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Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key. We have compiled our latest category of the 5Hrs. 40 Mins of greatest 960 movie posters of all-time. While many a film noir were made on very low budgets, the studios spared no expense when designing the promotional art. Leaving the world with some of the most beautifully and stunning poster art. This is why authentic vintage film noir posters are universally collectible, with some titles getting top dollar at auction or through poster dealers.Show more

In compiling this, we judge posters from all over the world and compare initial and re-release posters and alternative styles to come up with this list. There were so many great posters that this list could have more than doubled. Maybe some day we’ll compile a larger list. We hope you enjoy the art, and if you’re just starting to collect vintage posters, we know you’ll discover some great designs as you countdown the top 960 greatest film noir movie posters of all-time. Enjoy.

Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neo-noir_films

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.

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Since its coining in 1946 by French critic Nino Frank, who observed from afar something dark, quite literally, going on at the American cinema, the term “film noir” has been debated and debated and debated some more. Is it a genre? A subgenre? A movement? A trend? A commentary? A style? For the purposes of this introduction, let’s call it a response.

Noir was nothing if not a reaction, a reflection of a nation reeling from despicable evil overseas and revolutionary upheaval on the domestic front. It started matter-of-factly enough. The men—including the screenwriters—had gone off to fight, and as the women stepped up, into the public sector and newfound independence, studio chiefs turned to the fast-and-cheap pulp mysteries of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain for their next productions. International directors like Fritz Lang, Michael Curtiz, and Robert Siodmak, who’d honed the dramatic visuals of German Expressionism, fled their war-torn homes for the plentiful opportunities in Tinseltown.

But things get complicated here, and fast. See, noir didn’t play by any rules, not really. We think of noirs as urban stories, but that’s not always the case—for every L.A. and N.Y.C.-set saga, there’s a small, heartland tragedy. We think of a never-ending, rain-soaked night—sunlight replaced with neon and nocturnal reflections, the optical trickery of mirrors and shadows—but in contrast, the days of noir scorched its characters. We admire its heavily stylized approach—exaggerated camera angles, tension-crafting mise-en-scène, flashbacks, deep focus and trademark shadows—but also its neo-realist and documentary-like experiments. We talk about noir plotting and tropes, but in fact it drew liberally from the gangster pics of the Depression/Prohibition era, crime procedurals, heist movies, horror films (again, the German Expressionist influence), romantic melodrama, Gothic thrillers, tawdry B-movies, and that other quintessentially American breed, the Western. Though its blueprints were everywhere, noir forged its own language, its own playbook, its own universe.

Some define noir as or by a tone, and it’s very much a mood, a sensibility. Noir is a state of mind, of subconscious, a fever dream, an existential crisis. Life had grown profoundly strange for its first-generation audience … off-balance, alienating, lonely. Think about it: As the classic period of noir, generally regarded as 1940-58, wore on, more jaded and pessimistic, shell-shocked soldiers were returning to a forever changed urban and suburban landscape. Homes they didn’t recognize, communities that had gone on in their absence, workplaces that no longer needed them, and wives who weren’t dependent on them anymore. The roles were reversed, the world was upside down. Things didn’t make sense. All that paranoia and pathos, before the second Red Scare.

Enter the private detective and his antihero ilk—a scarred, brooding fella who for his considerable flaws was sympathetic. You couldn’t say the same for the ladies, what with that Madonna-whore complex running rampant through noir’s icky Freudian gender dynamics. Unless they were a good, subservient girl, women were brazen, sexual bitches, more often than not smarter, and more powerful, than the guys—at least at the outset. Extrapolated to the off-screen world, the logic was, solve the crime, solve the problem. Put the femme fatale in her place, show the girl—the world—who’s boss. Take it all back. The nightmare was made wish-fulfillment. It’s not overreaching to read all of this from the 300 or so titles generally considered the classic noir canon. Remember: The folks at the Hollywood Production Code couldn’t handle it either, mandating changes in service of propriety, i.e., social conformity. (Had Will Hays, Joseph Breen, and their censoring kind not been around, noir would’ve been an even more nihilistic realm.) In any case, the M.O. was linear: Talk it out, trace the clues, tell us about it with a voiceover.

