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Film Noir Index
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An index for Film Noir films. | |
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Fight Club (1999) has many elements of noir pop up amid all the craziness.... | |
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Edge of the City (1957). Two longshoremen, one black and the other white, develop a bond while working under a tyrannical bigot. Martin Ritt's directorial debut, adapted from a teleplay. | |
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Victim (1961). A closeted gay British barrister risks his career, marriage, and freedom to break up a blackmail ring targeting gay men. | |
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The Third Man (1949). Post-war Vienna gets the noir treatment from Graham Greene (Author) and director Carol Reed. Orson Welles neither wrote, nor directed, nor even starred, but he still commits the slickest heist in noir, stealing the show as black marketeer Harry Lime with a partially-improvised speech that sums up the noir worldview: | |
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) An action-adventure film that pairs a kid looking for his missing father in Rhyme City with a raunchy Pikachu detective that only he can understand. The film stands out from other Pokémon-related media by being so Darker and Edgier that it got a PG rating over a G rating as was the norm. According to co-star Justice Smith, the filmmakers played with the noir genre to the point where they had the movie shot on film to give it that genuine, noir feel. | |
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Clash by Night (1952). A woman returns to her hometown, marries, and has a secret affair. | |
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Gun Crazy (1950). A B-level thriller by Joseph H. Lewis, now recognized as a classic of the Outlaw Couple noir Sub-Genre. | |
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Terminal (2018): A crime drama involving a waitress/dancer, a janitor, two assassins, and a mob boss, but not every character is who they seem. | |
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Cash on Demand (1961). A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds. | |
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Act of Violence (1949). Two shell shocked veterans deal with their Dark and Troubled Past, as one seeks revenge, and another tries to atone for his sins. | |
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Prime Cut (1972) | |
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They Made Me a Fugitive (1947). Small time hustler, Trevor Howard, smuggles goods for a gangster but gets framed for manslaughter. He eventually escapes from prison to get revenge. | |
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John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) | |
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) | |
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Bullitt (1968): Most famous for its car chase, this detective drama still evokes the world-weariness of noir. Also an example of Sunshine Noir. | |
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Dead Again (1991) features many of the noir conventions in the narrative, blending them with invocations of hypnosis and past lives. | |
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The Chaser (2008) A South-Korean entry to the genre. | |
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The Moonstone | |
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Bound (1996) | |
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Brute Force (1947). A Jules Dassin film starring Burt Lancaster as Joe Collins, a convicted felon who's trying to escape Westgate Penitentiary to see his dying wife. It includes one of the cruelest prison guards ever in the form of Captain Munsey (played by Hume Cronyn). | |
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The Fat Man (1951). The title gumshoe (J. Scott Smart) digs into the murder of a dentist in a William Castle movie adapted from a Dashiell Hammett radio show. | |
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Blood Simple (1985) | |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) throws in a heavy dose of comedy. | |
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Trouble in Mind (1985) | |
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Bad Lieutenant (1992) | |
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The Stranger (1946). An Orson Welles entry in the genre. A Nazi Hunter tracks an escaped high-ranking Nazi, notorious for his success in remaining relatively anonymous, to a suburban neighbourhood in Connecticut. The fugitive, having settled down and married the daughter of a Supreme Court Justice, is quite keen on keeping his true identity as a war criminal secret, and a dangerous psychological duel between the detective and the escapee begins, with his wife caught in the middle. | |
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He Walked By Night (1948). This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop. | |
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Carry On Spying (1963). A parody movie that is a mixture of film noir and James Bond spy movies, starring a teacher of a spy school (that has post-graduate links to MI6-esque British secret service) and his best students. | |
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Kansas City (1996) | |
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No Country for Old Men (2007), set in sunlit but desolate Texas. | |
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Jail Bait (1954). | |
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Brainstorm (1965) | |
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Milano Calibro 9 (1972) | |
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Ace in the Hole (1951). A disgraced reporter, eager for a comeback, turns a man trapped by a cave-in into a media circus. | |
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Breathless (1960). The French New Wave first noir, and the debut film of Jean-Luc Godard, now a staple of film studies courses worldwide. | |
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Detective Story (1951). A hard-nosed cop's attempt to bring down an abortionist leads to uncovered secrets and tragedy. | |
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Thief (1981) | |
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The Hitch-Hiker (1953). A psycho kidnaps two friends on a fishing trip and forces them at gunpoint to drive him to Mexico. This film has the distinction of being the first film noir directed by a woman, Ida Lupino. | |
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The Naked City (1948). A young model is murdered in her bathtub, and NYPD Detective Lieutenant Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) leads the investigation into it. The film has a semi-documentary style that portrays the oftentimes grimy underbelly of The Big Rotten Apple. | |
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The Big Lebowski (1998) is a simultaneous homage to and parody of Film Noir specific tropes. This is known as "Parody of Reaffirmation", like Weird Al parodying music, but at the same time is making music, or Scream parodying horror movies, all the while being a horror movie. |
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Secret Beyond the Door... (1948). | |
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The Matrix (1999) hardly pure noir but has strong elements of it. The sequels, much less so with the exception of The Animatrix segment "A Detective Story". | |
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TheWoman in the Window (1944). A married, middle-aged man falls for a Femme Fatale, and is involved in a fight with her current boyfriend. He kills the man in self-defense and soon discovers that he can not get away with it. On the surface a conservative parable on acting on repressed desires and paying a price for it. It has been argued however that director Fritz Lang aimed to depict the thin line between respectability and immorality, and how an ordinary person can be caught in a web of murder and intrigue. Another key theme to the film noir genre. | |
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Too Late for Tears (1949). Lizabeth Scott is the epitome of the Femme Fatale in this film. | |
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Dead Reckoning (1947). Two paratroopers return from World War II and learn they are about to receive medals for their honorable service. Johnny Drake seems terrified of the notion that his picture will appear in the press and attempts to disappear. His incinerated corpse is later discovered, though his death is deemed accidental. His surviving friend Warren Murdock is not convinced. He wants to know what caused his friend to disappear and why the man was killed. Murdock soon finds himself framed for murder and caught in a web of intrigue, dating to the years before the War. Coral "Dusty" Chandler, the Femme Fatale of the film, is considered among the most notable examples in the genre, and is often discussed in reviews of misogynistic elements in films noir. Several film critics insist there is a Homoerotic Subtext in the relationship between Drake and Murdoch, which gets the film frequently included in reviews of gender identity in film noir. | |
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Angel Face (1953). | |
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1983) is an Affectionate Parody of Noir. | |
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| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_2df919b8 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2e0b6c32 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2e0b6c32 | comment |
The Little Things (2021) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2e0b6c32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2e0b6c32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Little Things | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_2e0b6c32 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2e9ca9c2 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2e9ca9c2 | comment |
The Killing Gene (2007) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2e9ca9c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2e9ca9c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Killing Gene | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_2e9ca9c2 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2f5bd39f | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2f5bd39f | comment |
Dishonored Lady (1947). The director of a magazine (Hedy Lamarr) attempts to leave her hedonistic life behind, but her efforts on making a new life seem hampered when a former lover finds her and she is later accused of his murder. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2f5bd39f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2f5bd39f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dishonored Lady | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_2f5bd39f | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2fda0f9e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2fda0f9e | comment |
Give 'Em Hell, Malone (2009) is a very knowing mild parody of the hard-boiled detective kind of storyline. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2fda0f9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_2fda0f9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Give 'Em Hell, Malone | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_2fda0f9e | |
