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RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Citizen Kane
1941
Welles, Orson
USA
BDS
Vertigo
1958
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
Pulp Fiction
1994
Tarantino, Quentin
USA
BD
Chinatown
1974
Polanski, Roman
USA
BDS
Taxi Driver
1976
Scorsese, Martin
USA
BDS
Sunset Boulevard
1950
Wilder, Billy
USA
BDS
M
1931
Lang, Fritz
Germany
BD
Double Indemnity
1944
Wilder, Billy
USA
DS
L.A. Confidential
1997
Hanson, Curtis
USA
BDS
The Maltese Falcon
1941
Huston, John
USA
BD
The Third Man
1949
Reed, Carol
UK
BD
Touch of Evil
1958
Welles, Orson
USA
DS
Blade Runner
1982
Scott, Ridley
USA
BDS
Rear Window
1954
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BD
Notorious
1946
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
The Night of the Hunter
1955
Laughton, Charles
USA
BD
Atlantic City
1980
Malle, Louis
USA
/
Canada
/
France
BDS
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
Mackendrick, Alexander
USA
BD
Mulholland Dr.
2001
Lynch, David
France
/
USA
BDS
Strangers on a Train
1951
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
The Lost Weekend
1945
Wilder, Billy
USA
BYS
Mean Streets
1973
Scorsese, Martin
USA
BD
Out of the Past
1947
Tourneur, Jacques
USA
D
Diabolique
1955
Clouzot, Henri-Georges
France
BD
The Big Sleep
1946
Hawks, Howard
USA
BDS
White Heat
1949
Walsh, Raoul
USA
DS
Laura
1944
Preminger, Otto
/
Mamoulian, Rouben
USA
BD
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Huston, John
USA
BDS
Le Samouraï
1967
Melville, Jean-Pierre
France
/
Italy
BD
In a Lonely Place
1950
Ray, Nicholas
USA
BD
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
Aldrich, Robert
USA
BD
The Usual Suspects
1995
Singer, Bryan
USA
/
Germany
BD
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
Mildred Pierce
1945
Curtiz, Michael
USA
BDS
Rififi
1955
Dassin, Jules
France
BD
A Place in the Sun
1951
Stevens, George
USA
DS
The Killers
1946
Siodmak, Robert
USA
BDS
The Big Heat
1953
Lang, Fritz
USA
BD
Force of Evil
1948
Polonsky, Abraham
USA
BD
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
Minnelli, Vincente
USA
BD
Ace in the Hole
1951
Wilder, Billy
USA
BD
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932
LeRoy, Mervyn
USA
Y
Detour
1945
Ulmer, Edgar G.
USA
BD
Pickup on South Street
1953
Fuller, Samuel
USA
BD
The Terminator
1984
Cameron, James
USA
BD
The Long Goodbye
1973
Altman, Robert
USA
BD
Klute
1971
Pakula, Alan J.
USA
BD
Shoot the Piano Player
1960
Truffaut, François
France
DS
Crossfire
1947
Dmytryk, Edward
USA
BD
Bob le flambeur
1956
Melville, Jean-Pierre
France
BD
Memento
2000
Nolan, Christopher
USA
BD
The American Friend
1977
Wenders, Wim
West Germany
/
France
BD
Fury
1936
Lang, Fritz
USA
D
Gun Crazy
1950
Lewis, Joseph H.
