Top 10 Film Noirs
A good detective never sleeps. In this video, counts down our picks for the top 10 film noirs. For this list, since experts fail to agree on a standard definition for the genre, we’re limiting our choices to gritty, cynical thrillers and crime dramas from the early-’40s to late-’50s that are shot in black-and-white. Special thanks to our users theyakkoman, jkellis, Jaime Enrique Gutierrez Pérez, Vivek Varghese, Max Feldman, Andrew A. Dennison, robozilla94, iSmiTHDawGx, Philip Folta and walkercr3 for submitting the idea on our Suggestions Page at WatchMojo.com/suggest!
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How could you not include Otto Preminger's Laura (1944)
Anyway I can get the background music ? That sax/trumpet flute is oh so nice
Jean Lyc Goddard's A Bout Souffle "Breathless" was a classic
What about 'Murder My Sweet' – my favourite of them all?
You missed Possessed w Joan Crawford
Key Largo belongs on the list. It wasn't even an honorable mention.
What's the name of the music that plays while the narration goes on ?
Best way to sip scotch and contemplate your failed life. Watching a great film-noir flick.
Normally I don't like your "top 10" lists. But this one is really good! I'll have to see what else you've done that's good! 🙂
1. White Heat
2. Double Indemnity
3. The Night of the Hunter
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Notorious
6. Strangers on a Train
7. Touch of Evil
8. The Big Heat
9. Mildred Piece
10. Key Largo
Night and the city?
Raw Deal (1948).
I prefer "films noirs" to "film noir".
And The Killers (1946) is not even mentioned? Bah!…
Sorry Wrong Number is a classic Noir too.
Two low-budget items- "Detour" (Edgar Ulmer 1945) and "The Devil Thumbs a Ride" (Felix Feist 1947). These are not clever, atmospheric films that keep you guessing. They just come lurching out of the darkness with wrong faces and empty souls. Both productions benefit from a poverty of commercial resources and feature actors (Tom Neal, Lawrence Tierney) whose off-screen antics marked them with the same fatal flaws exhibited in their roles. "Detour" in particular dispenses with the notion that someone somewhere will walk through the door bearing a warrant for salvation. And it sports a tremendous performance from the aptly named Ann Savage as a woman embodying what you'd really find on the other side of that door. Keep it locked while you slip out the window. That's noir.
No Asphalt Jungle????
Mojo is full of shit, their own BS preferential choices. Dickheads.
where is detour
Not a single Sam Fuller film?
Where the fuck is Casablanca?
Laura?