| Film Noir Index / int_304e34c5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_304e34c5 | comment |
I Wake Up Screaming (1941) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_304e34c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_304e34c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| I Wake Up Screaming | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_304e34c5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_30a379a6 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_30a379a6 | comment |
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) Fritz Lang, again, with one of the most bizarre premises in all of noir if not all of movies; a reporter and an anti-capital punishment crusader frame the former for an actual murder, the idea being to show at the last moment how easily circumstantial evidence can be used to convict the wrong man. Then fate takes a hand.... | |
| Film Noir Index / int_30a379a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_30a379a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_30a379a6 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_31c44300 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_31c44300 | comment |
Don't Bother to Knock (1952). An airline pilot with an eye for the ladies gets more than he bargained for with the babysitter (Marilyn Monroe) in his hotel. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_31c44300 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_31c44300 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Don't Bother to Knock | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_31c44300 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3248b25c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3248b25c | comment |
Motherless Brooklyn (2019), a Black Comedy set in 1950s New York about a Private Detective with Tourette’s Syndrome investigating the death of his surrogate father. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3248b25c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3248b25c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Motherless Brooklyn | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3248b25c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_333453a0 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_333453a0 | comment |
Blood and Wine (1996) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_333453a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_333453a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blood and Wine | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_333453a0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_348b65f2 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_348b65f2 | comment |
Hammett (1982) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_348b65f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_348b65f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hammett | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_348b65f2 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3499f06e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3499f06e | comment |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3499f06e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3499f06e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3499f06e | |
| Film Noir Index / int_34ba17d | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_34ba17d | comment |
Best Seller | |
| Film Noir Index / int_34ba17d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_34ba17d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Best Seller | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_34ba17d | |
| Film Noir Index / int_35a50ee6 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_35a50ee6 | comment |
Black Angel (1946). A woman tries to investigate the murder of her husband's lover because she believes he has been wrongly convicted for said murder. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_35a50ee6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_35a50ee6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Angel (1946) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_35a50ee6 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36911686 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36911686 | comment |
The Sniper (1952). A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36911686 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36911686 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Sniper | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_36911686 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36a5282a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36a5282a | comment |
Hard Eight (1996) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36a5282a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36a5282a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hard Eight | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_36a5282a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36ad4d88 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36ad4d88 | comment |
The Spirit (2008). Oh man, The Spirit. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36ad4d88 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_36ad4d88 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Spirit | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_36ad4d88 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_375c7105 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_375c7105 | comment |
Kiss of Death (1947). The film begins with family man Nick Bianco in dire financial straights. His status as an ex-convict leaves him unemployable, despite his decision to live an honest life. His inability to provide for his daughters causes him to join a criminal gang, and take part in a jewel heist. When an alarm is set off and the police arrives, Nick is injured and captured. He decides to protect the identities of his associates and take the fall for them. He does so with the understanding that his gang will take care of his wife and underage daughters. A couple of years later, Nick learns that the gang eventually abandoned his family. His broke wife committed suicide, and his daughters have become wards of an orphanage. He decides to co-operate with the authorities to earn a parole, a decision which will endanger his life. Noted for its realistic, almost documentary style, depiction of New York City. The film is currently mostly mentioned for a memorable secondary character: Tommy Udo, a Psycho for Hire with a distinctive laugh (a high-pitched falsetto), best used when disposing victims in sadistic ways, a character often compared to The Joker. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_375c7105 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_375c7105 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kiss of Death | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_375c7105 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_383223ca | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_383223ca | comment |
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). Based on the novel of the same name. Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet trace the life of international criminal Dimitrios Makropoulos, whose body has just washed up in the Bosphorus. Or has it? | |
| Film Noir Index / int_383223ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_383223ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Coffin for Dimitrios | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_383223ca | |
| Film Noir Index / int_39bc9c8a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_39bc9c8a | comment |
Inherent Vice (2015), something of a mix of homage and parody that combines the Film Noir with the Stoner Flick, as a perpetually high Private Detective gets involved in several intricate criminal conspiracies. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_39bc9c8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_39bc9c8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Inherent Vice | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_39bc9c8a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3a11ddef | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3a11ddef | comment |
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3a11ddef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3a11ddef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3a11ddef | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3ab29433 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3ab29433 | comment |
M (1931), a German Expressionistic movie by Fritz Lang, starring Peter Lorre as a peculiarly sympathetic Serial Killer. Not quite noir, but getting there. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3ab29433 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3ab29433 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| M | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3ab29433 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3b28d080 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3b28d080 | comment |
Emily the Criminal (2022) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3b28d080 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3b28d080 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Emily the Criminal | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3b28d080 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3c676d3a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3c676d3a | comment |
Violent Saturday (1955). Set in a mining town, this film depicts the planning of a bank robbery as the nexus in the personal lives of several townspeople. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3c676d3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3c676d3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Violent Saturday | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3c676d3a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3d201d87 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3d201d87 | comment |
The Window (1949). A young boy with a habit of Crying Wolf sees his neighbors commit murder and is unable to convince his parents or the police that he is telling the truth. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3d201d87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3d201d87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Window | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3d201d87 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3d50b535 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3d50b535 | comment |
Marlowe (1969) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3d50b535 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3d50b535 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Marlowe | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3d50b535 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3e847cb0 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3e847cb0 | comment |
Basic Instinct (1992) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3e847cb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3e847cb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Basic Instinct | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3e847cb0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3ee798b8 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3ee798b8 | comment |
