Brad Lang’s Ten Favourite Detective, Hard-boiled & Noir Films

A Little Slice of Hardboiled Heaven

Freelance writer, web designer and film buff Brad Lang is a sometime-contributor to this site, the author of the Crockett private eye series and the man behind both Hardboiled Heaven and Classic Movies.org.

Back when this site was in its infancy, he generously offered us this list of his favourite Detective, Hard-boiled and Noir Films. It’s gratifying to see that half of them could be considered private eye flicks, but here they all are, in chronological order:

• The Thin Man (1934)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• To Have and Have Not (1945)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• The Hustler (1961)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Body Heat (1981)

List respectfully compiled by Brad Lang (1999).