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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. 2 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  2. 8 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  3. 7 -

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 31 top lists Check
  4. 9 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 15 -

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  6. 16 -

    Laura

    1944, in 21 top lists Check
  7. 20 -

    The Big Heat

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
  8. 38 -

    Gun Crazy

    1950, in 17 top lists Check
  9. 18 -

    Mildred Pierce

    1945, in 17 top lists Check
  10. 12 -

    Strangers on a Train

    1951, in 17 top lists Check
  11. 30 -

    Scarface

    1932, in 16 top lists Check
  12. 24 -

    The Asphalt Jungle

    1950, in 15 top lists Check
  13. 31 -

    The Killers

    1946, in 15 top lists Check
  14. 14 -

    The Killing

    1956, in 15 top lists Check
  15. 42 -

    Odd Man Out

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  16. 5 -

    White Heat

    1949, in 15 top lists Check
  17. 3 -

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    1932, in 14 top lists Check
  18. 44 -

    Pickup on South Street

    1953, in 14 top lists Check
  19. 28 -

    Fury

    1936, in 12 top lists Check
  20. 19 -

    Night and the City

    1950, in 12 top lists Check
  21. 23 -

    Angels with Dirty Faces

    1938, in 9 top lists Check
  22. 27 -

    Nora inu

    1949 — a.k.a. Stray Dog, in 9 top lists Check
  23. 21 -

    The Roaring Twenties

    1939, in 8 top lists Check
  24. 43 -

    The Woman in the Window

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  25. 33 -

    Key Largo

    1948, in 7 top lists Check
  26. 41 -

    Brute Force

    1947, in 6 top lists Check
  27. 48 -

    The Big Clock

    1948, in 5 top lists Check
  28. 50 -

    The Breaking Point

    1950, in 4 top lists Check
  29. 39 -

    Caged

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
  30. 40 -

    Where the Sidewalk Ends

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
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