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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA DS
3 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUS
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA DUS
19 Pulp Fiction 1994 Tarantino, Quentin USA D
23 M 1931 Lang, Fritz Germany DU
27 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA DUS
46 Double Indemnity 1944 Wilder, Billy USA DS
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA DS
62 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Huston, John USA DUP
79 Diabolique 1955 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
82 The Third Man 1949 Reed, Carol UK D
90 Touch of Evil 1958 Welles, Orson USA DUS
96 Blade Runner 1982 Scott, Ridley USA DBUPS
100 Rear Window 1954 Hitchcock, Alfred USA D
101 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA DS
126 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Laughton, Charles USA D
127 Notorious 1946 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
151 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Mackendrick, Alexander USA Y
153 The American Friend 1977 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France Y
169 Atlantic City 1980 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France DS
200 Strangers on a Train 1951 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUS
204 The Big Sleep 1946 Hawks, Howard USA DS
207 Out of the Past 1947 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
226 Mean Streets 1973 Scorsese, Martin USA D
252 The Lost Weekend 1945 Wilder, Billy USA YS
266 White Heat 1949 Walsh, Raoul USA DS
302 Laura 1944 Preminger, Otto / Mamoulian, Rouben USA DU
310 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
318 Mulholland Dr. 2001 Lynch, David France / USA DUS
326 A Place in the Sun 1951 Stevens, George USA YS
346 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Aldrich, Robert USA Y
367 The Usual Suspects 1995 Singer, Bryan USA / Germany DBUP
376 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Minnelli, Vincente USA YU
378 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Huston, John USA YUS
391 Mildred Pierce 1945 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
394 Gun Crazy 1949 Lewis, Joseph H. USA Y
401 Fury 1936 Lang, Fritz USA Y
409 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 LeRoy, Mervyn USA Y
417 In a Lonely Place 1950 Ray, Nicholas USA Y
426 Force of Evil 1948 Polonsky, Abraham USA Y
429 Ace in the Hole 1951 Wilder, Billy USA DUP
435 Pickup on South Street 1953 Fuller, Samuel USA Y
445 The Killers 1946 Siodmak, Robert USA YS
480 The Big Heat 1953 Lang, Fritz USA Y
483 Memento 2000 Nolan, Christopher USA DBU
485 Le Samouraï 1967 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
488 Detour 1945 Ulmer, Edgar G. USA YU
554 Klute 1971 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
572 Bob le flambeur 1955 Melville, Jean-Pierre France Y
581 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Garnett, Tay USA YUP
606 Crossfire 1947 Dmytryk, Edward USA YU
610 Gilda 1946 Vidor, Charles USA Y
634 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 Truffaut, François France DS
660 Rififi 1955 Dassin, Jules France Y
664 The Unfaithful Wife 1969 Chabrol, Claude Italy / France D
682 The Long Goodbye 1973 Altman, Robert USA Y
691 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Dmytryk, Edward USA D
694 The Letter 1940 Wyler, William USA DS
730 House of Games 1987 Mamet, David USA DU
740 Night Moves 1975 Penn, Arthur USA YU
742 Spellbound 1945 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YS
758 The Lady from Shanghai 1948 Welles, Orson USA Y
772 The Spiral Staircase 1946 Siodmak, Robert USA Y
