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My #17 is Double Indemnity, another film by Billy Wilder -- but not the last on my list. Double Indemnity is the prototypical film noir. Along with The Maltese Falcon, it went a long way to write the rules of the sub-genre. Wilder and cinematographer John F. Seitz work brilliantly together to make the movie look stark, shadowy, guilty, and lonely. They would pair up again in another movie further down the list.