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Top Films Noir

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
2 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
3 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
4 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
5 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
6 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
7 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
8 M 1931 Fritz Lang 74
9 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
10 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
11 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 170
12 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
13 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 220
14 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
15 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
16 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 249
17 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 315
18 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
19 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 341
20 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 371
21 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 401
22 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 418
23 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 434
24 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 453
25 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 550
26 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 553
27 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 557
28 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 558
29 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 614
30 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
31 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 622
32 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 623
33 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 633
34 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 656
35 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 757
36 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 789
37 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 801
38 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 830
39 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 869
40 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 898
41 Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen 936
42 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 957
43 D.O.A. 1950 Rudolph Maté 988
44 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 990
45 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk 991
46 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh 1144
47 Champion 1949 Mark Robson 1225
48 High Sierra 1941 Raoul Walsh 1387
49 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise 1420
50 Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock 1437
51 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 1522
52 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1556
53 The Spiral Staircase 1945 Robert Siodmak 1579
54 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1593
55 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang 1694
56 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang 1781
57 The Naked City 1948 Jules Dassin 1785
58 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 1835
59 Crossfire 1947 Edward Dmytryk 1930
60 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin 1934
61 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer 1946
62 The Big Combo 1955 Joseph H. Lewis 1955
63 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 1998
64 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 Fritz Lang 2063
65 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls 2065
66 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 2169
67 Criss Cross 1949 Robert Siodmak 2171
68 This Gun for Hire 1942 Frank Tuttle 2293
69 The Harder They Fall 1956 Mark Robson 2308
70 You Only Live Once 1937 Fritz Lang 2309
71 Niagara 1953 Henry Hathaway 2351
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