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jimdelrio's "201 Essential Film Noirs"

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  1. 1.
    The Accused (1949)
    by William Dieterle

  2. 2.
    Ace in the Hole (The Criterion Collection)
    by Billy Wilder

  3. 3.
    Act of Violence (1948)
    by Fred Zinnemann

  4. 4.
    Angel Face
    by Otto Preminger

  5. 5.
    Angels With Dirty Faces
    by Bobby Connolly

  6. 6.
    Armored Car Robbery (1950)
    by Richard Fleischer

  7. 7.
    ?
    The Asphalt Jungle

  8. 8.
    Behind Locked Doors
    by Budd Boetticher

  9. 9.
    Beware, My Lovely (1952)
    by Harry Horner

  10. 10.
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
    by Fritz Lang

  11. 11.
    The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
    by John Farrow

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

  13. 13.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

  14. 14.
    The Big Knife
    by Robert Aldrich

  15. 15.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

  16. 16.
    ?
    The Big Steal (1949)
    by Don Siegel

  17. 17.
    Black Angel (Universal Noir Collection)
    by Roy William Neill

  18. 18.
    Black Widow (Fox Film Noir)

  19. 19.
    Blade Runner (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Ridley Scott

  20. 20.
    Blood Simple
    by Joel Coen

  21. 21.
    The Blue Dahlia (1946)
    by George Marshall

  22. 22.
    Blue Velvet (Special Edition)

  23. 23.
    Brute Force (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  24. 24.
    ?
    Body and Soul (1947)
    by Robert Rossen

  25. 25.
    Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
    by Lawrence Kasdan

  26. 26.
    Boomerang (Fox Film Noir)
    by Elia Kazan

  27. 27.
    Border Incident
    by Anthony Mann

  28. 28.
    Born to Kill
    by Robert Wise

  29. 29.
    Bound
    by Andy Wachowski

  30. 30.
    The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
    by John Brahm

  31. 31.
    ?
    The Breaking Point (1950)
    by Michael Curtiz

  32. 32.
    The Bribe
    by Robert Z. Leonard

  33. 33.
    Brick

  34. 34.
    The Burglar (1957)
    by Paul Wendkos

  35. 35.

  36. 36.
    Cape Fear
    by J. Lee Thompson

  37. 37.
    The Captive City (1952)
    by Robert Wise

  38. 38.
    Caught (1949)
    by Max Ophüls

  39. 39.
    Cause for Alarm
    by Tay Garnett

  40. 40.
    The Chase (1946)
    by Arthur Ripley

  41. 41.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski

  42. 42.
    City for Conquest
    by Anatole Litvak

  43. 43.
    Clash by Night
    by Fritz Lang

  44. 44.
    Cloak and Dagger
    by Fritz Lang

  45. 45.
    Crime of Passion

  46. 46.
    Crime Wave [aka The City is Dark] (1954)
    by André De Toth

  47. 47.
    Criss Cross (Universal Noir Collection)
    by Robert Siodmak

  48. 48.
    Crossfire
    by Edward Dmytryk

  49. 49.
    Cry of the City (1948)
    by Robert Siodmak

  50. 50.
    Daisy Kenyon (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

  51. 51.
    Dark City (1950)
    by William Dieterle

  52. 52.
    Dark City

  53. 53.
    The Dark Corner (Fox Film Noir)
    by Henry Hathaway

  54. 54.
    The Dark Mirror (1946)
    by Robert Siodmak

  55. 55.
    Dark Passage (Keepcase)
    by Delmer Daves

  56. 56.
    Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

  57. 57.
    Dead Reckoning

  58. 58.
    Deadline at Dawn (1946)
    by Harold Clurman

  59. 59.
    Decoy
    by Jack Bernhard (1946)

