Classic Film Noir

THE CLASSIC NOIR FILM

• 13 Rue Madeleine 1947
• 13th Letter, The 1951
• 13 West Street 1962
• 39 Steps, The 1935
• 5 Against The House 1955
• 5 Branded Women 1960
• 5 Steps To Danger (1957)
• 99 River Street 1953
• A Blueprint For Murder 1953
• A Bullet for Joey 1955
• A Game of Death 1945
• A Kiss Before Dying 1956
• A Letter To Three Wives 1949
• A Night of Terror 1937
• A Woman’s Secret 1949
• Above Suspicion 1943
• Accused of Murder 1956
• Accused, The 1949
• Ace in The Hole (1951)
• Act of Violence 1949
• Algiers  (1938)
• Alias Nick Beal 1949
• All Through The Night 1941
• Among The Living 1941
• Anatomy of a Murder 1959
• …and The Wild, Wild Women 1960
• Angel Face 1953
• Angel on My Shoulder 1946
• Angels With Dirty Faces 1938
• Another Man’s Poison 1951
• Apology For Murder 1945
• Appointment With Crime 1946
• Appointment With Danger 1950
• Armored Car Robbery 1950
• Baby Face Nelson 1957
• Back From The Dead 1957
• Backfire 1950
• Bad and The Beautiful, The 1952
• Bad Blonde 1953
• Band of Outsiders 1964
• Beast of The City, The 1932
• Beat Generation, the 1959 aka This Rebel Age
• Beat The Devil 1953
• Behind Locked Doors 1948
• Behind Stone Walls 1932
• Berlin Express 1948
• Beware My Lovely 1952
• Beyond A Reasonable Doubt 1956
• Big Bluff, The 1955
• Big Caper, The 1957
• Big Carnival, The ( 1951 ) aka Ace in The Hole
• Big Clock, The 1948
• Big Combo, The 1955
• Big Heat, The 1953
• Big House USA (1955)
• Big Knife, The 1955
• Big Steal, The 1949
• Black Angel 1946
• Black Legion 1937
• Black Out 1952
• Black Tuesday 1954
• Blackboard Jungle, The 1955
• Blast of Silence 1961
• Blind Alley 1939
• Blonde Alibi 1946
• Blonde Blackmailer 1958
• Blonde Ice 1948
• Blonde Sinner 1956
• Bloody Brood, the 1959
• Blue Dahlia, The 1946
• Blue Gardenia, The 1953
• Body and Soul 1947
• Bond of Fear 1958 or 56?
• Bonnie Parker Story, The 1958
• Boomerang 1947
• Border Incident 1949
• Border Town 1935
• Borderline 1950
• Born To Kill 1947
• Breaking Point, The 1950
• Brother’s Rico, The 1957
• Brute Force 1947
• Burglar, The 1957
• Bury Me Dead 1947
• By Love Possessed 1961
• Cage of Evil 1960
• Caged (1950)
• Call it Murder aka Midnight (1934) Bogart
• Call Northside 777 (1948)
• Canon City 1948
• Cape Fear 1962
• Captive City, The 1952
• Carnival of Crime 1962
• Carnival Story 1954
• Cash on Demand 1962
• Caught (1949)
• Cause for Alarm 1951
• Champion 1949
• Chase, The 1946
• Chicago Confidential 1957
• Chicago Deadline 1949
• Child and The Killer, The 1959
• Cincinnati Kid, The 1965
• Circle of Danger 1951
• City After Midnight 1957
• City of Fear 1959
• City of Missing Girls 1941
• City That Never Sleeps 1953
• Clash By Night 1952
• Cloak and Dagger 1946
• Cobweb, The 1955
• Code Two 1953
• Company She Keeps, The 1951
• Concrete Jungle, the aka The Criminal 1960
• Conflict 1945
• Convict’s Code 1939
• Convicts 4 (1962)
• Cop Hater 1958
• Cornered 1945
• Cover Up 1949 aka The Intruder
• Crack Up 1946
• Crime Against Joe 1956
• Crime In The Streets 1956
• Crime of Passion 1957
• Crime Wave 1954
• Criminal, The 1960 Joseph Losey
• Crimson Kimono, The 1958
• Criss Cross 1949
• Crooked Circle, The 1957
• Crooked Way, The 1949
• Crooked Web, The 1955
• Crossfire 1947
• Cry Baby Killer, The 1958
• Cry Danger 1951
• Cry Of The City 1948
• Cry Terror 1958
• Cry Vengeance 1954
• Cry Wolf 1947
• D.O.A (1950)
• Daisy Kenyon 1947
• Damned Don’t Cry, The 1950
• Danger Street 1947
• Dangerous 1935
• Dangerous Crossing 1953
• Dark City 1950
• Dark Corner, The 1946
• Dark Mirror, The 1946
• Dark Passage 1947
• Dark Past, The 1948
• Dead Ringer 1964
• Dead Reckoning 1947
