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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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  1. 38 -

    Leave Her to Heaven

    1945, in 12 top lists Check
  2. 24 -

    Shadow of a Doubt

    1943, in 15 top lists Check
  3. 33 -3

    Scarlet Street

    1945, in 10 top lists Check
  4. 16 -2

    Strangers on a Train

    1951, in 17 top lists Check
  5. 10 -

    Out of the Past

    1947, in 16 top lists Check
  6. 45 -

    The Fallen Idol

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  7. 9 -

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 30 top lists Check
  8. 4 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  9. 21 -

    The Big Heat

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
  10. 40 -3

    Pickup on South Street

    1953, in 14 top lists Check
  11. 42 +4

    The Narrow Margin

    1952, in 7 top lists Check
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