Film Noir: Major Films of the Genre by Year

Film Noir by Year, Title and Director

1931

City Streets

1932

Beast of the City
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

1936

Fury, Lang

1937

1938

1939

1940

1941

Among the Living
High Sierra

The Maltese Falcon

1942

The Glass key
I Wake Up Screaming
Johnny Eager

1943

The Fallen Sparrow
Journey Into Feat

1944

Christmas Holiday
Dark Waters
Double Indemnity
Experiment Perilous
Gilda
Guest in the House

1945

Confidential Agent
Conflict
Cornered
Danger Signal
Detour
Hangover Square
The House on 92nd Street
Johnny Angel
Johnny O’Clock

1946

The Big Sleep
Black Angel
The Blue Dahlia
The Chase
Crack-Up
The Dark Corner
The Dark Mirror
Deadline at Dawn
Decoy
Dragonwyck
Fall Angel
Fear
The Killers

1947

Body and Soul
Boomerang
Born to Kill
The Brasher Doubloon
Broot Force
Calcutta
Crossfire
Dark Passage
Dead Reckoning
Desperate
A Double Life
Fall Guy
Fear in the Night
Framed
The Gangster
The Guilty
The High Wall
Ivy
Kiss of Death

1948

All My Sons
Behind Locked Doors
Berlin Express
The Big Clock
Blood on the Moon
Call Northside 777
Canon City
Cry of the City
The Dark Past
Forces of Evil
Hollow Triumph
I Walk Alone
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes
Key Largo
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

1949

Abandoned
The Accused
Act of Violence
Alias Nick Beal
Beyond the Forest
Border Incident
The Bribe
Caught
Champion
Chicago Deadline
City Across the River
Criss Cross
The Crooked Way
D.O.A.
The Damned Don’t Cry
Flamingo Road
Flaxy Martin
Follow Me Quietly
He Walked By Night
House of Strangers
I Married a Communist
Knock on Any Door

1950

Armored Car Robbery
The Asphalt Jungle
Backfire
Between Midnight and Dawn
The Breaking Point
Caged
Convicted
Dark City
Deadly Is the Female (See Gun Crazy)
Destination Murder
Dial 1119
Edge of Doom
The File on Thelma Jordan
The Furies
Guilty Bystander
Gun Crazy
Highway 301
In a Lonely Place
Kiss Tomorrow’s Goodbye

1951

Ace in the Hole (also known as The Big Carnival)
Appointment with Danger
The Big Knight
Cause for Alarm
Cry Danger
Detective Story
The Enforcer
Fourteen Hours
He Ran All the Way
His Kind of Woman
The House on Telegraph Hill
I Was a Communist for the FBI
The Killer That Stalked New York

1952

Beware My Lovely
The Captive City
Clash By Night
Kansas City Confidential

1953

Angel Face
The Big Heat
The Blue Gardenia
The City That Never Sleeps
The Hitchhiker
I, the Jury

1954

Betrayed
Crime Wave
Drive a Crooked Road
Human Desire

1955

The Big Combo
The Big Knife
The Desperate Hours
Hell’s Island
I Died a Tousand Times
Killer’s Kiss
Kiss me Deadly

1956

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
The Harder They Fall
House of Bamboo
The Killer Is Loose
The Killing
A Kiss Before Dying

1957

Baby Face Nelson
The Brothers Rico
The Burglar
Crime of Passion
The Garment Jungle

1958

1959

The Beat Generation
The Crimson Kimono

1960

1961

Blast of Silence
The Hustler

1962

Cape Fear
Experiment in Terror

1963

1964

1965

Brainstorm

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970

The Kremlin Letter

1971

Dirty Harry Revival of genre during Watergate and Nixon
The French Connection

1972

Hickey and Boggs

1973

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Long Goodbye Altman

1974

Chinatown Polanski

1975

Farewell My Lovely Dick Richards
French Connection II
Hustle
Night Moves Arthur Penn

1976

Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese

1977

1978

1979

 

1980

Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan

1981

True Confessions Ulu Grosbard

1982

1984

Against All Odds, Taylor Hackford
Confidentially Yours, Truffaut
Mike’s Murder, James Bridges

1985

Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Cohen

1986

Eight Million Ways to Die, Hal Ashby

1987

Angel Heart, Alan Parker

1990

Bad Influence, Curtis Hanson
The Hot Spot Dennis Hopper
Internal Affairs
Miller’s Crossing

1991

Cape Fear (Remake, Scorsese)

1992

The Public Eye
Night and the City (Remake)

1993

Gun Crazy