• Deadline At Dawn 1946
• Dear Murderer 1947
• Death in Small Doses 1957
• Decoy 1946
• Defiant Ones, The 1958
• Desperate 1947
• Desperate Hours, The 1955
• Detective Story 1951
• Detour 1945
• Devil Thumbs A Ride, The 1947
• Devil’s Cargo, The 1925
• Devil’s Party, The 1938
• Devil’s Wanton, The 1948 aka Prison (1949)
• Devils Sleep, The 1949
• Dial 1119 1950
• Dial M For Murder 1954
• Dillinger 1945
• Double Confession 1950
• Double Indemnity 1944
• Down Three Dark Streets 1954
• Edge of Doom 1950
• Edge of Eternity 1959
• Edge of Fury 1958
• Edge of The City 1957
• Elevator To The Gallows  1958 Ascenseur pour l’échafaud Louis Malle aka Frantic
• Enforcer, The 1951 aka Murder Inc
• Escape By Night 1953
• Escape In The Fog 1945
• Experiment in Terror 1962
• Face Behind The Mask, The 1941
• Face of Fire 1959
• Fallen Angel 1945
• Fat Man, The 1951
• FBI Girl 1951
• FBI Story, The 1959
• Fear In The Night 1947
• Fearmakers, The 1958
• Federal Fugitives 1941
• File On Thelma Jordan, The (1950)
• Finger Man, The 1955
• Fingerprints Don’t Lie (1951)
• Fingers At The Window 1942
• Five Steps To Danger 1957
• Follow Me Quietly 1949
• Footsteps In the Dark 1941
• Force Of Evil 1948
• Foreign Correspondent 1940
• Foreign Intrigue 1956
• Framed 1947
• Frightened City, The 1961
• Fugitive Kind, The 1959
• Fury 1936
• Gambler and The Lady, The (1952)
• Gang Bullets 1938
• Gangster, The 1947
• Garment Jungle, The 1957
• Gaslight 1944
• Gilda 1946
• Girl In Lovers Lane, The 1960
• Girls in Chains 1943
• Glass Cage, The 1952
• Glass Key, The 1942
• Glass Web, The 1953
• Golden Boy 1939
• Great Flamarion, The 1945
• Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959)
• Green Glove, The 1952
• Guest In The House 1944
• Guilty Bystander 1950
• Guilty, The 1947
• Gun Crazy (1950) aka Deadly is The Female
• Half A Sinner 1940
• Harder They Fall, The 1956
• He Ran All The Way 1951
• He Walked By Night (1947)
• Heat Wave 1954 aka The House Across The Lake
• Hellbound 1957
• Hells Half Acre 1954
• Hidden Fear 1957
• Hidden Room, The 1949
• Hideout, The 1949
• High Powered 1945
• High Sierra (1941)
• High Wall, The 1947
• Highly Dangerous 1950
• Highway 301 (1950)
• His Kind of Woman 1951
• Hit and Run 1957
• Hitch-Hiker 1953
• Hold Back The Dawn 1941
• Hollow Triumph aka The Scar 1948
• Hoodlum Empire 1952
• Hoodlum, The 1951
• House By The River 1950 Fritz Lang
• House of Bamboo 1955
• House of Numbers 1957
• House of Strangers 1949
• House on 92nd Street, The 1945
• House on Telegraph Hill, The 1951
• Human Desire 1954
• Hunt the Man Down 1950
• I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang 1932
• I Confess (1953)
• I Cover The Waterfront 1933
• I Died A Thousand Times 1955 Jack Palance and Shelley Winters
• I Killed That Man 1941
• I See A Dark Stranger 1946 aka The Adventuress
• I Wake Up Screaming 1941
• I Walk Alone 1948
• I Want To Live (1958)
• I Was A Communist for The FBI 1951
• I Wouldn’t Be In Your Shoes 1948
• I’ll Get You aka Escape Route (1952)
• Illegal 1955
• Impact (1949)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• In Cold Blood 1967
• Inner Circle, The 1946
• Inner Sanctum 1948
• It Takes A Thief 1961
• Jaibreak 1962 aka On the Tiger’s Back
• Jennifer 1953
• Jeopardy 1953
• Jigsaw 1949
• Johnny Angel 1945
• Johnny Apollo 1940
• Johnny Stool Pigeon 1949
• Journey Into Fear 1943
• Kansas City Confidential 1952
• Key Largo 1948
• Key, The 1958
• Killer Bait 1949 aka Too Late For Tears
• Killer Lacks A Name 1966
• Killer Who Stalked New York 1950
• Killers Kiss 1955
• Killers, The 1946
• Killing, The 1956
• King and Four Queens, The  1956
• Kings Row 1942
