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.

Linking	startYear	Comment
The Maltese Falcon (1941)	1941	The best of ALL the Film Noir. Humphrey Bogart is amazing so is everyone else…
Double Indemnity (1944)	1944	Foolish insurance man meets one of the best Femme Fatale in this must see drama...
Sunset Blvd. (1950)	1950	A young man is murdered after he gets involved with a much older actress...
Out of the Past (1947)	1947	The best Femme Fatale ever...
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
iMDB - Touch of Evil (1958)	1958	Orson Welles directed this masterpieces that starred Charleton Heston as Mexican detective...
The Killing (1956)	1956	Sterling Hayden is amazing in the tale of a robbery gone horribly wrong...
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…
D.O.A. (1949)	1949	A "who done it" like you have never seen before…
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…
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.
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…
iMDB - I Wake Up Screaming (1941)	1941	Early crooked cop psycho-noir. Redolent noir motifs, dark shadows, off-kilter framing and expressionist imagery.
The Narrow Margin (1952)	1952	Set on a train, this is the classic Film Noir featuring Marie Windsor and Charles McGraw
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
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...
Pickup on South Street (1953)	1953	A very good Film Noir with pickpockets, Feds, and Commies…
Ace in the Hole (1951)	1951	A savage critique of corrupt mass media. Kirk Douglas is on fire…
Born to Kill (1947)	1947	A really dark Film Noir with a Femme Fatale and a Homme Fatale...
iMDB - Sweet Smell of Success (1957)	1957	Ambition and betrayal stripped of all pretense...
Notorious (1946)	1946	Spies with Carey Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains…
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.
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)	1941	Set in a Chinesse gambling den, Gene Tierney, Victor Mature, Ona Muson, and Walter Huston are amazing…
All the King's Men (1949)	1949	Southern politics the real way…
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…
iMDB - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)	1946	Infidelity and murder...
Key Largo (1948)	1948	Gangsters and a hurricane in the Florida Keys. Plus Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall…
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)
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