Top 10 Film Noirs

Noir shouldn't just be classified as movies from a specific era. Its more of a style. And there should be lots more of it. Love it!

WatchMojo List (WITHOUT Spoilers) 10. Strangers on a Train 9. In a Lonely Place 8. Kiss Me Deadly 7. Notorious 6. The Third Man 5. Touch of Evil 4. Sunset Boulevard 3. Double Indemnity 2. The Big Sleep 1. The Maltese Falcon There's the list without ANY spoilers.

Out of the Past is a quintessential, almost ideal typical, film noir. Shame it didn't break at least the top three.

Great movies! The big Heat, Angel Face, Born to Kill, Dead Reckoning, Detour, Fallen Angel, Gun Crazy, Human Desire, Laura, Lady in the Lake, Murder, my Sweet, Night and the City, Nightmare Alley, On Dangerous Ground, Phantom Lady, Pickup on South Street, Scandal Sheet, Scarlet Street, Sweet Smell of Success, The Big Combo, The Blue Dahlia, The Blue Gardenia, The Killers, The Killing, The Lady from Shangai, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Woman in the Window, They Live by Night, This Gun for Hire,Too Late for Tears, While the City Sleeps. All good movies!!!  "I didn't get the money. And I didn't get the woman."

My top 10 film noirs: 1. Shadow of a Doubt 2. Sunset Blvd. 3. Double Indemnity 4. Out of the Past 5. The Night of the Hunter 6. Sweet Smell of Success 7. Strangers on a Train 8. Laura 9. Gilda 10. Pickup on South Street

Stanley Kubrick's The Killing starring a slew of fantastic character actors including Sterling Hayden, Elisha Cook Jr, and Shelley Winers is one if the most entertaining films noir I have ever seen. It's influenced such classics as Reservoir Dogs and The Dark Knight.

LAURA 1944 (OTTO PREMIGER)

Sunset Boulevard is a masterpiece

1.The Maltese Falcon 2.The Third Man 3.Sunset Boulevard 4.Gaslight 5.Spellbound 6.The Killing 7.Notorious 8.Strangers on A Train 9.Double Indemnity 10.The Wrong Man

Scarface is simply a crime film, not a noir at all.

"Detour" should've been on the list too!

My list... 10 - Kiss me Deadly 9 - Touch of Evil 8 - Scarlet Street 7 - In a Lonely Place 6 - Laura 5 - Out of the Past 4 - Double Indemnity 3 - The Big Sleep 2 - The Third Man 1 - The Maltese Falcon HM: Woman in the Window, The Killing, Strangers on a train, Gilda, The Big Heat

I just watched The Maltese Falcon today. It was so good! Now I want to watch all these other movies too!!

No Gilda? No Postman Always Rings Twice? No Laura? not to mention Mildred Pierce, The Blue Dahlia, Leave Her To Heaven, and one of my all-time favorites Nora Prentiss

“The Sweet Smell of Success” with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis is an unmissable American film noir that everyone interested in the genre should see.

I FUCKIN LOVE FILM NOIR! they should bring this genre back to film. not so sure about the sin city sequel but that just shows how much this genre has watered down

The Trevor Howard character, Major Callahan, was nothing like Inspector Clousseau, the major was smart, shrewd, and a step ahead of everyone else.

Some great films included here, but so many equally great omissions - The Killers (1946 version), The Spiral Staircase, D.O.A., The Glass Key, Laura, and I could go on and on - the list could easily be expanded to 50 or even 100.

"The Night Of The Hunter" certainly belongs here, and should score very high, if not number one. An all-time classic noir.

I think this is gonna be my favourite list especially that you put my two beloved movies on first and second place. And I LOVE the fact, that you ignore suggestions on your side, and go only with true period noirs, not with neo-noirs (which are good too, but this is the topic for another list).