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The Big Noirvember: A Film Noir Challenge for 2025

Link to Rules from SavageBob

Progress: 30/30

✅1. Random number generator: Generate a number between 1941–1958 and watch a noir from that year. (Alternative: Increase the range up as far as you like to include neo-noirs.)
✅2. Boxing noir
✅3. A noir focused on a sport other than boxing (note that this linked list includes boxing and non-boxing noirs, so you'll have to be a bit picky)
✅4. Horror noir
✅5. Eastern Bloc noir
✅6. Bush noir: a noir from Australia
✅7. Named for a place you'd like to visit
✅8. Named for a place you've already been
✅9. Queer-coded noir
✅10. Noir that passes the Bechdel test
✅11. Directed by Anthony Mann
✅12. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
✅13. Starring…

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  • Gaslight

    1

  • The Big Combo

    2

  • The Killing

    3

  • Dementia

    4

  • The Murderers Are Among Us

    5

  • Dead Calm

    6

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    7

  • The Houston Story

    8

  • The Big Sleep

    9

  • Key Largo

    10

  • Raw Deal

    11

  • Le Samouraï

    12

  • On Dangerous Ground

    13

  • The Killers

    14

  • The Postman Always Rings Twice

    15

  • Dear Murderer

    16

  • Pitfall

    17

  • Drive a Crooked Road

    18

  • New Orleans After Dark

    19

  • Murder, My Sweet

    20

  • The Big Heat

    21

  • Lady on a Train

    22

  • Touch of Evil

    23

  • Call Northside 777

    24

  • Killer Joe

    25

  • Sweet Smell of Success

    26

  • Still of the Night

    27

  • Leave Her to Heaven

    28

  • The Silent Partner

    29

  • The Asphalt Jungle

    30