These are the runners-up to my listing of the best (5-star) films noirs. The combined list appears here as Essential Films Noir.
The ‘almosts’ are 147 noir movies I rate as 4 or 4.5 stars. As with the all-time best noirs list, the films are listed by year of production and are not ranked.
4/4.5 star NoirsTitles with an * are reviewed on FilmsNoir.Net – list of reviews here. All movies have a snap review. |
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| *La Chienne | 1931 | France |
| *Fury | 1936 | US |
| *Guele d’Amour (aka Ladykiller) | 1937 | France |
| *Pépé le Moko | 1937 | France |
| *La Bête Humaine | 1938 | France |
| La Jour se Lève | 1939 | France |
| *Macao,L’enfer Du Jeu (aka ‘Gambling Hell’) | 1939 | France |
| *Stranger on the 3rd Floor | 1940 | US |
| *Blues in the Night | 1941 | US |
| *High Sierra | 1941 | US |
| *The Face Behind the Mask | 1941 | US |
| *Ossessione | 1942 | Italy |
| *This Gun For Hire | 1942 | US |
| *The Fallen Sparrow | 1943 | US |
| *The Ghost Ship | 1943 | US |
| *Betrayed (aka ‘When Strangers Marry’) | 1944 | US |
| *Moontide | 1944 | US |
| *Phantom Lady | 1944 | US |
| *The Mask of Dimitrios | 1944 | US |
| *The Woman in the Window | 1944 | US |
| *Cornered | 1945 | US |
| *Detour | 1945 | US |
| *Fallen Angel | 1945 | US |
| *Leave Her to Heaven | 1945 | US |
| *My Name Is Julia Ross | 1945 | US |
| *Black Angel | 1946 | US |
| *Deadline at Dawn | 1946 | US |
| *Decoy | 1946 | US |
| *Gilda | 1946 | US |
| *High Wall | 1946 | US |
| *Night Editor | 1946 | US |
| *Panique | 1946 | France |
| Suspense | 1946 | US |
| *The Blue Dahlia | 1946 | US |
| *The Chase | 1946 | US |
| *The Dark Corner | 1946 | US |
| *The Dark Mirror | 1946 | US |
| *The Locket | 1946 | US |
| *The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | 1946 | US |
| *The Stranger | 1946 | US |
| *Born to Kill | 1947 | US |
| Brute Force | 1947 | US |
| *Crossfire | 1947 | US |
| *Dead Reckoning | 1947 | US |
| *Desperate | 1947 | US |
| *Kiss of Death | 1947 | US |
| *Odd Man Out | 1947 | UJ |
| *Railroaded | 1947 | US |
| *The Devil Thumbs A Ride | 1947 | US |
| *The Long Night | 1947 | US |
| *The Unsuspected | 1947 | US |
| *The Woman On the Beach | 1947 | US |
| *They Made Me a Fugitive | 1947 | UK |
| *They Won’t Believe Me | 1947 | US |
| *lood on the Moon | 1948 | US |
| *Call Northside 777 | 1948 | US |
| Cry of the City | 1948 | US |
| *I Love Trouble | 1948 | US |
| *I Walk Alone | 1948 | US |
| *Key Largo | 1948 | US |
| *Kiss the Blood Off My Hands | 1948 | US |
| *Moonrise | 1948 | US |
| *Night Has a Thousand Eyes | 1948 | US |
| *Pitfall | 1948 | US |
| *Road House | 1948 | US |
| *Ruthless | 1948 | US |
| *Secret Beyond the Door | 1948 | US |
| *Senza pietà (Aka Without Pity) | 1948 | Italy |
| *The Amazing Mr. X | 1948 | US |
| *The Big Clock | 1948 | US |
| *The Iron Curtain | 1948 | US |
| *The Naked City | 1948 | US |
| *A Woman’s Secret | 1949 | US |
| *Alias Nick Beal | 1949 | US |
| *Caught | 1949 | US |
| *Follow Me Quietly | 1949 | US |
| *I Married a Communist | 1949 | US |
| *The Big Steal | 1949 | US |
| *The Bribe | 1949 | US |
| *The Clay Pigeon | 1949 | US |
| *The Man Who Cheated Himself | 1949 | US |
| *The Window | 1949 | US |
| *Whirlpool | 1949 | US |
| *Armored Car Robbery | 1950 | US |
| *Gambling House | 1950 | US |
| *Gun Crazy | 1950 | US |
| *Manèges | 1950 | France |
| *No Way Out | 1950 | US |
| *Panic In the Streets | 1950 | US |
| *Side Street | 1950 | US |
| *Tension | 1950 | US |
| *The File On Thelma Jordan | 1950 | US |
| *The Killer That Stalked New York | 1950 | US |
| *The Second Woman | 1950 | US |
| *The Tattooed Stranger | 1950 | US |
| *Union Station | 1950 | US |
| *Walk Softly, Stranger | 1950 | US |
| *Where Danger Lives | 1950 | US |
| *Where the Sidewalk Ends | 1950 | US |
| *Woman on the Run | 1950 | US |
| *Young Man with a Horn | 1950 | US |
| *Detective Story | 1951 | US |
| *His Kind of Woman | 1951 | US |
| *I Can Get It for You Wholesale | 1951 | US |
| *I was a Communist for the FBI | 1951 | US |
| *Roadblock | 1951 | US |
| *The Big Night | 1951 | US |
| *The Well | 1951 | US |
| *Tomorrow Is Another Day | 1951 | US |
| *Angel Face | 1952 | US |
| *Kansas City Confidential | 1952 | US |
| *Scandal Sheet | 1952 | US |
| *The Narrow Margin | 1952 | US |
| *The Sniper | 1952 | US |
| *99 River Street | 1953 | US |
| *Pickup On South Street | 1953 | US |
| Split Second | 1953 | US |
| *The Blue Gardenia | 1953 | US |
| *The Glass Wall | 1953 | US |
| *The Hitch-Hiker | 1953 | US |
| *Human Desire | 1954 | US |
| *Pushover | 1954 | US |
| *The Good Die Young | 1954 | UK |
| Touchez pas au Grisbi | 1954 | France |
| *Witness to Murder | 1954 | US |
| *World For Ransom | 1954 | US |
| *Bob le Flambeur | 1955 | France |
| *The Phenix City Story | 1955 | US |
| *Patterns | 1956 | US |
| *People of No Importance (aka ‘Gens san Importance’) | 1956 | France |
| The Wrong Man | 1956 | US |
| *The Killing | 1956 | US |
| *Voici le temps des assassin (aka ‘Deadlier Than the Male’) | 1956 | France |
| *While the City Sleeps | 1956 | US |
| *Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 | France |
| *Endless Desire | 1958 | Japan |
| *Tread Softly Stranger | 1958 | UK |
| Underworld Beauty (aka ‘Ankokugai no bijo’) | 1958 | Japan |
| *Odds Against Tomorrow | 1959 | US |
| *The Crimson Kimono | 1959 | US |
| *The Bad Sleep Well (aka ‘Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru’) | 1960 | Japan |
| Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | France |
| Blast of Silence | 1961 | US |
| *Le Doulos | 1962 | France |
| *High and Low (aka Tengoku to jigok) | 1963 | Japan |
| *The Naked Kiss | 1964 | US |
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No review big or small is found for ‘They Made Me A Fugitive’ 1947 UK.
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Yes Mike I haven’t seen They Made Me a Fugitive. On a very long list of queued films I have yet to explore.
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