Film noir is a cinematic term used for Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. In the 1940s and 1950s film noirs were at their best.
We have reviewed man film noirs on Blu-ray here on this site including, A Life At Stake, Cast A Dark Shadow / Wanted for Murder, Repeat Performance, Crossfire, Sudden Fear, Trapped, The Window, The Web, The Amazing Mr. X, The Capture, All My Sons and Dead Men Don't wear Plaid.
We love Film Noirs here at Classic Cinema Plus and so we have complied a list of our Top 7 Favorite Film Noirs of all time.
7. The Lost Weekend (1945) Writer Don Birnam (Ray Milland) is on the wagon, sober for only a few days. He is supposed to be spending the weekend with his brother, Wick, but, eager for a drink, Don goes on a weekend-long bender that just might prove to be his last.
6. Double Indemnity (1944) Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) is an Los Angeles insurance representative who lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
5. The Maltese Falcon (1941) San Francisco private detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
4. Strangers on a Train (1951) Psychopath Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) forces a tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder, in this Alfred Hitchcock classic.
3. The Red House (1947) Pete (Edward G. Robinson) an old man and his sister Ellen (Dame Judith Anderson) are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
2. The Night of the Hunter (1955) A religious fanatic Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) marries a gullible widow (Shelley Winters) whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
1. Sunset Boulevard (1950) Joe Gillis (William Holden) is a struggling a screenwriter who develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star Nora Desmond (Gloria Swanson) who has her mind set on a triumphant return to film.
Do you agree with our list? What is your favorite Film Noir? Let us know in the comments and thanks for reading!
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