100 Essential Noir Films

Guess the 100 most cited Noir films according to the critical aggregate website They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? These films appear the most often in lists and publications dealing with film noir, making them the best known or acclaimed examples of the style.

Films are in alphabetical order.

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Year	Director	Answer
1951	Billy Wilder	Ace in the Hole
1949	Fred Zinnemann	Act of Violence
1953	Otto Preminger	Angel Face
1950	John Huston	The Asphalt Jungle
1948	John Farrow	The Big Clock
1955	Joseph H. Lewis	The Big Combo
1953	Fritz Lang	The Big Heat
1946	Howard Hawks	The Big Sleep
1946	Roy William Neill	The Black Angel
1946	George Marshall	The Blue Dahlia
1953	Fritz Lang	The Blue Gardenia
1947	Robert Rossen	Body and Soul
1949	Anthony Mann	Border Incident
1947	Robert Wise	Born to Kill
1947	Jules Dassin	Brute Force
1948	Henry Hathaway	Call Northside 777
1974	Roman Polanski	Chinatown
1952	Fritz Lang	Clash by Night
1949	Robert Siodmak	Criss Cross
1947	Edward Dmytryk	Crossfire
1948	Robert Siodmak	Cry of the City
1950	Rudolph Maté	D.O.A.
1946	Henry Hathaway	The Dark Corner
1946	Robert Siodmak	The Dark Mirror
1947	Delmer Daves	Dark Passage
1947	John Cromwell	Dead Reckoning
1947	Anthony Mann	Desperate
1945	Edgar G. Ulmer	Detour
1944	Billy Wilder	Double Indemnity
1945	Otto Preminger	Fallen Angel
1950	Robert Siodmak	The File on Thelma Jordon
1948	Abraham Polonsky	Force of Evil
1946	Charles Vidor	Gilda
1942	Stuart Heisler	The Glass Key
1950	Joseph H. Lewis	Gun Crazy
1948	Alfred L. Werker	He Walked by Night
1941	Raoul Walsh	High Sierra
1953	Ida Lupino	The Hitch-Hiker
1948	Steve Sekely	Hollow Triumph
1954	Fritz Lang	Human Desire
1941	H. Bruce Humberstone	I Wake Up Screaming
1950	Nicholas Ray	In a Lonely Place
1952	Phil Karlson	Kansas City Confidential
1948	John Huston	Key Largo
1946	Robert Siodmak	The Killers
1956	Stanley Kubrick	The Killing
1955	Robert Aldrich	Kiss Me Deadly
1947	Henry Hathaway	Kiss of Death
1948	Orson Welles	The Lady from Shanghai
1947	Robert Montgomery	Lady in the Lake

Year	Director	Answer
1944	Otto Preminger	Laura
1945	John M. Stahl	Leave Her to Heaven
1941	John Huston	The Maltese Falcon
1945	Michael Curtiz	Mildred Pierce
1944	Edward Dmytryk	Murder, My Sweet
1948	Jules Dassin	The Naked City
1952	Richard Fleischer	The Narrow Margin
1953	Henry Hathaway	Niagra
1950	Jules Dassin	Night and the City
1955	Charles Laughton	The Night of the Hunter
1947	Edmund Goulding	Nightmare Alley
1946	Alfred Hitchcock	Notorious
1959	Robert Wise	Odds Against Tomorrow
1951	Nicholas Ray	On Dangerous Ground
1947	Jacques Tourner	Out of the Past
1950	Elia Kazan	Panic in the Streets
1944	Robert Siodmak	Phantom Lady
1953	Samuel Fuller	Pickup on South Street
1948	André de Toth	Pitfall
1946	Tay Garnett	The Postman Always Rings Twice
1951	Joseph Losey	The Prowler
1948	Anthony Mann	Raw Deal
1949	Max Ophüls	The Reckless Moment
1947	Robert Montgomery	Ride the Pink Horse
1948	Jean Negulesco	Road House
1945	Fritz Lang	Scarlet Street
1949	Robert Wise	The Set-Up
1943	Alfred Hitchcock	Shadow of a Doubt
1950	Anthony Mann	Side Street
1948	Anatole Litvak	Sorry, Wrong Number
1946	Lewis Milestone	The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946	Orson Welles	The Stranger
1940	Boris Ingster	The Stranger on the Third Floor
1951	Alfred Hitchcock	Strangers on a Train
1948	William Keighley	The Street with No Name
1952	David Miller	Sudden Fear
1950	Billy Wilder	Sunset Blvd.
1957	Alexander Mackendrick	Sweet Smell of Success
1948	Nicholas Ray	They Live by Night
1949	Jules Dassin	Thieves' Highway
1949	Carol Reed	The Third Man
1942	Frank Tuttle	This Gun for Hire
1947	Anthony Mann	T-Men
1958	Orson Welles	Touch of Evil
1950	John Farrow	Where Danger Lives
1950	Otto Preminger	Where the Sidewalk Ends
1956	Fritz Lang	While the City Sleeps
1949	Raoul Walsh	White Heat
1944	Fritz Lang	The Woman in the Window
1956	Alfred Hitchcock	The Wrong Man