Except it wasn’t that easy. Like the ink on those yellow hard-boiled pages, film noir was a smeared affair from the start—hard to define and harder to reconcile. Its characters were dirty, displaced, disillusioned, distrustful, just plain dumb. Everyone was running some kind of scam, even the cops—especially the cops. Everyone was out for themselves, phonies subject to their basest fears and vices. The attraction was as ugly as the repulsion. When he wasn’t a truth-seeker, our protag was often a criminal, at the very least someone of ambivalent moral code or weakness, a fall-guy running out of time, and hope for redemption. The world was a cruel and perilous place, be it the crowded streets or open road, the inner city or a rural outpost. There was no escape, no forgiveness. In fact, perhaps the only clear-cut element of noir was the razor-sharp, imminently quotable dialogue, and its venomous sense of humor.

And so noir cast its misfits—gun-toting, hard-drinking, lipstick and stiletto-wearing human chimneys of neuroses—into a seductive, violent postwar labyrinth, in which the terror was internal and external. Fear of the next world conflict, fear of each other, fear of never getting back to a pure time, the fear in realizing there never really was one. A study in extremes that dealt in innuendo (thanks again, censors!) as it departed from accepted cultural norms and, sometimes, basic humanity—film doesn’t get more perverse, or more unapologetic about it, than the noir environment.

Was noir a conscious “response”? It’s pretty tough, given the very deliberation of filmmaking, to think noir was just a happenstance bunch of flicks that expressed the same anxieties and subverted the same sociopolitical conventions—at least after the first few years, when World War II had ended. And while by the time of 1958’s Touch of Evil noir was a shrewdly self-aware conceit, it’s worth going back to who coined the term just 12 years earlier.

An outsider called it. A bystander observing a uniquely American phenomenon. And, for decades, a largely unacknowledged bystander at that.

However (un)conscious a reaction, noir resonates to this day, with several neo-noir cycles beginning with the Cold War era through Gen X and the millennials. And while a healthy share of neo-noirs make our list, the classic period remains the most telling—context is critical. Then there are the sub-classifications within the subgenre: Proto-noirs, foreign noirs (like the British “Spiv” cycle), neon noirs, and, of course, neo-noirs.

Maybe that’s what makes a list like this so problematic—Raging Bull has strong noir elements, as do Hardcore, Klute, To Live and Die in L.A., Reservoir Dogs, Payback, and Collateral. The first Sin City is a terrific pastiche, as is Carl Reiner’s more sincere homage, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. The original Insomnia was a brilliant reverse noir, exchanging the claustrophobia of night for Nordic midnight sun. John Woo’s classic actioner Hard Boiled is self-explanatory. And in the tradition of Blade Runner (No. 29), modern sci-fi films from Gattaca to Ex Machina possess inarguably noir traits. So how do you draw a line in an ambiguous-by-nature whatever it is?

We’ll start with the following 960 titles. Some 70 years after the term “film noir” was first uttered, take a trip through the screwed-up terrain of the mid-century psyche, with all its sex, lies, and crime scene tape. Let’s get going—don’t say we didn’t warn you.

"Film noir is not a genre… It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film "noir," as opposed to the possible variants of film gray and off white." - Paul Schrader, Notes on Film Noir, Film Comment, 1972

"Film Noir is the flip side of the all-American success story. It's about people who realize that following the program will never get them what they crave. So they cross the line, commit a crime and reap the consequences. Or, they're tales about seemingly innocent people tortured by paranoia and ass-kicked by Fate. Either way, they depict a world that's merciless and unforgiving." - Eddie Muller

"Film Noir is a historical, stylistic and thematic trend that took place primarily, but not exclusively, within the generic complex of the American crime film of the forties and fifties. The term was first introduced by French cinéaste Nino Frank in 1946. For many years it was known only to the French, who seemed to be the only ones equipped (critically or otherwise) to grapple with its definition and/or historical implications." - Spencer Selby (Dark City: The Film Noir; 1984)

"A motion picture with an often grim urban setting, photographed in somber tones and permeated by a feeling of disillusionment, pessimism, and despair.” – Dictionary.com
After many long nights pondering whether to update TSPDT’s noir pages or not, I finally gave in to the nagging voices in my head and, eventually, just got on with it. Glad I did, as my passion for noir cinema has subsequently been agreeably rekindled.

