With the Achievement in Casting award debuting at the Oscars, we’re picking which movies should have won over the last half-century.

I take comfort in knowing that film noir—a genre that has existed for almost 100 years—has seen it all before. So here are few timeless, hard-won lessons and the noir films that illustrate them.

By all cinematic standards of today, this film is not only masterfully conceived—it is among Shyamalan’s very best.