Film Noir

Style, Quasi-Genre
Films Listed by Year of Release


The 1940s

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
This Gun For Hire (1942)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Laura (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Born to Kill (1947)
Crossfire (1947)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Call Northside 77 (1948)
Force of Evil (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
Gun Crazy (1949)
In A Lonely Place (1949)

The 1950s

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
D.O.A. (1950)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Killing (1956)
Touch of Evil (1958)

Post-1950s

Chinatown (1974)
Memento (2000)


See Also

Fury
High Sierra
M
Shadow of a Doubt
The Stranger
Stray Dog
Sunset Boulevard
The Third Man
White Heat
The Wrong Man

Additional Film Noir Stuff

Forget It, Jake --- It's Chinatown
Classic Film Noir Quotes

The Stuff You Gotta Watch

More of a style than a genre. Hard-boiled detectives, double-dealing dames, gangsters, privates eyes, lowlifes, flawlessly flawed schemes and shadowy figures everywhere, all chasing the stuff that dreams are made of.

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