Mildred Pierce (1945). The film opens with the murder of Monte Beragon. His widow Mildred then narrates her story. A story which starts with the end of a previous marriage in a divorce, her winning custody over her daughters, and her efforts to financially support them. Unfortunately, elder daughter Veda is a Fille Fatale and the mother-daughter relationship is not a particularly healthy one. The prevailing mood of "pessimism and paranoia", the visual style, and the convoluted narrative have earned the film a place among the better known entries of the genre. Though an entry where the two main female characters dominate the narrative and family relationships take center stage. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3ee798b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3ee798b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mildred Pierce | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3ee798b8 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3fe2c8de | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3fe2c8de | comment |
The Blue Gardenia (1953). | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3fe2c8de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_3fe2c8de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Blue Gardenia | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_3fe2c8de | |
| Film Noir Index / int_40c83d12 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_40c83d12 | comment |
Romeo is Bleeding (1993) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_40c83d12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_40c83d12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Romeo is Bleeding | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_40c83d12 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_41052e2e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_41052e2e | comment |
Sunset Boulevard (1950). Satire of Hollywood and the passing nature of fame, especially for silent-era stars. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_41052e2e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_41052e2e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunset Boulevard | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_41052e2e | |
| Film Noir Index / int_410f0996 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_410f0996 | comment |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_410f0996 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_410f0996 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_410f0996 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4149deb5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4149deb5 | comment |
A Woman's Face (1941). Joan Crawford is horribly disfigured and drawn to murder through her lust for Conrad Veidt. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4149deb5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4149deb5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Woman's Face | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4149deb5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_419d205c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_419d205c | comment |
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950). An Otto Preminger film, reuniting Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in this take on a violent cop who covers up a murder. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_419d205c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_419d205c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_419d205c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42896fd6 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42896fd6 | comment |
Hit Team (2001) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42896fd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42896fd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hit Team | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_42896fd6 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42c68201 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42c68201 | comment |
Panic in the Streets (1950): A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague. Directed by Elia Kazan, and the film debut of Jack Palance. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42c68201 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42c68201 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Panic In The Streets | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_42c68201 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42ff1fe1 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42ff1fe1 | comment |
The Gingerbread Man (1998) began life as a John Grisham legal saga, but got transformed into the tale of an Amoral Attorney who becomes a pawn in a Femme Fatale's schemes against her aging father. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42ff1fe1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_42ff1fe1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Gingerbread Man | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_42ff1fe1 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_433e4661 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_433e4661 | comment |
While the City Sleeps (1956). A Fritz Lang noir with touches of comedy. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_433e4661 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_433e4661 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| While the City Sleeps | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_433e4661 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_43da6f7f | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_43da6f7f | comment |
Memento (2000): A man searches for his wife's killer in the aftermath of a violent home invasion that left him unable to form new memories. Has many of the stylistic elements that define classic Noir: an alienated, uncertain protagonist attempting to solve a nigh-impossible mystery, characters whose trustworthiness is constantly in flux, a sharply twisting plot that changes the audience's understanding of the story practically every scene, and a highly unreal, dreamlike tone, with half of the movie even arranged in backwards chronology to match the protagonist's inability to remember how or why he is in any given situation. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_43da6f7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_43da6f7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Memento | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_43da6f7f | |
| Film Noir Index / int_44483156 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_44483156 | comment |
The Element of Crime (1984) is simultaneously a Homage and a Deconstruction of the genre. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_44483156 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_44483156 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Element of Crime | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_44483156 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_46009ec4 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_46009ec4 | comment |
Mulholland Dr. (2001) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_46009ec4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_46009ec4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mulholland Dr. | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_46009ec4 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_46151d92 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_46151d92 | comment |
Mulholland Falls (1996) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_46151d92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_46151d92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mulholland Falls | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_46151d92 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_47ba573b | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_47ba573b | comment |
In the Mouth of Madness (1995) A John Carpenter directed film, which combines Noir with a dash of Stephen King and copious amounts of H. P. Lovecraft. What starts out as a very Noir-ish plot about a skilled insurance agent trying to find a missing horror author, slowly but surely turns into a full-on Cosmic Horror Story. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_47ba573b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_47ba573b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| In the Mouth of Madness | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_47ba573b | |
| Film Noir Index / int_47e7f592 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_47e7f592 | comment |
Hollow Triumph (1948). Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity - with unfortunate results. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_47e7f592 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_47e7f592 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hollow Triumph | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_47e7f592 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4920586a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4920586a | comment |
Who is Cletis Tout? (2001) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4920586a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4920586a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Who is Cletis Tout? | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4920586a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4a625f23 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4a625f23 | comment |
Night and the City (1950). Even in the noir genre, the story of Harry Fabian a small-time hustler in London who tries to become a big shot is bleak. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4a625f23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4a625f23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Night and the City | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4a625f23 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4adb4fe5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4adb4fe5 | comment |
Beyond the Forest (1949). A woman bored with life in a small town squeezes her husband to pay their bills so she can visit Chicago, but that soon proves to be the beginning of a violent conflict. Famous for star Bette Davis line "What a dump!" being remembered as being pronounced far more enthusiastically than it actually was said in the film. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4adb4fe5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4adb4fe5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Beyond the Forest | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4adb4fe5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4b9b3c68 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4b9b3c68 | comment |
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959). Often cited as the one of the very last, if not the last film of the "classic noir" era, and known for being the first noir with a black protagonist. A heist film with a heavy dose of social commentary about racism. Stars Harry Belafonte in a non-musical role. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4b9b3c68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4b9b3c68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Odds Against Tomorrow | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4b9b3c68 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4c5ce5b1 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4c5ce5b1 | comment |
Moontide (1942). This stars Jean Gabin in a story about an alcoholic drifter who may or may not have killed someone in a drunken rage. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4c5ce5b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4c5ce5b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Moontide | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4c5ce5b1 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4c6e885e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4c6e885e | comment |
