I have trouble stopping at 30 on this Thirty Greatest Film Noirs. I will continue to update the list as more movies are added.

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 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. This is priceless JEC.

6. For women: low necklines, floppy hats, mascara, lipstick, boudoirs, calling the doorman by his first name, high heels, red dresses, having gangsters as boyfriends, having soft spots for alcoholic private eyes, and sprawling dead on the floor with every limb meticulously arranged and every hair in place.

7. For men: fedoras, suits and ties, shabby residential hotels with a neon sign blinking through the window, buying yourself a drink out of the office bottle, cars with running boards, all-night diners, on first-name terms with homicide cops, knowing a lot of people whose descriptions end in “ies,” such as bookies, newsies, junkies, alkys, jockeys and cabbies.

8. Movies either shot in black and white, or feeling like they were.

9. Relationships in which love is only the final flop card in the poker game of death.

10. The most American film genre because no society could have created a world so filled with doom, fate, fear, and betrayal, unless it were essentially naive and optimistic.

Title	Year	Comment	Noir	Grade
iMDB - Underworld (1927)	1927		Early	A
The Maltese Falcon (1931)	1931	The original version of the classic movie that would come 10 years later. This version is very good and true to the story. Not a true Film Noir.	Early	A
iMDB - Scarface/Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)	1932		Early	A
iMDB - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)	1932		Early	A
Blood Money (1933)	1933	Frances Dee plays a kleptomaniac that get between a bail bondsman and his girlfriend. Norish but not a Film Noir.	Early	A
iMDB - Fury (1936)	1936		Early	A
iMDB - The Petrified Forest (1937)	1937		Early	A
The Petrified Forest (1937)	1937		Early	A
iMDB - The Roaring Twenties (1939)	1939		Early	A
iMDB - The Letter (1940)	1940		Early	A
The Maltese Falcon (1941)	1941	The best of ALL the Film Noir. Humphrey Bogart is amazing so is everyone else…	Classic	A
Double Indemnity (1944)	1944	Foolish insurance man meets one of the best Femme Fatale in this must see drama...	Classic	A
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…	Classic	A
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…	Classic	A
Out of the Past (1947)	1947	The best Femme Fatale ever...	Classic	A
D.O.A. (1949)	1949	A "who done it" like you have never seen before…	Classic	A
Sunset Blvd. (1950)	1950	A young man is murdered after he gets involved with a much older actress...	Classic	A
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 Whitmor	Classic	A
The Killing (1956)	1956	Sterling Hayden is amazing in the tale of a robbery gone horribly wrong...	Classic	A
iMDB - Touch of Evil (1958)	1958	Orson Welles directed this masterpieces that starred Charleton Heston as Mexican detective...	Classic	A
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)	1973	A gritty Boston based Neo-Noir with with one of the great Film Noir actor Robert Mitchum in The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)	Neo	A
iMDB - Serpico (1973)	1973		Neo	A
The Yakuza (1974)	1974		Neo	A
iMDB - Dog Day Afternoon (1975)	1975		Neo	A
iMDB - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)	1982	This is a must watch comedy that is a riotious tribute to classic Film Noir	Neo	A
iMDB - Blood Simple (1984)	1984		Neo	A
iMDB - To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)	1985		Neo	A
iMDB - Reservoir Dogs (1992)	1992		Neo	A
iMDB - Carlito's Way (1993)	1993		Neo	A
iMDB - L.A. Confidential (1997)	1997		Neo	A