101 CRIME FILMS
By: Kenji

Year order. Rather than rounding up all the usual suspects (many modern popular hits +/or Oscar winners really don’t measure up to Noir classics), i’ve gone for some genre-floaters, including a few comedies, but leaving Westerns as a separate genre. This seems to be a French and US speciality.
Suggestions welcome, i expect to make some changes.
Other notables (some popular ones i’m not so keen on, hardly need promoting):
Judex (Feuillade), Dr Mabuse, Little Caesar, Scarface, Detour, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Brighton Rock, They Made me a Fugitive, Stray Dog, The Bad Sleep Well, Psycho, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, La Bete qui Meure, The Red Circle, Get Carter, The French Connection, The Getaway, Battles without Honour and Humanity, Sholay, Night Moves, Taxi Driver, The Castle of Sand, Scarface (De Palma), Blood Simple, Prizzi’s Honor, Something Wild, The Killer (Woo), Grifters, Silence of the Lambs, Reservoir Dogs, Light Sleeper, The Last Seduction, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Heat, Fargo, Traffic, City of God, Oldboy, The Mission (To), Femme Fatale, The Departed, Crimson Gold, Michael Clayton, The Consequences of Love, Inside Man, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Dark Knight, No Country for Old Men
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01Louis Feuillade
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02Louis Feuillade
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03Buster Keaton
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04Josef von Sternberg
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05Fritz Lang
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06William A. Wellman
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07Fritz Lang
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08Wu Yonggang
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09Jean Renoir
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10Sacha Guitry
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11Julien Duvivier
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12Marcel Carné
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13Marcel Carné
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14Jean Renoir
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15Marcel Carné
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16Raoul Walsh
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17John Huston
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18Luchino Visconti
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19Edward Dmytryk
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20Otto Preminger
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21Billy Wilder
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22Howard Hawks
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23Robert Siodmak
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24Jacques Tourneur
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25Henri-Georges Clouzot
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26Orson Welles
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27Abraham Polonsky
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28Jules Dassin
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29Raoul Walsh
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30Joseph H. Lewis
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31Robert Hamer
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32Carol Reed
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33John Huston
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34Billy Wilder
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35Charles Crichton
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36Jacques Becker
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37Fritz Lang
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38Jacques Becker
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39Luis Buñuel
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40Joseph H. Lewis
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41Henri-Georges Clouzot
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42Robert Aldrich
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43Jules Dassin
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44Charles Laughton
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45Stanley Kubrick
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46Jean-Pierre Melville
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47Orson Welles
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48Alfred Hitchcock
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49Mario Monicelli
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50Robert Bresson
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51Billy Wilder
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52Francesco Rosi
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53Akira Kurosawa
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54Georges Franju
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55Masahiro Shinoda
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56Samuel Fuller
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57Jean-Luc Godard
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58Tomu Uchida
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59Jean-Pierre Melville
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60Seijun Suzuki
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61Jean-Pierre Melville
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62Seijun Suzuki
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63John Boorman
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64Arthur Penn
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65Rogério Sganzerla
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66Claude Chabrol
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67Alan J. Pakula
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68Terrence Malick
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69Francis Ford Coppola
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70Robert Altman
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71Francis Ford Coppola
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72Roman Polanski
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73Michelangelo Antonioni
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74Sidney Lumet
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75Wim Wenders
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76Shôhei Imamura
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77Louis Malle
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78Bertrand Tavernier
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79Lawrence Kasdan
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80Aleksei German
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81Woody Allen
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82David Lynch
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83Brian De Palma
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84Woody Allen
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85Pedro Costa
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86Joel Coen
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87Martin Scorsese
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88Ridley Scott
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89Takeshi Kitano
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90Nick Park
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91Quentin Tarantino
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92Martin Scorsese
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93Tran Anh Hung
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94Walter Salles
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95Takeshi Kitano
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96Curtis Hanson
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97Víctor Gaviria
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98Jacques Rivette
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99Shinji Aoyama
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100David Lynch
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101Bong Joon-ho