809 Panic in the Streets 1950 Kazan, Elia USA Y
812 The Set-Up 1949 Wise, Robert USA Y
854 Suspicion 1941 Hitchcock, Alfred USA YUPS
866 The Grifters 1990 Frears, Stephen USA YS
879 They Live by Night 1949 Ray, Nicholas USA D
885 Body Heat 1981 Kasdan, Lawrence USA DUS
927 The Wrong Man 1956 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
944 The Killing 1956 Kubrick, Stanley USA Y
953 Key Largo 1948 Huston, John USA DS
957 High Sierra 1941 Walsh, Raoul USA D
962 One False Move 1992 Franklin, Carl USA Y
995 Detective Story 1951 Wyler, William USA D
997 The Last Seduction 1994 Dahl, John USA Y
1023 The Naked City 1948 Dassin, Jules USA D
1037 Bad Education 2004 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain D
1066 The House on 92nd St. 1945 Hathaway, Henry USA D
1072 The Bride Wore Black 1968 Truffaut, François France / Italy YS
1074 Woman in the Window 1944 Lang, Fritz USA D
1078 Boomerang! 1947 Kazan, Elia USA
1079 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA YU
1105 D.O.A. 1950 Maté, Rudolph USA YU
1122 Champion 1949 Robson, Mark USA Y
1141 Total Recall 1990 Verhoeven, Paul USA DBUS
1148 Minority Report 2002 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1169 Monsieur Hire 1989 Leconte, Patrice France D
1192 The Stranger 1946 Welles, Orson USA D
1215 Port of Shadows 1938 Carné, Marcel France Y
1240 Scarlet Street 1945 Lang, Fritz USA D
1249 High and Low 1963 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
1268 The Narrow Margin 1952 Fleischer, Richard USA Y
1283 The Reckless Moment 1949 Ophüls, Max USA
1311 Body and Soul 1947 Rossen, Robert USA D
1327 This Gun for Hire 1942 Tuttle, Frank USA DS
1338 Stray Dog 1949 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
1340 The Scoundrel 1935 Hecht, Ben / MacArthur, Charles USA
1340 You Only Live Once 1937 Lang, Fritz USA Y
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1342 Niagara 1953 Hathaway, Henry USA D
1352 Journey Into Fear 1942 Foster, Norman / Welles, Orson USA
1364 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
1388 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004 Conran, Kerry USA / UK / Italy DBUS
1399 La Bête humaine 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1412 Brute Force 1947 Dassin, Jules USA D
1412 Call Northside 777 1948 Hathaway, Henry USA D
1412 The Desperate Hours 1955 Wyler, William USA DUP
1412 The Glass Key 1942 Heisler, Stuart USA
1412 The Harder They Fall 1956 Robson, Mark USA D
1412 Nightmare Alley 1947 Goulding, Edmund USA D
1412 Phantom Lady 1944 Siodmak, Robert USA
1453 The Phenix City Story 1955 Karlson, Phil USA
1460 Farewell, My Lovely 1975 Richards, Dick USA Y
1466 The Driver 1978 Hill, Walter USA D
1473 Fourteen Hours 1951 Hathaway, Henry USA D
1485 Hardcore 1979 Schrader, Paul USA D
1488 Blood Simple 1984 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA D
1517 While the City Sleeps 1956 Lang, Fritz USA
1527 Dark City 1998 Proyas, Alex USA DBUS
1617 The Window 1949 Tetzlaff, Ted USA
1652 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Malle, Louis France DS
1665 Angel Face 1952 Preminger, Otto USA D
1669 Insomnia 2002 Nolan, Christopher USA D
1750 The Mask of Dimitrios 1944 Negulesco, Jean USA
1765 Kiss of Death 1947 Hathaway, Henry USA D
1772 Underworld 1927 von Sternberg, Josef / Rosson, Arthur USA
1781 Edge of the City 1957 Ritt, Martin USA
1781 The Sound of Fury 1950 Endfield, Cy USA Y
1790 Clash by Night 1952 Lang, Fritz USA Y
1790 Hammett 1982 Wenders, Wim USA DS
1795 Dead Again 1991 Branagh, Kenneth USA Y
1814 The Big Clock 1948 Farrow, John USA Y
1828 A Double Life 1947 Cukor, George USA D
1828 Harper 1966 Smight, Jack USA D
1850 Manhunter 1986 Mann, Michael USA D
