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TOP FILM NOIR (full results)

Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) 39 10 5
#2 Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) 34 11 -
#3 The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) 30 9 3
#4 Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) 23 8 2
#5 Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) 18 5 2
#6 The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) 15 5 1
#7 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) 14 6 -
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1949) 14 5 1
#9 Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) 13 4 -
#10 Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) 12 3 1
#11 Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) 11 3 1
#12 Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) 8 2 1
#13 The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956) 7 3 -
Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) 7 2 -
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) 7 2 1
#16 Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) 5 2 -
M (Fritz Lang, 1931) 5 1 1
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) 5 2 -
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951) 5 1 1
#20 Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945) 4 1 -
#21 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) 3 1 -
Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944) 3 1 -
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) 3 1 -
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1952) 3 1 -
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946) 3 1 -
Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967) 3 1 -
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945) 3 1 -
#28 Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) 2 1 -
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950) 2 1 -
The Hitch-hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) 2 1 -
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) 2 1 -
The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944) 2 1 -
#33 The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) 1 1 -
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) 1 1 -
DOA (Rudolph Maté, 1950) 1 1
He Walked by Night (Anthony Mann, 1948) 1 1 -
The Mask of Dimitrios (Jacques Tourneour, 1944) 1 1 -
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958) 1 1 -
Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1937) 1 1 -
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953) 1 1 -
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948) 1 1 -
T-Men (Anthony Mann, 1948) 1 1 -
L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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