Film noir is darkness. Darkness in all its forms - from the characters, the situations, the settings, right through to the cinematography and shadowy goings-on. Noir should be watched in darkness too, adding further to the experience. As a viewer, noir draws us into a world far removed from our own lives, yet we can still almost always relate to the protagonists and their predicaments. This is because they are usually regular Joes, just like us, but who find themselves in unimaginable traps of one kind or another. The experience of watching these guys go through hell (sometimes they survive, but often not) is not only unnerving, but also morbidly enjoyable. Unnerving, because we hate to see sympathetic characters in immense danger, but enjoyable because we - the voyeurs - are not going through it. Additionally, the femme fatale, the mainstay of many a film noir, is another essential part of the noir fabric. On the outside she is almost always a beguiling and beautiful creature that you can't take your eyes off. But on the inside she is a venomous, gold-digging, man-pinching monster.

And then there is the technical side of noir. As with any good film, the direction, script and acting performances must come together for it to work, but rarely in other films is cinematography more important than it is in film noir. Even if you are watching a less than great noir, there is usually something redeeming about it and often what can get you through is the artistry and panache of the visuals.

It is for these reasons and many others that I can rarely go past a film noir as one of my first viewing choice, and hence why, in the end, I couldn't resist this project.

Of course there is a lot more to noir than this, as this collection of 1,000 Noir Films will more than adequately demonstrate. As you will discover via these 1,000 films, the noir style, though mostly at home in the crime realm, has touched - with varying degrees of success - most of the other film genres, including the Western, horror and science fiction.

To kick things off, I offered up the first 100 of the 1,000 films. These 100 films have been identified, according to my research, as the most mentioned/cited noir films of all-time. Call them the 100 most essential or quintessential, or whatever you like. They are, simply put, the 100 films that most often show up on film noir lists, in film noir festivals, and/or in film noir publications. These 100 films are tagged within the 1,000 Noir Films pages.

Following this initial collection of 100 noirs, a further 900 noir films (or films with prominent noir elements) will be added (in a fairly random manner). These 900 films are, in effect, the 101st to 1,000th most cited noir films (according to my research). Please note that this list has not been and will not be ranked, as per the Greatest Films and 21st Century sections.

You can keep track of where I’m at with the list by observing the ‘Noir Counter’ at the top of the updates page.

It must be stressed that this listing is not a ‘best of’ or ‘greatest’ list; it is strictly a listing of the most oft-cited noir films. Though most of the films that will ultimately comprise the 1,000 are more than worthwhile (many, of course, are brilliant), there is no hiding from the fact that not all of the 1,000 films are of the highest quality. And that is putting it very nicely. They are here because they are noir, not because they are all necessarily classics (though, many invariably are).

In terms of composition, the 1,000 Noir Films listing is primarily comprised of noir films that were produced in the United States, shot in black-and-white, and produced/released during the 1940s and 1950s (1940 to 1959). This is often referred to as the Classic American Noir period.

Films within the 1,000 Noir Films listing that do not encompass all three of these ‘ingredients’ will be labelled accordingly within their entry, as follows:

1) Films not produced in the United States, will be labelled according to their nationality, e.g. Brit-Noir for a UK-produced noir, French Noir for a French-produced noir, etc.
2) Films shot in colour will be labelled as a Colour-Noir.
3) Films released prior to 1940 will be labelled as a Noir-Precursor, films released in the 1960s will be labelled as a Late-Noir, and films released from 1970 onwards will be labelled as a Neo-Noir.
4) Additionally, films containing noir elements that are clearly outside the crime genre will be labelled accordingly. For example, as a Western Noir, or as a Sci-Fi Noir, etc.

After I have published the 1,000th noir film, I will then reveal a list of the 50 Key Noir Filmmakers, plus provide a subsidiary list of additional noir and/or noir-related films not included in the 1,000.

That's about it for now. Please refer to the updates page to keep track of the films as they are added, and for any other developments with regards to this venture. You can commence browsing the progressive listing of films here.

https://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir1000.htm

Background: 'Film Noir' was the term given by French film critic Nino Frank in 1946 to Hollywood crime films playing in France following WWII. The 'Golden Age' of Film Noir is regarded to be the 1940s and 1950s, and as with any set dates there is always some overlap of the style. However 'Noir' style films from 1960 and on have been labeled 'Neo-Noir'. (See list below top 100)

https://letterboxd.com/filmfan1971/list/essential-film-noir-list/

Elements of 'Film Noir': Night-time city streets; morally weak private eye, detective, or other protagonist; femme fatale (a beautiful but treacherous woman); crime of passion or money; high-contrast lighting and distorted shadows; paranoia; corruption; an ill-fated relationship; narrative in the "first-person". Any mixture or slight variation of this soup of elements constitutes a "Noir" film. (A precise definition has never been set in stone)

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Criteria: These Greatest 'Film Noir' Movies were chosen for their direction, acting, storyline, cinematography, box office success and popularity. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "Film Noir Movies".

