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BFI: One Great Film Noir For Every Year (1940-59)

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To celebrate Noirvember and the return to cinemas of THE BIG HEAT and IN A LONELY PLACE, BFI selected one essential film from each of the peak years of classic American noir.

Movies on BFI: One Great Film Noir For Every Year (1940-59) List
Title	Director(s)	Year Released
Stranger on the Third Floor	Boris Ingster	1940
Maltese Falcon, The	John Huston	1941
This Gun for Hire	Frank Tuttle	1942
Shadow of a Doubt	Alfred Hitchcock	1943
Woman in the Window, The	Fritz Lang	1944
Detour	Edgar G. Ulmer	1945
Postman Always Rings Twice, The	Tay Garnett	1946
Out of the Past	Jacques Tourneur	1947
Cry of the City	Robert Siodmak	1948
Reckless Moment, The	Max Ophüls	1949
In a Lonely Place	Nicholas Ray	1950
Prowler, The	Joseph Losey	1951
Narrow Margin, The	Richard Fleischer	1952
Angel Face	Otto Preminger	1953
Human Desire	Fritz Lang	1954
Kiss Me Deadly	Robert Aldrich	1955
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt	Fritz Lang	1956
Nightfall	Jacques Tourneur	1956
Touch of Evil	Orson Welles	1958
Odds Against Tomorrow	Robert Wise	1959