The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time

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This list acknowledges the classics of the genre, the big-budget studio noirs and the cheapest of B noirs made on the fringes of the Hollywood studio system. But we’ve also taken a more expansive view of noir, allowing room for supreme examples of the proto-noirs that anticipated the genre and the neo-noirs that resulted from the genre being rebooted in the midst of the Cold War, seemingly absorbing the world’s darkest and deepest fears.

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  1. 17 new

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  2. 29 new

    Gilda

    1946, in 13 top lists Check
  3. 30 new

    They Live by Night

    1948, in 13 top lists Check
  4. 32 new

    Daisy Kenyon

    1947, in 2 top lists Check
  5. 37 new

    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
  6. 61 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  7. 64 new

    Ossessione

    1943, in 12 top lists Check
  8. 72 new

    You and Me

    1938, in 3 top lists Check
  9. 73 new

    Mauvais sang

    1986 — a.k.a. Mauvais Sang, in 5 top lists Check
  10. 88 new

    Pépé le Moko

    1937, in 10 top lists Check
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Last updated on Apr 21, 2019; source