100 Greatest Film Noir Movies

1. The Maltese Falcon - (1941, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor)
2. Double Indemnity - (1944, Billy Wilder) (Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson)
3. The Big Sleep - (1946, Howard Hawks) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely)
4. Sunset Boulevard - (1950, Billy Wilder) (Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim)
5. The Third Man - (1949, Carol Reed) (Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli)
6. M - (1931, Fritz Lang) (Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke)
7. Notorious - (1946, Alfred Hitchcock) (Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern)
8. Touch Of Evil - (1958, Orson Welles) (Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Dennis Weaver)
9. Criss Cross - (1949, Robert Siodmak) (Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Stephen McNally)
10. Strangers On A Train - (1951, Alfred Hitchcock) (Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker)
11. Out Of The Past - (1947, Jacques Tourneur) (Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming)
12. The Big Combo - (1955, Joseph H. Lewis) (Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace)
13. The Night Of The Hunter - (1955, Charles Laughton) (Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish)
14. The Killing - (1956, Stanley Kubrick) (Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards)
15. Key Largo - (1948, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson)
16. The Killers - (1946, Robert Siodmak) (Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien)
17. I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang - (1932, Mervyn LeRoy) (Paul Muni, Preston Foster)
18. Ace In The Hole - (1951, Billy Wilder) (Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Richard Benedict)
19. Laura - (1944, Otto Preminger) (Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price)
20. White Heat - (1949, Raoul Walsh) (James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran)
21. The Lost Weekend - (1945, Billy Wilder) (Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry)
22. Angels With Dirty Faces - (1938, Michael Curtiz) (James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart)
23. Rififi - (1955, Jules Dassin) (Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey)
24. Sweet Smell of Success - (1957, Alexander Mackendrick) (Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis)
25. The Blue Dahlia - (1946, George Marshall) (Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix)
26. Night And The City - (1950, Jules Dassin) (Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Herbert Lom)
27. The Set-Up - (1949, Robert Wise) (Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter)
28. Scarface - (1932, Howard Hawks) (Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Boris Karloff)
29. Shadow Of A Doubt - (1943, Alfred Hitchcock) (Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey)
30. The Big Heat - (1953, Fritz Lang) (Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin)
31. The Asphalt Jungle - (1950, John Huston) (Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe, James Whitmore)
32. Nightmare Alley - (1947, Edmund Goulding) (Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray)
33. Body And Soul - (1947, Robert Rossen) (John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, William Conrad)
34. In A Lonely Place - (1950, Nicholas Ray) (Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy)
35. The Lady from Shanghai - (1947, Orson Welles) (Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane)
36. Ossessione - (1943, Luchino Visconti) (Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani)
37. The Woman in the Window - (1944, Fritz Lang) (Edward G. Robinson, Raymond Massey)
38. Pickup On South Street - (1953, Samuel Fuller) (Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter)
39. Scarlet Street - (1945, Fritz Lang) (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea)
40. Kiss Of Death - (1947, Henry Hathaway) (Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Richard Widmark)
41. Gun Crazy (aka: Deadly Is The Female) - (1950, Joseph H. Lewis) (Peggy Cummins, John Dall)
42. Mildred Pierce - (1945, Michael Curtiz) (Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Eve Arden)
43. Where The Sidewalk Ends - (1950, Otto Preminger) (Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill)
44. The Naked City - (1948, Jules Dassin) (Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart)
45. Gilda - (1946, Charles Vidor) (Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready)
46. Murder, My Sweet - (1944, Edward Dmytryk) (Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley)
47. Kiss Me Deadly - (1955, Robert Aldrich) (Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart)
48. Sudden Fear - (1952, ) (Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Mike Connors)
49. This Gun For Hire - (1942, Frank Tuttle) (Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Alan Ladd)
50. Dark Passage - (1947, Delmer Daves) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead)
51. The Postman Always Rings Twice - (1946, Tay Garnett) (Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway)
52. Fury - (1936, Fritz Lang) (Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot)
53. Leave Her To Heaven - (1945, John M. Stahl) (Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Vincent Price)
54. D.O.A. - (1950, Rudolph Maté) (Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Beverly Garland)
55. Kansas City Confidential - (1952, Phil Karlson) (John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster)
56. Force Of Evil - (1948, Abraham Polonsky) (John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor)
57. Crossfire - (1947, Edward Dmytryk) (Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame)
58. The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers - (1946, L. Milestone) (Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas)
59. House Of Strangers - (1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) (Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward)
60. Scandal Sheet - (1952, Phil Karlson) (Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek, Harry Morgan)
61. The Wrong Man - (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) (Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle)
62. Odds Against Tomorrow - (1959, Robert Wise) (Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters)
63. Raw Deal - (1948, Anthony Mann) (Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland)
64. Act of Violence - (1948, Fred Zinnemann) (Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor)
65. The Stranger - (1946, Orson Welles) (Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles)
66. You Only Live Once - (1937, Fritz Lang) (Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, Barton MacLane)
67. Angel Face - (1952, Otto Preminger) (Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman)
68. Pitfall - (1948, André De Toth) (Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr)
69. Detour - (1945, Edgar G. Ulmer) (Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald)
70. On Dangerous Ground - (1952, Nicholas Ray) (Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond)
71. Panic In The Streets - (1950, Elia Kazan) (Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes)
72. Possessed - (1947, Curtis Bernhardt) (Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey)
73. Human Desire - (1954, Fritz Lang) (Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford)
74. The Street With No Name - (1948, William Keighley) (Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan)
75. Fallen Angel - (1945, Otto Preminger) (Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, John Carradine)
76. Phantom Lady - (1944, Robert Siodmak) (Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis)
77. Cry of the City - (1948, Robert Siodmak) (Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Shelley Winters)
78. Dead Reckoning - (1947, John Cromwell) (Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky)
79. T-Men - (1947, Anthony Mann) (Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, June Lockhart)
80. Party Girl - (1958, Nicholas Ray) (Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland)
81. The File On Thelma Jordon - (1950, Robert Siodmak) (Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly)
82. The Brasher Doubloon - (1947, John Brahm) (George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis)
83. Clash by Night - (1952, Fritz Lang) (Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe)
84. Mystery Street - (1950, John Sturges) (Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett)
85. Niagara - (1953, Henry Hathaway) (Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter)
86. While The City Sleeps - (1956, Fritz Lang) (Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders)
87. Side Street - (1950, Anthony Mann) (Joe Norson, Ellen Norson, James Craig)
88. The Big Knife - (1955, Robert Aldrich) (Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters)
89. Border Incident - (1949, Anthony Mann) (Pablo Rodriguez, Jack Bearnes, Howard Da Silva)
90. Desperate - (1947, Anthony Mann) (Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Jason Robards Sr.)
91. Whirlpool - (1949, Otto Preminger) (Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer)
92. Journey Into Fear - (1943, Norman Foster, Orson Welles) (Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio)
93. Undercurrent - (1946, Vincente Minnelli) (Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum)
94. Hollow Triumph - (1948, Steve Sekely) (Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz)
95. Beyond A Reasonable Doubt - (1956, Fritz Lang) (Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer)
96. House Of Bamboo - (1955, Samuel Fuller) (Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi)
97. Lady in the Lake - (1947, Robert Montgomery) (Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan)
98. The Two Mrs. Carrolls - (1947, Peter Godfrey) (Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith)
99. Where Danger Lives - (1950, John Farrow) (Robert Mitchum, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan)
100. Stranger On The Third Floor - (1940, Boris Ingster) (Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet)

