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Posted on 08/08/2026 2:55:55 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg
I'm looking to introduce my future husband to some film noir, either on DVD, streaming or film (I have a number of projectors to choose from). He didn't watch a lot of classic movies growing up, and we're both late eighties babies, so there wasn't a ton of it on TV to begin with. I didn't really get to indulge this hobby until my dad started restoring projectors.
List me your favorite noir films, popular or obscure. I'd like to see some I haven't heard of before.
Thank you in advance!
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Foreign Intrigue (1956) starring Robert Mitchum. I saw it once for free on youtube. Robert Mitchum is my favorite actor.
Anything with Humphrey Bogart. His films were excellent.
Sullivans Travels, 1941
“Another Man’s Poison” Betty Davis
The Third Man
Detour
Laura
Maltese Falcon
The Big Combo with Cornel Wilde.
The first one that comes to my mind is “The Asphalt Jungle.”
D.O.A.
This might be very recent, but I think Roman Polanski’s CHINATOWN ( starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston ) could be included in the Film Noir genre.
Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974) is widely regarded as one of the definitive masterpieces of Neo-Noir—the modern evolution of classic film noir.
While traditional film noir refers to the black-and-white crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s (such as The Maltese Falcon or Double Indemnity), Chinatown ( filmed in color ) deliberate revisits and updates those classic conventions.
Consider the features of Chinatown:
The Hardboiled Detective: Jack Nicholson plays J.J. “Jake” Gittes, a cynical private eye specializing in matrimonial cases who stumbles into a massive, lethal conspiracy.
The Femme Fatale: Faye Dunaway portrays Evelyn Mulwray, a mysterious, glamorous woman with deep secrets who draws the detective further into danger.
Systemic Corruption: Rather than a simple crime story, the plot exposes high-level municipal greed, water rights exploitation, and moral depravity as personified by John Huston in 1930s Los Angeles.
Hot Cars
(As in stolen cars, not hopped up)
1956
Laurel and Hardy.
The Marx Brothers, Marx Brothers, At the Circus.!
Besides the ones listed, ‘Double Indemnity’ with Fred Mac Murray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G Robinson is worth seeing. Another that you might like is Quai des Orfèvres (1947), a French film that is quite a bit different, if you are comfortable with either French or subtitles.
I dunno. “The 39 Steps”?
These are some very good ones:
Gaslight (Ingrid Bergman)
Kind Lady (Ethel Barrymore)
Witness for the Prosecution (Tyrone Power)
Dial M for Murder (Grace Kelly, Ray Milland)
Double Indemnity (Fred McMurray, Barbara Stanwyck)
In a Lonely Place (Bogart)
Is “Leave Her To Heaven” considered film noir? I really liked that.
The Third Man. Out of the Past,Gilda, Double Indemnity.
Nothing compares to The Maltese Falcon.
Dark City
After Dark My Sweet
52 Pick-Up
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