1864 Cape Fear 1962 Thompson, J. Lee USA D
1864 Johnny Eager 1941 LeRoy, Mervyn USA
1864 Ministry of Fear 1944 Lang, Fritz USA
1864 Sorry, Wrong Number 1948 Litvak, Anatole USA D
1864 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946 Milestone, Lewis USA D
1868 Open Your Eyes 1997 Amenábar, Alejandro Spain / France / Italy D
1879 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Yates, Peter USA U
1888 Stormy Monday 1988 Figgis, Mike UK / USA Y
1912 Sin City 2005 Rodriguez, Robert / Miller, Frank / Tarantino, Quentin USA DS
1935 The Killers 1964 Siegel, Don USA D
1943 Thieves 1996 Téchiné, André France Y
1945 Innocents with Dirty Hands 1975 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy / West Germany D
1961 Thunderbolt 1929 von Sternberg, Josef USA
1965 After Dark, My Sweet 1990 Foley, James USA YUPS
1977 Secret Beyond the Door 1948 Lang, Fritz USA
1994 The Enforcer 1951 Windust, Bretaigne / Walsh, Raoul USA D
2003 On the Run 2002 Belvaux, Lucas France / Belgium D
2004 Mission: Impossible 1996 De Palma, Brian USA DBUPS
2025 Le Deuxième souffle 1966 Melville, Jean-Pierre France D
2026 The Racket 1951 Cromwell, John / Ray, Nicholas / Ferrer, Mel USA D
2030 The Breaking Point 1950 Curtiz, Michael USA
2030 Cop au Vin 1985 Chabrol, Claude France D
2030 Humoresque 1946 Negulesco, Jean USA D
2030 The Kill-Off 1989 Greenwald, Maggie USA
2030 Max et les Ferrailleurs 1971 Sautet, Claude France / Italy
2030 Ride the Pink Horse 1947 Montgomery, Robert USA
2030 The Small Back Room 1949 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK D
2030 Suddenly! 1954 Allen, Lewis USA DU
2030 The Suspect 1944 Siodmak, Robert USA
2030 They Won't Believe Me 1947 Pichel, Irving USA
2030 Tight Spot 1955 Karlson, Phil USA
2043 The Crow 1994 Proyas, Alex USA DS
2045 Panique 1947 Duvivier, Julien France
2049 New Rose Hotel 1998 Ferrara, Abel USA Y
2050 Dark Passage 1947 Daves, Delmer USA DS
2050 The Musketeers of Pig Alley 1912 Griffith, D.W. USA DU
2060 Night and the City 1950 Dassin, Jules UK YS
2066 Cornered 1945 Dmytryk, Edward USA
2066 The Dark Mirror 1946 Siodmak, Robert USA
2066 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Franklin, Carl USA DUS
2066 Drunken Angel 1948 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
2066 Following 1998 Nolan, Christopher UK D
2066 He Walked by Night 1948 Werker, Alfred L. / Mann, Anthony USA D
2066 The Most Terrible Time in My Life 1994 Hayashi, Kaizo Japan / China / Taiwan D
2066 Odds Against Tomorrow 1959 Wise, Robert USA D
2066 Stranger on the Third Floor 1940 Ingster, Boris USA
2066 T-Men 1947 Mann, Anthony USA D
2066 They Made Me a Fugitive 1947 Cavalcanti, Alberto UK D
2066 The Threat 1949 Feist, Felix E. USA
2100 The Big Knife 1955 Aldrich, Robert USA Y
2100 Dédée d'Anvers 1948 Allégret, Yves France
2100 Thérèse Raquin 1953 Carné, Marcel France / Italy
2103 Deep Cover 1992 Duke, Bill USA Y
2148 Gates of Paris 1957 Clair, René Italy / France
2150 Heist 2001 Mamet, David Canada / USA D
2151 Malice 1993 Becker, Harold Canada / USA DS
2166 Place Vendôme 1998 Garcia, Nicole France D
2171 The Thief 1952 Rouse, Russell USA YU
2211 Bound 1996 Wachowski, Andy / Wachowski, Larry USA Y
2219 The Man I Love 1947 Walsh, Raoul USA Y
2219 Moonrise 1948 Borzage, Frank USA Y
2219 Murder by Contract 1958 Lerner, Irving USA
2219 99 River Street 1953 Karlson, Phil USA
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2219 Party Girl 1958 Ray, Nicholas USA Y
2219 Thieves' Highway 1949 Dassin, Jules USA Y
2219 Tough Guys Don't Dance 1987 Mailer, Norman USA Y
2219 The Well 1951 Popkin, Leo C. / Rouse, Russell USA YUS
2219 When Strangers Marry 1944 Castle, William USA
2219 The Woman on the Beach 1947 Renoir, Jean USA
