) 114m 8.1 ⭐️❗ Southern gothic noir - [x] Swamp Water (1941) 90m 7.0 - [ ] Dark Waters (1944) 90m 6.5 - [x] Moonrise (1948) 7.0 90m - [x] The Loveless (1981) 82m International - [x] Death of a Cyclist (1955) 88m ⭐️ 7.7 🌏 - [ ] Blonde in Bondage (1957) - [x] The Swimming Pool (1969) 123m 7.1 🌏 - [x] The Other One / ‘La otra’ (1946) 98m 🌏 - [ ] The Dumb Die Fast, The Smart Die Slow (1991) - thai noir 🌏 - [ ] Insomnia (1997) - Scandinavian noir 🌏 - [ ] Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020) - South Korean neo-noir black comedy crime thriller Western Noirs - [x] Pursued (1947) 101m 7.2 - [ ] Man of the West (1958) - [x] The Man from Laramie (1955) 103m 7.3 - [ ] Rancho Notorious (1952) - [x] Track of the Cat (1954) 102m - [ ] Blood on the Moon (1948) - [x] Johnny Guitar (1954) ♻️ - [x] The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) ♻️ J-Noir - [ ] Cruel Gun Story (1964) 87m 7.2 🌏 - [ ] I Am Waiting (1957) 91m 7.0 🌏 - [ ] Underworld Beauty (1958) 87m 7.0 🌏 - [ ] Dragnet Girl (1933) 🌏 - [ ] Black Sun (1964) 95m 6.8 🌏 - [ ] Tokyo Drifter (1966) 93m 7.1 ⭐️ 🌏❗ - [ ] Youth of the Beast (1963) 92m 7.3 🌏 - [ ] Gate of Flesh (1964) 90m ⭐️🌏 - [ ] Rusty Knife (1958) 90m 6.7 🌏 - [ ] The Pornographers (1966) 🌏 - [ ] Violence at Noon (1966) 99m 7.1 🌏 - [ ] The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) 104m 6.9 🌏 - [ ] Zero Focus (1961) 95m 7.0 🌏 - [ ] Crazed Fruit (1956) 86m 7.3 🌏 - [ ] Intimidation (1960) 65m 7.2 🌏 - [ ] The Man Without a Map (1968) 118m 6.6 🌏 - [ ] Endless Desire (1958) 101m 7.2 🌏 - [ ] Black Test Car (1962) 🌏 - [ ] Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) 79m 6.6 🌏 - [ ] Massacre Gun (1967) 89m 🌏 - [x] A Colt is My Passport (1967) 🌏 - [x] Branded to Kill (1967) 🌏 - [x] Pale Flower (1964) 🌏 - [x] High and Low (1963) 🌏 - [x] Drunken Angel (1948) 🌏 - [x] Pigs and Battleships (1961) 🌏 - [x] Stray Dog (1949) 🌏 - [x] The Bad Sleep Well (1960) 🌏 Noir by Gaslight - [ ] Ivy (1947) 7.1 - [ ] Madeleine (1950) 6.9 101m - [ ] Experiment Perilous (1944) 6.3 - [ ] Blanche Fury (1948). 6.7 90m - [x] Corridor of Mirrors (1948) - [x] The Lodger (1944) 84m 7.1 cri ⭐️ - [x] Sleep, My Love (1948) 97m ⭐️ 6.8 - [x] So Evil My Love (1948) ⭐️ 6.9 - [x] Ladies in Retirement (1941) - [x] So Long at the Fair (1950) - [x] The Suspect (1944) - [x] Dragonwyck (1946) - [x] Hangover Square (1945) - [x] Gaslight (1944) - [x] Moss Rose (1947) Fritz Lang - [x] Secret Beyond the Door… (1947) 99m ❗ - [ ] Rancho Notorious (1952) Humphrey Bogart - [x] Dead Reckoning (1947) 100m 7.1 - [x] They Drive by Night (1940) 7.2 95m ⭐️ - [ ] The Harder They Fall (1956) 7.5 109m ⭐️ - [ ] The Two Mrs Carrols (1947) 99m 6.8 - [x] Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) 97m 7.9 - [x] The Roaring Twenties (1939) Hammer Noir - [x] Man Bait / The Last Page (1952) 84m 6.3 - [x] Stolen Face (1952) 72m 6.0 - [x] Fear in the Night (1947) 72m 6.4 - [x] Cloudburst (1951) 83m 6.6 - [ ] Black Glove / Face the Music (1954) 84m 5.6 - amz 🤪 Barbara Stanwyck - [x] The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) 7.4 116m - [x] Clash by Night (1952) 105m 7.0 - [ ] The Two Mrs Carrols (1947) 99m 6.8 Black Noir - [x] No Way Out (1950) 106m 7.4❗ - [x] Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) 96m 7.4❗ - [x] Sapphire (1959) 7.2 92m - [x] All Night Long (1962) 91m 7.1 Ida Lupino - [x] Out of the Fog (1941) 85m 6.8 ⭐️ - [x] The Big Knife (1955) 111m 6.8 ⭐️ - [x] Beware, My Lovely (1952) 77m 6.6 - [x] They Drive by Night (1940) 7.2 95m - [x] Ladies in Retirement (1941) 91m 7.1 - [x] Not Wanted (1949) 91m 6.8 - [x] Moontide (1942) 94m 6.8 - [x] On Dangerous Ground (1951) 82m 7.2 - [x] Road House (1948) 7.2 95m - [x] Outrage (1950) Vincent Price - [x] His Kind of Woman (1951) 120m 7.0m⭐️ - [x] The Bride (1949) 98m 6.6 - [x] The Web (1947) Marlyn Monroe - [x] Clash by Night (1952) 105m 7.0 - [x] Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) 76m 6.9 Nuclear Noir - [x] Split Second (1953) 85m 6.8 - [x] Kiss Me Deadly (1955) 106m 7.5 ♻️ - [ ] The Atomic City (1952) ⭐️ - [x] Shack Out on 101 (1955) ⭐️ - [ ] City of Fear (1959) Robert Mitchum - [x] Angel Face (1953) 91m 7.2 ⭐️ - [x] The Locket (1946) 85m 7.1 ⭐️❗ - [x] His Kind of Woman (1951) 120m 7.0m⭐️ - [x] Pursued (1947) 101m 7.2 Lizabeth Scott - [x] The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) 7.4 116m - [x] Pitfall (1948) 86m 7.1 - [x] Desert Fury (1947) 6.5 96m - [x] Stolen Face (1952) 72m 6.0 - [x] Dead Reckoning (1947) 100m 7.1 Color Noir - [x] Violent Saturday (1955) 90m ⭐️ 6.9 - [x] Desert Fury (1947) 6.5 96m Peter Lorre - [x] Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) 64m 6.8 - [x] Black Angel (1946) 81m 6.9 Horror - [ ] Bluebeard (1944) 71m 5.9 ⭐️ - [x] The Queen of Spades (1949) - [x] The Lodger (1944) 84m 7.1 cri ⭐️ - [x] The Red House (1947) 100m 6.7 ⭐️ - [x] Corridor of Mirrors (1948) 105m - [x] The Curse of the Cat People (1944) Weird - [x] Bewitched (1945) 65m 5.6 ⭐️ - [ ] Inner Sanctum (1948) 62m 6.0 - [ ] The Whip Hand (1951) 82m - [x] Whirlpool (1950) 98m 6.7 - [x] Fear in the Night (1947) 72m 6.4 - [ ] The Argyle Secrets (1948) 64m - [x] Decoy (1946) 76m - [x] Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) 64m 6.8 ⭐️ Noir / Black Comedy - [x] Monsieur Verdoux (1947) 122m 7.8 ⭐️❗ - [ ] Whistling in the Dark (1941) 78m 6.7 Christmas Noir - [x] I, the Jury (1951) 🎄 - [x] Mr. Soft Touch (1949) 6.6 93m 🎄 - [x] Lady in the Lake (1946) 105m 6.5 ⭐️🎄 - [x] Mr. Arkadin (1955) 99m 7.1 ⭐️🎄 - [x] The Curse of the Cat People (1944) 70m 6.7 🎄 - [x] Girl with Hyacinths (1950) 🌏 ⭐️ 🎄7.6 89m - Swedish lesbian Citizen Kane - [x] Blast of Silence (1961) 🎄 - [x] They Live by Night (1948) 🎄 - [x] Cash on Demand (1961)🎄 - [x] The Night of the Hunter (1955)🎄 - [x] I Wouldn’t Be In Your Shoes (1948) 🎄 - [x] Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) 🎄 - [x] The Naked City (1948) crit hbo 7.6 99m ⭐️ - [x] So Evil My Love (1948) 109m 6.9 ⭐️ - [ ] Underworld USA (1961) - [x] Bewitched (1945) - [ ] The Upturned Glass (1947) - [ ] The Face Behind the Mask (1941) - [ ] Tiger Bay (1959) 105m - [ ] Following (1998) - chris nolan - [ ] Cornered (1945) 102m 6.6 - [ ] Boomerang! (1947) - [ ] The Woman on the Beach (1947) 71m - [x] Lady in the Lake (1946) 105m 6.5 ⭐️ - [x] Mr. Arkadin (1955) 99m 7.1 - [x] White Heat (1949) 114m 8.1 ⭐️ - [x] Act of Violence (1948) 7.5 82m - [x] Sudden Fear (1952) 7.5 110m - [x] Pigs and Battleships (1961) - [x] Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) - [x] The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) 7.5 113m - [x] The Woman in the Window (1944) - Edward G. Robinson; fritz lang, 107m 7.7 - [x] Scarlet Street (1945) - 7.8 102m circus of dopes who are duped into doing extra dopey things all due to assumptions - [x] Raw Deal (1948) - [x] While the City Sleeps (1956) - fritz lang, most cynical/piercing 7.0 - [x] Ride the Pink Horse (1947) 101m 7.3 - [x] Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) 7.4 79m - [x] The Set-Up (1949) - noir sports 73m 7.9 - [x] Mildred Pierce (1945) - feminist, joan crawford 8.0 111m - [ ] Criss Cross (1949) - mitchum heist, 88m 7.5 - [ ] Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 8.4 - [ ] Journey Into Fear (1943) - [ ] Christmas Holiday (1944) - [ ] The Seventh Victim (1943) - [ ] Ivy (1947) - [ ] Blonde Ice (1948) 73m - [ ] Femme Fatale (2002) 114m 6.2 - [ ] Madeleine (1950) - [ ] Obsession (1949) - [ ] Too Hot to Handle (1960) - [ ] Daisy Kenyon (1947) 6.8 99m - [ ] Naked Alibi (1954) 86m 6.5 - [ ] Stolen Death (1938) - nordic / Finnish - [ ] Ossessione (1943)❗ - [ ] Experiment in Terror (1962) 123m 7.2 - [ ] Inferno (1953) 83m - [ ] Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) 80m - [ ] Lure of the Wilderness (1952) - [ ] The Accused (1949) 101m 6.8 - [ ] The Secret Fury (1950) - [ ] Cry Vengeance (1954) - [ ] 99 River Street (1953) 7.4 83m - [ ] Intruder in the Dust (1949) 7.6 87m - [ ] A Place in the Sun (1951) - [ ] Detective Story (1951) - [ ] Fly By Night (1942) - [ ] Journey Into Fear (1943) - [ ] The Seventh Victim (1943) - [ ] The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) - [ ] Victim (1961) - lgbt british - [ ] Cause for Alarm! (1951) - [ ] Somewhere in the Night (1946) - [ ] Hell Bound (1957) - [ ] Fourteen Hours (1951) - [ ] Victim (1961) - lgbt british - [ ] Insomnia (1997) - scandinavian noir - [ ] Boomerang! (1947) - [ ] Cause for Alarm! (1951) - [ ] He Walked By Night (1948) - [ ] Somewhere in the Night (1946) - [ ] Shoot the Piano Player (1960) - french noir - [ ] Hell Bound (1957) - [ ] The Cheap Detective (1978) - [ ] House of Bamboo (1955) - [ ] They Live by Night (1949) - [ ] Bullets or Ballots (1936) 82m - [ ] Bob Le Flambeur (1956) 103m 7.6 🌏❗ - [ ] The Grifters (1990) 6.9 110m - [ ] The Cooler (2003) - [ ] The Two Jakes (1990) 6.1 137m hob - [ ] Yellow Sky (1948) * - [ ] The Furies (1950) - [ ] Bob Le Flambeur (1956) 103m 7.6 🌏❗ - [x] Pépé le Moko (1937) 94m 🌏❗ - [x] Algiers (1938) 96m - remake of Pepe le moko - [ ] The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) ⭐️ - [ ] Body