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Best Film Noir Movies

All Rankings

Filmaffinity's Ranking of the best Film Noir Movies in the history of film with +1000 votes

1

Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard

1950

Billy Wilder

William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Lloyd Gough ...

8.5

48,412
2

High and Low High and Low

1963

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, Yutaka Sada, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi ...

8.4

11,081
3

Double Indemnity Double Indemnity

1944

Billy Wilder

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Tom Powers, Porter Hall ...

8.4

35,308
4

The Third Man The Third Man

1949

Carol Reed

Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee ...

8.2

46,142
5

Scarlet Street Scarlet Street

1945

Fritz Lang

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Jess Baker, Margaret Lindsay ...

8.2

15,054
6

Touch of Evil Touch of Evil

1958

Orson Welles

Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia ...

8.2

31,422
7

The Big Heat The Big Heat

1953

Fritz Lang

Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby ...

8.1

12,188
8

White Heat White Heat

1949

Raoul Walsh

James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran ...

8.1

11,462
9

The Woman in the Window The Woman in the Window

1944

Fritz Lang

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea ...

8.1

17,082
10

The Big Sleep The Big Sleep

1946

Howard Hawks

Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone ...

8.1

24,706
11

The Night of the Hunter The Night of the Hunter

1955

Charles Laughton

Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin, Sally Ann Bruce, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish ...

8.1

32,906
12

Out of the Past Out of the Past

1947

Jacques Tourneur

Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb ...

8.1

14,071
13

Laura Laura

1944

Otto Preminger

Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, Dorothy Adams

8.1

19,147
14

Notorious Notorious

1946

Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin ...

8.1

21,705
15

The Asphalt Jungle The Asphalt Jungle

1950

John Huston

Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore ...

8.1

13,640
16

Rififi Rififi

1955

Jules Dassin

Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Jules Dassin, Magali Noël ...

8.0

7,322
17

The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties

1939

Raoul Walsh

James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn ...

8.0

6,723
18

I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

1932

Mervyn LeRoy

Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Edward Ellis ...

8.0

2,582
19

Ace in the Hole Ace in the Hole

1951

Billy Wilder

Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady ...

8.0

10,078
20

The Maltese Falcon The Maltese Falcon

1941

John Huston

Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane ...

8.0

33,874
21

The Killing The Killing

1956

Stanley Kubrick

Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Windsor ...

7.9

27,478
22

To Have and Have Not To Have and Have Not

1944

Howard Hawks

Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael ...

7.9

13,649
23

Chinatown Chinatown

1974

Roman Polanski

Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, Burt Young ...

7.9

47,875
24

Key Largo Key Largo

1948

John Huston

Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor ...

7.9

19,640
25

In a Lonely Place In a Lonely Place

1950

Nicholas Ray

Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith ...

7.9

9,385
26

Scarface Scarface

1932

Howard Hawks

Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon ...

7.8

13,981
27

The Killers The Killers

1946

Robert Siodmak

Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene ...

7.8

9,612
28

Miller's Crossing Miller's Crossing

1990

Joel Coen

Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, Albert Finney, Jon Polito, J.E. Freeman ...

7.8

60,203
29

Strangers on a Train Strangers on a Train

1951

Alfred Hitchcock

Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock ...

7.8

22,471
30

Death of a Cyclist Death of a Cyclist

1955

Juan Antonio Bardem

Lucía Bosé, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà, Carlos Casaravilla, Otello Toso ...

7.8

12,488

Ranking Information: 1,000 Movies. Considered Movies with more than 500 Votes

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The Better Sister (TV Series)

2025

Leslie Hope, Craig Gillespie

Planet Earth (TV Series)

2006

Alastair Fothergill

8.5

(16,160)

1957

Mark Robson

6.8

(936)

1955

Tim Whelan

5.3

(110)

Boy of Two Worlds

1959

Astrid Henning-Jensen

2012

Patricia Ferreira

5.8

(2,312)

Bono: Stories of Surrender

2025

Andrew Dominik

Snakes and Ladders (TV Series)

2025

Manolo Caro

Journey to Italy

1954

Roberto Rossellini

7.4

(5,675)

2024

Joshua Oppenheimer

5.1

(240)

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