962 Noir Films from They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? (including TSPDT's 250 Quintessential Noir Films)

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The TSPDT 250 Quintessential Noir Films list 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 color 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).

Other titles included in the list are noir precursors, modern noir, non-American noir, and additional films between 1940-1964 that have noir elements.

Section changes will be listed in this complete list (so the reader will know where in the list modern noir films begin/end, etc.).

Films 1 - 250 (The Accused through The Wrong Man) are TSPDT's 250 Quintessential Noir Films.

Films 251 - 358 (The 13th Letter through A Woman's Secret) are "More American Noir Films and/or Films with Noir Elements from 1940 to 1964" Category A: films often cited as film noir. These films weren't far away from being included on the 250 Quintessential listing, and most of them contain many - if not all - of the classic noir ingredients.

Films 359 - 513 (5 Against the House through Women's Prison) are "More American Noir Films and/or Films with Noir Elements from 1940 to 1964" Category B: films quite often cited as film noir, but not to the same degree as those listed in Category A. It must be considered that in most cases these films contain strong film noir elements.

Films 514 - 750 (The Thirteenth Hour through A Woman's Vengeance) are "More American Noir Films and/or Films with Noir Elements from 1940 to 1964" Category C: films not often cited as film noir. These films include certain film noir characteristics, even though - in many cases - they belong in other clear-cut genres, e.g. Westerns. However, it should also be acknowledged that many of these films are without doubt 'fully-blown' noirs (of the very neglected variety).

Films 751 - 825 (Another Man's Poison through Wicked as They Come) are British-produced noir (1940-1964).

Films 826 - 837 (Bob le flambeur through The Wages of Fear) are French-produced noir (1940-1964).

Films 838 - 843 (Ossessione through Stolen Identity) are classified as "other" non-American noir produced between 1940-1964: 1 Italian, 3 Japanese, 1 Mexican, and 1 Austrian, respectively.

Films 844 - 871 (The Beast of the City through You Only Live Once) are "Noir-Precursors": films that shaped the look of noir before the style came into its own during the 1940s. All are American-produced except The Green Cockatoo (UK), La Bête Humaine, Pépé le Moko, and Quai des brumes (France), and M (Germany).

Films 872 - 962 (Angel's Flight through The Salton Sea) are "Neo-Noir / Modern Noir" films made after the 'golden age' of film noir up to 2002. They are grouped them by decade, and all are American-produced, except for:
French-produced: Le Samouraï, Le deuxième souffle, Le cercle rouge, Série noire, La femme Nikita, Léon, and Mulholland Dr.
German-produced: Der amerikanische Freund
UK-produced: The Big Sleep (1978), Get Carter (1971), and Mona Lisa

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  1. 962 -

    The Salton Sea

    2002, in 1 top list Check
  2. 961 -

    Road to Perdition

    2002, in 6 top lists Check
  3. 960 -

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  4. 959 -

    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 958 -

    The Man Who Wasn't There

    2001, in 4 top lists Check
  6. 957 -

    The Deep End

    2001, in 1 top list Check
  7. 956 -

    The Usual Suspects

    1995, in 24 top lists Check
  8. 955 -

    Underneath

    1995, in 1 top list Check
  9. 954 -

    A Simple Plan

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 953 -

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  11. 952 -

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  12. 951 -

    Red Rock West

    1993, in 2 top lists Check
  13. 950 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  14. 949 -

    The Public Eye

    1992, in 1 top list Check
  15. 948 -

    Léon

    1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check
  16. 947 -

    Nikita

    1990 — a.k.a. La Femme Nikita, in 4 top lists Check
  17. 946 -

    Mulholland Falls

    1996, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 945 -

    Miller's Crossing

    1990, in 11 top lists Check
  19. 944 -

    Lost Highway

    1997, in 10 top lists Check
  20. 943 -

    The Last Seduction

    1994, in 10 top lists Check
  21. 942 -

    L.A. Confidential

    1997, in 27 top lists Check
  22. 941 -

    The Hot Spot

    1990, in 1 top list Check
  23. 940 -

    Homicide

    1991, in 2 top lists Check
  24. 939 -

    Heat

    1995, in 23 top lists Check
  25. 938 -

    Sydney

    1996 — a.k.a. Hard Eight, in 1 top list Check
  26. 937 -

    The Grifters

    1990, in 8 top lists Check
  27. 936 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  28. 935 -

    Devil in a Blue Dress

    1995, in 4 top lists Check
  29. 934 -

    Dark City

    1998, in 6 top lists Check
  30. 933 -

    City of Industry

    1997, in 1 top list Check
  31. 932 -

    Bound

    1996, in 6 top lists Check
  32. 931 -

    Basic Instinct

    1992, in 10 top lists Check
  33. 930 -

    After Dark, My Sweet

    1990, in 2 top lists Check
  34. 929 -

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    1988, in 16 top lists Check
  35. 928 -

    To Live and Die in L.A.

    1985, in 2 top lists Check
  36. 927 -

    Tightrope

    1984, in 1 top list Check
  37. 926 -

    Thief

    1981, in 5 top lists Check
  38. 925 -

    Série noire

    1979, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 924 -

    Sea of Love

    1989, in 3 top lists Check
  40. 923 -

    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    1981, in 2 top lists Check
  41. 922 -

    No Way Out

    1987, in 1 top list Check
  42. 921 -

    Kill Me Again

    1989, in 1 top list Check
  43. 920 -

    Mona Lisa

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  44. 919 -

    Jagged Edge

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  45. 918 -

    House of Games

    1987, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 917 -

    Hammett

    1982, in 2 top lists Check
  47. 916 -

    Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

    1982 — a.k.a. Dead Men Wear No Plaid, in 3 top lists Check
  48. 915 -

    Cutter's Way

    1981, in 6 top lists Check
  49. 914 -

    Body Heat

    1981, in 7 top lists Check
  50. 913 -

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
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