Double (1984) 114m 6.8 ⭐️❗ - [ ] Cutter’s Way (1981) 105m 6.8❗ - [ ] The Two Jakes (1990) 6.1 137m hbo - [ ] Act of Violence (1948) 7.5 82m - [x] Black Angel (1946) 81m 6.9 - [ ] I Want to Live! (1958) - [ ] Please Murder Me (1956) 7.8 - [ ] Pickup (1951) - [ ] I Want to Live! (1958) - [ ] Try and Get Me - [ ] Possessed (1947) - [ ] Black Widow (1987) - [x] Beware, My Lovely (1952) 77m 6.6 - [x] The Thief (1952) - no dialogue - [x] Pépé le Moko (1937) 94m 🌏❗ - [x] Algiers (1938) 96m - remake of Pepe le moko - [ ] Casbah (1948) 94m - musical remake of Algiers - [x] Casablanca (1942) 102m 8.5 ♻️ - [x] The Naked Kiss (1964) - [x] Klute (1971) - [x] Tokyo Drifter (1966) - full-tilt insanity from start to finish 7.2 82m - [x] Drunken Angel (1948) - j-noir Akira Kurosawa - [x] Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958) - french noir hboxmax 88m 8.0 - [x] Diabolique (1955) - french noir - [x] Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) - Hitchcock 7.8 101m - [x] Suspicion (1941) - hitchcock 7.4 1h39m - [x] Phantom Lady (1944) - femlead 7.2 87m - [x] To Have and Have Not (1944) - [x] The Naked City (1948) - [x] Brighton Rock (1948) - [x] The Big Knife (1955) - [x] Night and the City (1950) - [x] Kansas City Confidential (1952) - [x] The Stranger (1946) - [x] Dial M for Murder (1954) - [x] The Big Combo (1955) - [x] Too Late for Tears (1949) - [x] I Wake Up Screaming (1941) - [x] A Simple Plan (1998) - [x] High Sierra (1941) - [x] Niagara (1953) - marlyin monroe - [x] The Night of the Hunter (1955) * - [x] Brick (2005) - [x] Drive (2011) - [x] The Singing Detective (2003) - [x] Heat (1995) - [x] Memento (2000) - [x] Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) - [x] Fargo (1996) - [x] Mulholland Drive (2001) - [x] Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) - [x] Blue Velvet (1986) - [x] Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - [x] The Usual Suspects (1995) - [x] Blade Runner (1982) - [x] Strange Days (1995) - [x] The Big Lewbowski (1998) - [x] Sin City (2005) - [x] Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - [x] Vertigo (1958) - [x] Lost Highway (1997) - [x] Blast of Silence (1961) 7.5 76m - neo-noir - [x] Mildred Pierce (1945) - feminist, joan crawford 8.0 111m - [x] Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - [x] Niagara (1953) - [x] Phantom Lady (1944) - femlead 7.2 87m - [x] The Crimson Kimono (1959) - anti racist 6.9m 82m - [x] To Have and Have Not (1944) - [x] The Naked Kiss (1964) - [x] Criss Cross (1949) - mitchum heist, 88m 7.5 - [x] High Sierra (1941) - [x] While the City Sleeps (1956) - fritz lang, most cynical/piercing 7.0 - [x] A Simple Plan (1998) - [x] Klute (1971) - [x] Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) - [x] Night Moves (1975) - neo-noir 1970s - [x] This Gun for Hire (1942) - [x] The Narrow Margin (1952) - [x] The Crimson Kimono (1959) - anti racist 6.9m 82m - [x] Strangers on a Train (1951) - [x] Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.4 110m * - [x] Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) 7.5 103m * - [x] Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 104m 7.7 - [x] I Wake Up Screaming (1941) 7.2 82m - [x] Brick (2005) 7.2 110m - [x] Zodiac (2007) 7.7 157m - [x] Murder, He Says (1945) 91m 7.0 - [x] The Amazing Mr. X (1948) - [x] Moss Rose (1947) - [x] The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) - [x] Dragonwyck (1946) - [x] Shock (1946) - [x] Alias Nick Beal (1949) 93m 7.1 ⭐️ - [x] Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 8.4 kan 116m - [x] Drunken Angel (1948) 98m 7.7 cri - [x] Felidae (1994) - 7.0 82m german cat neo-noir - [x] Duel in the Sun (1946) 144m 6.7 - [x] Gaslight (1944) 114m 7.8 - [x] Green for Danger (1946) 7.1 91m crit - [x] The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) 118m 7.8 hbo 1. Random number generator: Generate a number between 1941–1958 and watch a noir from that year. (Alternative: Increase the range up as far as you like to include neo-noirs.) 2. Boxing noir Killer’s Kiss (1955) 68m 6.5 ✅ The Harder They Fall (1956) 109m 7.5 3. A noir focused on a sport other than boxing (note that this linked list includes boxing and non-boxing noirs, so you'll have to be a bit picky) 4. Horror noir Among the Living (1941) 5. Eastern Bloc noir The Murderers Are Among Us (1946) 81m 7.4 6. Bush noir: a noir from Australia 7. Named for a place you'd like to visit ✅ Alaska Seas (1954) 8. Named for a place you've already been ✅ Hell’s Half Acre (1954) 9. Queer-coded noir ✅ The Line Up (1958) 10. Noir that passes the Bechdel test ✅ Yield to the Night (1956) 11. Directed by Anthony Mann 12. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville 13. Starring Ida Lupino ✅ Deep Valley (1947) 14. Starring Burt Lancaster ✅ I Walk Alone (1947) Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) 15. Written by or based on work by James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 16. Written by or based on work by Muriel Roy Bolton or Muriel Box Good-Time Girl 1948 81m 6.5 17. Studio: United Artists Killer’s Kiss 1955 18. Studio: Columbia Pictures ✅ The Garment Jungle 1957 ✅I Love Trouble 1948 ✅The Burglar 1957 ✅Johnny O’Clock 1947 19. Studio: Allied Artists Pictures Cry Vengeance 1954 20. Featured on the Pods Against Tomorrow podcast I Love Trouble (1948) 21. Featured on the Tipping My Fedora podcast Killer’s Kiss (1955) 68m 6.5 Victims of Sin (1951) 84m 7.5 22. Cinematography by Elwood Bredell ✅ The Unsuspected (1947) 103m 7.2 23. Set Decoration by Russell A. Gausman The Tattered Dress 1957 93m 6.5 The Glass Web 1953 81m 6.6 Ivy 1947 99m 7.0 24. Watch a noir with a full sentence for a title. The Damned Don’t Cry 1950 25. A film noir parody or comedy ✅The Cheap Detective 1978 6.4 92m Donald’s Crime 1945 26. A film noir musical ✅ Blackout (1954) Blackglove (1954) 27. An erotic thriller or a sleazy noir 28. A noir with a salacious tagline 29. Holiday noir The Thin Man (1934) 30. Any film noir on your watchlist Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography.