I wanted to add a definition for Film noir, so I went to the great movie critic Roger Ebert. I have shortened his definitions but included the link below so you can read the complete original.
1. A French term meaning “black film,” or film of the night.
2. Doesn’t mislead you into thinking there will be a happy ending.
3. Locations that reek of the night, of shadows, of alleys, of the back doors of fancy places.
4. Cigarettes. Everybody in the film noir is always smoking. The best smoking movie of all time is Out of the Past, in which Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas smoke furiously at each other.
5. Women who would just as soon kill you as love you, and vice versa.
RogerEbert.com
This is priceless JEC.
Noir Fest
| Title | Year | Comment | My Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 1941 | The best of ALL the Film Noir. Humphrey Bogart is amazing so is everyone else… | 1.00 |
 Double Indemnity (1944) | 1944 | Foolish insurance man meets one of the best Femme Fatale in this must see drama... | 2.00 |
 Sunset Blvd. (1950) | 1950 | A young man is murdered after he gets involved with a much older actress... | 3.00 |
 Out of the Past (1947) | 1947 | The best Femme Fatale ever... | 4.00 |
 The Asphalt Jungle (1950) | 1950 | Director John Huston pulls off another Film Noir masterpiece in this gritty heist drama where everything falls apart. Sterling Hayden and Sam Jaffe are amazing. They are supported by James Whitmore and Jean Hagen. Marilyn Monroe turns in her first major role… | 5.00 |
| Touch of Evil (1958) | 1958 | Orson Welles directed this masterpieces that starred Charleton Heston as Mexican detective... | 6.00 |
 The Killing (1956) | 1956 | Sterling Hayden is amazing in the tale of a robbery gone horribly wrong... | 7.00 |
 The Big Sleep (1946) | 1946 | Detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by a wealthy client. By the end of the case, there is murder, blackmail, and maybe love… | 8.00 |
 D.O.A. (1949) | 1950 | A "who done it" like you have never seen before… | 9.00 |
 Murder, My Sweet (1944) | 1944 | (Aka Farewell, my Lovely). The most noir fun you will ever have. Raymond Chandler prose crackles with moody noir direction from Edward Dmytryk… | 10.00 |
 Kiss Me Deadly (1955) | 1955 | One of the greatest and most stylistic Film Noirs ever made. Based on a Mickey Spillane novel, Kiss Me Deadly (1955) is a thrilling movie. | 11.00 |
 Nightmare Alley (1947) | 1947 | One of the greatest, yet subdued, Femme Fatale, she uses greed instead of sex to drive a man to the lowest depths possible at the end of a Gin bottle… | 12.00 |
 The Narrow Margin (1952) | 1952 | Set on a train, this is the classic Film Noir featuring Marie Windsor and Charles McGraw | 13.00 |
 Ride the Pink Horse (1947) | 1947 | Disillusioned WW2 vet arrives in a New Mexico town to blackmail a war racketeer. Imbued with a rare humanity... | 14.00 |
 Pickup on South Street (1953) | 1953 | A very good Film Noir with pickpockets, Feds, and Commies… | 15.00 |
 Ace in the Hole (1951) | 1951 | A savage critique of corrupt mass media. Kirk Douglas is on fire… | 16.00 |
 All the King's Men (1951) | 1949 | Southern politics the real way… | 17.00 |
 Born to Kill (1947) | 1947 | A really dark Film Noir with a Femme Fatale and a Homme Fatale... | 18.00 |
| Sweet Smell of Success (1957) | 1957 | Ambition and betrayal stripped of all pretense... | 19.00 |
 Notorious (1946) | 1946 | Spies with Carey Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains… | 20.00 |
 Blood on the Moon (1948) | 1948 | A rare Film Noir Western with the two leads being Robert Mitchum and Robert Preston. Blood on the Moon (1948) has a great support cast and a good storyline. | 21.00 |
 The Harder They Fall (1956) | 1956 | This is a gritty boxing Film Noir without a series Femme Fatale. This movie was Humphrey Bogart last film. Rod Steiger led a vicious crew of gangsters. Real boxers rounded out the crew. Mark Robson directed this tale of corruption and betrayal in the sweet science... | 22.00 |
 Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) | 1962 | A washed-up boxer suffers to help his gambling manager… | 23.00 |
 Brute Force (1947) | 1947 | Prisoners obsessed with a pin-up tell their tale as they wait to escape. Burt Lancaster leads a fantastic cast with Hume Cronin as a sadistic guard… | 24.00 |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) | 1946 | Infidelity and murder... | 25.00 |
 Key Largo (1948) | 1948 | Gangsters and a hurricane in the Florida Keys. Plus Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall… | 26.00 |
 Trapped (1949) | 1949 | A recently restored Film Noir fearing a very young Lloyd Bridges as a tough criminal and Barbara Payton as his lovely girlfriend. See Trapped (1949) | 27.00 |
 Cry Danger (1951) | 1951 | A very sharp Film Noir set in the Bunker Hill area of LA. Cry Danger (1951) features Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, and Jean Porter | 28.00 |
 Scarlet Street (1945) | 1945 | A lonely man and an evil couple... | 29.00 |
 The Big Combo (1955) | 1955 | Obsessed cop hunts down a psychotic crime boss... | 30.00 |
| The Lady from Shanghai (1947) | 1947 | Orson Welles' brilliant jigsaw with a Femme Fatale that is one of the greatest... | 31.00 |
 Thieves' Highway (1949) | 1949 | Moody Richard Conte hauling fruit to Frisco. Rich socio-realist melodrama from Jules Dassin and A.I. Bezzerides. | 32.00 |
 Shield for Murder (1954) | 1954 | Crooked cop Detective Lt. Barney Nolan (Edmond O'Brien) murders and robs a bookie so he can start a new life with his girlfriend Patty (Marla English) while cops Sgt. Mark Brewster (John Agar) and Capt. Gunnarson (Emile Meyer) follow the clues. Also, features Carolyn Jones and Claude Akins. Super intense Film Noir… | 33.00 |
 Lady in the Death House (1944) | 1946 | Filmed in POV style. This film standouts because of Audry Totter's acting as a Femme Fatale | 34.00 |
 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) | 1946 | A lustful vixen (Barbara Stanwyck), a dipsomaniac ( Kirk Douglas) in his first film, a tough guy (Van Heflin), and dame (Lizabeth Scott) that had nothing but bad breaks intersect in The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers (1946) | 35.00 |
 99 River Street (1953) | 1953 | An ex-boxer falls into a trap and is accused on murder... | 36.00 |
 Johnny O'Clock (1947) | 1947 | In this stylistic Film Noir, Dick Powell is tough and sophisticated, Lee J. Cobb is understated and practical, Ellen Drew is as beautiful as she is bad, Evelyn Keyes is solid, and Thomas Gomez is a really menacing bad guy… | 37.00 |
 Mystery in Mexico (1948) | 1948 | Directed by Robert Wise, this is an exciting bi-lingual Film Noir. Mystery in Mexico (1948) features an outstanding cast. | 38.00 |
| The Killers (1946) | 1946 | Burt Lancaster in his file debut is amazing... | 39.00 |
 The Big Heat (1953) | 1953 | A tough cop, played by Glenn Ford takes on a well-connected mob. Gloria Grahame is great in this film… | 40.00 |
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