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IMDB - Top 50 Film Noir

This list changes periodically based on votes at IMDb.

Updated October 27, 2009.

(found at: http://imdb.com/chart/filmnoir)
1. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
  
2. Vertigo (Collector's Edition)  
3. Double Indemnity
by Billy Wilder
  
4. M - Criterion Collection (Special Edition)  
5. The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection  
6. The Maltese Falcon
by John Huston
  
7.
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 Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)  
8. Strangers on a Train  
9. Notorious - Criterion Collection  
10. The Big Sleep (Snap case)
by Howard Hawks
  
11. The Night of the Hunter
by Charles Laughton
  
12. The Ox-Bow Incident
by William A. Wellman
  
13. The Killing
by Stanley Kubrick
  
14. Ace in the Hole (1951) - Criterion Collection  
15. Sweet Smell of Success
by Alexander Mackendrick
  
16. Shadow of a Doubt  
17. Laura
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
18. Rififi - Criterion Collection
by Jules Dassin
  
19. Out of the Past
by Jacques Tourneur
  
20.
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 White Heat (1949)
by Raoul Walsh
  
21. Key Largo (Snap Case)
by John Huston
  
22.
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 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
23. In a Lonely Place
by Nicholas Ray
  
24. Night and the City - Criterion Collection
by Jules Dassin
  
25. The Big Heat
by Fritz Lang
  
26. Pickup on South Street - Criterion Collection
by Samuel Fuller
  
27. The Asphalt Jungle
by John Huston
  
28. Angels With Dirty Faces
by Michael Curtiz
  
29.
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 The Killers (1946)
by Robert Siodmak
  
30. Body and Soul
by Robert Rossen
  
31. Odd Man Out
by Carol Reed
  
32.
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 Scarface
by Howard Hawks
  
33. Touchez Pas au Grisbi - Criterion Collection
by Jacques Becker
  
34.
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 O, Drakos (1956)
by Nikos Koundouros
  
35. Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
by Fritz Lang
  
36. Thieves' Highway - Criterion Collection
by Jules Dassin
  
37. Gun Crazy
by Joseph H. Lewis
  
38. Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
by Michael Curtiz
  
39.
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 The Woman in the Window (1944)
by Fritz Lang
  
40. The Set-Up
by Robert Wise
  
41. The Narrow Margin
by Richard Fleischer
  
42.
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 The Letter
by William Wyler
  
43. The Lady from Shanghai  
44. Gilda
by Charles Vidor
  
45. Brute Force
by Jules Dassin
  
46. Naked City
by Jules Dassin
  
47. Leave Her to Heaven
by John M. Stahl
  
48. The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
by John Farrow
  
49. Stray Dog - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
50. Nightmare Alley
by Edmund Goulding
  
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Created by Jess on Apr 01, 2006.