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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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check -
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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
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A Place in the Sun
1951, in 13 top lists Check -
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To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1952, in 9 top lists Check -
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Le quai des brumes
1938 — a.k.a. Port of Shadows, in 10 top lists Check -
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Pépé le Moko
1937, in 10 top lists Check -
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Ossessione
1943, in 12 top lists Check -
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Spellbound
1945, in 7 top lists Check -
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They Live by Night
1948, in 13 top lists Check -
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Underworld
1927, in 9 top lists Check -
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Mona Lisa
1986, in 5 top lists Check -
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Portrait of Jennie
1948, in 5 top lists Check -
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Pursued
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
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Daisy Kenyon
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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Rawhide
1951, in 1 top list Check -
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Champion
1949, in 2 top lists Check -
594 -
The Furies
1950, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Woman on the Beach
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
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Human Desire
1954, in 3 top lists Check -
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Ramrod
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Small Back Room
1949 — a.k.a. Hour of Glory, in 3 top lists Check -
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You and Me
1938, in 3 top lists Check -
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Humoresque
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Big Easy
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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The Paradine Case
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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Ruby Gentry
1952, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Face Behind the Mask
1941, in 2 top lists Check -
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Love Letters
1945, in 0 top lists Check -
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Deadline at Dawn
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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Flamingo Road
1949, in 1 top list Check -
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The Hot Spot
1990, in 1 top list Check -
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Experiment Perilous
1944, in 1 top list Check -
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The Lost Moment
1947, in 2 top lists Check -
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Cloak and Dagger
1946, in 1 top list Check -
704 -
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947 — a.k.a. A Woman Destroyed, in 0 top lists Check -
888 -
The Big Sleep
1978, in 1 top list Check -
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Flesh and Fantasy
1943, in 0 top lists Check -
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Station West
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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Tomorrow Is Forever
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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Suspense
1946, in 1 top list Check -
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The Argyle Secrets
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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Arch of Triumph
1948, in 0 top lists Check -
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We Were Strangers
1949, in 0 top lists Check -
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Nightmare
1956, in 1 top list Check
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