Codes: P/N = "Post noir" as opposed to neo-noir
100+ Films that from subjective evaluation don't rise to the level of the other films on the list
Small type: films we already have on the list or didn't make the cut from the earlier file
Foreign Not a US production
All those in bold are ones that I'd add to the third list. 2-3 films have no added annotations save for lisiting directors (Tarantino, Lynch) that we usually leave out of these lists.
1967 The Incident P/N
1967 Games 100+
1967 In Cold Blood P/N
1967 The Money Jungle 100+ (but hey, it has Don Rickles in it...)
1967 Warning Shot 100+
1968 The Detective P/N
1968 Pretty Poison
1969 Color Me Dead (re-make of D.O.A.) 100+
1969 They Shoot Horses, Dont They?
1970 The Honeymoon Killers 100+
1971 Play Misty For Me
1973 Badlands
1973 Charley Varrick
1973 The Outfit
1974 Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
1974 The Nickel Ride 100+
1974 Thieves Like Us (re-make of They Live By Night)
1975 Farewell, My Lovely (re-make of Murder, My Sweet)
1975 Hustle
1976 The Killer Inside Me 100+
1976 Mikey And Nicky
1976 Obsession
1977 Last Chants For A Slow Dance Jon Jost does neo-noir arthouse?
1977 Short Eyes (can be debated on whether its noir, but one hell of a prison film, imo)
1977 Sorcerer (re-make of Wages Of Fear)
1978 Blue Collar (political noir)
1978 Fingers (how can you guys forget this one? Keitel is unforgettable)
1978 Straight Time
1978 Wholl Stop The Rain already added
1979 Last Embrace
1980 Bad Timing Foreign
1981 The Postman Always Rings Twice 100+
1981 True Confessions 100+
1983 A Killer In The Family (the only TV movie, but Mitchum is in his Night Of The Hunter mode.)
1984 Against All Odds (re-make of Out Of The Past) 100+
1984 The Pope Of Greenwich Village
1986 52 Pick-Up
1986 Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer 100+
1987 Black Widow 100+
1987 Fatal Attraction 100+
1987 House Of Games 100+
1987 Siesta 100+
1989 Last Exit To Brooklyn
1989 Sea Of Love 100+
1989 Street Of No Return (Sam Fullers take on David Goodis)100+
1990 After Dark, My Sweet (from the Jim Thompson novel)
1990 The Grifters (more Jim Thompson)
1990 Jacobs Ladder
1991 A Kiss Before Dying (of course, a re-make of the 1956 film)100+
1991 Liebestraum 100+
1992 Bad Lieutenant 100+
1992 Detour (yes, that Detour) 100+
1992 Light Sleeper 100+
1992 The Public Eye 100+
1993 Red Rock West
1992 Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
1993 The Fugitive 100+
1995 The Underneath (re-make of Criss Cross) 100+
1995 The Usual Suspects
1996 Blood And Wine 100+
1997 City Of Industry 100+
1997 Lost Highway (Lynch)
1997 This World, Then The Fireworks 100+
2000 Memento
2001 The Man Who Wasnt There 100+
2002 Ripleys Game 100+
2003 Mystic River
2006 Valley Of The Hearts Delight (re-make of Try And Get Me)
2010 The Killer Inside Me (another version of the 1976 film, based on a Jim Thompson novel) 100+
2013 Child Of God (based on a Cormac McCarthy novel) 100+
2016 Frank & Lola 100+
2018 The House That Jack Built Foreign
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