• Kiss Me Deadly 1955
• Kiss Of Death 1947
• Kiss The Blood Off My Hands 1948
• Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 1950
• Lady and The Mob, The 1939
• Lady From Shanghai, The (1947)
• Lady Gangster 1942
• Lady Killer 1933
• Lady In Scarlet, The 1935
• Lady In The Lake 1947
• Las Vegas Story, The 1952
• Last Mile, The 1932
• Last Mile, The 1959
• Laura (1944)
• Let Us Live 1939
• Lie, The 1954
• Lightning Strikes Twice 1951
• Limping Man, The 1953
• Line Up, The 1958
• Loan Shark 1952
• Long Dark Hall, The 1951
• Long Wait, The (1954)
• Lost Weekend, The (1945)
• Love From a Stranger 1937
• Lured (1947)
• Ma Barker’s Killer Brood 1960
• Madonna’s Secret 1946
• Make Haste To Live 1954
• Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
• Man Accused 1959
• Man Bait aka The Last Page (1952)
• Man From Cairo 1953
• Man In The Attic 1953
• Man In The Net, The 1959
• Man In The Shadow 1957
• Man Who Cheated Himself 1950
• Manhandled 1949
• Manhunt 1941
• Manpower 1941
• Marked Woman 1937
• Mask of Diijon (1946)
• Mask of Dimitrios, The  1944
• Mask of The Dragon 1951
• Midnight Story, The 1957
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• Ministry of Fear 1944
• Missing Girls 1936
• Mr. District Attorney (1941)
• Mr District Attorney (1947)
• Mob, The 1951
• Money Madness (1948)
• Moonrise 1948
• Motor Patrol (1950)
• Mugger, The (1958)
• Murder at Dawn 1932
• Murder by Contract 1958
• Murder In The Night 1939
• Murder In The Red Barn 1935
• Murder Inc (1969)
• Murder My Sweet (1944)
• Murder With Pictures 1936
• Music Box Kid, The 1960
• My Name is Julia Ross 1945
• Mystery Street 1950
• Naked Alibi 1954
• Naked City, The 1948
• Naked Edge, The 1961
• Naked Street, The (1955)
• Narrow Margin, The 1952
• Niagara 1953
• Night And The City 1950
• Night Editor 1946
• Night Has A Thousand Eyes 1948
• Night Holds Terror, The 1955
• Night of Evil 1962
• Night of The Hunter 1955
• Night Unto Night 1949
• Nightfall 1957
• Nightmare 1956
• Nightmare Alley 1947
• Nobody Lives Forever 1946
• No Escape 1953
• No Man of Her Own 1950
• No Way Out (1950)
• Nocturne 1946
• North By Northwest (1959)
• Notorious 1946
• Obsession 1948
• Odd Man Out 1947
• Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
• On Dangerous Ground 1952
• On The Waterfront (1954)
• One Girls Confession (1953)
• One Way Ticket To Hell (1955)
• Out of The Past 1947
• Over-Exposed 1956
• Paradine Case, The 1947
• Parole, Inc. 1948
• Party Girl 1958
• Patterns 1956
• Petrified Forest, The 1936
• Phantom Lady 1944
• Phenix City Story, The (1955)
• Pick Up 1951
• Pick-up 1933
• Pick-Up on South Street 1953
• Pickup Alley 1957
• Pitfall 1948
• Please Murder Me 1956
• Plunder Road 1957
• Possessed 1947
• Prison 1949
• Prison Shadows 1936
• Private Hell 36 1954
• Prowler, The (1951)
• Pursued (1947)
• Pushover (1954)
• Quicksand (1950)
• Radio Cab Murder 1954
• Railroaded 1947
• Ramrod 1947
• Radar Secret Service (1950)
• Raw Deal 1948
• Rear Window 1954
• Rebel Without A Cause 1955
• Reckless Moment, The 1949
• Requiem For A Heavyweight 1962
• Ride The Pink Horse 1947
• Riot In Cell Block 11 (1954)
• Roadblock 1951
• Road House (1948)
• Rocking Horse Winner, The 1949
• Rogue Cop 1954
• Rope of Sand 1949
• Ruthless 1948
• Scandal Sheet 1952
• Scar, The 1948
• Scarface 1932
• Scarlett Street 1945
• Scene of The Crime 1949
• Second Chance 1953
• Second Woman, The 1951
• Secret Beyond The Door 1947
• Secret Fury, The 1950
• Set- Up, The 1949
• Seven Men From Now 1956
• Seven Women From Hell 1961
• Shadow Man, The 1953
• Shadow Of A Doubt 1943
• Shadow On The Wall 1950
• Shanghai Gesture, The 1941
