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Favorite Noirs

Save for the top five, no particular order. And I'm going for traditional black-and-white 1940s/'50s noir, no Warners gangster pictures, or noir in color like Blue Velvet or Chinatown.

  • Out of the Past
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Killing
  • Elevator to the Gallows
  • Rififi
  • Night and the City
  • Shoot the Piano Player
  • Le Doulos
  • The Big Sleep
  • Thieves' Highway
  • Touch of Evil
  • Bob le Flambeur
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • Breathless
  • Dark age
  • Strangers on a Train
  • The Naked City
  • Nightfall
  • Pickup on South Street
  • The Killers
  • The Lineup
  • Kiss Me Deadly
  • In a Lonely Place
  • Detour
  • D.O.A.
  • The Lady from Shanghai
  • The Third Man
  • The Breaking Point
  • Scarlet Street
  • The Set-Up
  • Double Indemnity
  • They Drive by Night
  • Phantom Lady
  • Criss Cross
  • They Made Me a Fugitive
  • I Wake Up Screaming