25 Greatest Neo-Noir films (1960 - present day)

1. Chinatown - (1974, Roman Polanski) (Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)
2. L.A. Confidential - (1997, Curtis Hanson) (Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce)
3. The Manchurian Candidate - (1962, John Frankenheimer) (Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey)
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - (2005, Shane Black) (Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan)
5. Se7en - (1995, David Fincher) (Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow)
6. Cape Fear - (1962, J. Lee Thompson) (Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen)
7. Blade Runner - (1982, Ridley Scott) (Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah)
8. Blood Simple - (1984, Joel Coen) (John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya)
9. Sin City - (2005, Frank Miller) (Jessica Alba, Benicio Del Toro, Bruce Willis)
10. The Usual Suspects - (1995, Bryan Singer) (Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro)
11. Body Heat - (1981, Lawrence Kasdan) (William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna)
12. Klute - (1971, Alan J. Pakula) (Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider)
13. Le Samouraï - (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville) (Alain Delon, Francois Périer, Nathalie Delon)
14. The Grifters - (1990, Stephen Frears) (Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening)
15. Tirez sur le pianiste (aka Shoot The Pianist) - (1960, F. Truffaut) (Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois)
16. Fargo - (1996, Joel Coen) (William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Kristin Rudrüd, Peter Stormare)
17. Night Moves - (1975, Arthur Penn) (Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, James Woods)
18. Hammett - (1982, Wim Wenders) (Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner)
19. Devil In A Blue Dress - (1995, Carl Franklin) (Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals)
20. Blue Velvet - (1986, David Lynch) (Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper)
21. The Naked Kiss - (1964, Samuel Fuller) (Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante)
22. Dark City - (1998, Alex Proyas) (William Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland)
23. Shock Corridor - (1963, Samuel Fuller) (Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans)
24. The Man Who Wasn't There - (2001, Joel Coen) (Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand)
25. The Public Eye - (1992, Howard Franklin) (Joe Pesci, Richard Riehle, Bryan Travis Smith)