2223 The Good German 2006 Soderbergh, Steven USA DU
2227 Strange Days 1995 Bigelow, Kathryn USA DS
2246 Gattaca 1997 Niccol, Andrew USA DBUPS
2246 Insomnia 1997 Skjoldbjærg, Erik Norway D
2246 Lady in the Lake 1947 Montgomery, Robert USA D
2248 The City of Lost Children 1995 Caro, Marc / Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / Germany / Spain DU
2261 The Hitch-Hiker 1953 Lupino, Ida USA D
2262 Brick 2005 Johnson, Rian USA DU
2281 The Black Dahlia 2006 De Palma, Brian Germany / USA DU
2281 Rounders 1998 Dahl, John USA Y
2283 The Blue Dahlia 1946 Marshall, George USA Y
2283 Coma 1978 Crichton, Michael USA DS
2283 Dead Reckoning 1947 Cromwell, John USA D
2283 House of Bamboo 1955 Fuller, Samuel USA D
2283 I Was a Communist for the FBI 1951 Douglas, Gordon USA
2283 Killer's Kiss 1955 Kubrick, Stanley USA D
2283 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 Stahl, John M. USA D
2283 Midnight Lace 1960 Miller, David USA V
2283 Mississippi Mermaid 1969 Truffaut, François Italy / France D
2283 Soylent Green 1973 Fleischer, Richard USA D
2287 The Sleeping Car Murders 1965 Costa-Gavras France
2295 The Racket 1928 Milestone, Lewis USA
2296 The Medium 1951 Menotti, Gian Carlo Italy / USA D
2297 City Streets 1931 Mamoulian, Rouben USA
2297 Edge of Doom 1950 Robson, Mark USA
2297 No Way Out 1950 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA D
2305 Thief 1981 Mann, Michael USA Y
2305 Trouble in Mind 1985 Rudolph, Alan USA Y
2317 Tron 1982 Lisberger, Steven USA / Taiwan DS
2329 Angel Heart 1987 Parker, Alan USA / Canada / UK DUS
2329 Bad Company 1995 Harris, Damian USA D
2329 Hard Eight 1996 Anderson, Paul Thomas USA D
2329 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead 2003 Hodges, Mike UK / USA DU
2329 Just Before Nightfall 1971 Chabrol, Claude Italy / France
2329 Le Doulos 1962 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
2329 Mulholland Falls 1996 Tamahori, Lee USA DS
2329 Never Die Alone 2004 Dickerson, Ernest R. USA DUS
2329 The Outfit 1973 Flynn, John USA
2329 Red Rock West 1992 Dahl, John USA D
2329 The Spanish Prisoner 1997 Mamet, David USA D
2329 The Two Jakes 1990 Nicholson, Jack USA DU
2329 Young Adam 2003 Mackenzie, David UK / France D
2331 Caught 1949 Ophüls, Max / Berry, John USA V
2334 Blonde Ice 1948 Bernhard, Jack USA D
2334 The Man Who Cheated Himself 1950 Feist, Felix E. USA D
2334 Nightfall 1957 Tourneur, Jacques USA
2342 Renaissance 2006 Volckman, Christian France / UK / Luxembourg D
2346 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 Black, Shane USA DB
2347 Fallen Angel 1945 Preminger, Otto USA D
2350 Act of Violence 1948 Zinnemann, Fred USA D
2350 Border Incident 1949 Mann, Anthony USA D
2350 City for Conquest 1940 Litvak, Anatole / Negulesco, Jean USA D
2350 Crime Wave 1954 De Toth, André USA D
2350 The Dark Corner 1946 Hathaway, Henry USA D
2350 Decoy 1946 Bernhard, Jack USA D
2350 Derailed 2005 Håfström, Mikael USA D
2350 The Ghost Ship 1943 Robson, Mark USA D
2350 His Kind of Woman 1951 Farrow, John / Fleischer, Richard USA D
2350 House by the River 1950 Lang, Fritz USA D
2350 The Ice Harvest 2005 Ramis, Harold USA D
2350 The Long Night 1947 Litvak, Anatole USA D
2350 Lured 1947 Sirk, Douglas USA D
2350 Macao 1952 von Sternberg, Josef / Ray, Nicholas USA D
2350 The Maltese Falcon 1931 Del Ruth, Roy USA V
2350 On Dangerous Ground 1952 Ray, Nicholas / Lupino, Ida USA D
2350 Sudden Fear 1952 Miller, David USA D
2350 Under My Skin 1950 Negulesco, Jean USA D
2350 Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950 Preminger, Otto USA D
2354 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 Lang, Fritz USA
2354 Human Desire 1954 Lang, Fritz USA
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