I do like a bit of Noir myself too. I have about 30 or so and that barely skims the surface. The film that got me into it though was seeing Double Indemnity on TV many many years ago and that probably still remains my favourite, although it's closely run by Sunset Boulevard and The Maltese Falcon. To be honest, I can't think of one I've seen that I haven't enjoyed in one way or another, even the ones that border more on melodrama in parts.
Good to see Out Of The Past get a mention because that's a corker!
One of it's most notable aspects as a film genre though and one of the reasons why there are so many good ones is the wealth of directorial talent that dabbled in it's prime. Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Jacques Torneur, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Robert Wise, Stanley Kubrick...
That's one formidable list!
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