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200 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - (1968) (Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood)
2. Star Wars: Ep.V - The Empire Strikes Back - (1980) (Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford)
3. Metropolis - (1927) (Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm)
4. Star Wars: Ep.IV - A New Hope - (1977) (Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford)
5. Blade Runner - (1982) (Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer)
6. Planet of the Apes - (1968) (Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowell)
7. The Day The Earth Stood Still - (1951) (Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal)
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - (1977) (Richard Dreyfus, Teri Garr)
9. The War of the Worlds - (1953) (Gene Barry, Ann Robinson)
10. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - (1982) (Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore)
11. A Clockwork Orange - (1971) (Malcolm McDowell, Michael Bates)
12. Jurassic Park - (1993) (Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum)
13. Alien - (1979) (Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt)
14. Frankenstein - (1931) (Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clark)
15. The Terminator - (1984) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Beihn)
16. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers - (1956) (Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter)
17. Avatar - (2009) (Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver)
18. THX 1138 - (1971) (Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie)
19. Terminator 2: Judgment Day - (1991) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton)
20. Brazil - (1985) (Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro)
21. Forbidden Planet - (1956) (Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis)
22. Superman - (1978) (Christoper Reeve, Gene Hackman, Morgot Kidder)
23. Star Wars: Ep.VI - Return Of the Jedi - (1983) (Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford)
24. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - (1954) (Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre)
25. Solaris - (1972) (Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis)
26. The Martian - (2015) (Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig)
27. The Road Warrior - (1981) (Mel Gibson, Virginia Hey)
28. Back to the Future - (1985) (Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson)
29. Aliens - (1986) (Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen)
30. Things To Come - (1936) (Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson)
31. Marooned - (1969) (Gregory Peck, Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna)
32. Them - (1954) (James Arness, Edmund Gwenn)
33. Mad Max - (1979) (Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel)
34. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - (2005) (Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, John Malkovich)
35. Interstellar - (2014) (Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain)
36. Ghostbusters - (1981) (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis)
37. The Invisible Man - (1933) (Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart)
38. Minority Report - (2002) (Tom Cruise, Max Von Sydow)
39. Children Of Men - (2006) (Clice Owen, Julianne Moore)
40. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - (1982) (William Shatner, Ricardo Montalban)
41. Godzilla - (1954) (Haruo Nakajima, Katsumi Tezuka, Akira Takarada)
42. Arrival - (2016) (Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker)
43. District 9 - (2009) (Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope)
44. Westworld - (1973) (Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin)
45. The Matrix - (1999) (Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne)
46. The Abyss - (1989) (Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)
47. Ghost in The Shell - (1995) (Animated)
48. Fantastic Voyage - (1966) (Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch)
49. Akira - (1988) (Animated)
50. Bride of Frankenstein - (1935) (Boris Karlof, Elsa Lanchester)
51. Escape From New York - (1981) (Kurt Russell, Donald Pleasence)
52. Robinson Crusoe on Mars - (1964) (Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin)
53. Total Recall - (1990) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronny Cox, Rachel Ticotin)
54. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - (1986) (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Catherine Hicks)
55. Gravity - (2013) (Sandra Bullock, George Clooney)
56. Superman II - (1980) (Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman)
57. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - (1985) (Mel Gibson, Tina Turner)
58. Liquid Sky - (1982) (Ann Carlisle)
59. Fahrenheit 451 - (1967) (Oskar Werner, Julie Christie)
60. The Man From Planet X - (1951) (Robert Clarke, Margaret Fielding)
61. Robocop - (1987) (Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith)
62. Predator - (1987) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers)
63. The Man Who Fell to Earth - (1976) (David Bowie, Rip Torn, Buck Henry)
64. 12 Monkeys - (1995) (Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt)
