American Noir (Chronological shots in the dark)

By: Flying Dutchma​n

This will now be a roughly chronological list. It gives me a chance to view the genre in relation to each other as I watch more additions to the list. I’m trying to keep some sort of control over what I consider a noir, there are some looser interpretations but I have left out many that are often termed noir by others. They all fall within the universally accepted cycle of Noir from 1941 to 1958 except The Letter (1940) but to my mind its certainly a fitting inclusion here.

• 01
  The Letter
  William Wyler
• 02
  The Maltese Falcon
  John Huston
• 03
  High Sierra
  Raoul Walsh
• 04
  The Glass Key
  Stuart Heisler
• 05
  Shadow of a Doubt
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 06
  Suspicion
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 07
  Double Indemnity
  Billy Wilder
• 08
  Laura
  Otto Preminger
• 09
  Murder, My Sweet
  Edward Dmytryk
• 10
  Phantom Lady
  Robert Siodmak
• 11
  The Woman in the Window
  Fritz Lang
• 12
  To Have and Have Not
  Howard Hawks
• 13
  Detour
  Edgar G. Ulmer
• 14
  Cornered
  Edward Dmytryk
• 15
  The Lost Weekend
  Billy Wilder
• 16
  Mildred Pierce
  Michael Curtiz
• 17
  Scarlet Street
  Fritz Lang
• 18
  The Big Sleep
  Howard Hawks
• 19
  The Blue Dahlia
  George Marshall
• 20
  The Killers
  Robert Siodmak
• 21
  The Locket
  John Brahm
• 22
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 23
  Gilda
  Charles Vidor
• 24
  Body and Soul
  Robert Rossen
• 25
  The Stranger
  Orson Welles
• 26
  Boomerang!
  Elia Kazan
• 27
  Brute Force
  Jules Dassin
• 28
  Nightmare Alley
  Edmund Goulding
• 29
  Dead Reckoning
  John Cromwell
• 30
  Desperate
  Anthony Mann
• 31
  Crossfire
  Edward Dmytryk
• 32
  Out of the Past
  Jacques Tourneur
• 33
  T-Men
  Anthony Mann
• 34
  A Double Life
  George Cukor
• 35
  Force of Evil
  Abraham Polonsky
• 36
  Cry of the City
  Robert Siodmak
• 37
  Raw Deal
  Anthony Mann
• 38
  He Walked by Night
  Alfred L. Werker
• 39
  Key Largo
  John Huston
• 40
  The Lady from Shanghai
  Orson Welles
• 41
  The Naked City
  Jules Dassin
• 42
  They Live by Night
  Nicholas Ray
• 43
  Act of Violence
  Fred Zinnemann
• 44
  Border Incident
  Anthony Mann
• 45
  Gun Crazy
  Joseph H. Lewis
• 46
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 47
  The Set-Up
  Robert Wise
• 48
  Thieves' Highway
  Jules Dassin
• 49
  The Reckless Moment
  Max Ophüls
• 50
  The Asphalt Jungle
  John Huston
• 51
  D.O.A.
  Rudolph Maté
• 52
  House by the River
  Fritz Lang
• 53
  In a Lonely Place
  Nicholas Ray
• 54
  Where the Sidewalk Ends
  Otto Preminger
• 55
  Sunset Blvd.
  Billy Wilder
• 56
  Ace in the Hole
  Billy Wilder
• 57
  Detective Story
  William Wyler
• 58
  The Prowler
  Joseph Losey
• 59
  He Ran All the Way
  John Berry
• 60
  The Sniper
  Edward Dmytryk
• 61
  Angel Face
  Otto Preminger
• 62
  On Dangerous Ground
  Nicholas Ray
• 63
  The Big Night
  Joseph Losey
• 64
  The Big Heat
  Fritz Lang
• 65
  The Hitch-Hiker
  Ida Lupino
• 66
  Pickup on South Street
  Samuel Fuller
• 67
  Kiss Me Deadly
  Robert Aldrich
• 68
  The Big Combo
  Joseph H. Lewis
• 69
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 70
  The Phenix City Story
  Phil Karlson
• 71
  The Killing
  Stanley Kubrick
• 72
  The Wrong Man
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 73
  The Harder They Fall
  Mark Robson
• 74
  The Burglar
  Paul Wendkos
• 75
  Sweet Smell of Success
  Alexander Mackendrick
• 76
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles