IMDb's Film-Noir Top 50
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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.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932, in 14 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
29 -1
Fury
1936, in 12 top lists Check -
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Angels with Dirty Faces
1938, in 9 top lists Check -
21 +1
The Roaring Twenties
1939, in 8 top lists Check -
9 -2
The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 26 top lists Check -
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Shadow of a Doubt
1943, in 15 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
12 +4
Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Woman in the Window
1944, in 8 top lists Check -
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Leave Her to Heaven
1945, in 12 top lists Check -
20 +1
The Lost Weekend
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
16 +2
Mildred Pierce
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
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Scarlet Street
1945, in 10 top lists Check -
17 -4
The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
31 +1
The Killers
1946, in 15 top lists Check -
13 +2
Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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Body and Soul
1947, in 6 top lists Check -
43 +1
Brute Force
1947, in 6 top lists Check -
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Nightmare Alley
1947, in 8 top lists Check -
40 +1
Odd Man Out
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
7 +3
Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Big Clock
1948, in 5 top lists Check -
46 -1
The Fallen Idol
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
32 -1
Key Largo
1948, in 7 top lists Check -
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Intruder in the Dust
1949, in 5 top lists Check -
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Nora inu
1949 — a.k.a. Stray Dog, in 9 top lists Check -
28 +1
The Set-Up
1949, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
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White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Asphalt Jungle
1950, in 15 top lists Check -
41 -1
Caged
1950, in 3 top lists Check -
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Gun Crazy
1950, in 17 top lists Check -
18 -1
In a Lonely Place
1950, in 19 top lists Check -
22 -2
Night and the City
1950, in 12 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950, in 3 top lists Check -
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Ace in the Hole
1951, in 21 top lists Check -
14 -2
Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
45 +1
The Narrow Margin
1952, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Big Heat
1953, in 18 top lists Check -
44 -1
Pickup on South Street
1953, in 14 top lists Check -
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Muerte de un ciclista
1955 — a.k.a. Death of a Cyclist, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check -
15 -1
The Killing
1956, in 15 top lists Check -
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Sweet Smell of Success
1957, in 20 top lists Check -
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I Want to Live!
1958, in 3 top lists Check -
10 -1
Touch of Evil
1958, in 30 top lists Check
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