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Oct 16, 2017 · In this gallery are eight picks all currently streaming on Netflix, traveling from the streets of Los Angeles to the criminal underworld of Boston to the far-off future. Get in the mood to watch...
- 1 'Drive'
- 2 'Looper'
- 3 'Before The Devil Knows You're Dead'
- 4 'No Country For Old Men'
- 5 'Sin City'
- 6 'Bad Times at The El Royale'
- 7 'The Batman'
- 8 'Oldboy'
- 9 'The Nice Guys'
- 10 'Nightcrawler'
Drive combines deliberate pacing and arthouse sensibilities with 1980s-esque synthpop and a crime/thriller story to intoxicating effect. It focuses on a getaway driver who falls a young woman in his apartment complex, though finds those feelings getting him into trouble when her partner is released from jail and asks the driver to help with a seemi...
Rian Johnson's first foray into neo-noir was not 2012's Looper, seeing as 2005's Brick also takes film noir tropes and transplants them to a new setting (a high school). However, Looper is arguably an even stronger and more ambitious film, taking elements from film noir and putting them in a science-fiction story about assassins who use time travel...
The final movie directed by the great Sidney Lumet, Before the Devil Knows You're Deadis a relentlessly intense and downbeat crime movie. It features a story involving two brothers who attempt to pull off a controlled robbery that they believe will have few consequences, though in true film noir fashion, there ends up being many. RELATED: Underrate...
No Country for Old Menis a movie that fully embraces the way neo-noir films can branch out into different genres. It does this by combining noir elements with a Western setting, taking place in Texas and revolving around a large amount of cash two men are desperate to obtain, all the while both are being tracked by an aging sheriff. It's a violent ...
Few neo-noir movies are as close to being a classic film noir movie as Sin Cityis. It's a movie that feels like a hyper-noir, taking the look, feel, style, and stories of old-fashioned film noir movies and dialing everything up to 11. It's most noticeable from the fact that the movie is largely in black-and-white (with some bursts of color in certa...
Fully embracing the mystery aspects of film noir/neo-noir, Bad Times at the El Royaleis a wonderfully unpredictable movie. It centers on an isolated hotel where a group of strangers meet, and while each one's there for their own reasons, their paths end up crossing in unexpected - and sometimes shocking - ways. Given the film is about 2.5 hours lon...
One thing's for sure when watching old film noir movies: you're unlikely to see many characters who could be described as superheroes. But of all the well-known superheroes out there, few could slip into the world of film noir as effectively as Batman, which is why the most recent depiction of the character, 2022's The Batman, ended up working so w...
Showing Oldboy to an average film noir watcher of the 1940s and 1950s might make their head explode. It's an exceedingly dark and unrelenting mystery film that sees its main character pursuing those who imprisoned him in a single room for 15 years. He wants to know why they did what they did, and then wants to exact vengeance because they did it. A...
Combining a buddy comedy with plenty of action and a film noir-inspired storyline ended up being a winning recipe for The Nice Guys. It's a crime-comedy set in the 1970s, centering on a private detective and an enforcer who get wrapped up in a complex plot involving murder, corruption, and the adult film industry. Film noir movies often start simpl...
Few neo-noir movies feature main characters who are quite as questionable as Lou Bloom from Nightcrawler. He starts the movie as an eccentric and dedicated cameraman who makes a living as someone who takes footage of violent crime scenes to sell to news stations. As things progress, he takes more and more risks, and does increasingly questionable a...
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- 'Chinatown' (1974) Any discussion about the greatest neo-noir films is bound to include Chinatown. This is precisely why a Redditor simply responds with "Chinatown" on a thread about "the best neo-noir movies."
- 'No Country for Old Men' (2007) A spellbinding neo-noir masterpiece from the Coen brothers, No Country for Old Men follows the intersecting stories of three morally complex characters.
- 'Blade Runner' (1982) Neo-noir or neon-noir? Ridley Scott's legendary film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, is a mainstay of any neo-noir list.
- 'Oldboy' (2003) Park Chan-wook's Oldboy is a classic of the genre. After being imprisoned for fifteen years, a recently released man goes on a mad hunt to get revenge on those who wronged him.
- The Front Page (1974) Billy Wilder directed 1974’s The Front Page, which was one of the last movies throughout his prolific career. In the film, a reporter decides to leave behind his job, gets married, and find a new one somewhere along the way.
- The Street Fighter (1974) The Street Fighter. X. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Release Date. February 2, 1974. Director. Shigehiro Ozawa. Cast.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Monty Python and the Holy Grail. PG. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Release Date. May 25, 1975. Director.
- Joe Kidd (1972) 1972’s Joe Kidd, directed by John Sturges, falls easily into the genre of revisionist western American movies, which try to subvert the original harm caused by westerns.
- 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.
Jun 9, 2018 · Riveting crime stories, untrustworthy characters, and fatalistic endings: The best film noir on Netflix right now. Updated February 2019. Things are about to get dark.
Jan 7, 2024 · Staying in vogue with the striking imagery, hard-boiled and gritty narratives, and the complicated characters that saw film noir become such an acclaimed genre, these neo-noir hits offer ...