USA
BY
Gilda
1946
Vidor, Charles
USA
BD
The Killing
1956
Kubrick, Stanley
USA
BD
The Letter
1940
Wyler, William
USA
BDS
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
Garnett, Tay
USA
BD
The Grifters
1990
Frears, Stephen
USA
DS
Spellbound
1945
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
One False Move
1992
Franklin, Carl
USA
D
The Lady from Shanghai
1947
Welles, Orson
USA
BD
They Live by Night
1949
Ray, Nicholas
USA
BD
The Naked City
1948
Dassin, Jules
USA
BD
The Spiral Staircase
1946
Siodmak, Robert
USA
Y
Murder, My Sweet
1944
Dmytryk, Edward
USA
D
Port of Shadows
1938
Carné, Marcel
France
BD
House of Games
1987
Mamet, David
USA
BD
Night Moves
1975
Penn, Arthur
USA
BY
Key Largo
1948
Huston, John
USA
BDS
The Set-Up
1949
Wise, Robert
USA
BY
The Last Seduction
1994
Dahl, John
USA
Y
The Unfaithful Wife
1969
Chabrol, Claude
Italy
/
France
D
High Sierra
1941
Walsh, Raoul
USA
BD
The Wrong Man
1956
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
Panic in the Streets
1950
Kazan, Elia
USA
BD
Woman in the Window
1944
Lang, Fritz
USA
BD
Body Heat
1981
Kasdan, Lawrence
USA
BDS
Suspicion
1941
Hitchcock, Alfred
USA
BDS
Detective Story
1951
Wyler, William
USA
D
Bad Education
2004
Almodóvar, Pedro
Spain
D
Body and Soul
1947
Rossen, Robert
USA
D
Monsieur Hire
1989
Leconte, Patrice
France
D
Blood Simple
1984
Coen, Joel
/
Coen, Ethan
USA
BD
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
Coen, Joel
/
Coen, Ethan
USA
BY
Boomerang!
1947
Kazan, Elia
USA
BY
The Bride Wore Black
1968
Truffaut, François
France
/
Italy
DS
The House on 92nd St.
1945
Hathaway, Henry
USA
BD
Elevator to the Gallows
1958
Malle, Louis
France
BDS
D.O.A.
1950
Maté, Rudolph
USA
D
Scarlet Street
1945
Lang, Fritz
USA
BD
Champion
1949
Robson, Mark
USA
BD
The Reckless Moment
1949
Ophüls, Max
USA
B
The Stranger
1946
Welles, Orson
USA
BD
You Only Live Once
1937
Lang, Fritz
USA
BD
Farewell, My Lovely
1975
Richards, Dick
USA
BD
Phantom Lady
1944
Siodmak, Robert
USA
BD
This Gun for Hire
1942
Tuttle, Frank
USA
BDS
Minority Report
2002
Spielberg, Steven
USA
BDS
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
La Bête humaine
1938
Renoir, Jean
France
D
Underworld
1927
von Sternberg, Josef
/
Rosson, Arthur
USA
BD
Nightmare Alley
1947
Goulding, Edmund
USA
BD
Total Recall
1990
Verhoeven, Paul
USA
BDS
Niagara
1953
Hathaway, Henry
USA
D
Journey Into Fear
1943
Foster, Norman
/
Welles, Orson
USA
Le Cercle rouge
1970
Melville, Jean-Pierre
France
/
Italy
BD
Angel Face
1952
Preminger, Otto
USA
D
Kiss of Death
1947
Hathaway, Henry
USA
D
The Small Back Room
1949
Powell, Michael
/
Pressburger, Emeric
UK
D
The Narrow Margin
1952
Fleischer, Richard
USA
Y
High and Low
1963
Kurosawa, Akira
Japan
BD
Fourteen Hours
1951
Hathaway, Henry
USA
D
Harper
1966
Smight, Jack
USA
BD
Call Northside 777
1948
Hathaway, Henry
USA
D
Looper
2012
Johnson, Rian
USA
/
China
BDS
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Stahl, John M.
USA
BD
The Killers
1964
Siegel, Don
USA
D
Broken Embraces
2009
Almodóvar, Pedro
Spain
BDS
Stray Dog
1949
Kurosawa, Akira
Japan
Y
Night and the City
1950
Dassin, Jules
UK
BDS
Cape Fear
1962
Thompson, J. Lee
USA
BD
Ministry of Fear
1944
Lang, Fritz
USA
BD
The Phenix City Story
1955
Karlson, Phil
USA
D
Hardcore
1979
Schrader, Paul
USA
BD
The Driver
1978
Hill, Walter
USA
D
Brute Force
1947
Dassin, Jules
USA
BD
The Desperate Hours
1955
Wyler, William
USA
D
The Glass Key
1942
Heisler, Stuart
USA
D
The Harder They Fall
1956
Robson, Mark
USA
D
Thérèse Raquin
1953
Carné, Marcel
France
/
Italy
Manhunter
1986
Mann, Michael
USA
BD
Le Doulos
1962
Melville, Jean-Pierre
France
/
Italy
BD
The Scoundrel
1935
Hecht, Ben
/
MacArthur, Charles
USA
Caught
1949
Ophüls, Max
/
Berry, John
USA
V
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2004
Conran, Kerry
USA
/
UK
/
Italy
BDS
Insomnia
2002
Nolan, Christopher
USA
BD
Humoresque
1946
Negulesco, Jean
USA
D
Suddenly!
