George Cukor, starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman and Angela Lansbury.ĭir. Robert Siodmak, starring Ella Raines, Alan Curtis and Franchot Tone.ĭir. Edward Dmytryk, starring Claire Trevor, Dick Powell and Anne Shirley.ĭir. Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb.ĭir. Alfred Hitchcock, starring Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright and Macdonald Carey.ĭir. John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Gladys George.ĭir.

Scroll through the selection of the top 50 Classic Noir films that include the unforgettable classics The Third Man, Sunset Boulevard and Night Of The Hunter. The genre ‘Noir’ was coined by French critic Nino Frank and would define the cat-and-mouse murder mystery era of film with memorable fiendish crooks, stylish bombshells, and deadly characters who set the silver screen alight for two decades.įilms that have stood the test of time with style and substance include Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 Shadow of a Doubt Billy Wilder’s, Double Indemnity The Postman Always Rings Twice by Tay Garnett Gilda starring Rita Hayworth and Orsen Welles’s The Lady From Shanghai.

The Faces of Noir: Studio Portraits Featuring the Silver Screen Stars Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart & Rita Hayworth The film is considered the first real noir that starred Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart and set off a chain of mainstream hits of films including Double Indemnity Mildred Pierce The Postman Always Rings Twice and The Third Man. Sex, lies and murder is the seductive tone that created the visually stimulating art form of cinema that began in the 1940s with The Maltese Falcon. Film Noir is a universe based around mystery, the femme fatale, and the detective.

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