'film noir and influence' collection

By: clockworkdaisyblues

- welcome to film noir world !

- There are ‘some important’ or ‘best’ noir film. These films are able to see other people’s comment, simple list or great film noir blog. (of course, google search box save us from chaos! haha.) and, this list is based on ‘American Main Film Noir’. Then, I can concentrate on collecting.

- There are many film noir poster on internet. find them!

not on this site :

dir. Joseph M. Newman – [short] The Luckist Guy in the World (1947) / Abandoned (1949) / 711 Ocean Drive (1950) / Dangerous Crossing (1953) / The Human Jungle (1954)
dir. Hugo Hass – Pickup (1951) / Girl on the Bridge (1951) / Strange Fascination (1952) / One Girl’s Confession (1953) / The Other Woman (1954) / Bait (1954) / Hold Back Tomorrow (1955) / Hit and Run (1957)
dir. Robert Sidomak – Fly by Night (1942) / The Suspect (1944) / The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) / The Great Sinner (1949) / Portrait of a Sinner aka The Rough and the Smooth (1949)
dir. Andrew L. Stone – Highway 301 (1950) / The Steel Trap (1952) / Night Holds Terror (1955) / Julie (1956) / Cry Terror! (1958)
dir. Willian Castle – Whistler (1944) / Mark of the Whistler (1944) / Voice of the Whistler (1945) / Mysterious Intruder (1946) / Undertow (1949) / Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) / Hollywood Story (1951) / The Houston Story (1956)
dir. Lee W. Wilder – The Glass Alibi (1946) / The Pretender (1947) / The Vicious Circle (1948) / Once a Thief (1950) / Three Steps North (1951) / The Big Bluff (1955)
dir. William A. Berke – Shoot to Kill (1947) / Arson Inc. (1949) / Pier 23 (1951) / Danger Zone (1951) / Roaring City (1951) / Four Boys and a Gun (1957) / Cop Hater (1958) / The Mugger (1958)
dir. Lewis Allen – The Unseen (1945) / So Evil My Love (1948) / Chicago Deadline (1949) / A Bullet For Joey (1955) / Illiegal (1955)
dir. Robert Stevenson – Dishonored Lady (1947) / To the Ends of the Earth (1948) / Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) / The Las Vegas Story (1952)
dir. Lew Landers – Power of the Whistler (1945) / Inner Sanctum (1948) / Man in the Dark (1953) / The Cruel Tower (1956) / Chain of Evidence (1957)

dir. Lewis Sailor – The Big Shot (1942) / Whiplash (1948) / The System (1953) / Woman’s Prison (1955) / Over-Exposed (1956)
dir. John Sturges – Shadowed (1946) / Sign of the Ram (1948) / Mystery Street (1950) / The Capture (1950) / People Against O’Hara (1951)
dir. William Beaudine – Below the Deadline (1946) / Don’t Gamble with Strangers (1946) / Incident (1948) / Murder Without Tears (1953)
dir. Philip Ford – The Last Crooked Mile (1946) / The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946) / Hideout (1949) / Missing Women (1951)
dir. Max Nosseck – Dilinger (1945) / The Brighton Strangler (1945) / Kill or Be Killed (1950) / The Hoodlum (1951)
dir. Joseph Penvey – Shakedown (1950) / Iron Man (1951) / Playgirl (1954) / Female on the Beach (1955) / The Midnight Story (1957)
dir. John Reinharth – For You I Die (1947) / The Guilty (1947) / High Tide (1947) / Open Secret (1948)
dir. George Sherman – Secret of the Whistler (1946) / Larceny (1948) / The Sleeping CIty (1950) / The Raging Tide (1951)
dir. R. G. Springsteen – Revolt in the Big House (1948) / The Red Menace (1949) / Million Dollar Pursuit (1951) / Affair in Reno (1957)
dir. Ross D. Lederman – Shadows on the Stairs (1941) / Strange Alibi (1941) / Key Witness (1947) / The Return of the Whistler (1948)
dir Gorden Douglas – San Quentin (1946) / Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) / Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
dir. Bud Boetticher – The Missing Juror (1944) / Escape in the Fog (1945) / Assigned to Danger (1948) / The Killer Is Loose (1956)
dir. Montgomary Tully – 36 Hours aka Terror Street (1953) / Paid to Kill (1954) / Five Days aka The Glass Tomb (1955) / The Way Out aka Dial 999 (1955)
dir. Joseph H. Lewis – So Dark the Night (1946) / Undercover Man (1949) / A Lady Without Passport (1950) / Cry of the Hunted (1953)
dir. Ted Tetzlaff – Riff-Raff (1947) / Under The Gun (1951) / Gambling House (1951) / Terror on a Train aka Time Bomb (1953)

