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Film-noir top movies

Film noir ('black film') is a branch of the crime/gangster sagas from the 1930s. Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style or tone of various American films that evolved between the 1940s and 1960s. However, film noir has re-occurred in cyclical form in other years in various neo-noirs. Noirs are usually black and white films with primary moods of melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt and paranoia. They often feature a cynical, loner hero (anti-hero) and femme fatale, in a seedy big city. — Author: iCheckMovies

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    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard
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    Double Indemnity

    1944
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    The Maltese Falcon

    1941
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    Touch of Evil

    1958
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    Strangers on a Train

    1951
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    Notorious

    1946
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    The Big Sleep

    1946
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    The Night of the Hunter

    1955
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    Ace in the Hole

    1951
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    The Killing

    1956
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    Sweet Smell of Success

    1957
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    Shadow of a Doubt

    1943
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    Du rififi chez les hommes

    1955
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    Laura

    1944
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    White Heat

    1949
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    Out of the Past

    1947 — a.k.a. Build My Gallows High
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    Key Largo

    1948
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    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    1932 — a.k.a. I Am a Fugitive from the Chain Gang
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    Night and the City

    1950
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    In a Lonely Place

    1950
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    The Big Heat

    1953
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    Pickup on South Street

    1953
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    The Killers

    1946 — a.k.a. A Man Alone
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    The Asphalt Jungle

    1950
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    Angels with Dirty Faces

    1938
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    Odd Man Out

    1947 — a.k.a. Gang War
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    Body and Soul

    1947 — a.k.a. An Affair of the Heart
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    Scarface

    1932
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    Fury

    1936
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    Touchez pas au grisbi

    1954 — a.k.a. Hands Off the Loot
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    Scarlet Street

    1945
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    Mildred Pierce

    1945
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    Deadly Is the Female

    1950
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    The Set-Up

    1949
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    The Woman in the Window

    1944
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    The Narrow Margin

    1952
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    Thieves' Highway

    1949 — a.k.a. Collision
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    The Letter

    1940
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    Nora inu

    1949 — a.k.a. Stray Dog
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    The Lady from Shanghai

    1947
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    The Big Clock

    1948
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    The Naked City

    1948
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    Gilda

    1946
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    Nightmare Alley

    1947
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    Brute Force

    1947
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    Leave Her to Heaven

    1945
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    Quai des Orfèvres

    1947 — a.k.a. Jenny Lamour
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    Where the Sidewalk Ends

    1950
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    This Gun for Hire

    1942
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    Murder, My Sweet

    1944 — a.k.a. Farewell My Lovely

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