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The Big Noirvember 2025

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…

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  • The Long Memory

    1

  • The Harder They Fall

    2

  • Strangers on a Train

    3

  • The Lodger

    4

  • Beware of the Car!

    5

  • Lantana

    6

  • New Orleans Uncensored

    7

  • Tokyo Joe

    8

  • Laura

    9

  • Gemini

    10

  • The Tall Target

    11

  • Bob le Flambeur

    12

  • On Dangerous Ground

    13

  • Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

    14

  • Double Indemnity

    15

  • My Name Is Julia Ross

    16

  • In the Heat of the Night

    17

  • The Burglar

    18

  • The Naked Kiss

    19

  • Collateral

    20

  • High and Low

    21

  • Female Jungle

    22

  • Ride the Pink Horse

    23

  • Touchez Pas au Grisbi

    24

  • Lady on a Train

    25

  • Blues in the Night

    26

  • Bound

    27

  • Too Late for Tears

    28

  • The Ice Harvest

    29

  • The Third Man

    30