dir. Felix E. Feist – The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) / The Threat (1949) / The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
dir. Maxwell Shane – City Across the River (1949) / The Naked Street (1955) / Nightmare (1956)
dir. Vincent Sherman – Nora Prentiss (1947) / Backfire (1950)
dir. Howard W. Koch – Shield For Murder (1954) / The Girl in Black Stocking (1957) / The Last Mile (1959)
dir. Curtis Bernhartd – High Wall (1947) / Sirocco (1951)
dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Somewhere in the Night (1946) / Escape (1948) / No Way Out (1950)
dir. Peter Godfrey – The Who Mrs Carrolls (1947) / The Woman in White (1948)
dir. Stewart Hisller – Smash-Up The Story of a Woman (1947) / Storm Warning (1951) / I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
dir. Rudolph Mate – The Green Glove (1952) / The Second Chance (1953)
dir. Norman Foster – Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) / Woman on the Run (1950)
dir. Boris Ingster – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) / Southside 1-1000 (1950)
dir. Hugo Fregonese – One Way Street (1950) / Black Tuesday (1954)
dir. Robert Wise – Criminal Court (1946) / House on the Telegraph Hill (1951) / The Captive City (1952)
dir. Edward Dmytryk – Christ in Concrete aka Give Us This Day (1949) / Broken Lance (1954)
dir. Joseph Lerner – C-Man (1949) / Guilty Bystander (1950)
dir. Edward L. Cahn – Main Street After Dark (1944) / Destination Murder (1950) / Two-Dollor Bettor (1951)
dir. Hubert Cornfield – Sudden Danger (1955) / Plunder Road (1957) / The Third Voice (1960)
dir. Harold Schuster – Loophole (1954) / Finger Man (1955)
dir. Franklin Adreon – No Man’s Woman (1955) / Terror at Midnight (1956) / The Man is Armed (1956)
dir. Jack Arnold – The Glass Web (1953) / The Tattooed Dress (1957)
dir. John H. Auer – The Flame (1947) / I, Jane Doe (1948) / Hell’s Half Acre (1954)
dir. Richard L. Bare – Smart Girls Don’t Talk (1948) / Flaxy Martin aka Smart Money (1949) / This Side of the Law (1950)
dir. Richard Thorpe – Black Hand (1950) / The Unknown Man (1951)
dir. Alfred L. Werker – Shock (1946) / Repeat Performance (1947) / Walk East on Beacon (1952)
dir. Crane Wilbur – Canon City (1948) / The Story of Molly X (1949) / Outside the Wall (1950) /
dir. Jean Yarbrough – Inside Job (1946) / Shed No Tears (1948) / Footsteps in the Night (1957)
dir. Don Siegel – The Verdict (1946) / Night Unto Night (1949)
dir. Jack Bernard – Violence (1947) / Blond Ice (1948) / The Hunted (1948)
dir. Irving Pichel – Temptation (1946) / Without Honor (1949) / Quicksand (1950)
dir. Laslo Benedek – Port of New York (1949) / Affair in Havana (1957)

