Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 25 |
2 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
3 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
4 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 54 |
5 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
6 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 68 |
7 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
8 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
9 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
10 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
11 | Laura | 1944 | Otto Preminger | 279 |
12 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 289 |
13 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 335 |
14 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | 336 |
15 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 355 |
16 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 361 |
17 | Ace in the Hole | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 423 |
18 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 429 |
19 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 440 |
20 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 447 |
21 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 480 |
22 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | 505 |
23 | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock | 523 |
24 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 534 |
25 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller | 542 |
26 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 562 |
27 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 683 |
28 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 686 |
29 | The Lost Weekend | 1945 | Billy Wilder | 691 |
30 | Detour | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 707 |
31 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 719 |
32 | Night and the City | 1950 | Jules Dassin | 834 |
33 | Force of Evil | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky | 850 |
34 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 865 |
35 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 954 |
36 | They Live by Night | 1948 | Nicholas Ray | 991 |
37 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1100 |
38 | Odd Man Out | 1947 | Carol Reed | 1230 |
39 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 1337 |
40 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1380 |
41 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1382 |
42 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 1383 |
43 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1385 |
44 | Murder, My Sweet | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 1413 |
45 | The Set-Up | 1949 | Robert Wise | 1437 |
46 | The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Raoul Walsh | 1456 |
47 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang | 1513 |
48 | Kiss of Death | 1947 | Henry Hathaway | 1555 |
49 | Body and Soul | 1947 | Robert Rossen | 1593 |
50 | D.O.A. | 1949 | Rudolph Maté | 1604 |
51 | The Woman in the Window | 1944 | Fritz Lang | 1643 |
52 | The Big Combo | 1955 | Joseph H. Lewis | 1729 |
53 | The Naked City | 1948 | Jules Dassin | 1749 |
54 | High Sierra | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | 1888 |
55 | All the King's Men | 1949 | Robert Rossen | 1900 |
56 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 1965 |
57 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1987 |
58 | The Reckless Moment | 1949 | Max Ophüls | 2001 |
59 | Blackmail | 1929 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2125 |
60 | Nightmare Alley | 1947 | Edmund Goulding | 2139 |
61 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2165 |
62 | The Narrow Margin | 1952 | Richard Fleischer | 2216 |
63 | The Docks of New York | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 2225 |
64 | T-Men | 1947 | Anthony Mann | 2246 |
65 | The Letter | 1940 | William Wyler | 2299 |
66 | Underworld | 1927 | Josef von Sternberg | 2364 |
67 | The Hitch-Hiker | 1953 | Ida Lupino | 2415 |
68 | Raw Deal | 1948 | Anthony Mann | 2439 |
69 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler | 2470 |
70 | Criss Cross | 1949 | Robert Siodmak | 2518 |
71 | Ministry of Fear | 1944 | Fritz Lang | 2653 |
72 | Crime Wave | 1953 | André De Toth | 2707 |
73 | Crossfire | 1947 | Edward Dmytryk | 2736 |
74 | While the City Sleeps | 1956 | Fritz Lang | 2743 |
75 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo | 2765 |
76 | You Only Live Once | 1937 | Fritz Lang | 2802 |