I think my collection might qualify. As far as I can tell, any noir that’s ever been released on Blu-Ray anywhere in the world is currently on my library shelves. Of course, I’d love to find out that I’m missing some titles since hunting them down is a lot of fun.

Any other noir Blu-Ray collectors here? If so, how many do you have, and which title(s) do you watch over and over again?

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[cafesolo]

As you know, I have over a hundred noir rays. I haven’t finished watching them all once to revisit many of them, but some that I’ve revisited are Double Indemnity, In A Lonely Place, They Live by Night, Sunset Boulevard, The Night of the Hunter, Death of a Cyclist, Touch of Evil… mostly to share them with friends who hadn’t seen them.
In another year or so, I’ll be done watching all of the ones I haven’t seen, and I’ll start rewatching.

[Smitty2k]

Oooo! I enjoyed the video. Thanks!

Speaking of transfers: I am so glad that movies from 1920 to 1960 are still getting enough love and appreciation that somebody, anybody is spending the time and money to restore and release them.

An example that springs to mind is Moonflix.com, they have a version of Metropolis that is gob-smackingly great to look at and if you don’t like the colorized version one can make a B&W version with Handbrake.

[Smitty2k]

What’re the more rare titles you have? Even if on DVD? The ones that almost never come up on eBay.

[Mike Bayer]

Probably Krakatit, the Czech film, is the most unusual I found. That and “Who Killed Santa Claus?” from France during the Nazi occupation. Radiance just released The Ogre of Athens on Blu, which was pretty shocking to see because it’s so obscure. But the transfer is beautiful.

If you’re interested, I recently uploaded short vids of my collection in four parts. (https://youtube.com/shorts/oJj1wqsKsks?si=DPpl7gwpd_h3ODQO)

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