dir. Abner Biberman – The Price Of Fear (1956) / Behind the High Wall (1956) / The Night Runner (1957)
dir. George Blair – End of the Road (1944) / Unmasked (1950)
dir. Walter Colmes – Accomplice (1946) / Road to the Big House (1947)
dir. Ricardo Cortez – City of Chance (1940) / Girl in 313 (1940)
dir. Harold Daniels – Roadblock (1951) / Date with Death (1959)
dir. Frederick De Cordova – Her Kind of Man (1946) / Illegal Entry (1949)
dir. William Dieterle – Paid in Full (1950) / The Turning Point (1952)
dir. Chester Erskine – Midnight/Call It Murder (1934) / Take One False Step (1949)
dir. Harry Essex – I, The Jury (1953) / Mad at the World (1955)
dir. Robert Flory – Danger Siganl (1945) / The Crooked Way (1949)
dir. Lewis R. Foster – Manhandled (1949) / The Lucky Stuff (1949) / Crashout (1955)
dir. Eugene Forde – Blackmail (1947) / The Invisible Wall (1947)
dir. Nadan Juran – Highway Dragnet (1954) / The Crooked Web (1955)
dir. Joseph Kane – Hoodlum Empire (1952) / Accused of Murder (1956) / The Man Who Died Twice (1958)
dir. Zoltan Korda – The Macomber Affair (1947) / A Woman’s Vengeance (1947)
dir. Anthony Mann – Strangers in the Night (1944) / The Great Flamarion (1945)
dir. Willam Cameron Menzis – Green Cockatoo (1937) / The Whip Hand (1951)
dir. Sam Newfield – The Lady Confesses (1945) / Money Madness (1948)
dir. Robert Parrish – The Mob (1951) / Rough Shoot aka Shoot First (1952)
dir. Gregory Ratoff – Moss Rose (1947) / Black Magic (1949)
dir. Phil Rosen – Step by Step (1946) / The Strange Mr. Gregory aka The Great Mystic (1946)
dir. Fred S. Sears – The Miami Story (1954) / Miami Expose (1956)
dir. William A. Seitor – Borderline (1950) / Make Haste to Live (1954)
dir. Lee Sholem – Crime Against Joe (1956) / Louisiana Hussy (1959)
dir. Sylian S. Simon – Whistling in the Dark (1941) / Grand Central Murder (1942) / I Love Trouble (1948)
dir. Mark Stevens – Cry Vengeance (1954) / Time Table (1956)
dir. Willian C. Thomas – They Made Me a Killer (1946) / Big Town (1947) / Special Agent (1949)
dir. Frank Tuttle – The Glass Key (1935) / Suspence (1946) / Cry in the Night (1956)
dir. WIlliam Witney – City of Shadow (1955) / Bonnie Parker Story (1958)
dir. Alfred Zeisler – Fear (1946) / Parole Inc. (1948) / Alimony (1949)
dir. Michael Gordon – The Web (1947) / Lady Gamble (1949) / Woman in Hiding (1949)
dir. Russell Rouse – Wicked Woman (1954) / New York Confidential (1955) / House of Numbers (1957)
dir. John Farrow – Calcutta (1947) / Alias Nick Bill (1949) / Unholy Wife (1957)
dir. Roy Rowland – [short] You the People (1940) / Scene of The Crime (1949) / Rogue Cop (1954)

Pushover / 1953

Wanted for Murder / 1946

The Man with My Face / 1951

The Company She Keeps (1950) dir. John Cromwell
Whispering City (1947) dir. Gerd Oswald
Blackmail (1947) dir. Lesley Selander
Bunco Squad (1950) dir. Herbert I. Leeds
Warning Shot (1967) dir. Buzz Kulik
No Questions Asked (1951) dir. Harold F. Kress
Step Down to Terror (1958) dir. Harry Keller
Dangerous Intruder (1945) dir. Vernon Keays
Three Bad Sisters (1956) dir. Kay Gilbert
Gang Busters (1955) dir. Bill Karn
The Lost Moment (1947) dir. Martin Gabel
Pushover (1954) dir. Richard Quine
The Steel Jungle (1956) dir. Walter Doniger
Ramrod (1947) dir. André De Toth
Two Smart People (1946) dir. Jules Dassin
The Come-On (1956) dir. Russel Birdwell
Hunt The Man Down (1950) dir. George Archainbaud
Whistle Stop (1946) dir. Leonide Moguy
She Played with Fire (1957) dir. Arlene Dahl
They Were So Young (1954) dir. Kurt Newmann
Ride The Pink Horse (1947) dir. Robert Montgomery
Experiment Perilous (1944) dir. Jacques Tourneur
Murder Inc. (1960) dir. Stuart Rosenberg & Burt Balaban
Man In The Vault (1956) dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Footsteps in the Fog (1955) dir. Authur Lubin
The Iron Curtain (1948) dir. William A. Wellman
Street of Chance (1942) dir. Jack Hively
The Bribe (1949) dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Shadow on The Wall (1950) dir. Pat Jackson
Velvet Touch (1948) dir. Jack Gage
Shack Out on 101 (1955) dir. Edward Dane
The Big Tip Off (1955) dir. Frank McDonarld
The Second Woman (1952) dir. James V. Kern
The Strip (1951) dir. Leslie Kardos
Talk About a Stranger (1952) dir. David Bradley
The Long Wait (1954) dir. Victor Saville
Bewitched (1945) dir. Arch Oboler
Shadow Man (1953) dir. Richard Vernon
Shadow of a Woman (1946) dir. Joseph Santley
Shadow on the Wall (1950) dir. Patrick Jackson
Shadown on the Window (1957) dir. William Asher
My Gun is Quick (1957) dir. Pill & George Victor
Cargo to Capetown (1950) dir. Earl McEvoy

Lured (1947) dir. Douglas Sirk
The Second Fury (1950) dir. Mel Jarret
Without Warning! (1952) dir. Arnold Levin
Female Jungle (1954) dir. Bruno Ve Sota
No Escape aka City on a Hunt (1953) dir. Charles Bennett
Calling Homicide (1956) dir. Edward Bernds
Whispering Footsteps (1943) dir. Howard Bretherton
Behind Green Lights (1946) dir. Otto Brower
The Get-Away (1941) dir. Edward Buzzel
Short Cut to Hell (1957) dir. James Cagney
Appointment with a Shadow (1958) dir. Richard Carlson
The 13th Hour (1947) dir. William Clemens
The Judge (1949) dir. Elmer Clifton
The Devil’ s Sleep (1949) dir. Merle W. Connell
Brainstorm (1965) dir. William Conrad
Crossroad (1942) dir. Jack Conway
The Inheritance aka Uncle Silas (1947) dir. Charles Frank
The Blind Spot (1947) dir. Robert Gordon
A Woman’s Devotion (1956) dir. Paul Henreid
Hell Bound (1957) dir. William J. Hole Jr.
Homicide (1949) dir. Felix Jacoves
Blonde Alibi (1946) dir. Will Jason
The Money Trap (1966) dir. Bert Kennedy
Stakeout on Dope Street (1958) dir. Irvin Kershner
I Was a Shoplifter (1950) dir. Charles Lamont
Circumstantial Evidence (1945) dir. John Larkin
Destiny (1944) dir. Reginald Le Borg
Fingers at the Window (1942) dir. Charles Lederer
Queen Bee (1955) dir. Ranald McDougall
Jealousy (1945) dir. Gustav Machaty
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) dir. Charles Martin
Strange Triangle (1946) dir. Ray McCarey
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946) dir. Lothar Mendes
The Pusher (1960) dir. Gene Milford
Jeniffer (1953) dir. Joel Newton
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948) dir. William Nigh
Man-Trap (1953) dir. Edmond O’ Brian
Angela (1955) dir. Dennis O’ Keefe
The Trap (1959) dir. Norman Panama
Split Second (1953) dir. Dick Powell
Strange Bargain (1949) dir. Will Price
Falcon Takes Over (1942) dir. Irving Reis
Marilyn aka Road House Girl (1953) dir. Wolf Rilla
Shadow of Fear aka Before I Wake (1954) dir. Albert S. Rogell
Chicago Confidential (1957) dir. Sydney Salkow
New Orleans After Dark (1958) dir. John Sledge
The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950) dir. Paul Sloane
Cry Tough (1959) dir. Paul Stanley
Violated (1953) dir. Walter Strate
Man of Courage (1943) dir. Alexis Thurn-Taxis

