IMDB Top 50 - Film Noir

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This list changes periodically based on votes at IMDb.

Updated Feb. 19, 2011

  1. 1.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  2. 2.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder

  3. 3.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed

  4. 4.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  5. 5.
    Touch of Evil (Widescreen Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  6. 6.
    Strangers on a Train
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  7. 7.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  8. 8.
    The Big Sleep (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks

  9. 9.
    Ace in the Hole (The Criterion Collection)
    by Billy Wilder

  10. 10.
    White Heat (1949)
    by Raoul Walsh

  11. 11.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  12. 12.
    The Killing

  13. 13.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

  14. 14.
    Rififi (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  15. 15.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  16. 16.
    Shadow of a Doubt
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  17. 17.
    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
    by Mervyn LeRoy

  18. 18.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

  19. 19.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

  20. 20.
    Night and the City (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  21. 21.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

  22. 22.
    Key Largo (Snap Case)

  23. 23.
    The Killers (1946)
    by Robert Siodmak

  24. 24.
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    The Asphalt Jungle
    by John Huston

  25. 25.
    Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
    by Michael Curtiz

  26. 26.
    Pickup on South Street (The Criterion Collection)
    by Samuel Fuller

  27. 27.
    Angels With Dirty Faces
    by Bobby Connolly

  28. 28.
    Scarface
    by Howard Hawks

  29. 29.
    Fury
    by Fritz Lang

  30. 30.
    ?
    The Fallen Idol
    by Carol Reed

  31. 31.
    Body and Soul
    by Robert Rossen

  32. 32.
    Odd Man Out
    by Carol Reed

  33. 33.
    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

  34. 34.
    Stray Dog (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  35. 35.
    The Set-Up
    by Robert Wise

  36. 36.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

  37. 37.
    The Narrow Margin
    by Richard Fleischer

  38. 38.
    Thieves' Highway (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  39. 39.
    The Woman in the Window (1944)
    by Fritz Lang

  40. 40.
    The Letter
    by William Wyler

  41. 41.
    Nightmare Alley (Fox Film Noir)
    by Edmund Goulding

  42. 42.
    Drunken Angel (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  43. 43.
    Gilda

  44. 44.
    The Lady from Shanghai
    by Orson Welles

  45. 45.
    The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
    by John Farrow

  46. 46.
    Naked City
    by Jules Dassin

  47. 47.
    Brute Force

  48. 48.

  49. 49.
    Kiss Me Deadly
    by Robert Aldrich

  50. 50.
    This Gun for Hire (Universal Noir Collection)
    by Frank Tuttle

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A variable list — 6 years ago

Yes, this list changes a lot based on who is voting on imdb. — I watched the whole top 50 list about 2 years ago and at that time Scarlett Street was like number 3 or 4; at least a dozen things are this list weren’t even on the that list, and there are some glaring omissions from this one…Take the list with a grain of salt.. or a slug of whiskey or two..


I'd also add ... — 6 years ago

Kiss Me Deadly


Some good ones omitted from this list to see... — 6 years ago

1. HAS to be “Mildred Pierce”. I have no idea WHY this isn’t ranking here. Maybe the fact that it revolves around Joan Crawford as a love-sick mother makes some viewers shy away from what they think is a “women’s film”. Reality: it’s a damn good noir with lots of sex, violence, horizontal blinds and dizzying scenery. My husband loves this film.

2. “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, both on its own merits as classic noirs, but also because without James M. Cain’s original novels (including “Mildred Pierce” and “Double Indemnity”), we wouldn’t have pulp noir as we know it today.

3. “Dark Passage”. Terrific use of San Francisco, not to mention Bogie and Bacall.

4. “Criss Cross”.

5. “D.O.A.”




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