• She Played With Fire 1957
• Shield for Murder 1954
• Shock Corridor 1963
• Shoot To Kill 1947
• Short Cut To Hell 1957
• Side Street 1950
• Singapore Woman 1941
• Slander 1957
• Sleep My Love 1948
• Sleeping City, The 1950
• Sleeping Tiger, The 1954
• Slightly Honorable 1940
• Slightly Scarlet 1956
• Smash Up- The Story of A Woman 1947
• Sniper, The 1952
• So Dark The Night 1946
• So Evil My Love 1948
• Somewhere In The Night 1946
• Sorry Wrong Number 1948
• Sound of Fury, The 1950
• Spider, The (1945)
• Spiral Staircase, The (1945)
• Split Second 1953
• Stage Fright 1950
• Steel Trap, The 1952
• Stolen Face 1952
• Stolen Identity 1953
• Stop Me Before I Kill 1960
• Storm Warning 1951
• Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, the 1945
• Strange Door, The 1951
• Strange Illusion 1945
• Strange Love of Martha Ivers,
• Strange One, The 1957
• Strange Woman, The 1946
• Stranger On The 3rd Floor 1940
• Stranger, The 1946
• Strangers On A Train 1951
• Street of Chance 1942
• Street With No Name, The 1948
• Strike Me Deadly 1964
• Sudden Fear 1952
• Suddenly 1954
• Sun Sets At Dawn, The 1950
• Sunset Boulevard 1950
• Suspense 1946
• Suspicion 1941
• Swamp Water 1941
• Sweet Smell of Success 1957
• Tattered Dress, The
• T-Men 1947
• Ten Minutes To Live 1932
• Tension 1949
• Terror, The (1938)
• Terror In a Texas Town 1958
• Terror Street 1953 aka 36 Hours
• They Drive By Night (1938)
• They Live By Night (1949)
• They Made Me A Criminal 1939
• They Made Me A Fugitive aka I Became A Criminal 1947
• They Made Me A Killer (1946)
• They Were So Young 1954
• Thieves Highway (1949)
• Things Happen At Night 1947
• Third Man, The 1949
• This Gun For Hire 1942
• This Side of The Law
• This Sporting Life 1963
• Threat, The (1949)
• Three Bad Sisters 1956
• Three Blondes In His Life 1961
• Three Steps North 1951
• Three Sundays To Live (1957)
• Three Violent People 1957
• Thunder In The City 1937
• Thunder Road 1958
• Tiger Bay 1959
• To Have and Have Not (1944)
• Tough Assignment 1949
• Too Late For Tears aka Killer Bait (1949)
• Too of a Kind 1951
• Touch of Evil 1958
• Town Without Pity 1961
• Train, The 1964
• Trapped 1949
• Trapped By Fear 1960
• Turning Point, The 1952
• Two Faced Woman 1941
• Two Mrs. Carrolls, The (1947)
• Undercover Man, The 1949
• Undercurrent 1946
• Uninvited, The 1944
• Union Station 1950
• Unseen, The (1945)
• Unsuspected, The 1947
• Velvet Touch, The 1948
• Verdict, The 1946
• Vertigo
• Vice Squad 1953
• Vice Raid (1960)
• Victim 1961
• Violated 1953
• Violent Saturday 1955
• Wait Until Dark (1967)
• Walk a Crooked Mile 1948
• Walk Softly, Stranger 1950
• Waterfront aka The Mob 1951
• Way Out, The 1956
• Web, The 1947
• What Price Vengeance? 1937
• When Strangers Marry 1944
• Where Danger Lives 1950
• Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
• While The City Sleeps (1956)
• Whirlpool (1949)
• Whistle Stop 1946
• White Heat (1949)
• Why Must I Die 1960
• Wicked As They Come 1956
• Wicked Woman 1953
• Wild One, The 1953
• Window, The 1949
• Without Warning 1952
• Witness To Murder 1954
• Woman Condemned, The 1934
• Woman in Hiding 1950
• Woman In The Shadows 1934
• Woman In The Window, The (1944)
• Woman On Pier 13 (1949)
• Woman On The Run 1950
• Women’s Prison 1955
• Wrong Man, The 1956
• Wrong Road, The 1937
• You Can’t Escape Forever 1942
• Young Savages, The 1961

Special Mention to those Pre Code Hollywood films that had so many of the Noir elements

• The Blue Angel 1930
• Little Caesar 1931
• The Public Enemy 1931
• Safe in Hell 1931
• Blond Venus 1932
• Red Headed Woman 1932
• Baby Face 1933
• Reform Girl 1933
• She Done Him Wrong 1933