# The best Humphrey Bogart movies

Rick Blaine, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Fred C. Dobbs: the Bogart films that keep coming up in the BFI's ten essentials, Four Star Film Fan and 24/7 Wall St.'s ranking.

- 72 votes · 14 items
- Mar 7, 2023 · gareth_cinephile
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## Top 14

1. **Casablanca (1942)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Michael Curtiz. Rick's Café Américain, Ingrid Bergman and the letters of transit.
2. **The Big Sleep (1946)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Howard Hawks. Philip Marlowe, with Lauren Bacall.
3. **The African Queen (1951)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — John Huston. A gin-soaked riverboat captain and Katharine Hepburn; his only Oscar.
4. **In a Lonely Place (1950)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Nicholas Ray. A screenwriter with a temper, suspected of murder.
5. **Key Largo (1948)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — John Huston. A hurricane and a gangster in a Florida hotel.
6. **To Have and Have Not (1944)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Howard Hawks. Martinique, Hemingway and his first film with Bacall.
7. **The Petrified Forest (1936)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Archie Mayo. Duke Mantee, the role that made his name.
8. **We're No Angels (1955)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Michael Curtiz. Three escaped convicts at Christmas.
9. **The Maltese Falcon (1941)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — John Huston. Sam Spade and the birth of the Bogart persona.
10. **High Sierra (1941)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Raoul Walsh. An ageing gangster's last job.
11. **The Caine Mutiny (1954)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Edward Dmytryk. Captain Queeg and his steel balls.
12. **Sabrina (1954)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Billy Wilder. The older Larrabee brother, with Audrey Hepburn.
13. **The Harder They Fall (1956)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Mark Robson. A sportswriter inside crooked boxing; his last film.
14. **The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — John Huston. Gold fever in the Mexican mountains.

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