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A list of 100 essential film noir movies, according to me. The first fifty are more or less in order. Note: I've left out classics like The Night of the Hunter, The Third Man and Notorious, partly because to me, they're not strictly film noir, even if they have noirish elements and are often included on film noir lists. I went back and forth on a couple of Hitchcock movies (Shadow of a Doubt is his only real film noir), but decided Strangers on a Train could stay in. I’ve also not included “colour noirs” like Niagara and Leave Her…

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