Film-noir
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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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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 32 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 32 top lists Check -
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Dial M for Murder
1954, in 9 top lists Check -
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White Heat
1949, in 14 top lists Check -
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Sweet Smell of Success
1957, in 19 top lists Check -
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Ace in the Hole
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 25 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 29 top lists Check -
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Out of the Past
1947 — a.k.a. Build My Gallows High, in 15 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 18 top lists Check -
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 — a.k.a. I Am a Fugitive from the Chain Gang, in 12 top lists Check -
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In a Lonely Place
1950, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 28 top lists Check -
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The Killing
1956, in 12 top lists Check -
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Strangers on a Train
1951, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Big Sleep
1946, in 18 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 21 top lists Check -
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Mildred Pierce
1945, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Big Heat
1953, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Lost Weekend
1945, in 16 top lists Check -
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Angels with Dirty Faces
1938, in 6 top lists Check -
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Night and the City
1950, in 9 top lists Check -
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Gaslight
1944 — a.k.a. Murder in Thornton Square, in 9 top lists Check -
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Key Largo
1948, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Asphalt Jungle
1950, in 14 top lists Check -
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Scarlet Street
1945, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Roaring Twenties
1939, in 5 top lists Check -
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Fury
1936, in 10 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1932, in 14 top lists Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Killers
1946 — a.k.a. A Man Alone, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Woman in the Window
1944, in 5 top lists Check -
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Pickup on South Street
1953, in 11 top lists Check -
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Odd Man Out
1947 — a.k.a. Gang War, in 12 top lists Check -
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Nightmare Alley
1947, in 5 top lists Check -
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Body and Soul
1947 — a.k.a. An Affair of the Heart, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Set-Up
1949, in 7 top lists Check -
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Leave Her to Heaven
1945, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947, in 7 top lists Check -
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Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 18 top lists Check -
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Gun Crazy
1950 — a.k.a. Gun Crazy, in 13 top lists Check -
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Thieves' Highway
1949 — a.k.a. Collision, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Letter
1940, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Big Clock
1948, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Narrow Margin
1952, in 6 top lists Check -
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Brute Force
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
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Underworld
1927 — a.k.a. Paying the Penalty, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Docks of New York
1928, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Petrified Forest
1936, in 2 top lists Check
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