1954
Allen, Lewis
USA
BD
Tron
1982
Lisberger, Steven
USA
/
Taiwan
BDS
Blade Runner 2049
2017
Villeneuve, Denis
USA
/
UK
/
Canada
BD
The Big Combo
1955
Lewis, Joseph H.
USA
BD
House of Bamboo
1955
Fuller, Samuel
USA
BD
Mississippi Mermaid
1969
Truffaut, François
Italy
/
France
D
Drunken Angel
1948
Kurosawa, Akira
Japan
D
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959
Wise, Robert
USA
BD
They Made Me a Fugitive
1947
Cavalcanti, Alberto
UK
BD
The Big Clock
1948
Farrow, John
USA
BD
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912
Griffith, D.W.
USA
D
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973
Yates, Peter
USA
BD
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
Negulesco, Jean
USA
A Double Life
1947
Cukor, George
USA
BD
Sin City
2005
Rodriguez, Robert
/
Miller, Frank
/
Tarantino, Quentin
USA
BDS
The Window
1949
Tetzlaff, Ted
USA
The Big Knife
1955
Aldrich, Robert
USA
BD
Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975
Chabrol, Claude
France
/
Italy
/
West Germany
D
The Sound of Fury
1950
Endfield, Cy
USA
Y
Dark City
1998
Proyas, Alex
USA
BDS
Edge of the City
1957
Ritt, Martin
USA
D
While the City Sleeps
1956
Lang, Fritz
USA
BD
The Blue Dahlia
1946
Marshall, George
USA
D
Soylent Green
1973
Fleischer, Richard
USA
BD
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
Franklin, Carl
USA
DS
City Streets
1931
Mamoulian, Rouben
USA
Johnny Eager
1941
LeRoy, Mervyn
USA
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
Litvak, Anatole
USA
BD
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
Milestone, Lewis
USA
BD
The Enforcer
1951
Windust, Bretaigne
/
Walsh, Raoul
USA
BD
On the Run
2002
Belvaux, Lucas
France
/
Belgium
D
Act of Violence
1948
Zinnemann, Fred
USA
D
The Prowler
1951
Losey, Joseph
USA
Raw Deal
1948
Mann, Anthony
USA
BD
Stormy Monday
1988
Figgis, Mike
UK
/
USA
BD
Open Your Eyes
1997
Amenábar, Alejandro
Spain
/
France
/
Italy
BD
Thieves
1996
Téchiné, André
France
Y
Inherent Vice
2014
Anderson, Paul Thomas
USA
BDS
Dédée d'Anvers
1948
Allégret, Yves
France
Secret Beyond the Door
1948
Lang, Fritz
USA
BD
Dark Passage
1947
Daves, Delmer
USA
DS
The City of Lost Children
1995
Caro, Marc
/
Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
France
/
Germany
/
Spain
BD
Clash by Night
1952
Lang, Fritz
USA
Y
Hammett
1982
Wenders, Wim
USA
DS
Red Rock West
1992
Dahl, John
USA
D
Young Adam
2003
Mackenzie, David
UK
/
France
D
Brick
2005
Johnson, Rian
USA
BD
I Was a Communist for the FBI
1951
Douglas, Gordon
USA
Killer's Kiss
1955
Kubrick, Stanley
USA
BD
Lady in the Lake
1947
Montgomery, Robert
USA
D
He Walked by Night
1948
Werker, Alfred L.
/
Mann, Anthony
USA
BD
The Racket
1951
Cromwell, John
/
Ray, Nicholas
/
Ferrer, Mel
USA
D
T-Men
1947
Mann, Anthony
USA
BD
Midnight Lace
1960
Miller, David
USA
BD
Baby Face Nelson
1957
Siegel, Don
USA
The Chase
1946
Ripley, Arthur
USA
BD
Criss Cross
1949
Siodmak, Robert
USA
BD
Der Verlorene
1951
Lorre, Peter
West Germany
Hustle
1975
Aldrich, Robert
USA
D
M
1951
Losey, Joseph
USA
No Man of Her Own
1950
Leisen, Mitchell
USA
D
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945
Siodmak, Robert
USA
V
Underworld U.S.A.
