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FilmsNoir.Net's list of the 235 (actually 232) essential films noir

5 star Noirs

 
Night At the Crossroads (1932)  (La nuit du carrefour)
You Only Live Once (1937)
Hotel Du Nord (1938)
Port of Shadows (1938)  (Le quai des brumes)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Journey Into Fear (1943)
Ossessione (1943)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
Christmas Holiday (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Laura (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
The Way You Wanted Me (1944)  (Sellaisena kuin sina minut halusit)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Killers (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Body and Soul (1947)
Brighton Rock (1947)
Low Company (1947)  (a.k.a. The Gangster)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Nora Prentiss (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
T-Men (1947)
Act of Violence (1948)
Drunken Angel (1948)  (Yoidore tenshi)
Force of Evil (1948)
Hollow Triumph (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
Raw Deal (1948)
They Live By Night (1948)
Bitter Rice (1949)  (Riso amaro)
Border Incident (1949)
Criss Cross (1949)
Killer Bait (1949)  (a.k.a. Too Late for Tears)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949)  (Une si jolie petite Plage, a.k.a Riptide)
Thieves' Highway (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
White Heat (1949)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Breaking Point (1950)
Caged (1950)
D.O.A. (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Night and the City (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Try and Get Me (1950)  (a.k.a. The Sound of Fury)
Ace In the Hole (1951)
The Prowler (1951)
Clash By Night (1952)
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
The Big Heat (1953)
Crime Wave (1954)
The Big Combo (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Rififi (1955)  (Du rififi chez les hommes)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962)
The Pawnbroker (1965)
A Colt Is My Passport (1967)  (Koruto wa ore no pasupooto)
Klute (1971)

4/4.5 star noirs

 
La Chienne (1931)
City Streets (1931)
Fury (1936)
Lover-Boy (1937)
Pepe Le Moko (1937)
La Bete Humaine (1938)
Stolen Death (1938)
Blind Alley (1939)
Le Jour Se Leve (1939)
Stranger On the Third Floor (1940)
Blues In the Night (1941)
The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
High Sierra (1941)
Mask of Korea (1942)  (a.k.a. Macao, l'enfer du jeu/Gambling Hell)
Moontide (1942)
This Gun For Hire (1942)
The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
The Ghost Ship (1943)
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
Phantom Lady (1944)
When Strangers Marry (1944)
The Woman In the Window (1944)
Cornered (1945)
Detour (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
The House On 92nd Street (1945)
Leave Her To Heaven (1945)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Black Angel (1946)
Deadline At Dawn (1946)
Deception (1946)
Decoy (1946)
Gilda (1946)
Night Editor (1946)
Rakkauden risti (1946)  (Cross of Love)
Suspense (1946)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Chase (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Mirror (1946)
The Locket (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Born To Kill (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Dark Passage (1947)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
Desperate (1947)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
High Wall (1947)
I Became a Criminal (1947)  (a.k.a. They Made Me a Fugitive)
Kiss of Death (1947)
The Long Night (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Panic (1947)  (Panique)
Railroaded! (1947)
Shoot To Kill (1947)
They Won't Believe Me (1947)
The Unsuspected (1947)
The Woman On the Beach (1947)
The Amazing Mr. X (1948)
Behind the Iron Curtain (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
Blood On the Moon (1948)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Cry of the City (1948)
I Love Trouble (1948)
I Walk Alone (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
Moonrise (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Pitfall (1948)
Road House (1948)
Ruthless (1948)
Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
Without Pity (1948)  (Senza pieta)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
The Big Steal (1949)
The Bribe (1949)
Caught (1949)
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Jigsaw (1949)
SalA3n MA(c)xico (1949)
Tension (1949)
Whirlpool (1949)
The Window (1949)
The Woman On Pier 13 (1949)  (a.k.a. I Married a Communist)
A Woman's Secret (1949)
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
The File On Thelma Jordon (1950)
Frightened City (1950)
Gambling House (1950)
Gun Crazy (1950)  (a.k.a. Deadly Is the Female)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Maneges (1950)
No Man of Her Own (1950)
No Way Out (1950)
Panic In the Streets (1950)
The Second Woman (1950)
Side Street (1950)
The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Union Station (1950)
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Woman On the Run (1950)
Young Man With a Horn (1950)
The Big Night (1951)
Detective Story (1951)
He Ran All the Way (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1951)
I Was a Communist For the FBI (1951)
Roadblock (1951)
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
The Well (1951)
Angel Face (1952)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
Scandal Sheet (1952)
The Sniper (1952)
The Thief (1952)
99 River Street (1953)
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
The Glass Wall (1953)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Pickup On South Street (1953)
Split Second (1953)
The Good Die Young (1954)
Human Desire (1954)
Pushover (1954)
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1954)
Witness To Murder (1954)
World For Ransom (1954)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
Bob le Flambeur (1956)
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)  (Voici le temps des assassins)
The Killing (1956)
Patterns (1956)
People of No Importance (1956)  (Gens sans importance)
The Wrong Man (1956)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
The Burglar (1957)
The Killers (1958)  (Ubiytsy)
Elevator To the Gallows (1958)  (Ascenseur a l'echaffaud)
Endless Desire (1958)
Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
Underworld Beauty (1958)  (Ankokugai no bijo)
The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Two Men In Manhattan (1959)  (Deux hommes dans Manhattan)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)  (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)  (Tirez sur le pianiste)
Blast of Silence (1961)
Le Doulos (1962)
The Trial (1962)
High and Low (1963)  (Tengoku to jigoku)
The Naked Kiss (1964)
Memento (2000)