Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of seven novels, including Dare Me and The Fever. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Wall Street Journal. She is also the author of The Street Was Mine, a study of hard-boiled fiction and film noir. Her latest novel is You Will Know Me.
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The List
1
In a Lonely Place
UnavailableNicholas Ray
1950
93 min
2
All That Heaven Allows
UnavailableDouglas Sirk
1955
89 min
3
The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton
1955
93 min
4
The Palm Beach Story
UnavailablePreston Sturges
1942
88 min
5
Kiss Me Deadly
UnavailableRobert Aldrich
1955
106 min
6
Dressed to Kill
UnavailableBrian De Palma
1980
105 min
7
My Darling Clementine
UnavailableJohn Ford
1946
97 min
8
3 Women
UnavailableRobert Altman
1977
124 min
9
Gilda
UnavailableCharles Vidor
1946
110 min
10
The Naked Kiss
Samuel Fuller
1964
93 min