1961
Fuller, Samuel
USA
D
Une si jolie petite plage
1949
Allégret, Yves
France
/
Netherlands
Gates of Paris
1957
Clair, René
Italy
/
France
Bound
1996
Wachowski, Andy
/
Wachowski, Larry
USA
BD
Le Deuxième souffle
1966
Melville, Jean-Pierre
France
D
After Dark, My Sweet
1990
Foley, James
USA
YS
Pale Flower
1964
Shinoda, Masahiro
Japan
BD
The Breaking Point
1950
Curtiz, Michael
USA
BD
Cop au Vin
1985
Chabrol, Claude
France
D
The Kill-Off
1989
Greenwald, Maggie
USA
Max et les Ferrailleurs
1971
Sautet, Claude
France
/
Italy
Panique
1947
Duvivier, Julien
France
Ride the Pink Horse
1947
Montgomery, Robert
USA
BD
The Suspect
1944
Siodmak, Robert
USA
BD
They Won't Believe Me
1947
Pichel, Irving
USA
Tight Spot
1955
Karlson, Phil
USA
The Crow
1994
Proyas, Alex
USA
DS
The Thief
1952
Rouse, Russell
USA
Y
New Rose Hotel
1998
Ferrara, Abel
USA
Y
Place Vendôme
1998
Garcia, Nicole
France
D
Dead Again
1991
Branagh, Kenneth
USA
BD
Mission: Impossible
1996
De Palma, Brian
USA
BDS
Deep Cover
1992
Duke, Bill
USA
Y
Thief
1981
Mann, Michael
USA
BD
Trouble in Mind
1985
Rudolph, Alan
USA
Y
Suture
1993
McGehee, Scott
/
Siegel, David
USA
D
Coma
1978
Crichton, Michael
USA
DS
Dead Reckoning
1947
Cromwell, John
USA
D
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
Rafelson, Bob
USA
/
West Germany
D
Scanners
1981
Cronenberg, David
Canada
BDS
Who'll Stop the Rain?
1978
Reisz, Karel
USA
D
Thunderbolt
1929
von Sternberg, Josef
USA
Cornered
1945
Dmytryk, Edward
USA
D
The Dark Mirror
1946
Siodmak, Robert
USA
BD
Following
1998
Nolan, Christopher
UK
BD
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
1994
Hayashi, Kaizo
Japan
/
China
/
Taiwan
D
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
Ingster, Boris
USA
The Threat
1949
Feist, Felix E.
USA
The Good German
2006
Soderbergh, Steven
USA
D
Strange Days
1995
Bigelow, Kathryn
USA
DS
The Racket
1928
Milestone, Lewis
USA
The Hitch-Hiker
1953
Lupino, Ida
USA
BD
Outrage
1950
Lupino, Ida
USA
The Sleeping Car Murders
1965
Costa-Gavras
France
Gattaca
1997
Niccol, Andrew
USA
BDS
Heist
2001
Mamet, David
Canada
/
USA
BD
Insomnia
1997
Skjoldbjærg, Erik
Norway
BD
Malice
1993
Becker, Harold
Canada
/
USA
DS
The Black Dahlia
2006
De Palma, Brian
Germany
/
USA
BD
Rounders
1998
Dahl, John
USA
BD
Edge of Doom
1950
Robson, Mark
USA
No Way Out
1950
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
USA
D
The Medium
1951
Menotti, Gian Carlo
Italy
/
USA
D
The Gambler
1974
Reisz, Karel
USA
D
Betrayed
1944
Castle, William
USA
D
The Man I Love
1947
Walsh, Raoul
USA
Y
Moonrise
1948
Borzage, Frank
USA
BD
Murder by Contract
1958
Lerner, Irving
USA
D
99 River Street
1953
Karlson, Phil
USA
BD
Party Girl
1958
Ray, Nicholas
USA
Y
Thieves' Highway
1949
Dassin, Jules
USA
Y
Tough Guys Don't Dance
1987
Mailer, Norman
USA
Y
The Well
1951
Popkin, Leo C.
