Rough Guide’s 50 Essential Film Noirs
Source: The Rough Guide to Film Noir (book)
The Big Combo (1955; Joseph H. Lewis)
The Big Heat (1953; Fritz Lang)
The Big Sleep (1946; Howard Hawks)
Blade Runner (1982; Ridley Scott)
Blood Simple (1984; Joel Coen)
The Blue Dahlia (1946; George Marshall)
Body Heat (1981; Lawrence Kasdan)
Chinatown (1974; Roman Polanski)
Criss Cross (1949; Robert Siodmak)
Cry of the City (1948; Robert Siodmak)
D.O.A. (1950; Rudolph Maté)
Detour (1945; Edgar G. Ulmer)
Double Indemnity (1944; Billy Wilder)
The Element of Crime (1984; Lars von Trier)
Force of Evil (1948; Abraham Polonsky)
Gilda (1946; Charles Vidor)
The Grifters (1990; Stephen Frears)
Gun Crazy (1949; Joseph H. Lewis)
In a Lonely Place (1951; Nicholas Ray)
The Killers (1946; Robert Siodmak)
The Killing (1956; Stanley Kubrick)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005; Shane Black)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955; Robert Aldrich)
Kiss of Death (1947; Henry Hathaway)
Klute (1971; Alan J. Pakula)
L.A. Confidential (1997; Curtis Hanson)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948; Orson Welles)
The Last Seduction (1994; John Dahl)
The Late Show (1976; Robert Benton)
Laura (1944; Otto Preminger)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945; John M. Stahl)
The Long Goodbye (1973; Robert Altman)
The Maltese Falcon (1941; John Huston)
Mildred Pierce (1945; Michael Curtiz)
Murder My Sweet (1944; Edward Dmytryk)
The Naked City (1948; Jules Dassin)
Night and the City (1950; Jules Dassin)
Night Moves (1975; Arthur Penn)
On Dangerous Ground (1951; Nicholas Ray)
Out of the Past (1947; Jacques Tourneur)
Pickup on South Street (1953; Samuel Fuller)
Pitfall (1948; André de Toth)
Raw Deal (1948; Anthony Mann)
Le Samouraï (1967; Jean-Pierre Melville)
Scarlet Street (1945; Fritz Lang)
Se7en (1995; David Fincher)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960; François Truffaut)
T-Men (1947; Anthony Mann)
Touch of Evil (1948; Orson Welles)
The Woman in the Window (1944; Fritz Lang)