  60. 60.
    Desperate (1947)
    by Anthony Mann

  61. 61.
    The Desperate Hours
    by William Wyler

  62. 62.
    Destination Murder (1950)
    by Edward L. Cahn

  63. 63.
    Detective Story (1951)
    by William Wyler

  64. 64.
    Detour
    by Edgar G. Ulmer

  65. 65.
    Dillinger
    by Max Nosseck

  66. 66.
    D.O.A (Enhanced Version)
    by Rudolph Mate

  67. 67.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

  68. 68.
    Edge of Doom (1950)
    by Mark Robson

  69. 69.
    The Enforcer

  70. 70.
    Fallen Angel (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

  71. 71.
    Fear in the Night (1947)
    by Maxwell Shane

  72. 72.
    Femme Fatale
    by Brian De Palma

  73. 73.
    The File on Thelma Jordan (1950)
    by Robert Siodmak

  74. 74.
    Follow Me Quietly (1949)
    by Richard Fleischer

  75. 75.
    Force of Evil
    by Abraham Polonsky

  76. 76.
    Fourteen Hours (1951)
    by Henry Hathaway

  77. 77.
    Framed (1947)
    by Richard Wallace

  78. 78.
    Fury
    by Fritz Lang

  79. 79.
    Gilda

  80. 80.
    The Grifters (Miramax Collector's Series)
    by Stephen Frears

  81. 81.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

  82. 82.
    Hangover Square (1945)
    by John Brahm

  83. 83.
    The Harder They Fall
    by Mark Robson

  84. 84.
    High Sierra (Keep Case Packaging)
    by Raoul Walsh

  85. 85.
    His Kind of Woman
    by John Farrow

  86. 86.
    The Hitch-Hiker (1953) [Remastered Edition]
    by Ida Lupino

  87. 87.
    Hollow Triumph (The Scar) (1948)
    by Steve Sekely

  88. 88.
    The Hot Spot

  89. 89.
    House by the River (1950)
    by Fritz Lang

  90. 90.
    House of Bamboo (Fox Film Noir)
    by Samuel Fuller

  91. 91.

  92. 92.
    House on Telegraph Hill
    by Robert Wise

  93. 93.
    The House on 92nd Street (Fox Film Noir)
    by Henry Hathaway

  94. 94.
    Human Desire (1954)
    by Fritz Lang

  95. 95.
    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
    by Mervyn LeRoy

  96. 96.
    I Confess
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  97. 97.
    I Married a Communist (The Woman on Pier 13)
    by Robert Stevenson

  98. 98.
    I Wake Up Screaming (Fox Film Noir)
    by H. Bruce Humberstone

  99. 99.
    I Walk Alone (1948)
    by Byron Haskin

  100. 100.
    ?
    Illegal (1955)
    by Lewis Allen

  101. 101.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

  102. 102.
    Johnny Eager
    by Mervyn Leroy

  103. 103.
    Journey Into Fear (1943)
    by Norman Foster

  104. 104.

  105. 105.
    The Killers (1946)
    by Robert Siodmak

  106. 106.
    Killer's Kiss
    by Stanley Kubrick

  107. 107.
    The Killing

  108. 108.
    Killing of a Chinese Bookie (The Criterion Collection)
    by John Cassavetes

  109. 109.
    A Kiss Before Dying
    by Gerd Oswald

  110. 110.
    Kiss of Death (Fox Film Noir)
    by Henry Hathaway

  111. 111.
    Kiss Me Deadly
    by Robert Aldrich

  112. 112.
    Knock on Any Door (1949)
    by Nicholas Ray

  113. 113.
    L.A. Confidential (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Curtis Hanson

  114. 114.
    The Lady from Shanghai
    by Orson Welles

  115. 115.
    Lady in the Lake
    by Robert Montgomery

  116. 116.
    The Last Seduction
    by John Dahl

  117. 117.
    Laura
    by Otto Preminger

  118. 118.
    Leave Her to Heaven
    by John M. Stahl

  119. 119.
    The Letter
    by William Wyler

  120. 121.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Robert Altman

  121. 122.
    The Lost Weekend
    by Billy Wilder

  122. 123.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  123. 124.
    The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Special Edition)
    by John Huston

  124. 125.
    The Man Who Wasn't There

  125. 126.
    Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
    by Michael Curtiz

