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1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
directed by John Huston
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Barton MacLane, Gladys George
After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941--or, rather, ... More
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2. The Third Man (1949)
directed by Carol Reed
featuring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hoerbiger
In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been ... More
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3. Touch of Evil (1958)
directed by Orson Welles
featuring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff
This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both directed and starred in ... More
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4. Laura (1944)
directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson
This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex ... More
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5. Diabolique (1954)
directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
featuring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Pierre Larquey
The greatest film that Alfred Hitchcock never made, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique is set in a provincial boarding school run by headmaster ... More
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6. Mildred Pierce (1945)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth
Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerns a ... More
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7. The Stranger (1946)
directed by Orson Welles
featuring Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale, Byron Keith, Martha Wentworth, Richard Long
The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college professor named Charles ... More
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8. The Big Sleep (1946)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Charles D. Brown
The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned ... More
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9. This Gun for Hire (1942)
directed by Frank Tuttle
featuring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Though billed fourth in This Gun For Hire, Alan Ladd was catapulted to stardom in the role of Phillip Raven, a ruthless professional killer with a ... More
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10. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
directed by Robert Aldrich
featuring Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Wesley Addy, Maxine Cooper, Cloris Leachman
Regarded by many critics as the ultimate film noir , and by many more as the finest movie adaptation of a book by Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly ... More
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11. Bad Education (2004)
directed by Pedro Almodóvar
featuring Fele Martínez, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Lluís Homar
Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar takes a look at his own adolescence as well as confronting the issue of sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church in this ... More
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12. The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
directed by Orson Welles
featuring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Ted de Corsia, Glenn Anders, Gus Schilling
The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing his singular talents and ... More
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13. Brute Force (1947)
directed by Jules Dassin
featuring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel, corrupt prison guard who ... More
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14. The Big Clock (1948)
directed by John Farrow
featuring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson
John Farrow's movie adaptation of Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock, based on a screenplay by Jonathan Latimer (and produced by future James Bond ... More
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15. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki
One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe, the ... More
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16. The Blue Gardenia (1953)
directed by Fritz Lang
featuring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell
After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry ... More
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17. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
directed by Lewis Milestone
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Roman Bohnen, Van Heflin, Charles D. Brown, Lizabeth Scott, Ann Doran, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson
In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) ... More
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18. D.O.A. (1949)
directed by Rudolph Maté
featuring Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell, Lynne Baggett
"I want to report a murder...mine." So begins D.O.A. Told in flashback, the story tells of how vacationing CPA Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) becomes ... More
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19. Midnight Lace (1960)
directed by David Miller
featuring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall
Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim of a mysterious stalker, ... More
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20. The Big Empty (2003)
directed by Steve Anderson
featuring Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, Daryl Hannah
A guy looking for easy money gets a lot more than he bargained for in this noir-flavored independent comedy. John Person (Jon Favreau) is a ... More
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21. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
directed by Tay Garnett
featuring Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter
James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) takes a job at a ... More
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22. Double Indemnity (1944)
directed by Billy Wilder
featuring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of ... More
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23. The Big Combo (1955)
directed by Joseph H. Lewis
featuring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, Robert Middleton
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is criticized by his superior Capt. Peterson (Robert Middleton) for his obsessive but fruitless ... More
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24. A Double Life (1947)
directed by George Cukor
featuring Ronald Colman, Whit Bissell, Betsy Blair, Signe Hasso, David Bond, Edmond O'Brien, Harlan Briggs, Shelley Winters, Georgia Caine, Ray Collins
Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A beloved stage star, Anthony John (Colman), has ... More
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25. T-Men (1947)
directed by Anthony Mann
featuring Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Charles McGraw, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart
The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a counterfeiting ring to justice. ... More
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