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

  2. 2.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

  3. 3.
    Touch of Evil (Widescreen Edition)
    by Orson Welles

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

  5. 5.
    The Killing

  6. 6.
    Detour
    by Edgar G. Ulmer

  7. 7.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  8. 8.
    Kiss Me Deadly
    by Robert Aldrich

  9. 9.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed

  10. 10.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

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

  12. 12.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

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

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

  15. 15.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

  16. 16.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

  17. 17.
    The Lady from Shanghai
    by Orson Welles

  18. 18.
    The Killers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Aleksandr Gordon

  19. 19.
    Pickup on South Street (The Criterion Collection)
    by Samuel Fuller

  20. 20.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

  21. 21.
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    The Asphalt Jungle

  22. 22.
    Criss Cross (Universal Noir Collection)
    by Robert Siodmak

  23. 23.
    Phantom Lady [VHS]
    by Robert Siodmak

  24. 24.
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

  25. 25.
    Ace in the Hole (The Criterion Collection)
    by Billy Wilder

  26. 26.
    Born to Kill
    by Robert Wise

  27. 27.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  28. 28.
    D.O.A.
    by Rudolph Mate

  29. 29.
    Night and the City (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  30. 31.
    The Set-Up
    by Robert Wise

  31. 32.
    The Narrow Margin
    by Richard Fleischer

  32. 33.
    Kiss of Death (Fox Film Noir)
    by Henry Hathaway

  33. 34.
    Act of Violence (1948)
    by Fred Zinnemann

  34. 35.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

  35. 36.
    Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  36. 37.
    Gilda

  37. 38.
    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk

  38. 39.
    Nightmare Alley (Fox Film Noir)
    by Edmund Goulding

  39. 40.
    Angel Face
    by Otto Preminger

  40. 41.
    This Gun for Hire (Universal Noir Collection)
    by Frank Tuttle

  41. 42.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  42. 43.

  43. 44.
    Thieves' Highway (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  44. 45.
    Key Largo (Snap Case)

  45. 46.
    Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
    by Michael Curtiz

  46. 47.
    Force of Evil
    by Abraham Polonsky

  47. 48.
    Crime Wave [aka The City is Dark] (1954)
    by André De Toth

  48. 49.
    Fallen Angel (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

  49. 50.
    On Dangerous Ground

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Comments

Some minor updates — 5 years 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 — 5 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.




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