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Corrupt cops, cold-blooded killers, a darkness that pervades it all.–these classic and modern film noir favorites have style and substance that will lure you in.
- Pulp Fiction. Year: 1994. Director: Quentin Tarantino. Still Quentin Tarantino’s greatest accomplishment, Pulp Fiction rehashes a handful of other great gangster movies to form a modern masterpiece.
- No Country For Old Men. Year: 2007. Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen. What is it about the Coen Brothers’ inconsolable No Country for Old Men that still chills the blood, even under the South Texas sun?
- The Third Man. Year: 1949. Director: Carol Reed. Any person who calls themselves a cinephile yet has not seen Carol Reed’s phenomenal Third Man needs to stop reading this blurb immediately, carve out two hours and rectify this mistake.
- Laura. Year: 1944. Director: Otto Preminger. Maybe falling in love with dead people is just an occupational hazard of being an investigative detective in New York City.
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- L.A. Confidential
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Despite being an homage to classic film noir, L.A. Confidential is also classic ‘90s. From the violent, masculine themes to the cast of rising and established stars (some of whom are better left unmentioned), it’s an ideal time capsule of the decade. Even the movie’s loss to the lesser Titanic(sorry everybody!) at the Academy Awards feels like a pi...
Heatwould be significant only for putting movie legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino together onscreen for the first time since The Godfather: Part II(and even that doesn’t really count). But it happens to also be a really great film on its own merits. Director Michael Mann has never been sharper than with this story about a group of bank robbers a...
Though not quite as flawless as David Fincher’s true-crime masterpiece Zodiac, Se7enis still a major work in the thriller genre from the closest thing this generation has to Hitchcock. The script, from Andrew Kevin Walker, is a perfect execution of a brilliant premise. As Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman attempt to track a killer who’s selecting his vi...
Touch of Evil is Orson Welles’ great recovered masterpiece. Infamously butchered by the studio upon its initial release for being too dark, Welles’ film noir about about police corruption and murder in a Mexican bordertown was re-released in its original formin 1998. Since then, it’s gone on to earn the rightful reputation of one of the greatest mo...
Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles frequently worked together throughout their careers, but none of their collaborations is quite like this post-war noir from 1949. Cotten plays a novelist investigating the death of a friend (played by Welles) in Vienna. But the details surrounding that friend’s death only become more mysterious the deeper he looks. Di...
Though he will always be best-known for Citizen Kane, serious cinephiles should also make an effort to check out Orson Welles’ less famous works. This film, from 1946, stars Edward G. Robinson as a war crimes investigator hunting down a former Nazi (Welles) living under an assumed identity in Connecticut. It’s fascinating to see Robinson, famous fo...
Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut is a nasty thriller about a man who antagonizes a new couple in the neighborhood in increasing unsettling ways. The script is constructed on sturdy genre blueprints and builds something that is recognizable yet hard to predict. The lead trio of Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall as the married couple and Edgerton as th...
Shimmer Lakeis a twisty murder mystery told in reverse, Memento-style. While Shimmer Lakeisn’t on par with Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece, it’s still pretty fun. In this Netflix original movie, Rainn Wilson plays the anti-Dwight as Andy, a man caught up in both a murder mystery and bank heist gone wrong. The story unfolds over a week, and as the s...
Ennui, violation, ham-fisted vengeance: It all comes together in Macon Blair’s directorial debut, starring Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood as two amateur detectives looking for justice in a world gone mad. —Audra Schroeder
We meet killer Anton Chigurh within the first two minutes of No Country For Old Men, the Coen brothers’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel. The first murder we witness sets off a domino effect across West Texas, as dirty money, small-town law enforcement, and a dead-eyed killer engage in a deadly dance. —A.S. Editor’s note: This article is ...
Mar 3, 2016 · While many of the hallmark titles (the aforementioned Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, The Third Man, the works of Alfred Hitchcock, etc.) will require a Netflix DVD...
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Film Noir on Netflix. Last updated April 11, 2024. Double Indemnity. 1944 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 Stars. Smitten insurance man Walter Neff plots the perfect murder with femme fatale client Phyllis Dietrichson: staging her husband's "accidental" death to collect double indemnity on his life insurance and absconding with the loot.
2 days ago · For the sake of this list, we’ve highlighted the top-reviewed films from the classic film noir era, roughly defined as starting in 1940 and ending in 1959. On this list you’ll find some of...
Apr 2, 2024 · Why it is one of the best film noir movies: Had Chinatown been released 30 or 40 years earlier, this clever, Oscar-winning mystery – one of the best thrillers on Netflix currently – would...
