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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. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, Elisha Cook, Jr., William Gargan
Well-known New York sports promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) is the prime suspect in the murder of Vicky Lynn (Carole Landis), a ... More
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9. Ministry of Fear (1944)
directed by Fritz Lang
featuring Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Dan Duryea, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram
An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in this shadowy, ominous ... More
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
directed by Ida Lupino
featuring Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Sam Hayes
Daniel Mainwaring took this story right out of the headlines of the day, penning this true story of a mass murderer who was eventually executed in ... More
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15. 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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16. Force of Evil (1948)
directed by Abraham Polonsky
featuring John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Roy Roberts, Beatrice Pearson
John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned his scruples in favor of ... More
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17. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
directed by John Huston
featuring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe
The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left ... More
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Kiss of Death (1947)
directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Taylor Holmes
Based in part on a true story, Kiss of Death is given a veneer of reality by being filmed on location in New York, per the insistence of director ... More
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21. Thérèse Raquin (1953)
directed by Marcel Carné
featuring Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby, Roland Le Saffre, Sylvie
The grim Emile Zola "naturalist" novel Therese Raquin has been vividly cinematized by director Marcel Carne. Simone Signoret plays the title ... More
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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. In a Lonely Place (1950)
directed by Nicholas Ray
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Robert Warwick, Jeff Donnell, Art Smith, Martha Stewart
A haunting work of stark confessionalism disguised as a taut noir thriller, In a Lonely Place -- Nicholas Ray's bleak, desperate tale of fear and ... More
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