 | The Maltese Falcon Three-Disc Special Edition (1941 & 1931 versions / Satan Met a Lady)
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $12.99 1941 (marks unofficial birth of classic film noir period, see french films of 1930s for where they got their "mojo", in particular Renoir´s La Bete Humaine)
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 | This Gun For Hire (Universal Noir Collection)
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.25 1942
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 | Shadow of a Doubt
Buy used from: $6.40 1943
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 | Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $10.25 1944
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 | Murder, My Sweet
Buy used from: $4.80 1944
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 | Fallen Angel (Fox Film Noir)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $4.95 1945
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 | The Lost Weekend
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.86 1945
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 | Gilda
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.78 1946
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 | The Big Sleep
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.99 1946
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 | The Killers - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $20.96 1946
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 | Notorious - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $25.00 1946
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 | Out of the Past
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.00 1947
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 | Nightmare Alley (Fox Film Noir)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.02 1947
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 | The Lady from Shanghai
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $5.21 1947
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 | Call Northside 777 (Fox Film Noir)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.98 1948, USA
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 | Naked City - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $18.19 1948
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 | Key Largo (Snap Case)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $2.59 1948
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 | The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $16.99 1949 (UK) 1949 is an interesting year, with no great American noir films but these three interesting international noirish films.
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 | Stray Dog - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $16.99 1949 (Japan)
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![Salon Mexico [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31pYMQqnvDL._SL75_.jpg) | Salon Mexico [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America]
1949 (Mexico)
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 | Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $4.95 1950
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 | The Asphalt Jungle
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.00 1950
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 | Ace in the Hole - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.49 / Used from: $21.00 1951
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 | The Big Heat
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $7.99 1953
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 | Pickup on South Street - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $17.00 1953
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 | The Night of the Hunter
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $9.99 1955
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 | Kiss Me Deadly
Buy used from: $5.99 1955
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 | The Killing
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.75 1956
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 | Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)
Buy used from: $4.75 1958 (marks unofficial end of classic film noir period)
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 | A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) by Raymond Borde
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $7.12 The original, more scholarly work by the French author (here translated to English) who gave Film Noir its name. Imitation was the sincerest form of flattery, he must have thought.
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 | Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $7.22 good book from fellow Seattleite who does a film series each year back home (less formal reading)
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 | La Bete Humaine - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.99 1938, France French Poetic Realism of the 1930s was probably the greatest influence upon American films of the 1940s. Seeing imitation as the sincerest form of flattery, the French later gave American "Film Noir" its name. This Jean Renoir classic is not film noir, per se, but the one film which literally gave it its blueprint.
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 | Chinatown
Buy used from: $4.78 retro-noir (1974) Jack Nicholson in 40s L.A. against the water mafia.
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 | Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.99 retro-noir (1981) William Hurt in gloomy late 70s po-dunk Florida against Kathleen Turner's ultimate femme fatale (she never looked better than under the hot Florida sun). Almost a remake of Double Indemnity.
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![Blade Runner [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TKRV08BRL._SL75_.jpg) | Blade Runner [VHS]
Buy used from: $0.01 futuristic retro-noir (1982) set in 2019 L.A. I prefer the original with the noirish sam spade narration to the director's cut... it wasn't just the producers who pushed it, test audiences preferred it as well.
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 | Angel Heart (Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.85 retro-noir (1987) Mickey Rourke in 40s New York and New Orleans against voodoo and his past.
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 | Devil in a Blue Dress
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $5.95 retro-noir (1995) Denzel Washington in 40s L.A. against a racist majority.
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 | L.A. Confidential
Buy used from: $1.02 retro-noir (1997) A bunch of commonwealth actors in 40s L.A. against each other and/or the corrupt & racist LAPD.
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