Top 10 Noir Films

1. Top 10 Noir Films
By Conor Harrison

2. 10) They Live by Night
An escaped convict, injured during a
robbery, falls in love with the woman
who nurses him back to health, but
their relationship seems doomed from
the beginning.

3. 9) Kiss Me Deadly
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls
Mike Hammer into a deadly
whirlpool of intrigue, revolving
around a mysterious "great
whatsit."

4. 8) Blood Simple
A rich but jealous man hires a
private investigator to kill his
cheating wife and her new man.
But, when blood is involved,
nothing is simple.

5. 7) Lift to the Scaffold
A self-assured business man
murders his employer, the husband
of his mistress, which
unintentionally provokes an ill-fated
chain of events.

6. 6) The Third Man
Pulp novelist Holly Martins
travels to shadowy, postwar
Vienna, only to find himself
investigating the mysterious
death of an old friend, black-
market opportunist Harry Lime.

7. 5) Out of the Past
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.

8. 4) Double Indemnity
An insurance representative lets
himself be talked into a
murder/insurance fraud scheme that
arouses an insurance investigator's
suspicions.

9. 3) Touch of Evil
A stark, perverse story of
murder, kidnapping, and
police corruption in a
Mexican border town.

10. 2) Chinatown
A private detective hired to
expose an adulterer finds
himself caught up in a web
of deceit, corruption and
murder.

11. 1) The Big Sleep
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.