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Because the 1940s and 1950s are universally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir, films released prior to 1940 are listed under the caption "Precursors / early noir-like films". Films released after 1959 should generally only be listed in the list of neo-noir titles.
This is a complete list of all the titles listed in the book "Film Noir Guide - 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959" by Michael F. Keaney. This book is by far one of the most useful and well thought out book in the subject of Film Noir ever published.
Apr 1, 2024 · Hard boiled detectives, sexy femme fatales, a heist that that is likely to go wrong… if you're a fan of film noir movies, you know there isn't another genre quite like it. We pulled together 20 of our favorite 1950s film noir movies.
Nov 23, 2021 · Here are ten such American noir films that I think are worth your time. The Crimson Kimono (1959) Much of Sam Fuller’s work post-classic film noir is ripe for rediscovery, but The Crimson Kimono is particularly unknown.
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Wikipedia's List of Film Noir: Classic American noir, 1957-1959. 1. Affair in Havana (1957) Songwriter falls in love with a crippled man's wife. 2. Baby Face Nelson (1957) George "Babyface" Nelson became one of the most important gangsters of 1930's Chicago by making brutal robberies.
Les Diaboliques (1955) Based on the novel She Who Was No More, director Henri Georges Clouzot famously pipped Hitchcock to secure the rights to make Les Diaboliques and momentarily replaced his contemporary as ‘master of suspense’ in the process. Hitchcock was allegedly so furious at missing out that it prompted him to create Psycho (1960). Rent.
1. Ace in the Hole (1951) Approved | 111 min | Drama, Film-Noir. 8.1. Rate. 72 Metascore. A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
