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1. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
directed by Robert Aldrich
featuring Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Wesley Addy, Maxine Cooper, Cloris Leachman
Regarded by many critics as the ultimate film noir , and by many more as the finest movie adaptation of a book by Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly ... More
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2. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
directed by John Huston
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Barton MacLane, Gladys George
After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941--or, rather, ... More
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3. Black Widow (1954)
directed by Nunnally Johnson
featuring Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner
Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) takes in young actress Nanny Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner) while his wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town. When ... More
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4. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki
One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe, the ... More
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5. T-Men (1947)
directed by Anthony Mann
featuring Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Charles McGraw, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart
The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a counterfeiting ring to justice. ... More
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6. He Walked by Night (1948)
directed by Alfred L. Werker
featuring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James B. Cardwell
The "He" of the title is Richard Basehart, a clever but psychopathic burglar (based on real-life criminal Erwin Walker) Basehart stays one step ahead ... More
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7. Union Station (1950)
directed by Rudolph Maté
featuring William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald, Lyle Bettger, Jan Sterling
Union Station is a tense crime thriller in the tradition of The Naked City that unfolds in Los Angeles. William Holden plays railroad worker Lt. ... More
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8. Laura (1944)
directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson
This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex ... More
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9. White Sands (1992)
directed by Roger Donaldson
featuring Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L. Jackson, M. Emmet Walsh
A suicide found in the desert with 500,000 dollars cash stuffed in a briefcase makes Sheriff Ray Dolezal (Willem Dafoe) curious. What was the dead ... More
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10. The Missing Person (2009)
directed by Noah Buschel
featuring Michael Shannon, Frank Wood, Amy Ryan, Linda Emond
A sardonic, gin-soaked detective contends with an odd cast of characters while tailing a mysterious, middle-aged man traveling with a Mexican boy ... More
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11. China Moon (1994)
directed by John Bailey
featuring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Benicio Del Toro, Charles Dance, Patricia Healy
China Moon is a slick noir thriller, nice to look at, well-acted and directed, but ultimately predictable, even to its "surprise" ending. Kyle ... More
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12. Chinatown (1974)
directed by Roman Polanski
featuring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned ... More
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13. Angel Heart (1987)
directed by Alan Parker
featuring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu
The time is the 1950s: seedy Brooklyn private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by shady Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to locate a pop singer ... More
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14. Brick (2006)
directed by Rian Johnson
featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas, Noah Fleiss, Noah Segan
A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director Rian Johnson's hard-boiled high-school noir, told in the style of a ... More
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15. Winter's Bone (2010)
directed by Debra Granik
featuring Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Sheryl Lee
Her family home in danger of being repossessed after her meth-cooking dad skips bail and disappears, Ozark teen Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) breaks ... More
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16. L.A. Confidential (1997)
directed by Curtis Hanson
featuring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn, Danny DeVito
Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los ... More
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17. Tony Rome (1967)
directed by Gordon M. Douglas
featuring Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands, Simon Oakland
Frank Sinatra brings a sneering Rat Pack ethos to his first hard-boiled detective role in Tony Rome. Tony is an ex-cop who lives on a houseboat off ... More
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18. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
directed by Carl Franklin
featuring Lisa Nicole Carson, Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin
Denzel Washington stars in this adaptation of the novel by African-American crime author Walter Mosley, the first of his stories to reach the screen. ... More
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19. Harper (1966)
directed by Jack Smight
featuring Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh
Screenwriter William Goldman has claimed that Paul Newman agreed to do Harper, the film that established the grateful writer's career, only because ... More
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20. Night Moves (1975)
directed by Arthur Penn
featuring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Susan Clark
Private eye Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is dedicated to his job, but his dedication does not make him happy or powerful in his personal life, and his ... More
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21. Lord of Illusions (1995)
directed by Clive Barker
featuring Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O'Connor, Famke Janssen, Vincent Schiavelli, Barry Del Sherman
A private investigator hired to protect a popular stage magician finds himself drawn into a dark, occult underworld in this supernatural horror film ... More
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22. Twilight (1998)
directed by Robert Benton
featuring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing
The Nobody's Fool (1994) team of Paul Newman, director Robert Benton, and scripter Richard Russo reassembled for this L.A. detective drama, beginning ... More
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23. Tell Me Something (2000)
directed by Chang Yoon-Hyun
featuring Shim Eun-Ha
This film opens with a young man arriving at an apartment and ending up on a concrete slab getting slowly dismembered with a scalpel by an unseen ... More
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24. Brown's Requiem (1998)
directed by Jason Freeland
featuring Michael Rooker, Tobin Bell, Selma Blair, Jack Conley, Kevin Corrigan
Based on a novel by acclaimed crime writer James Ellroy, this film stars Michael Rooker as Fritz Brown, a former L.A.P.D. detective who was kicked ... More
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25. Yesterday Was a Lie (2009)
directed by James Kerwin
featuring Kipleigh Brown, Chase Masterson, John Newton, Mik Scriba, Nathan Mobley
Writer/director James Kerwin infuses Raymond Chandler-influenced noir with a metaphysical twist by tracing the story of a female detective who's ... More
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