Best Film Noir Movies
Compiled 2026-10-28. All 100 films. The page was published 2025-11-15. Laura is No. 1.

Compiled 2026-10-28. The main table copies the film-noir list published on 2025-11-15 and modified on 2025-11-14, 100 films in all. No. 1 is Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944). No. 100 is William Wyler’s The Desperate Hours (1955). The publish date, the modified date, and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.

The 100 films
All 100 rows follow the page. Years and directors are copied from the page.
| # | Title | Director | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laura | Otto Preminger | 1944 |
| 2 | Shadow of a Doubt | Alfred Hitchcock | 1943 |
| 3 | The Third Man | Carol Reed | 1949 |
| 4 | The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | 1941 |
| 5 | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | 1950 |
| 6 | Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | 1957 |
| 7 | Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | 1951 |
| 8 | The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 1950 |
| 9 | Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich | 1955 |
| 10 | Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 |
| 11 | Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 |
| 12 | The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | 1945 |
| 13 | All the King's Men | Robert Rossen | 1949 |
| 14 | Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | 1958 |
| 15 | The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
| 16 | Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 17 | In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |
| 18 | Diabolique | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1955 |
| 19 | The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | 1946 |
| 20 | The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | 1953 |
| 21 | White Heat | Raoul Walsh | 1949 |
| 22 | The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | 1953 |
| 23 | Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 |
| 24 | The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
| 25 | Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
| 26 | Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
| 27 | Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis | 1950 |
| 28 | Gilda | Charles Vidor | 1946 |
| 29 | Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz | 1945 |
| 30 | Nightmare Alley | Edmund Goulding | 1947 |
| 31 | Spellbound | Alfred Hitchcock | 1945 |
| 32 | The Lady From Shanghai | Orson Welles | 1948 |
| 33 | Leave Her to Heaven | John M. Stahl | 1945 |
| 34 | Stray Dog | Akira Kurosawa | 1949 |
| 35 | The Killers | Robert Siodmak | 1946 |
| 36 | The Fallen Idol | Carol Reed | 1948 |
| 37 | Odd Man Out | Carol Reed | 1947 |
| 38 | The Prowler | Joseph Losey | 1951 |
| 39 | Force of Evil | Abraham Polonsky | 1948 |
| 40 | Scarlet Street | Fritz Lang | 1945 |
| 41 | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Otto Preminger | 1950 |
| 42 | The Letter | William Wyler | 1940 |
| 43 | The Breaking Point | Michael Curtiz | 1950 |
| 44 | The Harder They Fall | Mark Robson | 1956 |
| 45 | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Lewis Milestone | 1946 |
| 46 | The Blue Dahlia | George Marshall | 1946 |
| 47 | The Narrow Margin | Richard Fleischer | 1952 |
| 48 | Murder by Contract | Irving Lerner | 1958 |
| 49 | Raw Deal | Anthony Mann | 1948 |
| 50 | Don't Bother to Knock | Roy Ward Baker | 1952 |
| 51 | A Kiss Before Dying | Gerd Oswald | 1956 |
| 52 | Suddenly | Lewis Allen | 1954 |
| 53 | Death of a Cyclist | Juan Antonio Bardem | 1955 |
| 54 | The Dark Corner | Henry Hathaway | 1946 |
| 55 | T-Men | Anthony Mann | 1947 |
| 56 | Thieves' Highway | Jules Dassin | 1949 |
| 57 | All Through the Night | Vincent Sherman | 1942 |
| 58 | Caught | Max Ophuls | 1949 |
| 59 | Nightfall | Jacques Tourneur | 1956 |
| 60 | The Window | Ted Tetzlaff | 1949 |
| 61 | The Big Clock | John Farrow | 1948 |
| 62 | A Woman's Face | George Cukor | 1941 |
| 63 | The Man Who Cheated Himself | Felix E. Feist | 1950 |
| 64 | Lured | Douglas Sirk | 1947 |
| 65 | Pitfall | Andre de Toth | 1948 |
| 66 | Too Late for Tears | Byron Haskin | 1949 |
| 67 | Ruthless | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1948 |
| 68 | Murder Is My Beat | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1955 |
| 69 | Key Largo | John Huston | 1948 |
| 70 | The Stranger | Orson Welles | 1946 |
| 71 | Suspicion | Alfred Hitchcock | 1941 |
| 72 | Panic in the Streets | Elia Kazan | 1950 |
| 73 | They Live by Night | Nicholas Ray | 1948 |
| 74 | To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | 1944 |
| 75 | Brighton Rock | John Boulting | 1948 |
| 76 | The Seventh Victim | Mark Robson | 1943 |
| 77 | Brute Force | Jules Dassin | 1947 |
| 78 | This Gun for Hire | Frank Tuttle | 1942 |
| 79 | Murder, My Sweet | Edward Dmytryk | 1944 |
| 80 | I Want to Live! | Robert Wise | 1958 |
| 81 | Act of Violence | Fred Zinnemann | 1949 |
| 82 | Champion | Mark Robson | 1949 |
| 83 | The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | 1956 |
| 84 | The Big Combo | Joseph H. Lewis | 1955 |
| 85 | High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | 1941 |
| 86 | They Drive by Night | Raoul Walsh | 1940 |
| 87 | Body and Soul | Robert Rossen | 1947 |
| 88 | Whirlpool | Otto Preminger | 1949 |
| 89 | Stage Fright | Alfred Hitchcock | 1950 |
| 90 | While the City Sleeps | Fritz Lang | 1956 |
| 91 | The Big Knife | Robert Aldrich | 1955 |
| 92 | Dark Passage | Delmer Daves | 1947 |
| 93 | Phantom Lady | Robert Siodmak | 1944 |
| 94 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | 1946 |
| 95 | On Dangerous Ground | Nicholas Ray | 1951 |
| 96 | The Enforcer | Bretaigne Windust | 1951 |
| 97 | The Woman in the Window | Fritz Lang | 1944 |
| 98 | D.O.A. | Rudolph Maté | 1949 |
| 99 | Crossfire | Edward Dmytryk | 1947 |
| 100 | The Desperate Hours | William Wyler | 1955 |
How this ranking was built
Compiled 2026-10-28. The list was published 2025-11-15 and modified 2025-11-14. Rotten Tomatoes posted it. Marya E. Gates is the byline. The page title is 100 Best Film Noir Movies Ranked. The page runs from No. 1 to No. 100, and this table follows that order. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows.
This was read from the live page on 2026-10-28, and all 100 titles are there. Director names are the Directed By lines. The page keeps American films from the 1940s and 1950s, and each one has at least 10 reviews.
Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels. Chinese labels are simplified.
8 films have no Chinese Wikidata label, so the Chinese cell keeps the English title: No. 48 Murder by Contract, No. 59 Nightfall, No. 61 The Big Clock, No. 63 The Man Who Cheated Himself, No. 68 Murder Is My Beat, No. 78 This Gun for Hire, No. 88 Whirlpool, No. 95 On Dangerous Ground. 8 films keep the English title in the Russian cell.
| Source | Snapshot | Scope | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Film Noir Movies Ranked (guide) | Published 2025-11-15, modified 2025-11-14, read 2026-10-28 | American film noirs from the 1940s and 1950s, at least 10 reviews each. No. 1 is Laura, 1944, Otto Preminger. No. 100 is The Desperate Hours, 1955, William Wyler | Primary |
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