IMDB Classic Film Board 2007 - Top 100 Film Noir

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Top 100 classic film noir titles according to poll of the imdb Classic Film board members August, 2007

Source post http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/84196243

(Note: this source board post seems to have gone missing as of Nov 07)

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  1. 1.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

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  2. 2.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  3. 4.
    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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  4. 5.
    The Killing
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  5. 6.
    Detour (B&W)
    by Edgar G. Ulmer

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  6. 7.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  7. 8.
    Kiss Me Deadly
    by Robert Aldrich

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  8. 10.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

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  9. 11.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by Tay Garnett

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  10. 12.
    Laura
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  11. 13.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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  12. 14.
    The Big Combo
    by Joseph H. Lewis

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  13. 15.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  14. 16.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

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  15. 17.
    The Lady from Shanghai

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  17. 19.
    Pickup on South Street - Criterion Collection
    by Samuel Fuller

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  18. 20.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

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  19. 21.
    The Asphalt Jungle
    by John Huston

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  20. 22.
    Criss Cross
    by Robert Siodmak

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  21. 23.
    Phantom Lady
    by Robert Siodmak

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  22. 24.
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
    by Lewis Milestone

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  23. 26.
    Born to Kill
    by Robert Wise

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  24. 27.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

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  25. 28.
    D.O.A.
    by Rudolph Maté

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  26. 29.
    Night and the City - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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  27. 30.
    Gangsters Guns & Floozies Crime Collection: Raw Deal
    by Anthony Mann

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  28. 31.
    The Set-Up
    by Robert Wise

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  29. 32.
    The Narrow Margin
    by Richard Fleischer

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  30. 33.
    Kiss of Death (Fox Film Noir)
    by Henry Hathaway

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  31. 34.
    Act of Violence (1948)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  32. 35.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

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  33. 37.
    Gilda
    by Charles Vidor

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  34. 38.
    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk

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  35. 39.
    Nightmare Alley
    by Edmund Goulding

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  36. 40.
    Angel Face
    by Otto Preminger

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  37. 41.
    This Gun for Hire
    by Frank Tuttle

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  38. 42.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  39. 43.
    Where the Sidewalk Ends
    by Otto Preminger

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  40. 44.
    Thieves' Highway - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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  41. 45.
    Key Largo (Snap Case)
    by John Huston

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  42. 46.
    Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  43. 47.
    Force of Evil
    by Abraham Polonsky

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  44. 48.
    Crime Wave [aka The City is Dark] (1954)
    by André De Toth

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  45. 49.
    Fallen Angel (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

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Comments

wmrandth
Seattle

Some minor updates — 1 year ago

I updated some titles to point to recent DVD releases, and some without DVD to their VHS releases on Amazon.

Note that some of them are available in the so called “two pack” DVD sets—eg. Act of Violence, Crime Wave, Where Danger Lives, and Tension.

But because the titles on this list cannot be edited if pulled from Amazon, it would be ambiguous to put them on the list. That’s a real limitation of this site.

And Warner Home video should have put out the Film Noir Classic sets in a single film per disk with slim cases. Much better imho.


No Man of Her Own — 2 years ago

“No Man of Her Own” is linked to the wrong title on Amazon.

I’m not sure how to go about helping correct this—this is my first time visiting your site.

The film referenced here is the 1950 film noir directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Barbara Stanwyck—not the 1932 romance with Gable & Lombard.