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Film Noir
They Shot Dark Pictures,
Didn't They? |
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More American Noir Films
(1940-1964)
Category B |
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Noir Homeoir Home |
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250 Quintessential
Noir Films (1940-1964): Parts
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50 Key Noir
Filmmakers
More American Noir (1940-1964)
Non-American Noir
(1940-1964)
Noir Precursors (Pre-1940)
Neo-Noir / Modern Noir
(Post-1964)
Noir Links
Noir Sources |
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Full listing of all
films cited: Alphabetical
Chronological
By Director |
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The More American
Noir Films 1940-1964) section lists 500
further American noir or noir-related films from the period 1940
to 1964. These films have been split into three categories-: |
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Category A: Contains those films that are often cited as film
noir. These films weren't far away from being included on the
250 Quintessential
listing, and most of them contain many - if not all - of the classic
noir ingredients. |
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Category B
(listed on this page):
Contains those films that are quite often cited as film noir, but not
to the same degree as those listed in
Category A. It must be considered that
in most cases these films contain strong film noir elements. |
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Category C:
Contains those films that are not often cited as film noir. These films
include certain film noir characteristics, even though - in many cases -
they belong in other clear-cut genres, e.g. Westerns. However, it should
also be acknowledged that many of these films are without doubt
'fully-blown' noirs (of the very neglected variety). |
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5 Against the House |
Karlson, Phil |
1955; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
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Accomplice |
Colmes, Walter |
1946; Mystery-Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Accused of Murder |
Kane, Joseph |
1956; Mystery;
Col
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Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Alias Nick Beal |
Farrow, John |
1949; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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All My Sons |
Reis, Irving |
1948; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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All the King's Men |
Rossen, Robert |
1949; Political; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Amazing Mr. X, The/The Spiritualist |
Vorhaus, Bernard |
1948; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Angels Over Broadway |
Hecht, Ben/Lee Garmes |
1940; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Apology for Murder |
Newfield, Sam |
1945; Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Arnelo Affair, The |
Oboler, Arch |
1947; Romance-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Backfire |
Sherman, Vincent |
1950; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Backlash |
Forde, Eugene |
1947; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Big Bluff, The |
Wilder, W. Lee |
1955; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Black Hand |
Thorpe, Richard |
1950; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Blast of Silence |
Baron, Allen |
1961; Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Blind Spot |
Gordon, Robert |
1947; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Blonde Ice |
Bernhard, Jack |
1948; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Born To Be Bad |
Ray, Nicholas |
1950; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
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Bullet for Joey, A |
Allen, Lewis |
1955; Spy; BW |
Amaz |
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Bury Me Dead |
Vorhaus, Bernard |
1947; Mystery-Horror; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Chicago Confidential |
Salkow, Sidney |
1957; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Circumstantial Evidence |
Larkin, John |
1945; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
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City Across the River |
Shane, Maxwell |
1949; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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City for Conquest |
Litvak, Anatole |
1940; Sports-Drama; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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City of Fear |
Lerner, Irving |
1959; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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C-Man |
Lerner, Joseph |
1949; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Come-On, The |
Birdwell, Russell |
1956; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Crashout |
Foster, Lewis R. |
1955; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
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Crime Against Joe |
Sholem, Lee |
1956; Drama-Comedy; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Crime in the Streets |
Siegel, Don |
1956; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Crooked Web, The |
Juran, Nathan |
1955; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Cry in the Night, A |
Tuttle, Frank |
1956; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Cry Terror! |
Stone, Andrew L. |
1958; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Cry Tough |
Stanley, Paul |
1959; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Dangerous Crossing |
Newman, Joseph M. |
1953; Thriller-Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Dangerous Profession, A |
Tetzlaff, Ted |
1949; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
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Deception |
Rapper, Irving |
1946; Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Deep Valley |
Negulesco, Jean |
1947; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Desert Fury |
Allen, Lewis |
1947; Western-Drama;
Col
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Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Destiny |
