The Top 50 'Paste Magazine's 100 Top 50 Film Noirs of All Time' Movies

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The Top 50 'Paste Magazine's 100 Top 50 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 -

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