In a Lonely Place (1950). Humphrey Bogart plays one of his most disturbed characters in one of his most disturbing performances. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4c6e885e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4c6e885e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| In a Lonely Place | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4c6e885e | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4d3c38d5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4d3c38d5 | comment |
The Spanish Prisoner (1997) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4d3c38d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4d3c38d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Spanish Prisoner | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4d3c38d5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4d5b6107 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4d5b6107 | comment |
The Usual Suspects (1995), whose title comes from a famous line in Casablanca. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4d5b6107 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4d5b6107 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Usual Suspects | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4d5b6107 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4dba172e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4dba172e | comment |
The Hitcher (1986) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4dba172e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4dba172e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hitcher | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4dba172e | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4de38b67 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4de38b67 | comment |
Nocturnal Animals (2016) A film with a Story Within a Story, both involving different spins on noir. Amy Adams plays an art gallery owner with a Dark and Troubled Past concerning a past marriage, who receives a manuscript for a novel by her ex-husband—a violent crime novel with eerie familiarities in the characters, which may or may not be a psychological attempt at revenge. As the novel's events unfold before our eyes, so does the past of Adams's character—and moral ambiguities abound, over exactly who is responsible for what. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4de38b67 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_4de38b67 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nocturnal Animals | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_4de38b67 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_50e02d64 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_50e02d64 | comment |
A Blueprint for Murder (1953): Joseph Cotten suspects his sister-in-law Jean Peters has poisoned his brother and niece, but without proof how does he prevent the murder of his nephew? | |
| Film Noir Index / int_50e02d64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_50e02d64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Blueprint for Murder | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_50e02d64 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_514489e5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_514489e5 | comment |
Crime and Punishment is often considered the first noir story, being the first novel to focus on the suffocation and isolation of modern urban life, as well as on the psychological profiles of criminals. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_514489e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_514489e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Crime and Punishment | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_514489e5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5286b26c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5286b26c | comment |
Fallen Angel (1945). Directed by Otto Preminger. A Con Man is mixed in the murder of his Femme Fatale girlfriend as he tries to woo a Naïve Everygirl for her fortune. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5286b26c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5286b26c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fallen Angel (1945) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5286b26c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5286ec36 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5286ec36 | comment |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). Don't let the 'Toons fool you. This has a very noir plotnote The script started as another sequel to Chinatown. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5286ec36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5286ec36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5286ec36 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_532d5b92 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_532d5b92 | comment |
Rimfire (1949). A Genre Mashup Noir-Western about a string of deaths following a Kangaroo Court in a small western town. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_532d5b92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_532d5b92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rimfire | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_532d5b92 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5338e961 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5338e961 | comment |
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). An adaptation of a James M. Cain novel. A male drifter and the female manager of a rural diner have a passionate affair. But there is still the problem of her loveless marriage to a much older man, who actually owns the diner. They decide to murder him and fulfill their dreams. But the dream soon turns into a living nightmare for them. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5338e961 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5338e961 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5338e961 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5338e9d8 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5338e9d8 | comment |
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). The second adaptation of the novel is (as you might expect) more explicitly sexy than the 1946 version. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5338e9d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5338e9d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5338e9d8 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_53d40142 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_53d40142 | comment |
Dark City (1998) is a clever twist on City Noir and Always Night, along with an interesting foreshadow-by-a-year of The Matrix. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_53d40142 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_53d40142 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dark City (1998) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_53d40142 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_53e47c44 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_53e47c44 | comment |
The Wrong Man (1957). Alfred Hitchcock film starring Henry Fonda as a man falsely accused of a series of robberies because he happens to look like the real deal. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_53e47c44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_53e47c44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Wrong Man | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_53e47c44 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5463cedd | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5463cedd | comment |
Human Desire (1954). Fritz Lang's remake of La Bête Humaine. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5463cedd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5463cedd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Human Desire | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5463cedd | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5561b3fa | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5561b3fa | comment |
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973). Film adaptation of the novel of the same name. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5561b3fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5561b3fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| TheFriendsofEddieCoyle | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5561b3fa | |
| Film Noir Index / int_55a377ab | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_55a377ab | comment |
The Reckless Moment (1949). Max Ophuls' last American film, and it stars Joan Bennett and James Mason. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_55a377ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_55a377ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Reckless Moment | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_55a377ab | |
| Film Noir Index / int_55cfbcd6 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_55cfbcd6 | comment |
Zero Focus (1961). A Japanese example of Film Noir. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_55cfbcd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_55cfbcd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zero Focus | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_55cfbcd6 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_56b01b1 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_56b01b1 | comment |
Deception (1946). | |
| Film Noir Index / int_56b01b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_56b01b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Deception (1946) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_56b01b1 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_56ba784f | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_56ba784f | comment |
Candyman (1992) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_56ba784f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_56ba784f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Candyman | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_56ba784f | |
| Film Noir Index / int_572b10a7 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_572b10a7 | comment |
The Glass Key (1942). | |
| Film Noir Index / int_572b10a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_572b10a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Glass Key | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_572b10a7 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5769ae78 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5769ae78 | comment |
Winter's Bone (2010) is an example of Neo-Realist Noir, setting a missing persons case in the isolated and meth-ravaged communities of the Ozarks. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5769ae78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5769ae78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Winter's Bone | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5769ae78 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_57b13ab1 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_57b13ab1 | comment |
The Hoodlum (1951). Paroled sociopath career criminal Vincent Lubeck (Lawrence Tierney) betrays his family's trust when he masterminds a complex armored car robbery. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_57b13ab1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_57b13ab1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hoodlum | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_57b13ab1 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_585e3b7c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_585e3b7c | comment |
