Hard-Boiled Film Noir Awesomeness?

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Can anyone recommend any hard-boiled, film noir movies for me? I'm writing a screenplay in this style and wouldn't say no to more viewing examples.

I really loved Sin City and The Fall of Max Payne's graphic novel narration was superb. I'm surprised more film-makers haven't revelled in this indulgently awesome genre! Some of the lines are just fantastic.
 
The Third Man as mentioned on the list $loth linked to is brilliant - some utterly fantastic lines and brilliant performances in there.

The one that I'm surprised isn't mentioned on that list is Chinatown - a bit newer than most there but superb.
 
Thanks for the recommendations! I'll look into all of them. I favour the more stylised modern examples more than the oldies, though.
 
Grimley said:
+1. I think this is Orson Welles best role, better than Citizen Kane in this one.
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I'd go one further and offer Touch of Evil, personally.

The Big Sleep is good but I prefer the 70s Mitchum version. Interestingly, The Big Lebowski is the Coens retelling of the original Chandler novel.

The Long Goodbye is definitely up there, in my opinion.

And as mentioned: Brick, The Man Who Wasn't There and Millers Crossing are all great.

More will come to me, I reckon. I love hard boiled detective stuff. Chandler is probably my favourite author...

EDIT: OP, noir was a huge thing in the 50s. It's seen as a sort of "it's all been done" kind of genre now, and not many people want to take on the "classics" from that era. Chandler and Hammitt are worth reading, though. Nearly all of their best books have been adapted.
 
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