| 1. |  | Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. tt0043014
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| 2. |  | Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. tt0036775+
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| 3. |  | The Third Man (1949)
Arriving in Vienna, Holly Martins learns that his friend Harry Lime, who has invited him, recently died in a car accident. tt0041959
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| 4. |  | The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. tt0033870
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| 5. |  | Touch of Evil (1958)
Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town. tt0052311
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| 6. |  | White Heat (1949)
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turntt0042041
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| 7. |  | Ace in the Hole (1951)
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.tt0043338+
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| 8. |  | The Thin Man (1934)
Comedy-mystery featuring Nick and Nora Charles: a former detective and his rich, playful wife. They solve a murder case mostly for the fun of it. tt0025878
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| 9. |  | Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A biting look at the ruthless world of a powerful and evil New York columnist. tt0051036
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| 10. |  | Notorious (1946)
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? tt0038787
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| 11. |  | Laura (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. tt0037008
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| 12. |  | Strangers on a Train (1951)
A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder...a theory that he plans to implement. tt0044079+
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| 13. |  | The Night of the Hunter (1955)
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. tt0048424+
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| 14. |  | The Big Sleep (1946)
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. tt0038355+
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| 15. |  | The Killing (1956)
Crooks plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery. tt0049406+
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| 16. |  | Out of the Past (1947)
Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he's ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling... tt0039689
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| 17. |  | In a Lonely Place (1950)
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts...tt0042593
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| 18. |  | Mildred Pierce (1945)
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter.tt0037913+
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| 19. |  | Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his adulterer, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.tt0051378+
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| 20. |  | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.tt0023042
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| 21. |  | The Big Heat (1953)
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.tt0045555
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| 22. |  | Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.tt0029870
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| 23. |  | Night and the City (1950)
Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world...tt0042788
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| 24. |  | The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.tt0042208
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| 25. |  | Key Largo (1948)
A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.tt0040506
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| 26. | | Fury (1936) |
| 27. | | Scarlet Street (1945) |
| 28. |  | The Killers (1946)
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.tt0038669
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| 29. |  | Gaslight (1944)
Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret which he will do anything to protect, even if that means driving his wife insane.tt0036855
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| 30. |  | Pickup on South Street (1953)
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.tt0046187
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| 31. |  | The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I. tt0031867
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| 32. |  | Bob le Flambeur (1956)
Bob, a old gangster and gambler is almost broke, so he decides in spite of the warnings of a friend...tt0047892
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| 33. |  | Gilda (1946)
The sinister boss of a South American casino finds that his right-hand man Johnny and his sensuous new wife Gilda already know each other. tt0038559
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| 34. |  | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Berlin police inspector Lohmann investigates a case, in which all clues lead to a man, who's in a hospital for mental illnesses for since many years - Dr. Mabuse.tt0023563+
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| 35. | | The Letter (1940) |
| 36. |  | Gun Crazy (1950)
A well meaning crack shot husband is pressured by his beautiful marksman wife to go on an interstate robbery spree, where he finds out just how depraved and deadly she really is. tt0042530
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| 37. | | The Woman in the Window (1944) |
| 38. | | Leave Her to Heaven (1945) |
| 39. |  | The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.tt0040525
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| 40. |  | The Naked City (1948)
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model...tt0040636
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| 41. |  | Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious ''great whatsit.''tt0048261
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| 42. |  | Spellbound (1945)
A female psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.tt0038109
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| 43. |  | Murder, My Sweet (1944)
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American...tt0037101
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| 44. | | The Petrified Forest (1936) |
| 45. | | High Sierra (1941) |
| 46. |  | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband... but even once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions.tt0038854
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| 47. | | The Desperate Hours (1955) |
| 48. | | Dark Passage (1947) |
| 49. | | Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) |
| 50. |  | The Wrong Man (1956)
True story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal.tt0051207
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