  126. 127.
    Moonrise (1948)
    by F. Borzage

  127. 128.
    Moontide (Fox Film Noir)
    by Archie Mayo

  128. 129.
    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk

  129. 130.
    Mystery Street (1950)
    by John Sturges

  130. 131.
    Naked City - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

  131. 133.
    The Narrow Margin
    by Richard Fleischer

  132. 134.
    Niagara
    by Henry Hathaway

  133. 135.
    Night and the City (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  134. 136.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  135. 137.
    Nightmare Alley (Fox Film Noir)
    by Edmund Goulding

  136. 138.
    No Way Out (Fox Film Noir)
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  137. 139.
    Notorious

  138. 140.
    Odds Against Tomorrow
    by Robert Wise

  139. 141.
    On Dangerous Ground
    by Ida Lupino

  140. 142.
    Out of the Past

  141. 143.
    Panic in the Streets
    by Elia Kazan

  142. 144.
    Party Girl (1958)
    by Nicholas Ray

  143. 145.
    Phantom Lady (1944)
    by Robert Siodmak

  144. 146.
    Pickup on South Street (The Criterion Collection)
    by Samuel Fuller

  145. 147.
    Pitfall (1948)
    by André De Toth

  146. 148.
    A Place in the Sun
    by George Stevens

  147. 149.
    ?
    Portrait in Black
    by Michael Gordon

  148. 150.
    Possessed
    by Curtis Bernhardt

  149. 151.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by David Heeley

  150. 152.
    The Prowler (1951)
    by Joseph Losey

  151. 153.
    The Racket
    by John Cromwell

  152. 154.
    Raw Deal (1948)
    by Anthony Mann

  153. 155.
    Rebecca (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  154. 156.
    Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
    by Robert Montgomery

  155. 157.
    Rififi (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  156. 158.
    Road House (Fox Film Noir)

  157. 159.
    Roadblock (1951)
    by Harold Daniels

  158. 160.
    ?
    Scandal Sheet

  159. 161.

  160. 162.
    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

  161. 163.
    The Set-Up
    by Robert Wise

  162. 164.
    Shadow of a Doubt
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  163. 165.
    Shanghai Gesture
    by Josef von Sternberg

  164. 166.
    Shock
    by Alfred L. Werker

  165. 168.
    Side Street (1950)
    by Anthony Mann

  166. 169.
    Sin City
    by Robert Rodriguez

  167. 170.
    Somewhere in the Night (Fox Film Noir)
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  168. 171.
    Sorry, Wrong Number

  169. 172.
    Spellbound (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  170. 173.
    The Spiral Staircase
    by Robert Siodmak

  171. 174.
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

  172. 175.
    The Stranger (1946)
    by Orson Welles

  173. 176.
    Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
    by Boris Ingster

  174. 177.
    Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  175. 178.
    The Street With No Name
    by William Keighley

  176. 179.
    Sudden Fear
    by David Miller

  177. 180.
    Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
    by Billy Wilder

  178. 181.
    Suspicion
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  179. 182.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  180. 183.
    T- Men (1947)
    by Anthony Mann

  181. 184.
    Tension (1949)
    by John Berry

  182. 185.
    They Drive by Night (Keepcase)

  183. 186.
    They Live by Night (1949)
    by Nicholas Ray

  184. 187.
    Thieves' Highway (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  185. 188.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed

  186. 189.
    This Gun For Hire (Universal Noir Collection)
    by Frank Tuttle

  187. 190.
    ?
    Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
    by Felix E. Feist

  188. 191.
    Touch Of Evil (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  189. 192.
    The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
    by Peter Godfrey

  190. 193.
    Undercurrent (1946)
    by Vincente Minnelli

  191. 194.
    Vicki (Fox Film Noir)
    by Harry Horner

  192. 195.
    Where Danger Lives (1950)
    by John Farrow

  193. 196.

  194. 197.
    While the City Sleeps (1956)
    by Fritz Lang

  195. 198.
    Whirlpool
    by Otto Preminger

  196. 199.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

  197. 200.
    The Woman in the Window (MGM Film Noir)
    by Fritz Lang

  198. 201.
    The Wrong Man
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  199. 202.
    You Only Live Once

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