IMDb's Film-Noir Top 50
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Film noir ('black film') is a branch of the crime/gangster sagas from the 1930s. Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style or tone of various American films that evolved between the 1940s and 1960s. However, film noir has re-occurred in cyclical form in other years in various neo-noirs. Noirs are usually black and white films with primary moods of melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt and paranoia. They often feature a cynical, loner hero (anti-hero) and femme fatale, in a seedy big city.
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Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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Nightmare Alley
1947, in 8 top lists Check -
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Brute Force
1947, in 6 top lists Check -
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Odd Man Out
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
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Body and Soul
1947, in 6 top lists Check -
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Dark Passage
1947, in 6 top lists Check
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