1.
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) by Boris Ingster.
2. The Letter (1940) by William Wyler.
3. I Wake Up Screaming (1941) by H. Bruce Humberstone.
4. The Maltese Falcon
(1941) by John Huston.
5. The Glass Key (1942) by Stuart Heisler.
6. This Gun for Hire (1942) by Frank Tuttle.
7. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
by Alfred Hitchcock.
8. Double Indemnity (1944)
by Billy Wilder.
9. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
by Edward Dmytryk.
10. Laura (1944) by Otto
Preminger.
11. Phantom Lady (1944) by Robert Siodmak.
12. The Woman in the Window (1944) by Fritz Lang.
13. Fallen Angel (1945) by Otto Preminger.
14. Ministry of Fear (1945) by Fritz Lang.
15. Detour (1945) by Edgar
G. Ulmer.
16. Scarlet Street (1945)
by Fritz Lang.
17. Mildred Pierce (1945)
by Michael Curtiz.
18. Hangover Square (1945) by John Brahm.
19. The Big Sleep (1946) by
Howard Hawks.
20. The Killers (1946) by
Robert Siodmak.
21. Gilda (1946) by Charles
Vidor.
22. The Postman Always
Rings Twice (1946) by Tay Garnett.
23. The Stranger (1946) by Orson Welles.
24. The Blue Dahlia (1946)
by George Marshall.
25. The Dark Corner (1946) by Henry Hathaway.
26. Black Angel (1946) by Roy William Neill.
27. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) by Lewis Milestone.
28. The Dark Mirror (1946) by Robert Siodmak.
29. Dead Reckoning (1947) by John Cromwell.
30. T-Men (1947) by Anthony Mann.
31. Born to Kill (1947) by Robert Wise.
32. Ride the Pink Horse (1947) by Robert Montgomery.
33. Brute Force (1947) by Jules Dassin.
34. Dark Passage (1947) by
Delmer Daves.
35. Out of the Past (1947) by Jacques Tourneur.
36. The Lady from Shanghai
(1947) by Orson Welles.
37. Crossfire (1947) by
Edward Dmytryk.
38. Kiss of Death (1947) by Henry Hathaway.
39. Nightmare Alley (1947) by Edmund Goulding.
40. Body and Soul (1947) by Robert Rossen.
41. Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) by Anatole Litvak.
42. Pitfall (1948) by Andre DeToth.
43. The Big Clock (1948) by
John Farrow.
44. They Live by Night (1948) by Nicholas Ray.
45. The Naked City (1948) by Jules Dassin.
46. He Walked by Night (1948) by Alfred L. Werker.
47. Cry of the City (1948) by Robert Siodmak.
48. The Street with No Name (1948) by William Keighley.
49. Raw Deal (1948) by Anthony Mann.
50. Force of Evil (1948) by Abraham Polonsky.
51. Road House (1948) by Jean Negulesco.
52. Moonrise (1948) by Frank Borzage.
53. The Set-Up (1949) by Robert Wise.
54. Act of Violence (1949) by Fred Zinnemann.
55. Border Incident (1949) by Anthony Mann.
56. The Third Man (1949) by
Carol Reed.
57. D.O.A. (1949) by
Rudolph Maté.
58. Criss Cross (1949) by
Robert Siodmak.
59. The Reckless Moment (1949) by Max Ophüls.
60. Thieves' Highway (1949) by Jules Dassein.
61. Side Street (1950) by Anthony Mann.
62. Panic in the Streets (1950) by Elia Kazan.
63. The Breaking Point
(1950) by Michael Curtiz.
64. Night and the City
(1950) by Jules Dassin.
65. Gun Crazy (1950) by
Joseph H. Lewis.
66. No Way Out (1950) by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
67. Where the Sidewalk Ends
(1950) by Otto Preminger.
68. In a Lonely Place
(1950) by Nicholas Ray.
69. The Asphalt Jungle
(1950) by John Huston.
70. Sunset Blvd. (1950) by
Billy Wilder.
71. Where Danger Lives (1950) by John Farrow.
72. The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) by Robert Siodmak.
73. No Man of Her Own (1950) by Mitchell Leisen.
74. The Prowler (1951) by
Joseph Losey.
75. Strangers on a Train
(1951) by Alfred Hitchcock.
76. Ace in the Hole
(1951) by Billy Wilder.
77. On Dangerous Ground (1951) by Nicholas Ray.
78. Kansas City Confidential (1952) by Phil Karlson.
79. The Narrow Margin (1952) by Richard Fleischer.
80. Clash by Night (1952) by Fritz Lang.
81. Sudden Fear (1952) by David Miller.
82. Pickup on South Street
(1953) by Samuel Fuller.
83. Angel Face (1953) by Otto Preminger.
84. The Big Heat (1953) by
Fritz Lang.
85. The Blue Gardenia (1953) by Fritz Lang.
86. The Hitch-Hiker (1953) by Ida Lupino.
87. Human Desire (1954) by Fritz Lang.
88. Pushover (1954) by Richard Quine.
89. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
by Robert Aldrich.
90. Mr. Arkadin (1955) by Orson Welles.
91. The Night of the Hunter
(1955) by Charles Laughton.
92. The Big Combo (1955) by
Joseph H. Lewis.
93. The Wrong Man (1956) by Alfred Hitchcock.
94. The Killing (1956) by Stanley
Kubrick.
95. While the City Sleeps (1956) by Fritz Lang.
96. Nightfall (1956) by Jacques Tourneur.
97. Sweet Smell of Success
(1957) by Alexander Mackendrick.
98. Touch of Evil (1958) by
Orson Welles.
99. Murder By Contract (1958) by Irving Lerner.
100. Odds Against
Tomorrow (1959) by Robert Wise.
*By Philippos V. Philios.