If I have learned anything in my decades of studying film noir, it is that, just as there are 15 years in the classic noir period, there are 15 different categories of film noir titles ONE WORD FOR ANGST: Abandoned, Bedlam, Caged, Caught, Conflict, Crashout, Dementia, Desperate, Fear, Framed, Inferno, Jealousy, Jeopardy, Notorious, Panic, Pitfall, Possessed, Psycho, Pursued, Quicksand, Railroaded, Ruthless, Suddenly, Suspense, Tension, Trapped, Vertigo, Whiplash, Whirlpool ANY COLOR AS LONG AS IT'S BLACK: Behind Green Lights, Black Tuesday, The Blue Dahlia, The Blue Gardenia, The Clouded Yellow, The Crimson Kimono, Green for Danger, The Green Glove, Red Light, Little Red Monkey, Ride the Pink Horse, Purple Noon, Roses are Red, Slightly Scarlet, White Heat DECLARATIONS: Beware My Lovely, I am Waiting, I Confess, I Married a Communist, I Want to Live!, I Was a Communist for the F.B.I., I Will Buy You, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Kiss Me Deadly, Sleep My Love, They Made Me a Fugitive, They Won't Believe Me, Tread Softly Stranger, Why Must I Die? HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE: Behind Locked Doors, Behind the High Wall, The Cruel Tower, Devil's Doorway, Elevator to the Gallows, The Glass Wall, The Hidden Room, High Wall, The Hole, The Invisible Wall, The Shadow on the Window, The Spiral Staircase, Step Down to Terror, Where the Sidewalk Ends I CAN'T SEE SHIT: Between Midnight and Dawn, Blind Spot, The Dark Corner, The Devil Strikes at Night, He Walked By Night, The Long Night, Man in the Dark, Man in the Shadow, Night Beat, Night Editor, Nightfall, So Dark the Night, Somewhere in the Night, Walk the Dark Street, While the City Sleeps LET'S NAME SOME CRIMES: Armored Car Robbery, The Bigamist, Blackmail, The Bribe, The Burglar, The Criminal, The Counterfeit Plan, The Enforcer, The Gangster, The Hoodlum, Larceny, Loan Shark, Peeping Tom, Pickpocket, The Prowler, The Pusher, Shakedown, Slander, The Slasher, The Sniper, The Thief LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: 99 River Street, 711 Ocean Drive, Across the Bridge, Edge of the City, Flamingo Road, The House Mystery Street, Nightmare Alley, One Way Street, Plunder Road, Scarlet Street, Side Street, The Street with No Name, Temptation Harbour, TThunder Road, Waterloo Road MURDER: Accused of Murder, Anatomy of a Murder, Apology for Murder, A Blueprint for Murder, Dear Murderer, Destination Murder, Dial M for Murder, Killer's Kiss, Murder By Contract, Murder By Proxy, Murder is My Beat, Please Murder Me, Shield for Murder, Speaking of Murder, Witness to Murder NAME PLEASE: Alias Nick Beal, The File on Thelma Jordon, Flaxy Martin, Gilda, Ivy, Jennifer, Jenny Lamour, Joe MacBeth, Johnny Allegro, Marilyn, My Name is Julia Ross, Nora Prentiss, Pete Kelly's Blues, Portrait of Alison, Screaming Mimi, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Valerie, Vicki ROAD TRIP!: Blonde in a White Car, Border Incident, Breakdown, Detour, The Devil Thumbs a Ride, Drive a Crooked Road, Hell Drivers, Highway 301, Highway Dragnet, The Hitch-Hiker, Interrupted Journey, The Last Mile, Roadblock, Shack Out on 101, Thieves' Highway, They Drive By Night, Whistle Stop SPICY STORIES: Bait, Black Angel, Blonde Ice, The Come On, Drunken Angel, Fallen Angel, Female Jungle, The Girl in Black Stockings, Good-Time Girl, Jail Bait, Lured, Man Bait, Manhandled, Midnight Lace, Naked Alibi, Party Girl, Smooth as Silk, Teenage Doll, The Velvet Touch, Victims of Sin SORRY BRO THAT'S FUCKED UP: House of Strangers, Not as a Stranger, The Secret Beyond the Door, The Secret Fury, Secret of the Whistler, Strange Fascination, Strange Illusion, Strange Triangle, The Stranger, Stranger on the Prowl, Strangers on a Train, The Tattooed Stranger, Three Strangers UP TO NO GOOD: Assigned to Danger, Appointment with Danger, Cry Danger, Danger Signal, Dangerous Crossing, Dangerous Intruder, A Dangerous Mission!, A Dangerous Profession, Intruder in the Dust, On Dangerous Ground, Riff-Raff, The Reckless Moment, Shadowed, Where Danger Lives, Wings of Danger TOUR GUIDE: Cairo Station, Chicago Syndicate, Hell on Frisco Bay, The Houston Story, Inside Detroit, Kansas City Confidential, Las Vegas Shakedown, Macao, Miami Exposé, New Orleans Uncensored, New York Confidential, The Phenix City Story, Portland Exposé, Saint Louis Bank Robbery, The Tijuana Story WOMEN BE NOIRIN': His Kind of Woman, The Other Woman, The Second Woman, The Strange Woman, Wicked Woman, This Woman is Dangerous, Woman in Hiding, The Woman in Question, The Woman on Pier 13, Woman on the Run, The Woman on the Beach, A Woman's Devotion, A Woman's Secret, A Woman's Vengeance