This is a presentation showing examples of Noir films. It includes the title and information about the context within each movie comparing the Noir films in similarity with one another per slide. The purpose of this Presentation is for an A2 media course I am completing which requires me to research into Noir films.

1. POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
• Bob Rafelson
• The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and
a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and
conspire to murder her Greek husband.

2. DOUBLE IMDEMNITY
• 1944 Billy Wilder
• An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a
murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an
insurance investigator's suspicions.

3. MALTESESE FALCON
• 1931 Roy del Ruth
• A private detective takes on a case that involves
him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar,
and their quest for a priceless statuette.

4. BIG SLEEP
• 1946 Howard hawks Hawks
• Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich
family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen
murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

5. THE KILLERS
• 1946 Robert Siodmak
• Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator
Reardon uncovers his past involvement with
beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.

6. SWEET SMELL OF SUCSESS
• 1957 Alexander Mackdndrick
• Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J.
Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney
Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a
jazz musician.

7. KISS ME DEADLY
• 1955 Robert Aldrich
• Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J.
Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney
Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a
jazz musician.

8. OUT OF THE PAST
• 1947 Jacques Tourneur
• A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station
in a small town, but his past catches up with him.
Now he must return to the big city world of danger,
corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.

9. THE BIG HEAT
• 1953 Fritz Lang
• Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically
powerful crime syndicate.

10. SPELLBOUND
• 1945 Alfred Hitchcock
• A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia
patient accused of murder while attempting to
recover his memory.

11. DETOUR
• 1945 Edgar g Ulmer
• Chance events trap hitch-hiker Al Roberts in a
tightening net of film noir trouble.

12. OUT OF THE PAST
• 1947 Jacques Tourneur
• A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station
in a small town, but his past catches up with him.
Now he must return to the big city world of danger,
corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.

13. TOUCH OF EVIL
• 1958 Orson Welles
• A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and
police corruption in a Mexican border town.

14. IN A LONELY PLACE
• 1950 Nicholas Ray
• A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder
suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. But she
begins to have doubts...

15. MURDER MY SWEET
• 1944 Edward Dmytryk
• After being hired to find an ex-con's former
girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply
complex web of mystery and deceit.