65. A Boy and His Dog - (1975) (Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton)
66. Donnie Darko - (2001) (Jake Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, Jena Malone)
67. Repo Man - (1984) (Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton)
68. The Time Machine - (1960) (Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux)
69. Silent Running - (1971) (Bruce Dern, Steve Brown)
70. The Thing - (1982) (Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David)
71. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids - (1989) (Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Amy O'Neill)
72. Wall-E - (2008) (Animated)
73. Serenity - (2005) (Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres)
74. Men in Black - (1997) (Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones)
75. The Fly - (1986) (Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis)
76. Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers - (1956) (Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor)
77. Invaders from Mars - (1953) (Arthur Franz, Helena Carter, Jimmy Hunt)
78. Logan's Run - (1976) (Michael York, Jenny Agutter)
79. It Came From Outer Space - (1953) (Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake)
80. A Scanner Darkly - (2006) (Keanu Reeves, Winona Rider, Robert Downey Jr.)
81. Time Bandits - (1981) (John Cleese, Ralph Richardson)
82. The Fifth Element - (1997) (Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman)
83. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - (2005) (Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor)
84. The Thing From Another World - (1951) (Kenneth Tobey, James Arness, Margeret Sheridan)
85. Enemy Mine - (1985) (Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett)
86. Soylent Green - (1973) (Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson)
87. Flash Gordon - (1980) (Sam Jones, Max Von Sydow, Music by Queen)
88. Star Trek: First Contact - (1996) (Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes)
89. X Men - (2000) (Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen)
90. Gattaca - (1997) (Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman)
91. I, Robot - (2004) (Will Smith, James Cromwell)
92. Barbarella - (1968) (Jane Fonda, David Hemmings, John Phillip Law)
93. Starman - (1984) (Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen)
94. Alien Nation - (1988) (James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terrence Stamp)
95. The Last Starfighter - (1984) (Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart)
96. Cocoon - (1985) (Steve Gutenberg, Wilford Brimley)
97. Looper - (2012) (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis)
98. Starship Troopers - (1997) (Dina Meyer, Dinise Richards)
99. 1984 - (1984) (John Hurt, Richard Burton)
100. The Hunger Games - (2012) (Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson)
101. Moon - (2009) (Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott)
102. Signs - (2002) (Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix)
103. Stalker - (1979) (Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy)
104. Explorers - (1985) (Ethan Hawke, River Pheonix)
105. Innerspace - (1987) (Dennis Quaid, Martin Short)
106. Omega Man - (1971) (Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe)
107. Dark City - (1998) (Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt, Jennifer Connely)
108. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock - (1984) (William Shatner, Christopher Lloyd)
109. Star Trek: The Motion Picture - (1979) (William Shatner, Lynord Nimoy, Persis Khambatta)
110. Star Wars: Ep. I - The Phantom Menace - (1999) (Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Jack Lloyd)
111. Star Wars: Ep. II - Attack Of The Clones - (2002) (Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor)
112. The Andromeda Strain - (1971) (Arthur Hill, David Wayne)
113. Alien 3 - (1992) (Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton)
114. Contact - (1997) (Jodi Foster, Matthew McConaughey)
115. Stargate - (1994) (Kurt Russell, James Spader)
116. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers - (1978) (Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams)
117. Star Trek - (2009) (Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana)
118. Independence Day - (1996) (Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum)
119. The Stepford Wives - (1975) (Katherine Ross, Paula Prentiss)
120. Sleeper - (1973) (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton)
121. Tron - (1982) (Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner)
122. The Lost World: Jurassic Park - (1997) (Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore)
123. Star Trek Generations - (1994) (Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Malcolm McDowell)
124. 2010: The Year We Make Contact - (1984) (Roy Scheider, John Lithgow)
125. Virtuosity - (1995) (Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe)
126. The Fly - (1958) (Vincent Price, Patrica Owens)
127. Men in Black II - (2002) (Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones)
128. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - (2001) (Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law)
129. Red Planet - (2000) (Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss)
