List of film noir titles
is not a clearly defined genre. Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.
The terms which are used below to subsume various periods and variations of film noir are not definitive and are meant as a navigational aid rather than as critical argument. Because the 1940s and 1950s are universally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir, films released prior to 1940 are listed under the caption "Precursors / early noir-like films". Films released after 1959 should generally only be listed in the list of neo-noir titles.
Precursors / early noir-like films
Under Cover Man1920
- The Penalty
1927
- Underworld
1928
- The Docks of New York
- The Racket
1929
- Thunderbolt
1930
- Paid
1931
- The Big Gamble
- Blonde Crazy
- City Streets
- Five Star Final
- Grief Street
- Little Caesar
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Public Enemy
- Quick Millions
- The Secret Six
1932
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
- The Beast of the City
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
- Illegal
- Night Court
- Payment Deferred
- Scarface
- Two Seconds
1933
- Advice to the Lovelorn
- Blood Money
- Private Detective 62
1934
- Crime Without Passion
- Journal of a Crime
- Midnight
- The Thin Man
1935
- After the Dance
- Bordertown
- Crime and Punishment
- The Florentine Dagger
- G Men
- The Glass Key
- The Scoundrel
- What Price Crime
1936
- Bullets or Ballots
- Fury
- The General Died at Dawn
- Great Guy
- Jailbreak
- Muss 'Em Up
- The Petrified Forest
- Satan Met a Lady
1937
- Black Legion
- Dead End
- The Gold Racket
- Kid Galahad
- Marked Woman
- San Quentin
- The Shadow Strikes
- They Gave Him a Gun
- They Won't Forget
- You Only Live Once
1938
- Algiers
- Angels with Dirty Faces
- Prison Nurse
- You and Me
1939
- Blind Alley
- Code of the Secret Service
- Convict's Code
- Dust Be My Destiny
- Each Dawn I Die
- Invisible Stripes
- I Stole a Million
- King of the Underworld
- Let Us Live
- Rio
- The Roaring Twenties
- They Made Me a Criminal
- Within the Law
- You Can't Get Away with Murder
1940
- Angels Over Broadway
- City for Conquest
- Johnny Apollo
- Black Friday - horror noir
1941
- Lady Scarface
Non-American
- Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
- Asphalt
- La Chienne
- M
- Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
- La Bandera
- The Green Cockatoo
- Pépé le Moko
- Poison Pen
- La Bête Humaine
- Hôtel du Nord
- Le Quai des brumes
- They Drive by Night
- Le Dernier tournant
- Le Jour se lève
- On the Night of the Fire
- Pièges
Classic American noir
1940
1941
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1943
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1957
1958
1959
American color noir
British noir
1942
- The Night Has Eyes
1945
- Dead of Night
- Great Day
- Murder in Reverse
- Pink String and Sealing Wax
- The Seventh Veil
- Waterloo Road
1946
- Appointment with Crime
- Wanted for Murder
1947
- Brighton Rock
- The Brothers
- Dancing with Crime
- Dear Murderer
- Frieda
- It Always Rains on Sunday
- Mine Own Executioner
- Night Beat
- The October Man
- Odd Man Out
- Take My Life
- Temptation Harbour
- They Made Me a Fugitive
- The Upturned Glass
1948
- Blanche Fury
- Daybreak
- Escape
- The Fallen Idol
- Good-Time Girl
- No Orchids for Miss Blandish
- Noose
- The Small Voice
- So Evil My Love
- Uneasy Terms
1949
- Boys in Brown
- Conspirator
- Forbidden
- The Interrupted Journey
- Obsession
- Silent Dust
- The Small Back Room
- The Spider and the Fly
- The Third Man
1950
- The Blue Lamp
- The Clouded Yellow
- So Long at the Fair
- The Woman in Question
1951
- Another Man's Poison
- The Dark Man
- I'll Get You for This
- The Long Dark Hall
- Pool of London
- There Is Another Sun
1952
- The Gambler and the Lady
- The Last Page
- The Lost Hours
- Stolen Face
- Wide Boy
- Wings of Danger
- Women of Twilight
1953
- 36 Hours
- Black 13
- Cosh Boy
- Deadly Nightshade
- The Flanagan Boy
- The Intruder
- The Limping Man
- The Long Memory
- The Man Between
- Mantrap
- Marilyn
- Street of Shadows
- Three Steps to the Gallows
1954
- Before I Wake
- Face the Music
- Five Days
- The Good Die Young
- The House Across the Lake
- Impulse
- Murder by Proxy
- River Beat
- The Sleeping Tiger
- A Stranger Came Home
- Third Party Risk
- The Weak and the Wicked
1955
- The Brain Machine
- Cast a Dark Shadow
- Confession
- Dial 999
- The Glass Cage
- Little Red Monkey
- Joe MacBeth
- The Ship That Died of Shame
1956
- The Intimate Stranger
- Portrait of Alison
- Soho Incident
- Tiger in the Smoke
- Wicked As They Come
- Yield to the Night
- You Can't Escape
1957
- Across the Bridge
- The Big Chance
- The Counterfeit Plan
- Hell Drivers
- Kill Her Gently
- Kill Me Tomorrow
- The Long Haul
- Man in the Shadow
- Time Without Pity
1958
- Chase a Crooked Shadow
- Nowhere to Go
- Tread Softly Stranger
1959
- Blind Date
International noir