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The Big Noirvember: A Film Noir Challenge for 2025

My first Noirvember challenge. Many thanks to Savage Bob for organizing.

Categories:

1. Random number generator: Generate a number between 1941–1958 and watch a noir from that year. [1948]
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…

Read notes
  • The Naked City
  • The Set-Up
  • I Will Buy You
  • Seconds
  • The Murderers Are Among Us
  • Dead Calm
  • Paris Pick-Up
  • Chicago Confidential
  • Rope
  • Femme Fatale
  • The Naked Spur
  • Le Cercle Rouge
  • Outrage
  • The Killers
  • Mildred Pierce
  • Good-Time Girl
  • Across 110th Street
  • Hardcore
  • The Naked Kiss
  • Shadow of a Doubt
  • Wild at Heart
  • Lady on a Train
  • Criss Cross
  • Call Northside 777
  • The Nice Guys
  • Road House
  • Body Double
  • Leave Her to Heaven
  • In Bruges
  • Girl with Hyacinths