130. Space Truckers - (1997) (Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff)
131. Spaceballs - (1987) (Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, John Candy)
132. Solaris - (2002) (George Clooney, Jeremy Davies)
133. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - (1984) (Peter Weller, John Lithgow)
134. The Arrival - (1996) (Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse)
135. Galaxy Quest - (1999) (Tim Allen, Alan Rickman)
136. Star Trek: Insurrection - (1998) (Patrick Stewart, F. Murray Abraham)
137. Species - (1995) (Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger, Ben Kingsley)
138. War of the Worlds - (2005) (Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins)
139. Scorpio One - (1998) (Robert Carradine, Jeff Speakerman)
140. Rollerball - (1975) (James Caan, John Houseman)
141. Outland - (1981) (Sean Connery, Peter Boyle)
142. Dark Planet - (1997) (Michael York, Paul Mercurio)
143. The Time Machine - (2002) (Guy Pearce, Jerery Irons)
144. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - (1989) (William Shatner, Laurence Luckinbill)
145. Rocketship X-M - (1950) (Lloyd Bridges, Noah Beery)
146. Lifeforce - (1985) (Patrick Stewart, Steve Railsback)
147. Communion - (1989) (Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse)
148. Slaughterhouse Five - (1972) (Michael Sacks, Valerie Perrine)
149. The Running Man - (1987) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson)
150. Star Quest - (1995) (Steven Bauer, Emma Samms)
151. The Blob - (1958) (Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut)
152. X-Files - (1998) (David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson)
153. Supernova - (2000) (James Spader, Lou Diamond Phillips, Angela Bassett)
154. Mission To Mars - (2000) (Tim Robins, Gary Sinise)
155. Johnny Mnemonic - (1995) (Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren)
156. Moon 44 - (1990) (Michael Pare, Malcolm McDowell)
157. Fantastic Planet - (1973) (Animated) (Director - René Laloux)
158. Pitch Black - (2000) (Vin Diesel, Keith David)
159. Not of This Earth - (1995) (Michael York, Parker Stevenson)
160. The American Astronaut - (2001) (Cory McAbbe, Rocco Sisto)
161. First Encounter - (1998) (Roddy Piper, Trevor Goddard)
162. Alien Intruder - (1992) (Billy Dee Williams, Maxwell Caulfield)
163. Event Horizon - (1997) (Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill)
164. Matrix Revolutions - (2003) (Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne)
165. Lost In Space - (1998) (Gary Oldman, William Hurt)
166. The Black Hole - (1979) (Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins)
167. This Island Earth - (1955) (Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow)
168. Alien Resurrection - (1997) (Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder)
169. When Worlds Collide - (1951) (Richard Derr, Barbara Rush)
170. V for Vendetta - (2005) (Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving)
171. The Man from Earth - (2007) (David Lee Smith, John Billingsley, Tony Todd)
172. Soldier - (1998) (Kurt Russell, Gary Busy)
173. The Quartermass Xperiment - (1956) (Brian Donlovey, Margia Dean)
174. Sphere - (1998) (Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson)
175. Ghosts Of Mars - (2001) (Joanna Cassidy, Ice Cube)
176. Journey To The far Side Of the Sun - (1969) (Roy Thinnes, Herbert Lom)
177. Dark Universe - (1993) (Blake Pickett, Cherie Scott)
178. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - (1991) (William Shatner, Christopher Plummer)
179. Planet of the Apes - (2001) (Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter)
180. First Men in the Moon - (1964) (Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Martha Hyer)
181. Quartermass And the Pit (5 Million years to Earth) - (1968) (Andrew Keir)
182. Zardoz - (1974) (Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling)
183. Escape From L.A. - (1996) (Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi)
184. Dark Star - (1974) (Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich)
185. Coneheads - (1993) (Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Phil Hartman)
186. Forterss - (1993) (Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith)
187. Cyberzone - (1995) (Marc Singer, Rochelle Swanson, Future)
188. Alphaville - (1965) (Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina)
189. Destination Moon - (1950) (John Archer, Warner Anderson)
190. It Conquered the World - (1956) (Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef)
191. The Postman - (1997) (Kevin Costner, Will Patton)
192. Flash Gordon: Rocketship - (1936) (Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers)
193. Seksmisja (aka Sexmission) - (1984) (Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jerzy Stuhr)
194. Batteries Not Included - (1987) (Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn)
195. Beneath the Planet of the Apes - (1970) (James Franciscus, Kim Hunter)
196. Death Race 2000 - (1975) (Sylvester Stallone, David Carradine)
197. Demolition Man - (1993) (Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock)
198. Mars Attacks - (1996) (Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening)
199. Dune - (1984) (Kyle MacLachlan, Max Von Sydow)
200. Waterworld - (1995) (Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper)