List of film noir titles

Classic examples of the film noir style include:

1940s

• 1940
  • The Letter
  • Rebecca
  • Stranger on the Third Floor
• 1941
  • High Sierra
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Suspicion
  • The Shanghai Gesture
• 1942
  • Casablanca
  • The Falcon Takes Over
  • Journey Into Fear
  • The Glass Key
  • This Gun for Hire
  • Street of Chance
• 1943
  • Phantom Lady
  • Shadow of a Doubt
• 1944
  • Double Indemnity
  • Experiment Perilous
  • Laura
  • The Mask of Dimitrios
  • Ministry of Fear
  • Murder, My Sweet
  • Phantom Lady
  • To Have and Have Not
  • When Strangers Marry
• 1945
  • Conflict
  • Cornered
  • Detour
  • Fallen Angel
  • The House on 92nd Street
  • Johnny Angel
  • Leave Her to Heaven
  • Mildred Pierce
  • My Name is Julia Ross
  • Scarlet Street
  • Spellbound
  • The Woman in the Window
• 1946
  • The Big Sleep
  • Black Angel
  • The Blue Dahlia
  • The Chase
  • Crack-Up
  • The Dark Corner
  • The Dark Mirror
  • Deadline at Dawn
  • Fear
  • Gilda
  • The Killers
  • The Locket
  • Night Editor
  • Nocturne
  • Notorious
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
  • Shock
  • So Dark the Night
  • Somewhere in the Night
  • The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
  • The Stranger
  • Suspense
  • Undercurrent
• 1947
  • Body and Soul
  • Born to Kill
  • The Brasher Doubloon
  • Brute Force
  • Crossfire
  • Dark Passage
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Desperate
  • A Double Life
  • Fear in the Night
  • Framed
  • The High Wall
  • Johnny O'Clock
  • Kiss of Death
  • Lady in the Lake
  • Nightmare Alley
  • Out of the Past
  • Possessed
  • The Red House
  • Ride the Pink Horse
  • The Lady from Shanghai (released in 1948)
  • T-Men
  • The Web
• 1948
  • Berlin Express
  • The Big Clock
  • Call Northside 777
  • Cry of the City
  • The Dark Past
  • Force of Evil
  • The Guilty
  • He Walked by Night
  • Hollow Triumpth
  • Key Largo
  • Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
  • The Naked City
  • The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
  • Pitfall
  • Raw Deal
  • Sorry, Wrong Number
  • Secret Beyond the Door
  • The Street with No Name
  • They Live by Night
• 1949
  • Act of Violence
  • Border Incident
  • Criss Cross
  • The Crooked Way
  • File on Thelma Jordan
  • Follow Me Quietly
  • Gun Crazy
  • House of Strangers
  • I Married a Communist
  • Manhandled
  • 99 River Street
  • The Reckless Moment
  • Red Light
  • The Set-Up
  • Tension
  • Thieves' Highway
  • The Third Man
  • They Live by Night
  • Too Late for Tears
  • The Undercover Man
  • The Window
  • White Heat

• • The Whistler 1940s movie series starring Richard Dix

1950s

• 1950
  • The Asphalt Jungle
  • The Breaking Point
  • Dark City
  • D.O.A.
  • Edge of Doom
  • Guilty Bystander
  • Gun Crazy
  • Highway 301
  • In a Lonely Place
  • The Killer That Stalked New York
  • Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  • A Lady Without Passport
  • Mystery Street
  • Night and the City
  • One Way Street
  • Panic in the Streets
  • Side Street
  • The Sleeping City
  • Southside 1-1000
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Union Station
  • Where Danger Lives
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Woman on the Run
• 1951
  • Ace in the Hole
  • Cause for Alarm!
  • Cry Danger
  • The Enforcer
  • He Ran All the Way
  • I Was a Communist for the FBI
  • M
  • The Mob
  • On Dangerous Ground
  • The Prowler
  • The Racket
  • Roadblock
  • The Second Woman
  • Strangers on a Train
  • Try and Get Me
  • The Unknown Man
• 1952
  • Angel Face
  • Beware, My Lovely
  • The Captive City
  • Jeopardy
  • Kansas City Confidential
  • Macao
  • The Narrow Margin
  • Scandal Sheet
  • The Sniper
  • Sudden Fear
  • The Thief
  • The Turning Point
  • Without Warning
• 1953
  • The Blue Gardenia
  • The Big Heat
  • City That Never Sleeps
  • The Glass Wall
  • The Hitch-Hiker
  • I, the Jury
  • Niagara
  • Pickup on South Street
  • Vicki
• 1954
  • Black Tuesday
  • Crime Wave
  • Human Desire
  • Naked Alibi
  • Private Hell 36
  • Pushover
  • Suddenly
  • Witness to Murder
  • World for Ransom
• 1955
  • The Big Combo
  • Kiss Me Deadly
  • Killer's Kiss
  • New York Confidential
• 1956
  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
  • The Killing
  • Nightmare
  • While the City Sleeps
  • The Wrong Man
• 1957
  • Nightfall
  • Sweet Smell of Success
• 1958
  • Armored Car Robbery
  • The Lineup
  • Touch of Evil
• 1959
  • Odds Against Tomorrow

Crossovers with comedy

• Lady on a Train (1945)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
• Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

Crossovers with western

• Colorado Territory (1948)
• Pursued (1947)
• Blood on the Moon (1948)
• The Furies (1950)
• The Gunfighter (1950)
• High Noon (1952)

Crossovers with science fiction

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)

Recent examples

Some made as an homage to the genre. Sometimes referred to as neo-noir

• Klute (1971)
• Cabaret (1972) -- musical in this style
• The Long Goodbye (1973) -- Altman's post-noir take.
• Chinatown (1974)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Body Heat (1981) -- remake of Double Indemnity
• Pennies From Heaven (1981) -- musical in this style
• Hammett (1982)
• Blade Runner (1982) -- science fiction noir, or future-noir.
• Blood Simple (1983)
• Scarface (1983)
• To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
• Brazil (1985) -- science fiction noir, or future-noir.
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Angel Heart (1987)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) -- billed as a "toon-noir"
• Kill Me Again (1989)
• Dick Tracy (1990)
• The Grifters (1990)
• Alien³ (1992)
• Red Rock West (1992)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Unforgiven (1992) -- very noir in terms of theme and character.
• Blue (1993) -- contains many noir elements (e.g. obsession with the past, shadows, lighting, staircases, mirrors, etc.)
• True Romance (1993)
• The Last Seduction (1994)
• Léon: The Professional (1994)
• Natural Born Killers (1994)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Seven (1995)
• Fargo (1996)
• Mulholland Falls (1996)
• City of Industry (1997)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• L.A. Confidential (1997)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Dark City (1998)
• Following (1998)
• Grim Fandango (1998) -- video game noir
• Ronin (1998)
• A Simple Plan (1998)
• Payback (1999)
• The Matrix and its sequels (1999-2003)
• The Bone Collector (1999)
• Go (1999)
• Memento (2000) -- contains elements of film noir, albeit in a slightly skewed fashion
• The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• Max Payne (2001) -- video game noir
• Training Day (2001)
• Minority Report (2002) -- sci-fi noir, or future-noir.
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• The Salton Sea (2002)
• Insmonia (2002)
• Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003) -- video game noir
• The Cooler (2003)
• Collateral (2004)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
• The Machinist (2004)
• Sin City (2005)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• The Ice Harvest (2005)
• Yesterday Was a Lie (2006)