/
Rouse, Russell
USA
YS
The Woman on the Beach
1947
Renoir, Jean
USA
The Little Things
2021
Hancock, John Lee
USA
BD
Motherless Brooklyn
2019
Norton, Edward
USA
BDS
Angel Heart
1987
Parker, Alan
USA
/
Canada
/
UK
BDS
Bad Company
1995
Harris, Damian
USA
D
Hard Eight
1996
Anderson, Paul Thomas
USA
D
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
2003
Hodges, Mike
UK
/
USA
D
Just Before Nightfall
1971
Chabrol, Claude
Italy
/
France
Mulholland Falls
1996
Tamahori, Lee
USA
DS
Never Die Alone
2004
Dickerson, Ernest R.
USA
DS
The Outfit
1973
Flynn, John
USA
The Spanish Prisoner
1997
Mamet, David
USA
BD
The Square
2008
Edgerton, Nash
Australia
BD
The Two Jakes
1990
Nicholson, Jack
USA
D
The Amazing Mr. X
1948
Vorhaus, Bernard
USA
D
Black Angel
1946
Neill, Roy William
USA
BD
Blonde Ice
1948
Bernhard, Jack
USA
D
Border Incident
1949
Mann, Anthony
USA
D
City for Conquest
1940
Litvak, Anatole
/
Negulesco, Jean
USA
D
Crime Wave
1954
De Toth, André
USA
D
Cry Danger
1951
Parrish, Robert
USA
D
The Dark Corner
1946
Hathaway, Henry
USA
D
Decoy
1946
Bernhard, Jack
USA
D
Derailed
2005
Håfström, Mikael
USA
BD
Drive a Crooked Road
1954
Quine, Richard
USA
Follow Me Quietly
1949
Fleischer, Richard
USA
The Ghost Ship
1943
Robson, Mark
USA
D
His Kind of Woman
1951
Farrow, John
/
Fleischer, Richard
USA
D
House by the River
1950
Lang, Fritz
USA
BD
The Ice Harvest
2005
Ramis, Harold
USA
D
Inferno
1953
Baker, Roy Ward
USA
D
The Long Night
1947
Litvak, Anatole
USA
D
Lured
1947
Sirk, Douglas
USA
D
Macao
1952
von Sternberg, Josef
/
Ray, Nicholas
USA
D
The Maltese Falcon
1931
Del Ruth, Roy
USA
D
The Man Who Cheated Himself
1950
Feist, Felix E.
USA
BD
The Naked Kiss
1964
Fuller, Samuel
USA
BD
Nightfall
1957
Tourneur, Jacques
USA
D
On Dangerous Ground
1952
Ray, Nicholas
/
Lupino, Ida
USA
BD
Quiet Please, Murder
1942
Larkin, John Francis
USA
Repeat Performance
1947
Werker, Alfred L.
USA
BD
711 Ocean Drive
1950
Newman, Joseph M.
USA
D
Sudden Fear
1952
Miller, David
USA
BD
Too Late for Tears
1949
Haskin, Byron
USA
D
Trapped
1949
Fleischer, Richard
USA
BD
Two of a Kind
1951
Levin, Henry
USA
D
Under My Skin
1950
Negulesco, Jean
USA
D
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Preminger, Otto
USA
D
Whiplash
1948
Seiler, Lewis
USA
D
Woman on the Run
1950
Foster, Norman
USA
BD
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
Stahelski, Chad
USA
BDS
The Killer Inside Me
2010
Winterbottom, Michael
USA
/
Sweden
/
UK
/
Canada
BD
Fallen Angel
1945
Preminger, Otto
USA
D
Renaissance
2006
Volckman, Christian
France
/
UK
/
Luxembourg
D
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
Lang, Fritz
USA
B
Human Desire
1954
Lang, Fritz
USA
D
NR
Possessed
1947
Bernhardt, Curtis
USA
BD
NR
Ready Player One
2018
Spielberg, Steven
USA
BDS
NR
TRON: Legacy
2010
Kosinski, Joseph
USA
BDS
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
T Theaters (US)
B
Blu-ray Disc
D DVD
V VHS
Y Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S Soundtrack