Film Noir: 100 All-Time Favorites

In July 2014 TASCHEN published the book, “Film Noir: 100 All-Time Favorites”, written by Paul Duncan and Jürgen Müller. Good to see that the book includes the silent, German and French films that influenced the seminal American films of the 1940s and 50s as well as more modern cinema from the 1970s through to the 21st century. The film’s are listed in chronological order. The books editor, Paul Duncan has edited 50 film books for TASCHEN, including the award-winning The Ingmar Bergman Archives, and authored Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick in the Film Series. Buy the book – Film Noir: 100 All-Time Favorites

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
2. The Lodger (1927)
3. M (1931)
4. Port of Shadows (1938)
5. Rebecca (1940)
6. High Sierra (1941)
7. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
8. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
9. Ossessione (1943)
10. Phantom Lady (1944)
11. Double Indemnity (1944)
12. Gaslight (1944)
13. Laura (1944)
14. The Woman in the Window (1944)
15. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
16. Hangover Square (1945)
17. Mildred Pierce (1945)
18. Detour (1945)
19. The Lost Weekend (1945)
20. The Spiral Staircase (1946)
21. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
22. Gilda (1946)
23. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
24. Notorious (1946)
25. The Big Sleep (1946)
26. The Killers (1946)
27. Body and Soul (1947)
28. Nightmare Alley (1947)
29. Out of the Past (1947)
30. T-Men (1947)
31. The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
32. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
33. Call Northside 777 (1948)
34. They Live by Night (1948)
35. Force of Evil (1948)
36. Champion (1949)
37. The Third Man (1949)
38. White Heat (1949)
39. Gun Crazy (1950)
40. Night and the City (1950)
41. In a Lonely Place (1950)
42. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
43. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
44. The Thief (1952)
45. Poison Ivy (1953)
46. Pickup on South Street (1953)
47. Rear Window (1954)
48. Diabolique (1955)
49. The Big Combo (1955)
50. Rififi (1955)




51. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
52. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
53. The Killing (1956)
54. Foreign Intrigue (1956)
55. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
56. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
57. Touch of Evil (1958)
58. Vertigo (1958)
59. It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
60. Murder by Contract (1958)
61. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
62. Purple Noon (1960)
63. Peeping Tom (1960)
64. Psycho (1960)
65. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
66. Cape Fear (1962)
67. High and Low (1963)
68. Blow-Up (1966)
69. Point Blank (1967)
70. Le Samouraï (1967)
71. Get Carter (1971)
72. The Getaway (1972)
73. The Conversation (1974)
74. Chinatown (1974)
75. The Passenger (1975)
76. Taxi Driver (1976)
77. The Driver (1978)
78. Diva (1981)
79. Blow Out (1981)
80. Prince of the City (1981)
81. Body Heat (1981)
82. Coup De Torchon (1981)
83. Blade Runner (1982)
84. To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
85. Blue Velvet (1986)
86. House of Games (1987)
87. Basic Instinct (1992)
88. Bad Lieutenant (1992)
89. Pulp Fiction (1994)
90. Se7en (1995)
91. Heat (1995)
92. L.A. Confidential (1997)
93. Fireworks (1997)
94. The Limey (1999)
95. Memento (2000)
96. Sin City (2005)
97. No Country for Old Men (2007)
98. The Dark Knight (2008)
99. Black Swan (2010)
100. Drive (2011)