Genre "Post-Noir (Modern Noir)" Movies
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| 1. Angel Heart (year: 1987) |
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The time is the 1950s: seedy Brooklyn private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by shady Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to locate a pop singer w ...
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| 2. Best Laid Plans (year: 1999) |
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Absolutely nobody is who he or she seems in this stylish thriller about a guy who wants to get out of his fly-speck hometown, the girlfriend who wants ...
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| 3. Body Heat (year: 1981) |
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Lawrence Kasdan's first directorial effort is a throwback to the early days of film noir. The scene is a beastly hot Florida coastal town, where naive ...
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| 4. Brick (year: 2005) |
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A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director Rian Johnson's hard-boiled high-school noir, told in the style of a Da ...
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| 5. Cape Fear (year: 1962) |
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| 6. Cassandra's Dream (year: 2007) |
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Director Woody Allen continued to work in the dark mold of his 2005 thriller Match Point with this suspenseful tale of two brothers (Colin Farrell and ...
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| 7. Chinatown (year: 1974) |
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"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-tu ...
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| 8. City of Ghosts (year: 2002) |
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Leading man Matt Dillon makes his directorial debut with the crime thriller City of Ghosts. Jimmy (Dillon) is a New York con man fleeing the U.S. for ...
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| 9. Color of Night (year: 1994) |
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When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa (Bruce Willis, in an uncharacteristically un-smirking performance) visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered c ...
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| 10. Deepwater (year: 2005) |
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An orphaned drifter recently released from the hospital and seeking gainful employment finds that sometimes fate can play cruel tricks on the desperat ...
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| 11. El Cortez (year: 2005) |
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An autistic ex-con attempting to readjust to life on the outside finds that the past isn't so easy to escape as he becomes caught in the middle of a d ...
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| 12. Fade to Black (year: 2006) |
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A screen legend is drawn into a murder mystery that reaches to the highest ranks of the entertainment industry in director Oliver Parker's 1940s-era t ...
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| 13. Following (year: 1998) |
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Christopher Nolan made his feature directorial debut with this 16mm black-and-white British suspense drama, shot on weekends with a $6,000 budget. Wan ...
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| 14. L.A. Confidential (year: 1997) |
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Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los A ...
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| 15. Lord of Illusions (year: 1995) |
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A private investigator hired to protect a popular stage magician finds himself drawn into a dark, occult underworld in this supernatural horror film f ...
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| 16. Lucky Number Slevin (year: 2006) |
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An innocent man visiting a friend in New York City becomes embroiled in a dangerous series of events after being mistaken for the very man he has come ...
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| 17. Manhunter (year: 1986) |
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Red Dragon, the Thomas Harris novel that introduced serial killer Hannibal Lecter to the world, was adapted for the screen by Michael Mann as Manhunte ...
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| 18. Reaper (year: 2008) |
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| 19. Red Rock West (year: 1993) |
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John Dahl directed and co-wrote (along with his brother Rick Dahl) this quirky and energetic film noir that, after a well-received screening at the To ...
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| 20. Romeo Is Bleeding (year: 1994) |
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New York cop Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) has a nice home, a stunning wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra), and a sweet, if stupid mistress, Sheri (Juliett ...
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| 21. Rounders (year: 1998) |
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John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure ...
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| 22. Sin City (year: 2005) |
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The Eisner Award-winning comic series Sin City comes to life in this live-action feature adaptation from director Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank M ...
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| 23. The Hot Spot (year: 1990) |
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This hard-boiled throwback to the film noir dramas of the 1940s and '50s is directed by filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper, based on the novel Hell Hat ...
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| 24. The Long Goodbye (year: 1973) |
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"It's OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his ...
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| 25. The Usual Suspects (year: 1995) |
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Near the end of The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey, in his Oscar-winning performance as crippled con man Roger "Verbal" Kint, says, "The ...
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| 26. Thief (year: 1981) |
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In Thief, James Caan plays Frank, a professional jewel thief who wants to marry Jessie (Tuesday Weld) and settle down into a normal life. In order to ...
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| 27. Undoing (year: 2006) |
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A man learns being an avenger for good is tougher than it looks in this independent thriller from filmmaker Chris Chan Lee. After his best friend, Joo ...
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| 28. Where the Truth Lies (year: 2005) |
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A reporter unexpectedly gets a personal perspective on a legendary show-business story in this adaptation of Rupert Holmes' novel, scripted and direct ...
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