Horror...my favorite

The Ring
Gothika
A Nightmare on Elm St. series
Dawn of the Dead
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Saw
Hello, Mary Lou: Prom Night 2 (guilty pleasure )
The Exorcist
The Haunting
Halloween

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I'm ashamed that neither of you mentioned the Shinning...
For me it's:

The Shinning
The Thing
Rosmary's Baby
Psycho
Alien
Jaws
Frailty
Jacob's Ladder
Ringu
From Dusk 'Till Dawn

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DVD Collection!

Horror:

Night of the Living Dead
Psycho
Halloween
Nosferatu
Black Sunday
Cat People
The Exorcist
Alien
The Bride of Frankenstein
Dracula

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Film Noir and only 10

Double Indemnity
Laura
The Dark Corner
The Lady From Shanghai
The Third Man
Sunset Boulevard
The Maltese Falcon
This Gun For Hire
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Kiss of Death

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Whoa, there, back to horror.

(Not in order)
Nosferatu
Fright Night
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Silver Bullet
Creepshow
Poltergeist
Ghost Story (thought I haven't seen it in years)
Alien
The Monster Squad

We should do Westerns at some point.

Yeah I got a bit confused there, I at first thought we just got to pick our own genre and list ten, thought maybe nobody would notice

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I do love The Shining, it was really hard for me to pick only 10. I really like Jacob's Ladder, also, but I'm not sure I'd really classify it as horror.

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Boy does it ever it's a Brilliant movie parody of the '40s hardboiled detective genre, with a very clever concept, weaving the plot and production design around memorable movie clips (The Killers, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, White Heat, This Gun for Hire, Sorry, Wrong Number, Notorious).
Steve Martin plays the cool Rigby Reardon, who tries solving an convoluted mystery with the assistance of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, Fred MacMurray, Ingrid Bergman, and Ray Milland, among others. It's all silly hokum with Rachel Ward as the pretty moll and director-cowriter Carl Reiner as the nefarious villain.
It has some of the best dialogue......

All dames are alike: they reach down your throat and they can grab your heart, pull it out and they throw it on the floor, step on it with their high heels, spit on it, shove it in the oven and cook the **** out of it. Then they slice it into little pieces, slam it on a hunk of toast, and serve it to you and then expect you to say, "Thanks, honey, it was delicious."

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Well, yes, strictly speaking, film noir is more a combination of stylistic and tonal elements rather than an actual genre per se. As a normative definition of what can be considered film noir, I'd suggest refering to Paul Schrader's "Notes on Film Noir," the first significant American critical work on the subject. Schrader places the era of film noir proper between 1941's The Maltese Falcon to 1958's Touch of Evil. You can argue the dates back and forth, of course, but nearly all serious critical writing on film noir starts with Schrader's essay and either supports or opposes its basic assumptions.

Of course, there are all sorts of movies that are clearly influenced by that classical period of American film noir (which I'd call post-noir) that certain warrant discussion along with the films made from 1941-1958.

Your quite right, by the way, that The Gunfighter is noir or noir-influenced (depending on how far you tighten your defintion).

Here's a partial chronological list of the major films of the classic noir period:

The Maltese Falcon
This Gun for Hire
Laura
Double Indemnity
Murder, My Sweet
The Big Sleep
The Blue Dahlia
Detour
Gilda
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Out of the Past
The Lady from Shanghi
Force of Evil
They Live By Night
D.O.A.
Gun Crazy
In A Lonely Place
Night and the City
The Asphalt Jungle
Kiss Me Deadly
The Killing
Touch of Evil

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