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Max and Prime Video are your best bets for on-demand streaming services, while Sling (which has TCM) and Tubi are the most ideal for live. Read on to see the other streamers that made our cut. Our recommended five best streaming services for film noirs: DirecTV Stream. 80 channels included. $79.99.
- Hulu
- Netflix
- HBO Go/Hbo Now
- Crackle
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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Detour Free – Edgar Ulmer’s cult classic noir film shot in 6 days. (1945) D.O.A. — Free — Rudolph Maté’s classic noir film. Called “one of the most accomplished, innovative, and downright twisted entrants to the film noir genre.” (1950) The Hitch-Hiker — Free – The first noir film made by a woman noir direc ...
Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night (1997) While many critics refer to film noir as a genre itself, others argue that it can be no such thing. Foster Hirsch defines a genre as determined by "conventions of narrative structure, characterization, theme, and visual design." Hirsch, as one who has taken the position that film noir is a genre, argues that these elements are present "in ...
- United States
- early 1920s – late 1950s
Jan 29, 2020 · Jennifer is a 1953 film noir directed by Joel Newton and starring Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, and Robert Nichols. Time Out magazine (London) wrote of the film, "This is gothic romance crossed with early '50s noir, worth a look for the sake of the great Wong Howe.
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Dec 31, 2014 · Film Noir. Publication date. 1995-08. Language. English. Shadows and fear, dames and darkness, and a long drive to redemption that falls from grace twice as fast. It's Film Noir at Over the Edge, an honest classic. This "night school" teaches you about the origins of Noir in film while taking us along on a ride that starts with a femme fatale ...
Moscow Noir: With Adam Pålsson, Karolina Gruszka, Linda Zilliacus, Georg Nikolloff. In turn-of-the-21st-century Moscow, an innocent trade plunges Swedish investment banker, Tom Blixen, into a battle with millionaires, politicians, oligarchs and their private armies.