D.O.A. (1950). (Source of the above picture) A man walks into a police station to report a murder...his murder. He goes on to tell his story. Remade in 1988, but you may know its rough 2009 incarnation: Crank. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_585e3b7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_585e3b7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| D.O.A. | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_585e3b7c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_58edb22f | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_58edb22f | comment |
Underworld U.S.A. (1961). A teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_58edb22f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_58edb22f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Underworld U.S.A. | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_58edb22f | |
| Film Noir Index / int_58f0b1e2 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_58f0b1e2 | comment |
Laura (1944). Advertising executive Laura Hunt is seemingly murdered within her own apartment. A police detective investigating the case becomes intrigued with her life and personality. An interest which becomes obsessive. Somewhat atypical for the genre in shifting focus from the criminal underworld to the privileged classes of New York City and their own shady side. A stylish depiction of glamour, obsession, and suggestive sexuality. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_58f0b1e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_58f0b1e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Laura | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_58f0b1e2 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5c1b193a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5c1b193a | comment |
The Roaring Twenties (1939). Crime thriller covering the Prohibition era. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5c1b193a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5c1b193a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Roaring Twenties (1939) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5c1b193a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5c9b7531 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5c9b7531 | comment |
Collateral (2004) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5c9b7531 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5c9b7531 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Collateral | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5c9b7531 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5ca0df1c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5ca0df1c | comment |
Force of Evil (1948). The drama tells of a lawyer, Joe Morse, working on the side for a powerful gangster, Ben Tucker, who wishes to consolidate and control the numbers racket in New York. This means assuming control of the many smaller numbers rackets, one of which is run by Morse's older brother Leo Morse. In trying to both to look out for his brother and getting his own sizeable piece of the action, Morse soon finds himself getting in way too deep. Noted for its religious motifs, especially its many references to the story of Cain and Abel. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5ca0df1c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5ca0df1c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Force of Evil | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5ca0df1c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5cdad167 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5cdad167 | comment |
Minority Report (2002), similar to Blade Runner two decades earlier, is a sci-fi noir set 20 Minutes into the Future. Director Steven Spielberg has said it is heavily inspired by classic noir. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5cdad167 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5cdad167 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Minority Report | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5cdad167 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5daf3e63 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5daf3e63 | comment |
The Salton Sea (2002) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5daf3e63 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5daf3e63 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Salton Sea | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5daf3e63 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5db577ba | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5db577ba | comment |
The Dark Knight (2008) abandons the mysticism of the first movie in favor of a more straightforward crime thriller set completely in an urban environment. Although Bruce is decidedly a hero in the whole rule, the city, the themes, the seriousness and the absolute terror that is The Joker gives us a noir atmosphere. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5db577ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5db577ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dark Knight | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5db577ba | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5dd7e613 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5dd7e613 | comment |
Johnny Handsome (1989) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5dd7e613 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5dd7e613 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Johnny Handsome | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5dd7e613 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5eff4a2f | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5eff4a2f | comment |
Chinatown (1974). Roman Polański and Robert Towne took the sexual twistedness hinted at in classic noir and made it explicit. It also turned many film noir clichés on their head; most notably, its ending is one of the most nihilistic Downer Endings in all fiction. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5eff4a2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5eff4a2f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Chinatown | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5eff4a2f | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5f4f1548 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5f4f1548 | comment |
The Web (1947) (1947). A bodyguard who killed a man defending his client starts to suspect that there was something more to the incident. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5f4f1548 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_5f4f1548 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Web (1947) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_5f4f1548 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_60dcf4ec | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_60dcf4ec | comment |
The Dark Mirror (1946). | |
| Film Noir Index / int_60dcf4ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_60dcf4ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dark Mirror | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_60dcf4ec | |
| Film Noir Index / int_614115ea | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_614115ea | comment |
No Man of Her Own (1950). Directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Barbara Stanwyck. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_614115ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_614115ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| No Man of Her Own (1950) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_614115ea | |
| Film Noir Index / int_617c0643 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_617c0643 | comment |
Public Enemies (2009) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_617c0643 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_617c0643 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Public Enemies | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_617c0643 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_61e7623c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_61e7623c | comment |
The Hunters (1996) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_61e7623c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_61e7623c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hunters | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_61e7623c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_61fdfa6a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_61fdfa6a | comment |
Drive a Crooked Road (1954). An upright car mechanic (Mickey Rooney) falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_61fdfa6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_61fdfa6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Drive a Crooked Road | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_61fdfa6a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6252913d | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6252913d | comment |
L.A. Confidential (1997) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6252913d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6252913d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| L.A. Confidential (1997) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_6252913d | |
| Film Noir Index / int_62758cf7 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_62758cf7 | comment |
The Killers (1964) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_62758cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_62758cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Killers (1964) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_62758cf7 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_62f94c6 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_62f94c6 | comment |
The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012) plays up the noirish aspects of Batman. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_62f94c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_62f94c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dark Knight Trilogy | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_62f94c6 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_64e9c484 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_64e9c484 | comment |
Hardcore (1979) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_64e9c484 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_64e9c484 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hardcore | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_64e9c484 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_68144464 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_68144464 | comment |
House of Games (1987) Playwright David Mamet explores the Con Man's art in his film directing debut. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_68144464 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_68144464 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| House of Games | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_68144464 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_68c311c4 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_68c311c4 | comment |
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). A rare noir taking place in sunny, but still craptastic Mexico. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_68c311c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_68c311c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_68c311c4 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6a1b0ff1 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6a1b0ff1 | comment |
The Millennium Trilogy | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6a1b0ff1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6a1b0ff1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Millennium Trilogy | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_6a1b0ff1 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6ab7fbad | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6ab7fbad | comment |