Sealed Lips (1941) dir. George Waggner
The Spider (1945) dir. Robert D. Webb
Love from a Stranger (1947) dir. Richard Whorf
Storm Fear (1955) dir. Cornel Wilde
The Gangster (1947) dir. Gorden Wiles
Ivy (1947) dir. Sam Wood
Philo Vance’s Gamble (1947) dir. Basil Wrangell
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) dir. Raoul Walsh
The Sellout (1952) dir. Gerald Mayer
Blond Sinner (1956) dir. J. Lee Thompson
Convicted (1950) dir. Henry Levin
Edge of Fury (1958) dir. Irving Lerner
Night Without Sleep (1952) dir. Roy Ward Baker
Lady in the Death House (1944) dir. Steve Sekely
Race Street (1948) – dir. Edwin L. Marin
Deep Valley (1947) – dir. Jean Negulesco
Night Into Morning (1951) – dir. Fletcher Markle
Deadline USA (1952) – dir. Richard Brooks
The Boss (1956) – dir. Byron Haskin
Chinatown at Midnight (1949) – dir. Seymour Friedman
Why Must I Die? (1960) – dir. Roy Del Ruth
Tight Spot (1955) – dir. Phil Carlson
The Man With My Face (1951) – dir. Edward J. Montagne

- british film noir

dir. Joseph Losey – The Lawless (1949) / The Sleeping Tiger (1954) / Finger of Guilt aka The Intimate Stranger (1956)
dir. Terence Fisher – So Long At The Fair (1950) / The Last Page aka Man Bait (1952) / The Blackout aka Murder By Proxy (1954) / The Black Glove aka Face the Music (1954) / A Stolen Face (1959)
dir. Cy Endfield – The Underworld Story (1950) / The Limping Man (1953) / Impulse (1954)
dir. Ken Hughes – Heat Wave (1954) / The Deadliest Sin (1956) / Wicked as They Come (1957) / The Long Haul (1957)
dir. David McDonald – Good Time Girl (1948) / The Big Frame aka The Lost Hours (1952)
dir. Lawrence Huntington – Wanted for Murder (1946) / The Upturned Glass (1947)

The Go-Between (1947) dir. Carol Reed
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) dir. Lewis Gilbert
Dancing with Crime (1947) dir. John Paddy Carstairs
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) dir. St. John Legh Clowes
Subway in the Sky (1959) dir. Muriel Box
Daybreak (1946) dir. Compton Bennett
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958) dir. Michael Anderson
Dear Murderer (1947) dir. Arthur Crabtree
Frieda (1947) Basil Dearden
The Fake (1953) dir. Godfry Grayson
The Noose (1948) dir. Edmond T. Greville
A Life at Stake aka Key Man (1954) dir. Paul Guilfoyle
The Beat Generation (1959) dir. Charles F. Hass
Appointment with Crime (1946) dir. John Harlow
Payroll (1961) dir. Sidney Hayers
Nowhere to Go (1958) dir. Seth Holt
Night Beat (1947) dir. Harold Huth
Gambler and the Lady (1952) dir. Patrick Jenkins & Sam Newfield
Guilt is My Shadow (1950) dir. Roy Kellino
Mine Own Executioner (1947) dir. Anthoney Kimmins
Kill Her Gently (1957) dir. Charles Saunders
Cloudburst (1951) dir. Francis Searle
Spin a Dark Web aka Soho Incident (1956) dir. Vernon Sewel
The Clouded Yellow (1950) dir. Ralph Thomas
The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk (1958) dir. Herbert Wilcox
Hidden Homicide (1959) dir. Anthoney Young
For Them That Trespass (1949) dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Cocktoo (1937) dir. William Cameron Menzies
The Weapon (1956) – dir. Val Guest

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1-198 : american main film noir 1
199-233 : mainstream : |
234-252 : neo-noir
253-273 : british noir
274-278 : france
279-287 : asian violent action-like noir
288-293 : parody, comedy noir : (
294-continue : american main film noir 2