Here’s a link to the official challenge!
1. Generate a number (1941-1958) and watch a noir from that year ✓
2. Boxing noir ✓
3. A noir focused on a sport other than boxing ✓
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 Ida Lupino ✓
14. Starring Burt Lancaster ✓
15. Written by or based on work by James M. Cain ✓
16. Written by…
Here’s a link to the official challenge!
1. Generate a number (1941-1958) and watch a noir from that year ✓
2. Boxing noir ✓
3. A noir focused on a sport other than boxing ✓
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 Ida Lupino ✓
14. Starring Burt Lancaster ✓
15. Written by or based on work by James M. Cain ✓
16. Written by or based on work by Muriel Roy Bolton or Muriel Box
17. Studio: United Artists
18. Studio: Columbia Pictures
19. Studio: Allied Artists Pictures
20. Featured on the Pods Against Tomorrow podcast
21. Featured on the Tipping My Fedora podcast
22. Cinematography by Elwood Bredell
23. Set Decoration by Russell A. Gausman
24. A noir with a full sentence for a title
25. A film noir parody or comedy
26. A film noir musical
27. An erotic thriller or a sleazy noir (April 2026) ✓
28. A noir with a salacious tagline
29. Holiday noir
30. Any film noir on your watchlist