In two months Taschen Books will be releasing a photography book called Film Noir. TASCHEN’s 100 All-Time Favorite Movies. The 688 page book is a film-by-film photography book of the 100 greatest Film Noir movies since 1920. It will contain posters, tons of rare stills, cast/crew details, quotes from the films and from critics, and analyses of the films. The list of the 100 greatest film noir movies in the book is below.
1920-1959
1920
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1927
- The Lodger
1931
- M<
1938
- Port of Shadows
1940
- Rebecca
1941
- High Sierra
- The Maltese Falcon
1943
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Ossessione
1944
- Phantom Lady
- Double Indemnity
- Gaslight
- Laura
- The Woman in the Window
- Murder, My Sweet
1945
- Hangover Square
- Mildred Pierce
- Detour
- The Lost Weekend
- The Spiral Staircase
- Leave Her to Heaven
1946
- Gilda
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Notorious
- The Big Sleep
- The Killers
1947
- Body and Soul
- Nightmare Alley
- Out of the Past
- T-Men
- The Lady from Shanghai
1948
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Call Northside 777
- They Live by Night
- Force of Evil
1949
- Champion
- The Third Man
- White Heat
1950
- Gun Crazy
- Night and the City
- In a Lonely Place
- The Asphalt Jungle
- Sunset Boulevard
1952
- The Thief
1953
- Poison Ivy
- Pickup on South Street
1954
- Rear Window
1955
- Diabolique
- The Big Combo
- Rififi 366
- Kiss Me Deadly
- The Night of the Hunter
1956
- The Killing
- Foreign Intrigue
1957
- Sweet Smell of Success
1958
- Elevator to the Scaffold
- Touch of Evil
- Vertigo
- It Happened in Broad Daylight
- Murder by Contract
1959
- Odds Against Tomorrow
1960-2011
1960
- Purple Noon
- Peeping Tom
- Psycho
- Shoot the Piano Player
1962
- Cape Fear
1963
- High and Low
1966
- Blow-Up
1967
- Point Blank
- Le Samouraï
1971
- Get Carter
1972
- The Getaway
1974
- The Conversation
- Chinatown
1975
- The Passenger
1976
- Taxi Driver
1978
- The Driver
1981
- Diva
- Blow Out
- Prince of the City
- Body Heat
- Clean Slate
1982
- Blade Runner
1985
- To Live and Die in L.A.
1986
- Blue Velvet
1987
- House of Games
1992
- Basic Instinct
- Bad Lieutenant
1994
- Pulp Fiction
1995
- Se7en
- Heat
1997
- L.A. Confidential
- Hana-Bi
1999
- The Limey
2000
- Memento
2005
- Sin City
2007
- No Country for Old Men
2008
- The Dark Knight
2010
- Black Swan
2011
- Drive