The 25 Greatest Film Noir Movies

The following is an aggregate list based off of 19 different "Greatest Film Noir Movies of All Time" lists (updated as of 2/8/25)

1. Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (1944)
2. The Big Sleep - Howard Hawks (1946)
3. Sunset Blvd - Billy Wilder (1950)
4. The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)
5. Out of the Past - Jacques Tourneur (1947)
6. Touch of Evil - Orson Welles (1958)
7. In a Lonely Place - Nicholas Ray (1950)
8. The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
9. Laura - Otto Preminger (1944)
10. The Big Heat - Fritz Lang (1953)
11. The Killers - Robert Siodmak (1946)
12. The Asphalt Jungle - John Huston (1950)
13. Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich (1955)
14. Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)
15. Sweet Smell of Success - Alexander Mackendrick (1957)
16. The Killing - Stanley Kubrick (1956)
17. Chinatown - Roman Polanski (1974)
18. Nightmare Alley - Edmund Goulding (1947)
19. Gilda - Charles Vidor (1946)
20. Night and the City - Jules Dassin (1950)
21. Detour - Edgar G. Ulmer (1945)
22. Mildred Pierce - Michael Curtiz (1945)
23. Criss Cross - Robert Siodmak (1949)
24. Shadow of a Doubt - Alfred Hitchcock (1943)
25. The Lady from Shanghai - Orson Welles (1947)