Dit is een lijst van klassieke films noirs:
- The Big Sleep
- Gilda
- The Killers
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- So Dark the Night
- The Big Clock
- Cry of the City
- The Guilty
- The Naked City
- The Pitfall
- In a Lonely Place
- The Killer That Stalked New York
- Night and the City
- Sunset Boulevard
- The Big Heat
- The Blue Gardenia
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
- Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
- Destiny (2006)
- Colorado Territory (1948)
- The Furies (1950)
[bewerk] Recente, gemoderniseerde voorbeelden, velen in kleur
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- Play It Again, Sam
- Blue Velvet
- Point Blank (1967)
- Klute (1971)
- The Long Goodbye (1973)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Night Moves (1975)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Body Heat (1981)
- Blood Simple (1983)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- The Last Seduction (1994)
- Bound (1996)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Lost Highway (1997)
- A Simple Plan (1998)
- The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
- Mulholland Drive (2001)
- Three Colors: Blue
- Three Colors: Red
- Three Colors: White
- Ask the Dust (2005) (meer in technisch opzicht en personges dan in verhaalstructuur)
- 13(Tzameti) (2006)
- Lucky number Slevin (2006)
- Brick (2006)
- The Black Dahlia (2006)
