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Top 50 Film-Noir movies by average vote

note: for these charts, only votes from regular voters are considered.

Rank	Title
1	Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.7/10 (37315 votes)
2	M (1931) 8.5/10 (27830 votes)
3	Double Indemnity (1944) 8.5/10 (25464 votes)
4	Third Man, The (1949) 8.5/10 (37233 votes)
5	Maltese Falcon, The (1941) 8.4/10 (38297 votes)
6	Touch of Evil (1958) 8.4/10 (23227 votes)
7	Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.3/10 (23580 votes)
8	Big Sleep, The (1946) 8.3/10 (20914 votes)
9	Notorious (1946) 8.3/10 (22379 votes)
10	Ace in the Hole (1951) 8.3/10 (4137 votes)
11	Killing, The (1956) 8.2/10 (16730 votes)
12	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) 8.2/10 (3099 votes)
13	Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 8.2/10 (5576 votes)
14	Night of the Hunter, The (1955) 8.2/10 (17055 votes)
15	Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 8.2/10 (14031 votes)
16	Du rififi chez les hommes (1955) 8.2/10 (6133 votes)
17	Out of the Past (1947) 8.1/10 (7492 votes)
18	Laura (1944) 8.1/10 (9534 votes)
19	White Heat (1949) 8.1/10 (7073 votes)
20	Key Largo (1948) 8.0/10 (11070 votes)
21	Night and the City (1950) 8.0/10 (1726 votes)
22	Scarface (1932) 8.0/10 (6308 votes)
23	Big Heat, The (1953) 7.9/10 (4007 votes)
24	Pickup on South Street (1953) 7.9/10 (2364 votes)
25	Killers, The (1946) 7.9/10 (3779 votes)
26	In a Lonely Place (1950) 7.9/10 (3936 votes)
27	Body and Soul (1947) 7.9/10 (1074 votes)
28	Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) 7.9/10 (5822 votes)
29	Nora inu (1949) 7.9/10 (3553 votes)
30	Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) 7.9/10 (5925 votes)
31	Narrow Margin, The (1952) 7.8/10 (1405 votes)
32	Roaring Twenties, The (1939) 7.8/10 (2889 votes)
33	Ossessione (1943) 7.8/10 (1468 votes)
34	Scarlet Street (1945) 7.8/10 (2280 votes)
35	Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) 7.8/10 (1050 votes)
36	Woman in the Window, The (1944) 7.8/10 (1918 votes)
37	Deadly Is the Female (1950) 7.8/10 (1919 votes)
38	Set-Up, The (1949) 7.8/10 (2145 votes)
39	Thieves' Highway (1949) 7.8/10 (821 votes)
40	Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) 7.8/10 (5350 votes)
41	Brute Force (1947) 7.8/10 (1232 votes)
42	Letter, The (1940) 7.7/10 (2605 votes)
43	Big Clock, The (1948) 7.7/10 (1394 votes)
44	Naked City, The (1948) 7.7/10 (1856 votes)
45	Gilda (1946) 7.7/10 (6148 votes)
46	This Gun for Hire (1942) 7.7/10 (1446 votes)
47	Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) 7.7/10 (1063 votes)
48	Mildred Pierce (1945) 7.7/10 (5095 votes)
49	Nightmare Alley (1947) 7.7/10 (1756 votes)
50	Murder, My Sweet (1944) 7.7/10 (2427 votes)

Bottom 10 Film-Noir movies

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The top movies report uses a weighted rank calculated as follows:

 weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C

 where:
  R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
  v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
  m = minimum votes required to be listed in the top 50
      (currently 200)
  C = the mean vote across the whole report
      (currently 6.9)