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- 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.
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.
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)98%. #5. Critics Consensus: Arguably the greatest movie about Hollywood, Billy Wilder's masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, black comedy, and character study. Synopsis: An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended.
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Hulu offers the most significant collection of classic and revisionist noir, thanks in part to the service’s partnership with the Criterion Collection. Of particular note here are the works of Fritz Lang: Scarlet Street, featuring genre staple Edward G. Robinson (get used to seeing his name), and the proto-noirM, an example of latter-day German Exp...
There are a few standouts from the classic period available on Netflix, including Laura, Dressed to Kill and Fritz Lang’s Man Hunt. However, neo-noir takes center stage here, with Christopher Nolan’s debut Following, Alan Parker’s horror-noir hybrid Angel Heart, Leos Carax’s sci-fi-noirMauvais Sang and Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows, a modern-day r...
No titles from the classic period available here (for now), but a few standout neo-noirs are worth noting, including Disturbia, another retelling of Rear Window, the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing, the little-seen and highly underrated The Deep End, and perhaps the blackest of all noir narratives, The Hitcher. Disturbia (2007) Directed by D.J. Ca...
We often forget about Crackle, all tucked away down there. And while the onslaught of ads you have to put up with on the otherwise free service almost make watching movies displeasurable, there are a couple of titles that may just make the endeavor worth it. Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat is one of THE noir films of the classic period, and Dead Men Don’...
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- L.A. Confidential. 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.
- Heat. Heat would 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).
- Se7en. Though not quite as flawless as David Fincher’s true-crime masterpiece Zodiac, Se7en is still a major work in the thriller genre from the closest thing this generation has to Hitchcock.
- Touch of Evil. 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 form in 1998.
May 7, 2015 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Filmed during the Watergate scandal that prompted president Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, this political thriller, an updated noir, questions the ...
Jun 11, 2018 · The best film noir on Netflix 1) L.A. Confidential 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 ...
