The Top 100 'Paste Magazine's 100 Top 100 Film Noirs of All Time' Movies

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The Top 100 'Paste Magazine's 100 Top 100 Film Noirs of All Time' Movies
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
Ranking
21 Se7en 1995 David Fincher R -
34 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton NR -
35 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder NR -
42 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed NR -
45 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott R -
49 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese R -
50 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer R -
66 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles NR -
70 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan R -
71 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski R -
72 Le samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville PG -
82 Fargo 1996 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
88 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder NR -
93 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder NR -
99 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray NR -
103 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick NR -
125 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur NR -
133 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks NR -
139 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston NR -
150 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick NR -
172 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger NR -
201 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman R -
223 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
234 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park R -
242 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh NR -
277 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson R -
328 Key Largo 1948 John Huston NR -
332 Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn R -
348 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang NR -
351 Blood Simple 1984 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
381 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor NR -
392 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle NR -
393 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz NR -
411 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch R -
453 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich NR -
465 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston NR -
468 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles NR -
544 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor NR -
574 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson R -
575 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller NR -
605 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak NR -
614 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black R -
701 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz NR -
719 Dark City 1998 Alex Proyas R -
818 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin NR -
826 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk NR -
839 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher R -
841 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch R -
880 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett NR -
912 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer NR -
1017 Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn R -
1019 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis NR -
1057 Nightmare Alley 1947 Edmund Goulding NR -
1059 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut NR -
1077 Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan R -
1119 Hard Eight 1996 Paul Thomas Anderson R -
1172 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise NR -
1180 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
1193 The Limey 1999 Steven Soderbergh R -
1229 Drunken Angel 1948 Akira Kurosawa PG13 -
1253 Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer R -
1290 The Naked City 1948 Jules Dassin NR -
1359 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed NR -
1371 A Simple Plan 1998 Sam Raimi R -
1426 Doulos: The Finger Man 1962 Jean-Pierre Melville NR -
1464 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang NR -
1533 Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker R -
1555 Bound 1996 The Wachowskis R -
1624 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray NR -
1764 The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl R -
1767 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears R -
1896 King of New York 1990 Abel Ferrara R -
2042 D.O.A. 1950 Rudolph Maté NR -
2366 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway NR -
2449 Sorry, Wrong Number 1948 Anatole Litvak NR -
2453 State of Grace 1990 Phil Joanou R -
2470 Criss Cross 1949 Robert Siodmak NR -
2530 Angel Face 1952 Otto Preminger NR -
2582 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946 Lewis Milestone NR -
2587 One False Move 1991 Carl Franklin R -
2617 Thieves' Highway 1949 Jules Dassin NR -
2673 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky PG -
2805 The Hitch-Hiker 1953 Ida Lupino NR -
2806 Red Rock West 1993 John Dahl R -
2839 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Carl Franklin R -
2887 The Blue Dahlia 1946 George Marshall NR -
3998 Croupier 1998 Mike Hodges NR -
4611 Lady in the Lake 1947 Robert Montgomery NR -
4655 Raw Deal 1948 Anthony Mann NR -
4687 Clash by Night 1952 Fritz Lang NR -
5308 T-Men 1947 Anthony Mann NR -
5469 The Prowler 1951 Joseph Losey NR -
5921 Crime Wave 1954 André De Toth NR -
5941 After Dark, My Sweet 1990 James Foley R -
5959 Journey Into Fear 1943 Norman Foster NR -
7575 The Verdict 1946 Don Siegel NR -
7596 Tension 1949 John Berry PG -
8140 Black Widow 1987 Bob Rafelson NR -
9293 The Sound of Fury 1950 Cy Endfield NR -
11312 Obsession 1949 Edward Dmytryk NR -

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