Le Borg, Reginald |
1944; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Dial 1119 |
Mayer, Gerald |
1950; Thriller-Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Escape in the Fog |
Boetticher, Budd |
1945; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Experiment in Terror |
Edwards, Blake |
1962; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Female Jungle |
VeSota, Bruno |
1956; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Female on the Beach |
Pevney, Joseph |
1955; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Finger Man |
Schuster, Harold D. |
1955; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
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Flame, The |
Auer, John H. |
1947; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Flamingo Road |
Curtiz, Michael |
1949; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Flaxy Martin/Smart Money |
Bare, Richard L. |
1949; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Gambling House |
Tetzlaff, Ted |
1950; Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Glass Alibi, The |
Wilder, W. Lee |
1946; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Glass Wall, The |
Shane, Maxwell |
1953; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Glass Web, The |
Arnold, Jack |
1953; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
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MRQE |
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Great Flamarion, The |
Mann, Anthony |
1945; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
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Green Glove, The |
Mate, Rudolph |
1952; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Hell's Half Acre |
Auer, John H. |
1954; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Her Kind of Man |
De Cordova, Frederick |
1946; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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High Tide |
Reinhardt, John |
1947; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Highway Dragnet |
Juran, Nathan |
1954; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Hit and Run |
Haas, Hugo |
1957; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Hollywood Story |
Castle, William |
1951; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Hoodlum, The |
Nosseck, Max |
1951; Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Human Jungle, The |
Newman, Joseph M. |
1954; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Humoresque |
Negulesco, Jean |
1946; Romance-Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Hunt the Man Down |
Archainbaud, George |
1950; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Hunted, The |
Bernhard, Jack |
1948; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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I Want to Live! |
Wise, Robert |
1958; Crime-Biography; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Illegal |
Allen, Lewis |
1955; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Illegal Entry |
De Cordova, Frederick |
1949; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Inner Sanctum |
Landers, Lew |
1948; Mystery-Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Inside Job |
Yarbrough, Jean |
1946; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Iron Man |
Pevney, Joseph |
1951; Sports-Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Ivy |
Wood, Sam |
1947; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Jealousy |
Machaty, Gustav |
1945; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Jennifer |
Newton, Joel |
1953; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Jigsaw |
Markle, Fletcher |
1949; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Julie |
Stone, Andrew L. |
1956; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Key Witness |
Lederman, D. Ross |
1947; Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Ladies in Retirement |
Vidor, Charles |
1941; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Lady in the Death House |
Sekely, Steve |
1944; Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Larceny |
Sherman, George |
1948; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Las Vegas Story, The |
Stevenson, Robert |
1952; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Last Mile, The |
Koch, Howard W. |
1959; Prison; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Lost Moment, The |
Gabel, Martin |
1947; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Love from a Stranger |
Whorf, Richard |
1947; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Lured |
Sirk, Douglas |
1947; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Man in the Attic |
Fregonese, Hugo |
1954; Horror; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Man in the Dark |
Landers, Lew |
1953; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Moontide |
Mayo, Archie |
1942; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Moss Rose |
Ratoff, Gregory |
1947; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Naked Street, The |
Shane, Maxwell |
1955; Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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No Escape/City on a Hunt |
Bennett, Charles |
1953; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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No Questions Asked |
Kress, Harold F. |
1951; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Once a Thief |
Wilder, W. Lee |
1950; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Out of the Fog |
Litvak, Anatole |
1941; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Outside the Wall |
Wilbur, Crane |
1950; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Paradine Case, The |
Hitchcock, Alfred |
1948; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Parole, Inc. |
Zeisler, Alfred |
1949; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Place in the Sun, A |
Stevens, George |
1951; Romance-Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Playgirl |
Pevney, Joseph |
1954; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Please Murder Me |
Godfrey, Peter |
1956; Thriller-Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Price of Fear, The |
Biberman, Abner |
1956; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Pursued |
Walsh, Raoul |
