I originally intended to post ten titles, but my first attempt at a reasonable list came out to forty three titles. After grudgingly whittling my list down for twenty minutes, I came to fifteen titles. Most of the titles are pretty famous and are essentials of film noir. Plus, they're all available on DVD.
All are American releases with the exception of The Third Man and Night and the City, which were U.K/American co-productions. I chose to keep it all American because while film noir has roots in early German and French cinema, It was the Hollywood filmmakers of the 1940's and 50's in the United States that really defined the style and rules of the genre.
If you haven't seen them yet, and are in the mood for dangerous dames, hired gunmen, and unnecessary shadows... then seek them out by all means necessary!
- THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston, 1941)
- DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, 1944)
- THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed, 1949)
- THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks, 1946)
- CROSSFIRE (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)
- NIGHT AND THE CITY (Jules Dassin, 1950)
- PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (Samuel Fuller, 1953)
- THE KILLING (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
- SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
- TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles, 1958)
- THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman, 1974)
- FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996)
- L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
- BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott, 1982)
- SIN CITY (Robert Rodriquez & Frank Miller, 2005)
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