12 Films Noir Everyone Must See

[@inventist]

1:01 Maltese Falcon (1941) 1:52 The Big Sleep (1946) 2:50 Out of the Past (1947) 3:35 Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 4:39 Laura (1944) 5:30 They Live By Night (1948) 6:07 In A Lonely Place (1950) 7:13 The Third Man (1949) 7:54 The Lady From Shaghai (1947) 8:32 Touch Of Evil (1958) 9:48 Double Indemnity (1944) 10:44 Sunset Boulevard (1950) Great List. But forget it Jake, It's Chinatown (1974). lol

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

@inventist Thanks for this!

[@stevemcnary7963]

Chinatown is technically a neo noir since it's in color.

[@Alexander-tj2dn]

Touch of evil is boring.

[@tommaderos876]

Two more to mention, "Murder my sweet. "Dick Powell may have been a dweeb, but the hallucination scene here is a classic.Also, try "His kind of Woman," Mitchum in Mexico, with Vincent Price and Raymond Burr chewing up the scenery.

[@jamesdunn1641]

My favorite noir is "Requiem For A Heavyweight", starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason with a ca meo from Muhmmad Ali (nee Cassius Clay).

[@markeggins890]

@@jamesdunn1641 Wow, don’t know that one!

[@estellacoggins715]

Here's a few more good Film Noir films: Detour Scandal Sheet Human Desire Strangers on a Train Gun Crazy The Killers The Hitchhiker Without a Doubt Scarlet Street

[@fredflintstone1485]

Good List but let me add "Murder My Sweet " . Based on Farewell My Lovely and it is a Wonderful film.

[@KutWrite]

Thanks for using the proper plural of "Film Noir!" Now, I'll watch this video for sure!

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

Of course! Thank you!

[@EpizodesHorizons]

I like some film noir movies... but there are also some good more modern noir films. I like "To Live and Die in LA" (1985). Maybe you can do a list of modern color film-noir?

[@bartstewart8644]

These best-of-the-best lists are always tough, because it's all so subjective after all. Three I would have added are The Killers with Burt Lancaster, Ministry of Fear, and Out Of The Past. (The title on that one has worked out to be a final nice touch for a classic old movie!)

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

@bartstewart8644 Out of the Past is in there! A film I really love. And yeah, I tried to just recommend a bunch that I love as opposed to doing any kind of ranking or declaration of 'the best' because as you say, it's just subjective

[@markeggins890]

Excellent list, would add though Pickup on South Street, by the great Sam Fuller, Richard Widmark as a total street punk and Thelma Ritter hitting the pathos hard as a lower level shady type floating around the criminal underworld. The start of the film in the train is just mesmerising plus it also has added Cold War paranoia!

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

@markeggins890 I'm a sucker for a Cold War thriller so this sounds like my kinda film! Thanks for the recommendation 😀

[@markeggins890]

@@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast Defo one of Fuller's best, and he didn't really do any duds...kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXTLiGyPl951pNk

[@laner47]

Long before South Street was "Kiss Of Death" where Richard Widmark made his film debut playing the psycho gangster Tommy Udo-Classic Film Noir.Victor Mature had top billing but Widmark stole that movie with his performance.

[@VonWenk]

Humphrey Bogard wasn't the first Sam Spade. Ricardo Cortez played Spade 10 years earlier Warner Bros.'s first adaptation of The Maltese Falcon. And didn't Odds Against Tomorrow come out after Touch of Evil?

[@ottonormalo4638]

Is "Kiss Me Deadly" (Aldrich) a Film Noir?

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

@ottonormalo4638 Yes I believe it is, that's one that I haven't managed to watch yet but it's very high up on my watchlist!

[@craigfishburn]

I agree with your choices 100%.

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

@@craigfishburn Thanks!

