Brehs,Put Me Onto Your Favorite Noir Films

[SilverSamurai]

The Killing
Following
Kiss Me Deadly
Maltese Falcon
The Night of the Hunter
Scarlet Street

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Pretty much every movie I would've mentioned has already been listed, but once you get a feel for these movies and want a laugh, check out Don't Men Don't Wear Plaid starring Steve Martin.

 

[DosCadenaz]

Chinatown!

 

[Apollo Kid]

Brick
Man From Reno

 

[Lootpack]

Mulholland Drive

 

[OJ Simpsom]

 

[Crevard113]

Kinatay
Chungking Express
The Longest Nite

 

[Black Hans]

Chinatown
LA Confidential

 

[HHR]

Aight, before I hammer out my current Top 10, here's a handful of lesser-known or otherwise underappreciated noirs...keeping to strict, classic noirs for the moment. Foreign, neo, color, etc not included here.

Side Street
Angel Face
Born To Kill
Too Late For Tears
Odds Against Tomorrow
99 River Street
Tight Spot
Tension
Sudden Fear
711 Ocean Drive

 

[SilverSamurai]

Spoiler

When it had that Presented by Cinemascope intro I was like

 

[The Guru]

Rear Window (1954)

Rear Window (1954) - IMDb

 

[Geek Nasty]

The postman always rings twice.
A touch of evil was goat, but does it count as noir?

 

[HHR]

The postman always rings twice.
A touch of evil was goat, but does it count as noir?

Touch of Evil is generally considered the end of the classic noir era.

The debate about what is and isn't noir, and whether noir is even a genre unto itself (most don't, I sort of do lol), is absolutely fascinating to me.

 

[Mighty Mike]

The Long Goodbye

 

[FlyRy]

Aight, before I hammer out my current Top 10, here's a handful of lesser-known or otherwise underappreciated noirs...keeping to strict, classic noirs for the moment. Foreign, neo, color, etc not included here.

Side Street
Angel Face
Born To Kill
Too Late For Tears
Odds Against Tomorrow
99 River Street
Tight Spot
Tension
Sudden Fear
711 Ocean Drive

Only Sudden Fear is on filmstruck out of these