Rough Guide to Film Noir - 50 Classics

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50 essential film noirs from the book: http://www.allconsuming.net/item/asin/1843534746

Alphabetical by title, except for the first 10, which are ranked as The Top Ten in the book (p. 56).

  1. 1.
    Chinatown

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  2. 2.
    Criss Cross
    by Robert Siodmak

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  3. 3.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

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  4. 4.
    Touch of Evil

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  5. 5.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  6. 6.
    L.A. Confidential
    by Curtis Hanson

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  7. 7.
    The Big Combo
    by Joseph H. Lewis

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  8. 8.
    Kiss Me Deadly
    by Robert Aldrich

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  9. 9.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  10. 10.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  11. 11.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

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  12. 12.
    Blade Runner
    by Ridley Scott

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  13. 13.
    Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
    by Joel Coen

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  14. 15.
    Body Heat
    by Lawrence Kasdan

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  15. 16.
    Cry of the City (1948)
    by Robert Siodmak

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  16. 17.
    D.O.A.
    by Rudolph Maté

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  17. 18.
    Detour
    by Edgar G. Ulmer

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  18. 20.
    Force of Evil
    by Abraham Polonsky

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  19. 21.
    Gilda
    by Charles Vidor

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  20. 22.
    The Grifters
    by Stephen Frears

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  21. 23.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

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  22. 24.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

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  24. 26.
    The Killing
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  25. 28.
    Kiss of Death (Fox Film Noir)
    by Henry Hathaway

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  26. 29.
    Klute
    by Alan J. Pakula

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  27. 30.
    The Lady from Shanghai

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  28. 31.
    The Last Seduction
    by John Dahl

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  29. 32.
    The Late Show
    by Robert Benton

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  30. 33.
    Laura
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  31. 34.
    Leave Her to Heaven
    by John M. Stahl

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  32. 35.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Robert Altman

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  33. 36.
    Mildred Pierce (Snap case)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  34. 37.
    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk

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  35. 38.
    Naked City - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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  36. 39.
    Night Moves
    by Arthur Penn

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  37. 40.
    Night and the City - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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  38. 42.
    Pickup on South Street - Criterion Collection
    by Samuel Fuller

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  39. 43.
    Pitfall
    by André De Toth

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  40. 44.
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    Raw Deal
    by Anthony Mann

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  41. 45.
    Le Samourai - Criterion Collection
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

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  42. 46.
    Scarlet Street
    by Fritz Lang

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  43. 47.
    Se7en
    by David Fincher

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  44. 48.

  45. 49.
    T-Men
    by Anthony Mann

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Comments

wmrandth
Seattle

Cry of the City — 1 year ago

is still not available on an R1 DVD, but there are three—count’em – three DVD versions on R2.

DVDBeaver review here

I also updated a few other titles, including pointing Night and the City to the Jules Dassin classic, not the later De Niro film.