[@paulorobertolorettofilho9419]

Comecei a assistir bons filmes noir, no início dos anos 2000 (exceção: "Crepúsculo dos Deuses", no cinema, nos Anos 90) através dos boxes & DVDs. Meus preferidos: "Pacto de Sangue" "Rififi" "A Mulher Fantasma" "Amar foi a minha Ruína" "O Grande Assalto" "Fuga do Passado" "Pânico nas Ruas" "O Segredo das Jóias" "Os Assassinos" "Gilda" e "Passos na Noite" e "Anjo do Mal" e muitos outros 🎬🎬🎬🎞🎞🎞🎞🙋🏼‍♂️

[@tommaderos876]

and if you like "The Third Man" try "Journey into Fear" with a similar cast and feel

[@willieluncheonette5843]

OK sorry to jump in so soon, but The Maltese Falcon is NOT the first film noir. Stranger on the Third Floor beat it out by a few months i believe.. Of course, it is nowhere near as well known as Falcon. All the others are solid choices although I have some serious reservations about The Third Man and In a Lonely Place would not even be in my top 35 noirs. (My Third Man review on request. I also can not put Lady From Shanghai on my all time favorite list because the studio took the final cut away from Welles. The two major omissions IMO are Kiss Me Deadly, a stone cold masterpiece in every way and far ahead of its time, and Vertigo (yes, it's a color noir and very very great) A few other tremendous noirs are The lineup, White Heat, Night of the Hunter , if it is a noir, and Shoot the Piano Player.

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

@willieluncheonette5843 Yes I agree that The Maltese Falcon isn't necessarily the first noir, just that many consider it to be. It isn't an exhaustive list by any means though, there are so many incredible noirs that if I was to list all of my recommendations it would be 10x as long which nobody wants! Thanks for all your recommendations though!

[@bartstewart8644]

Kiss Me Deadly really pushed the envelope on violence in those days. Even the poster has a woman tied up with some gunsel looming over her. It was a rough movie. I recall finding it kind of over-the-top gratuitous, though it's tame compared to Lupino's The Hitchhiker! Crikey, what an exploration of psychological sadism that was. I guess Lupino was saying "You don't think a woman can direct a tough movie? Check this out." Vertigo is a unique film and I can see how one might not consider it noir.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

Thank you for Night of the Hunter. And how about M directed by Fritz Lang, with an incredible turn by Peter Lorre. A classic.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 M is considered a proto noir and it is a masterpiece. Fritz Lang is the premier noir director for sure.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

@@willieluncheonette5843 Thank you.

[@andreshombriamate745]

They are two directors absents, both German exiled, which both filmed two very similar films with the same actor. The films are "Scarlett St" and "The Woman in the Window" directed by Fritz Lang with Edward G.Robinson, and "The Killers" and "Criss-Cross" directed by Robert Siodmak with Burt Lancaster. At least "Scarlett St." and "The Killers"could be in the list. On the other side, I find "The Asphalt Jungle" a much better film than "The Maltese Falcon"(being both Huston´s films).

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

@@andreshombriamate745 Thanks for these recommendations! I've heard good things about 'The Killers' and have liked the Siodmak films I've seen

[@raimundniedermayer2968]

This guy talks too much…worthless opinions

[@MrJeepsters]

"sunset boulevard" n'est pas un film "noir", c'est une peinture au vitriol d'Hollywood.

[@tadgmcloughlin6061]

well done fromanold film buff!

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

@@tadgmcloughlin6061 Thank you!

[@mercedyzmarieguion292]

Where's 1947 "The Killers" a great film with Lancaster in his debut with Edmond Obrien and Albert dekker with the "killers" robustly played by a young william conrad and film noir regular charles mcgraw.

[@laner47]

Where's "The Narrow Margin" with Charles McGraw(Lead role) and the great Marie Windsor("Force Of Evil" with John Garfield & "The Killing" with Sterling Hayden).

[@maureencora1]

#13. "Dead Reckoning" with H.B,

[@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast]

@maureencora1 I liked Dead Reckoning too!

[@maureencora1]

@@TheGoldenHourFilmPodcast Touche' (smile)

[@bartstewart8644]

I was always curious about the lounge singer scene in that film. She sings in such a low-pitched voice. And I have heard other female vocalists of that time singing almost like a baritone! Was that some short-lived fad of the era? Bacall of course had that smokey, low pitch.

[@maureencora1]

@@bartstewart8644 Touche' (smile)

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

You left out one of the greatest, directed by the great Charles Laughton, Night of the Hunter. It flopped when it first came out but has become a cult film. The French consider it the 2nd greatest film after Citizen Kane. Also almost all of these films are American. How about the mesmerising film directed by Jean-PIerre Mellville Le Samourai with an incredible Zen performance by Alain Delon?

[@ymratobor]

What is a fillum?

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