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CitizenKing's "Film Noir Primer"

A list of the essential American film noir movies.
1. The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
by John Huston
  
2. Out of the Past
by Jacques Tourneur
  
3. The Big Sleep
by Howard Hawks
  
4. Laura
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
5. Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
by Billy Wilder
  
6. Murder, My Sweet
by Edward Dmytryk
  
7. The Asphalt Jungle
by John Huston
  
8. Kiss Me Deadly
by Robert Aldrich
  
9. Criss Cross
by Robert Siodmak
  
10. The Killers - Criterion Collection  
11.
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 Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)  
12. This Gun for Hire
by Frank Tuttle
  
13. Force of Evil
by Abraham Polonsky
  
14. The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
by John Farrow
  
15. The Big Heat
by Fritz Lang
  
16. The Big Combo
by Joseph H. Lewis
  
17. High Sierra (Keepcase)
by Raoul Walsh
  
18. Night and the City - Criterion Collection
by Jules Dassin
  
19. Detour (B&W)
by Edgar G. Ulmer
  
20. D.O.A.
by Rudolph Maté
  
21.
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 Phantom Lady (1944)
by Robert Siodmak
  
22.
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 The Blue Dahlia (1946)
by George Marshall
  
23. Black Angel
by Roy William Neill
  
24. Born to Kill
by Robert Wise
  
25. The Dark Corner
by Henry Hathaway
  
26. Fallen Angel (Fox Film Noir)
by Otto Preminger
  
27. Gilda
by Charles Vidor
  
28. Gun Crazy
by Joseph H. Lewis
  
29. Kiss of Death (Fox Film Noir)
by Henry Hathaway
  
30. The Lady from Shanghai  
31. Macao  
32. Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
by Michael Curtiz
  
33.
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 The Letter (1940)
by William Wyler
  
34. The Narrow Margin
by Richard Fleischer
  
35. The Postman Always Rings Twice
by Tay Garnett
  
36. Sorry Wrong Number (1948) (Sub)
by Anatole Litvak
  
37. Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
by Fritz Lang
  
38. The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)  
39. The Glass Key [Import]
by Stuart Heisler
  
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Created by CitizenKing on Feb 27, 2008.