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Top Films Noir

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
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