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BFI: More Film Noir

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Runners-up in BFI’s one great film noir for every year (1940-59).

Movies on BFI: More Film Noir List
Rank	Title	Director(s)	Year Released
1	Johnny Apollo	Henry Hathaway	1940
2	Letter, The	William Wyler	1940
3	They Drive by Night	Raoul Walsh	1940
4	High Sierra	Raoul Walsh	1941
5	I Wake Up Screaming	H. Bruce Humberstone	1941
6	Shanghai Gesture, The	Josef von Sternberg	1941
7	Glass Key, The	Stuart Heisler	1942
8	Moontide	Archie Mayo	1942
9	Street of Chance	Jack Hively	1942
10	Fallen Sparrow, The	Richard Wallace	1943
11	Journey into Fear	Norman Foster	1943
12	Seventh Victim, The	Mark Robson	1943
13	Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	1944
14	Laura	Otto Preminger	1944
15	Phantom Lady	Robert Siodmak	1944
16	Fallen Angel	Otto Preminger	1945
17	Mildred Pierce	Michael Curtiz	1945
18	Scarlet Street	Fritz Lang	1945
19	Big Sleep, The	Howard Hawks	1946
20	Gilda	Charles Vidor	1946
21	Killers, The	Robert Siodmak	1946
22	Brute Force	Jules Dassin	1947
23	Kiss of Death	Henry Hathaway	1947
24	Lady from Shanghai, The	Orson Welles	1947
25	Force of Evil	Abraham Polonsky	1950
26	Moonrise	Frank Borzage	1948
27	Secret Beyond the Door	Fritz Lang	1947
28	Caught	Max Ophüls	1949
29	Criss Cross	Robert Siodmak	1949
30	White Heat	Raoul Walsh	1949
31	Asphalt Jungle, The	John Huston	1950
32	Gun Crazy	Joseph H. Lewis	1950
33	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	1950
34	M	Joseph Losey	1951
35	On Dangerous Ground	Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino	1951
36	Strangers on a Train	Alfred Hitchcock	1951
37	Clash by Night	Fritz Lang	1952
38	Kansas City Confidential	Phil Karlson	1952
39	Sudden Fear	David Miller	1952
40	Big Heat, The	Fritz Lang	1953
41	Hitch-Hiker, The	Ida Lupino	1953
42	Pickup on South Street	Samuel Fuller	1953
43	Crime Wave	André De Toth	1953
44	Riot in Cell Block 11	Don Siegel	1954
45	Suddenly	Lewis Allen	1954
46	Big Combo, The	Joseph H. Lewis	1955
47	Night of the Hunter, The	Charles Laughton	1955
48	Phenix City Story, The	Phil Karlson	1955
49	Killing, The	Stanley Kubrick	1956
50	While the City Sleeps	Fritz Lang	1956
51	Wrong Man, The	Alfred Hitchcock	1956
52	Baby Face Nelson	Don Siegel	1957
53	Garment Jungle, The	Vincent Sherman	1957
54	Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick	1957
55	Lineup, The	Don Siegel	1958
56	Murder by Contract	Irving Lerner	1958
57	Thunder Road	Arthur Ripley	1958