IMDb's Film-Noir Top 50

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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. 1 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  2. 12 +1

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
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    Spellbound

    1945, in 8 top lists Check
  4. 37 -1

    Gilda

    1946, in 13 top lists Check
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    To Have and Have Not

    1944, in 15 top lists Check
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