1947; Western; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Queen Bee |
MacDougall, Ranald |
1955; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Rage in Heaven |
Van Dyke II, W.S. |
1941; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Rebecca |
Hitchcock, Alfred |
1940; Mystery-Romance; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Reign of Terror/The Black Book |
Mann, Anthony |
1949; Adventure; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Revolt in the Big House |
Springsteen, R.G. |
1958; Prison; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Riffraff |
Tetzlaff, Ted |
1947; Drama-Comedy; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Riot in Cell Block 11 |
Siegel, Don |
1954; Prison-Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Rope of Sand |
Dieterle, William |
1949; Adventure; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Screaming Mimi |
Oswald, Gerd |
1958; Thriller-Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Second Chance |
Mate, Rudolph |
1953; Thriller;
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Amaz |
IMDB |
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Sellout, The |
Mayer, Gerald |
1952; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Seventh Victim, The |
Robson, Mark |
1943; Horror; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Shack Out on 101 |
Dein, Edward |
1955; Spy; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Shadow of a Woman |
Santley, Joseph |
1946; Mystery-Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Shadow on the Wall |
Jackson, Pat |
1950; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Shadow on the Window |
Asher, William |
1957; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Shockproof |
Sirk, Douglas |
1949; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Short Cut to Hell |
Cagney, James |
1957; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Sign of the Ram |
Sturges, John |
1948; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Singapore |
Brahm, John |
1947; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Spectre of the Rose |
Hecht, Ben |
1946; Thriller-Dance-Comedy; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Spider, The |
Webb, Robert D. |
1945; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Split Second |
Powell, Dick |
1953; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Steel Trap, The |
Stone, Andrew L. |
1952; Crime-Comedy; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Strange Bargain |
Price, Will |
1949; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Strange Triangle |
McCarey, Ray |
1946; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
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Strange Woman, The |
Ulmer, Edgar G. |
1946; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
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Sudden Danger |
Cornfield, Hubert |
1955; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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System, The |
Seiler, Lewis |
1953; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Tall Target, The |
Mann, Anthony |
1951; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Temptation |
Pichel, Irving |
1946; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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They Drive By Night |
Walsh, Raoul |
1940; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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They Made Me a Killer |
Thomas, William C. |
1946; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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This Side of the Law |
Bare, Richard L. |
1950; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Timetable |
Stevens, Mark |
1956; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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To the Ends of the Earth |
Stevenson, Robert |
1948; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Tomorrow is Forever |
Pichel, Irving |
1946; War-Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Trap, The |
Panama, Norman |
1959; Drama;
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Amaz |
IMDB |
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Two O'Clock Courage |
Mann, Anthony |
1945; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Two of a Kind |
Levin, Henry |
1951; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Undertow |
Castle, William |
1949; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Unfaithful, The |
Sherman, Vincent |
1947; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Unseen, The |
Allen, Lewis |
1945; Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Velvet Touch, The |
Gage, Jack |
1948; Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Verdict, The |
Siegel, Don |
1946; Thriller-Mystery; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Walk East on Beacon |
Werker, Alfred L. |
1952; Spy; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Whispering City |
Otsep, Fyodor |
1947; Mystery-Drama-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Whispering Footsteps |
Bretherton, Howard |
1943; Thriller-Crime; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Whistler, The |
Castle, William |
1944; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Wicked Woman |
Rouse, Russell |
1954; Drama; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Woman in Hiding |
Gordon, Michael |
1949; Thriller; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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Women's Prison |
Seiler, Lewis |
1955; Prison; BW |
Amaz |
IMDB |
MRQE |
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More American Noirs
(1940-1964):
Category A Category B
(listed on this page)
Category C |
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Noir Homeoir Home |
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250 Quintessential
Noir Films (1940-1964): Parts
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50 Key Noir
Filmmakers
More American Noir (1940-1964)
Non-American Noir
(1940-1964)
Noir Precursors (Pre-1940)
Neo-Noir / Modern Noir
(Post-1964)
Noir Links
Noir Sources |
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Full listing of all
noirs cited: Alphabetical
Chronological
By Director |
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