Best film-noir crime films - Charts
Best film-noir crime films
1. Double Indemnity (1944)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck
2. The Killing (1956)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray
4. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane
5. Scarface (1932)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak
6. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell
7. Strangers on a Train (1951)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman
9. The Big Sleep (1946)
USA, Film-Noir / Mystery
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
10. Mildred Pierce (1945)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson
11. Touch of Evil (1958)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh
12. Detective Story (1951)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker
13. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien
14. The Stranger (1946)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
15. The Wrong Man (1956)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles
17. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Thriller
Directed by: Charles Laughton
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
18. Pickup on South Street (1953)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters
19. Out of the Past (1947)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
21. Night and the City (1950)
UK / USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jules Dassin
Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney
22. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
25. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield
26. Woman on the Run (1950)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Norman Foster
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe
27. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker
28. Underworld (1927)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
Cast: George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent
29. Dark Passage (1947)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
31. Deadlier Than the Male (1947)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney
32. Brute Force (1947)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jules Dassin
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn
33. High Sierra (1941)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart
34. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles
35. Call Northside 777 (1948)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte
36. The Letter (1940)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
37. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney
38. You Only Live Once (1937)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda
39. The Killers (1946)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner
40. Bullets or Ballots (1936)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Keighley
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell
41. Phantom Lady (1944)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines
42. Possessed (1947)
USA, Film-Noir / Drama
Directed by: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin
43. Dead End (1937)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea
45. This Gun for Hire (1942)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston
46. The Big Clock (1948)
USA, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: John Farrow
Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton
47. Blast of Silence (1961)
USA, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Allen Baron
Cast: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy
48. The Breaking Point (1950)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal
49. Criss Cross (1949)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo
51. The Big Combo (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte
52. Murder by Contract (1958)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Irving Lerner
Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine
53. The Enforcer (1951)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel
54. City Streets (1931)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney
55. They Drive by Night (1940)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan
56. Union Station (1950)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Rudolph Maté
Cast: William Holden, Nancy Olson
57. I Want to Live! (1958)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland
59. Crime Wave (1954)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: André De Toth
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson
60. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor
61. The People Against O'Hara (1951)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien
62. The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck
63. Scandal Sheet (1952)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Phil Karlson
Cast: Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed
64. The Naked City (1948)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jules Dassin
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff
65. The Trap (1959)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Norman Panama
Cast: Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb
66. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis
67. Dark City (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Dieterle
Cast: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott
68. Raw Deal (1948)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor
69. Kiss of Death (1947)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy
70. The Tall Target (1951)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond
71. Mystery Street (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest
72. Nightfall (1956)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Aldo Ray, Brian Keith
73. Somewhere in the Night (1946)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan
74. Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore
75. Kansas City Confidential (1952)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Phil Karlson
Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray
76. The Docks of New York (1928)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: George Bancroft, Betty Compson
77. The Narrow Margin (1952)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor
78. They Live by Night (1948)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger
79. I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
USA, Film-Noir / Mystery
Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature
80. House by the River (1950)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman
81. Another Man's Poison (1951)
UK, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill
82. Killer's Kiss (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith
83. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan
84. A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Gerd Oswald
Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter
85. 99 River Street (1953)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Phil Karlson
Cast: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes
86. Black Angel (1946)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Dan Duryea, June Vincent
87. The Blue Dahlia (1946)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: George Marshall
Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake
88. Hangover Square (1945)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: John Brahm
Cast: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell
89. Panic in the Streets (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas
90. Pushover (1954)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Richard Quine
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey
91. 'G' Men (1935)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Keighley
Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay
93. The Prowler (1951)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Joseph Losey
Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes
94. Johnny Eager (1941)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner
95. Violent Saturday (1955)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Egan
96. Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Don Siegel
Cast: Neville Brand, Frank Faylen
97. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Boris Ingster
Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire
98. The Blue Gardenia (1953)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte
99. On Dangerous Ground (1951)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan
100. Lady on a Train (1945)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Charles David
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy