Noir Strut (Film-R)
DustedDon
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seen the joints below "Sunset Blvd" is next on my list, what else? film heads speak up! double indemnitythe third manthe maltese falcon brute forceasphalt junglethe killing the naked cityshadow of a doubtkansas city confidentialnight of the hunterchinatownblue velvet the man who wasn't therela confidential 
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maybe someone has the 10 pager from around '06.
Body Heat
Angels with Dirty Faces
Killer Bait
Kiss Me Deadly
Double Indemnity
Crime of Passion
Killer's Kiss
Dead Reckoning
Fallen Angel
The Stranger
Nightmare Alley
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Brute Force
Sorry, Wrong Number
The Woman in the Window
A Blueprint for Murder
The Damned Don't Cry
Sudden Fear
Night and the City
The Street with No Name
Anatomy of a Murder
Dark Passage
The Enforcer
White Heat
The Killing
The Big Heat
In a Lonely Place
The Dark Corner
On Dangerous Ground
The Asphalt Jungle
Ill rep the Neo-Noir. Mike Hammer in NYC circa early 80's.
Top of your must-see list should be Kiss Me Deadly - one of the best film noirs IMHO. The other one that's right up there is Touch Of Evil. Unfuckable with.
Noticed there isn't any Chandler in there. Yes it doesn't really make sense but Big Sleep has to be watched either way.
Oh yeah, mustn't forget Night and the City as well.
Traditional Neo noir doesn't get any better than Chinatown but John Dahl's early films are well worth picking up - particularly The Last Seduction.
Edit: Batmon's spot on that we did this in great detail a while ago - might have a search for that as it covers pretty much anything remotely noirish and many that aren't.
Kiss of Death
Stray Dog
Strangers on a Train
DB I see a lot of James Cagney movies on your list, he's a favorite of mine too. Watch Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye if you haven't yet.
http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=794206&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1
And here's the 2006 one I could find
http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=714018&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1
Though I seem to recall one about three times as long
That just went straight to number one in the Netflix queue........with a bullet.
I just want to second a few you guy's have already posted.
'The Enforcer' with Bogart I really enjoyed and I bought 'Stray Dog' on the strength of bassie's recommendation in an earlier Filmstrut thread. Such a good film, so thanks for recommending that. I've been getting into more Kurosawa on the back of it.
I've also got The Third Man downloaded so will have to watch that soon.
a favourite.
maybe I'm pushing it, but I'd add Gloria
The Set-Up
Road House
Thieves' Highway
Crimson Kimono (my favorite Sam Fuller)
Born to Kill
Phantom Lady
Criss Cross
Gun Crazy
They Live by Night
The Big Steal
Odd Man Out
Detour
foreign noir-tinged musts:
Rififi
The Conformist
American Soldier
Le Samourai
bonus points for:
Blues In the Night (jazz comedy/musical/noir has to be seen to be believed)
a great neo-noir is "Brick" - - - all the usual themes, femme fatales and flawed, tough-talking protagonists - but reset in an LA high school. really enjoyed it.
is "Rififi" the one with the really long, silent safe cracking scene? - -if so i heartily co-sign!!
Seijun Suzuki
Kinji Fukasaku
Yes!
I can't think of many others that haven't been mentioned, but here are a couple:
Hangmen Never Die
Touch of Evil
yup. fans of tough French films (not necessarily noir, but noir-R) will also likely love Pepe Le Moko and Wages of Fear.
The movie has a blonde in it?
basically meant that the film has some elements of noir but also lacks a few, or has most of the elements but precedes the noir era. could mean director has worked in the genre and pushes some of the same buttons with this film, cinematography's similarly stark, has tough noir-y protagonist but no femme fatale, etc etc
Don Cheedle almost stole the show.
Also good:
The Big Clock
Murder, My Sweet
Out of the Past
I Wake Up Screaming
Kiss of Death
D.O.A.
The narration bothered me in that. Dude talmbout "You do this, then you do that". Nah, dude. That was you.
I'll co-sign on "Brick" - a great, formal exercise in noir.
Of the classic era, I thought "Double Indemnity" would be really gripping but I found the performances to be as overbaked as the script.
It's been years since I saw "The Third Man" but Orson Welles as Harry Lime = a good look.
This is crazy talk.
Hey, I'm not above giving it a second look, it has been years. I've watched "Kiss Me Deadly" a couple of times which has its flaws but is a fascinating allegory for the unease of the nuclear age in the 1950s. Plus, it's fun seeing all of the future films it influenced including "Pulp Fiction" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark."