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1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
directed by John Huston
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Barton MacLane, Gladys GeorgeAfter 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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2. Double Indemnity (1944)
directed by Billy Wilder
featuring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean HeatherDirected by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of ... More
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3. The Third Man (1949)
directed by Carol Reed
featuring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul HoerbigerIn this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been ... More
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4. The Killing (1956)
directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr., Vince Edwards, Jay C. FlippenThe Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort -- though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was economically produced with an ... More
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5. Laura (1944)
directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith AndersonThis 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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6. Touch of Evil (1958)
directed by Orson Welles
featuring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim TamiroffThis baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both directed and starred in ... More
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7. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
directed by Robert Aldrich
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8. The Big Sleep (1946)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Charles D. BrownThe definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned ... More
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9. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
directed by Lewis Milestone
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Roman Bohnen, Van Heflin, Charles D. Brown, Lizabeth Scott, Ann Doran, Kirk Douglas, Judith AndersonIn The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) ... More
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10. D.O.A. (1949)
directed by Rudolph Maté
featuring Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell, Lynne Baggett"I want to report a murder...mine." So begins D.O.A. Told in flashback, the story tells of how vacationing CPA Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) becomes ...
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11. Force of Evil (1948)
directed by Abraham Polonsky
featuring John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Roy Roberts, Beatrice PearsonList of all editionsJohn Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned his scruples in favor of ... More
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12. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
directed by Tay Garnett
featuring Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Audrey TotterList of all editionsJames M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) takes a job at a ... More
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13. The Stranger (1946)
directed by Orson Welles
featuring Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale, Byron Keith, Martha Wentworth, Richard LongList of all editionsThe Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college professor named Charles ... More
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14. T-Men (1947)
directed by Anthony Mann
featuring Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Charles McGraw, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June LockhartList of all editionsThe 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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15. Bad Education (2004)
directed by Pedro Almodóvar
featuring Fele Martínez, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Lluís HomarList of all editionsFilmmaker Pedro Almodóvar takes a look at his own adolescence as well as confronting the issue of sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church in this ... More
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16. Gun Crazy (1949)
directed by Joseph H. Lewis
featuring Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel ShawList of all editionsThe definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. John ... More
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17. The Spiral Staircase (1946)
directed by Robert Siodmak
featuring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda FlemingList of all editionsThe wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress" thriller, full of dark ... More
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18. Born to Kill (1947)
directed by Robert Wise
featuring Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry, Audrey LongList of all editionsSomehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as witness such films as The ... More
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19. Kiss of Death (1947)
directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Taylor HolmesList of all editionsBased in part on a true story, Kiss of Death is given a veneer of reality by being filmed on location in New York, per the insistence of director ... More
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20. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
directed by John Huston
featuring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Sam JaffeList of all editionsThe Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left ... More
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21. Midnight Lace (1960)
directed by David Miller
featuring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowallList of all editionsKit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim of a mysterious stalker, ... More
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22. Killer's Kiss (1955)
directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Jerry Jarret, Michael DanaList of all editionsStanley Kubrick's second feature film, Killer's Kiss was made on a budget of $40,000, all raised by Kubrick's relatives. The black-and-white drama ... More
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23. The Big Empty (2003)
directed by Steve Anderson
featuring Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, Daryl HannahList of all editionsA guy looking for easy money gets a lot more than he bargained for in this noir-flavored independent comedy. John Person (Jon Favreau) is a ... More
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24. Mildred Pierce (1945)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann BlythList of all editionsJoan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerns a ... More
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25. Diabolique (1954)
directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
featuring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Pierre LarqueyList of all editionsThe greatest film that Alfred Hitchcock never made, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique is set in a provincial boarding school run by headmaster ... More
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