NOIR FILMS TIMELINE

THE MALTESE FALCON

• Year: 1941

• Director: John Huston

DOUBLE INDEMNITY

• Year: 1944

• Director: Billy Wilder

LAURA

• Year: 1944

• Director: Otto Preminger

FAREWELL MY LOVELY

• Year: 1944

• Director: Edward Dmytryk

MILDRED PIERCE

• Year: 1945

• Director: Michael Curtiz

DETOUR

• Year: 1945

• Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

• Year: 1946

• Director: Tay Garnett

THE BIG SLEEP

• Year: 1946

• Director: Howard Hawks

GILDA

• Year: 1946

• Director: Charles Vidor

OUT OF THE PAST

• Year: 1947

• Director: Jacques Tourneur

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

• Year: 1947

• Director: Orson Welles

THE THIRD MAN

• Year: 1949

• Director: Carol Reed

THE ASPHALT JUNGLE

• Year: 1950

• Director: John Huston

IN A LONELY PLACE

• Year: 1950

• Director: Nicholas Ray

SUNSET BOULEVARD

• Year: 1950

• Director: Billy Wilder

THE BIG HEAT

• Year: 1953

• Director: Fritz Lang

KISS ME DEADLY

• Year: 1955

• Director: Robert Aldrich

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

• Year: 1955

• Director: Charles Laughton and Robert Mitchum

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

• Year: 1957

• Director: Alexander Mackendrick

TOUCH OF EVIL

• Year: 1958

• Director: Orson Welles