Femme Fatale (2002), as the name implies. Brian De Palma's Deconstruction of the Femme Fatale archetype, by putting such a character through the ringer. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6ab7fbad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6ab7fbad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Femme Fatale (2002) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_6ab7fbad | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6bf8941a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6bf8941a | comment |
The Prestige and Inception have elements of noir, but each is a Genre Buster of sorts. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6bf8941a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6bf8941a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Prestige | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_6bf8941a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6c10ac9e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6c10ac9e | comment |
Shoot the Piano Player (1960) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6c10ac9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6c10ac9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shoot the Piano Player | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_6c10ac9e | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6e18c8bf | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6e18c8bf | comment |
His Kind of Woman (1951). A gambler travels to Mexico for a job, falls in love and deals with a gangster who intends to impersonate him. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6e18c8bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_6e18c8bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| His Kind Of Woman | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_6e18c8bf | |
| Film Noir Index / int_70876081 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_70876081 | comment |
Man Bites Dog (1992) can come across as the "regular guys" (the filmmakers) being drawn into the world of crime by the subject of their documentary. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_70876081 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_70876081 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Man Bites Dog | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_70876081 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_710ac67c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_710ac67c | comment |
The Prowler (1951). A policeman's obsession with a married woman leads to murder. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_710ac67c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_710ac67c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Prowler (1951) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_710ac67c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_71145e69 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_71145e69 | comment |
Thunder on the Hill (1951). | |
| Film Noir Index / int_71145e69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_71145e69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thunder on the Hill | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_71145e69 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7127c328 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7127c328 | comment |
Ride the Pink Horse (1947). A man is out for revenge in a small Mexican border town. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7127c328 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7127c328 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ride the Pink Horse | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7127c328 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_728e30f4 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_728e30f4 | comment |
Dark Waters (1944). A survivor of a German submarine attack arranges to live with her aunt and uncle in Louisiana, but soon finds that things are not as they appear to be. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_728e30f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_728e30f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dark Waters (1944) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_728e30f4 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_73f29c4c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_73f29c4c | comment |
After Dark, My Sweet (1990). Based on a novel by Jim Thompson in which a drifter wanders into town, gets seduced by a woman who may or may not be a Femme Fatale, and then gets roped into a kidnapping plot that (naturally) goes awry. Jim Thompson's pulp fiction crime novels were particularly well suited for film noir. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_73f29c4c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_73f29c4c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| After Dark, My Sweet | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_73f29c4c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_78400963 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_78400963 | comment |
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_78400963 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_78400963 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Truth or Consequences, N.M. | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_78400963 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_791e7b7f | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_791e7b7f | comment |
Zootopia (2016) A Lighter and Softer version with a happy ending, but this is still a detective story in which a simple criminal investigation brings to light political corruption, cover-ups, and conspiracy at the highest levels in a city wracked with racial tension while exploring the hateful and savage impulses that underlie the veneer of civilized life. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_791e7b7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_791e7b7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zootopia | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_791e7b7f | |
| Film Noir Index / int_79ff8916 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_79ff8916 | comment |
Murder by Proxy (1954). An American in London, down on his luck, runs into a beautiful blonde in a bar who offers him a lot of money to marry her. Broke and unemployed, he takes her up on it. When he wakes up the next day, he finds himself in a strange room that turns out to be an artist's studio, there is blood on his coat, and he discovers that his new "wife's" father had been murdered the night before. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_79ff8916 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_79ff8916 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Murder by Proxy | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_79ff8916 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7a83b2b1 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7a83b2b1 | comment |
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7a83b2b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7a83b2b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Eyes of Laura Mars | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7a83b2b1 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ac511a0 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ac511a0 | comment |
Key Largo (1948). Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall square off against Edward G. Robinson, who plays a mob boss who's long past his prime (in a send-up of the role that made him famous). | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ac511a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ac511a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Key Largo | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7ac511a0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7b582f85 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7b582f85 | comment |
Deadly Hero (1975) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7b582f85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7b582f85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Deadly Hero | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7b582f85 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7cec5307 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7cec5307 | comment |
The Tattered Dress (1957). A big city attorney successfully gets a murderer acquitted in a small town, but then finds himself accused of trumped-up charges. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7cec5307 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7cec5307 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Tattered Dress | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7cec5307 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7d4e4476 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7d4e4476 | comment |
Caught (1949). A Gold Digger marries a man she tries to love but he views her only as his employee. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7d4e4476 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7d4e4476 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Caught | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7d4e4476 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7d64157e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7d64157e | comment |
The Thin Blue Line (1988). A documentary at heart, its plot, presentation, and investigative nature led to it being viewed as an archetypal example of nonfiction noir. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7d64157e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7d64157e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Thin Blue Line | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7d64157e | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7e160d | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7e160d | comment |
Shield for Murder (1954). | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7e160d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7e160d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shield for Murder | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7e160d | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ed055b4 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ed055b4 | comment |
Insomnia (2002): The American adaptation of a Norwegian film from 1997. At its core a fairly straightforward noir with Al Pacino as an angst-ridden cop dealing with past mistakes. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ed055b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ed055b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Insomnia | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7ed055b4 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ed0bd73 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ed0bd73 | comment |
They Live by Night (1948). An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ed0bd73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ed0bd73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| They Live by Night | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7ed0bd73 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7eebaad5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7eebaad5 | comment |
Niagara (1953). When two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder. Arguably the film that put Marilyn Monroe on the map, alongside Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7eebaad5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7eebaad5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Niagara | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7eebaad5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7efb596d | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7efb596d | comment |
Daddy-O (1958). A combination of noir with the "angry young man" teen dramas that were big in the '50s (things like The Wild One and Rebel Without a Cause) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7efb596d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7efb596d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Daddy-O | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7efb596d | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7f3b2653 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7f3b2653 | comment |
Detour (1945). A so-called "Poverty Row" production (a term used for low-budget films by lesser-tier studios) which is now hailed as a major critical hit in the genre and the masterpiece of director Edgar G. Ulmer. Al Roberts, a New York pianist, impulsively decides to hitch-hike his way to California, where he hopes to reunite with a former lover. He is eventually picked-up by professional gambler Charles Haskell, Jr. who is also heading to California in hopes of "a big payoff". Haskell actually wanted a second driver in the car, to allow himself some much-needed sleep. He keeps popping pills during their journey through the Arizona desert, and does not survive it. He dies in his sleep, the cause of death never specified. Roberts decides to claim the identity and property of the dead man for himself. He knows nothing, however, about the loose ends in the real Haskell's life and complications soon arise. The film is often described as a deconstruction of the phrase "Go West, young man", and the idea of heading West in search of a better life. There are four important characters in the film who head West in pursuit of their dreams. All end up either dead or with their dreams thoroughly crushed. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7f3b2653 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7f3b2653 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Detour | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7f3b2653 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ff7b328 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ff7b328 | comment |
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ff7b328 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_7ff7b328 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bad Times at the El Royale | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_7ff7b328 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_819c32d2 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_819c32d2 | comment |
Miller's Crossing (1990), loosely based off of the Dashiell Hammett novel The Glass Key. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_819c32d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_819c32d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Miller's Crossing | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_819c32d2 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_81e999ee | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_81e999ee | comment |
The Public Enemy (1931): Following the exploits of a hoodlum from entry-level crimes, to his rise in the crime ranks, and to his eventual demise. A Depression Gangster film where the tensions are related to the hoodlum and his "good family" who complain about his lifestyle. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_81e999ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_81e999ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Public Enemy (1931) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_81e999ee | |
| Film Noir Index / int_829cc68f | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_829cc68f | comment |
Lost Highway (1997) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_829cc68f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_829cc68f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lost Highway | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_829cc68f | |
| Film Noir Index / int_82ab051c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_82ab051c | comment |
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946). The film is one of the better known films noir of Barbara Stanwyck and Lizabeth Scott, who were both major stars in the genre. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_82ab051c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_82ab051c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_82ab051c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_82dd13a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_82dd13a | comment |
The Maltese Falcon (1941). The third film adaptation of the same Dashiell Hammett novel, the second leading role for Humphrey Bogart, and the directorial debut of John Huston. An iconic depiction of the Hardboiled Detective and a major hit for the film noir genre. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_82dd13a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_82dd13a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_82dd13a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8344f7ae | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8344f7ae | comment |
Alphaville (1965). A Genre-Busting work that mixes dystopian Science Fiction and Film Noir, the film is often cited as an Ur-Example of Cyberpunk. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8344f7ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8344f7ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Alphaville | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8344f7ae | |
| Film Noir Index / int_835501ca | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_835501ca | comment |
Freaks (1932), a horror film. Excluding all the slice-of-life scenes that take up the majority of it, the actual plot is pretty noirish. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_835501ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_835501ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Freaks | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_835501ca | |
| Film Noir Index / int_84227d75 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_84227d75 | comment |
The American Friend (1997), one of the least known adaptations of the Ripliad with Ripley being a world-weary, apathetic and brooding Anti-Hero, instead of the Villain Protagonist from the books. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_84227d75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_84227d75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The American Friend | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_84227d75 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_873aab85 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_873aab85 | comment |
Pool of London (1951): Two seamen, just off a ship, are involved in transmitting a package with the proceeds of a robbery. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_873aab85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_873aab85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pool of London | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_873aab85 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_880276e0 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_880276e0 | comment |
Taxi Driver (1976). Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader took the savage violence hinted at in classic noir and made it explicit. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_880276e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_880276e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Taxi Driver | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_880276e0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_880e2ff0 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_880e2ff0 | comment |
New Jack City (1991) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_880e2ff0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_880e2ff0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| New Jack City | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_880e2ff0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_889d01dc | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_889d01dc | comment |
One Foot in Hell (1960). In this Western noir, Alan Ladd exacts revenge on a small town the best way he knows how — by becoming sheriff. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_889d01dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_889d01dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| One Foot in Hell | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_889d01dc | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8a95e28c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8a95e28c | comment |
Reservoir Dogs (1992) is Quentin Tarantino's non-linear spin on the "heist film" subgenre. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8a95e28c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8a95e28c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Reservoir Dogs | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8a95e28c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ba43df | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ba43df | comment |
The first John Wick (2014) follows a retired assassin, recently widowed and left a dog by his late wife. When the son of a criminal Kingpin breaks into his home to steal his car, killing the dog in the process, the hitman comes out of retirement on a bloody path of vengeance. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ba43df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ba43df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| John Wick | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8ba43df | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8bad4425 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8bad4425 | comment |
Some of the darker Arsène Lupin stories, particularly 813 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8bad4425 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8bad4425 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Arsène Lupin | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8bad4425 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8d6c924b | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8d6c924b | comment |
Looper (2012), a Time Travel sci-fi noir. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8d6c924b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8d6c924b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Looper | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8d6c924b | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ddf0a16 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ddf0a16 | comment |
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). Crime film which famously uses the Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook plot. A child criminal is caught for a petty crime and is sent to reform school. He stays in the system for life, going in and out of prison through his adulthood and eventually executed. A fellow child criminal who was never caught became a priest. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ddf0a16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ddf0a16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8ddf0a16 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8de2e73c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8de2e73c | comment |
Double Indemnity (1944). A successful but bored insurance salesman falls for a woman in an unhappy marriage, and the two conspire to commit The Perfect Crime by getting her husband to buy an accident insurance policy, and then making sure he meets an untimely end. A film notorious for pushing the envelope on The Hays Code restrictions to its limits. Despite an activist campaign "imploring the public to stay away on moral grounds", the film was a major critical and box office hit. It paved the way for further dark, controversial films and directly inspired imitators. Often seen as the Trope Codifier for films noir. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8de2e73c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8de2e73c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Double Indemnity | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8de2e73c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8e7b1952 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8e7b1952 | comment |
Road House (1948). Richard Widmark falls for a singer, Ida Lupino, but she's in love with his best friend. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8e7b1952 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8e7b1952 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Road House (1948) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8e7b1952 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ec058 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ec058 | comment |
On Dangerous Ground (1952). A brutal cop falls in love with the blind sister of a murderer. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ec058 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8ec058 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| On Dangerous Ground | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8ec058 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8f046057 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8f046057 | comment |
Following (1998) The directorial debut of Christopher Nolan is the British (somewhat subverted) version of the Film Noir standard. Since then, with the notable exception of Interstellar, his films will as a rule have at least a noir-ish "vibe" to them. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8f046057 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8f046057 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Following | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8f046057 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8f99f9f4 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8f99f9f4 | comment |
A Double Life (1947). Ronald Colman won his only Oscar for his performance as an actor who's acting method has disastrous results for his personal life. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8f99f9f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8f99f9f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Double Life | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8f99f9f4 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8fafe9aa | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8fafe9aa | comment |
Cohen and Tate (1989) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8fafe9aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8fafe9aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cohen and Tate | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8fafe9aa | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8fbee4de | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8fbee4de | comment |
Sea of Love (1989). Stars Al Pacino and John Goodman as NYPD detectives investigating a string of murders, and Pacino's character falling in love with the main suspect. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8fbee4de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_8fbee4de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sea of Love | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_8fbee4de | |
| Film Noir Index / int_90b916ba | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_90b916ba | comment |
Batman: The Animated Series (1992) and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_90b916ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_90b916ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_90b916ba | |
| Film Noir Index / int_91395986 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_91395986 | comment |
The Woman in White | |
| Film Noir Index / int_91395986 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_91395986 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Woman in White | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_91395986 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9247bdfb | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9247bdfb | comment |
Pickup on South Street (1953). Samuel Fuller-directed film about a hoodlum who is given a chance to redeem himself by fighting against a Communist ring. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9247bdfb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pickup on South Street | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_93281b94 | comment |
Hell Drivers (1957). The British film industry is constantly debated over whether it made noirs or not (there was a genre popular in the 1950s named "crime thrillers" which was very similar), however, this movie ticks most of the trope boxes. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_93281b94 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Hell Drivers | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_93281b94 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9715a003 | comment |
Please Murder Me! (1956). A lawyer wins an acquittal for his client, a woman accused of murder. After the verdict, he finds out that she indeed did commit the murder and manipulated him to win her acquittal. Guilt-ridden, and knowing that she can't be tried again for the murder, he devises a plan to bring her to justice. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9715a003 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9715a003 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Please Murder Me! | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_9715a003 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_99fbdbbe | comment |
The Long Goodbye (1973). Robert Altman makes this half-parody of noir progenitor Philip Marlowe. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_99fbdbbe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Long Goodbye | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_99fbdbbe | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9ab0c422 | comment |
The Good Thief (2002) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9ab0c422 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9ab0c422 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Good Thief | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_9ab0c422 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9ac053cb | comment |
Cat People (1942) is a film noir disguised as a horror film. It inspired the film noir style that would dominate RKO Pictures during the 1940s. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9ac053cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Cat People | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_9ac053cb | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9aeda8f8 | comment |
Out of the Fog (1941) - A gangster's (John Garfield) racket (and romancing of his daughter, Ida Lupino) pushes a fisherman (Thomas Mitchell) too far and he plots his murder. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9aeda8f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Out of the Fog | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9c6379d7 | comment |
Lady in the Lake (1947). Robert Montgomery directs this hard-boiled Raymond Chandler mystery with Ur-Example use of a film shot entirely in P.O.V. Cam. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9c6379d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9c6379d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lady in the Lake | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_9c6379d7 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9cb9965c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9cb9965c | comment |
La Bête Humaine (1937). A proto-noir about a violently jealous husband, his faithless wife, and her lover whom she asks to murder her husbands. Much of the Film Noir set-up, but different in that the lover does not murder the husband, but instead has a mental breakdown which leads to a different murder. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9cb9965c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| La Bête Humaine | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_9cb9965c | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9dbc17a5 | comment |
The Bribe (1949). A federal agent travels to the Caribbean to investigate an illegal aircraft-engine smuggling ring and finds himself falling for the wife of one of the smugglers. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9dbc17a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9dbc17a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Bribe | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_9dbc17a5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9dec5fef | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9dec5fef | comment |
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) | |
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1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9dec5fef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cast a Deadly Spell | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
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The Set-Up (1949), directed by Robert Wise, this movie follows an old boxer (Robert Ryan) as he tries to ascend to the big time. The only problem is that he's been set-up to lose. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9ea5e626 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Set-Up | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_9ea5e626 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9f47f15a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9f47f15a | comment |
Arsène Lupin (2004) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Arsène Lupin (2004) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_9f47f15a | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9f48001f | comment |
Joker (2019), an origin story for the Joker, set in a 1980s Gotham City exceedingly grim, economically-depressed, and crime-ridden even for the standards of the time and the Real Life New York City it's based on. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_9f48001f | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Film Noir Index / int_9f48001f | |
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Film Noir Index | |
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Mirage (1965) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Mirage (1965) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_a092fc4a | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a09b76a | comment |
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) is noir through and through, right down to the music and the dress styles. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a09b76a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Film Noir Index / int_a09b76a | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a0afc60 | comment |
The Vampire Countess, by Paul Féval, is ambiguous about its supernatural elements: the title character may just be a Manipulative Bitch con woman and a Femme Fatale. Also has a Noir-style Anti-Hero who knocks up a teenage girl who falls in love with him, but he is then seduced by the Femme Fatale. And it in general depicts the seedy underworld of 1804 Paris. John Devil by the same author, while not as Noir like in general, does anticipate the classic Femme Fatale in the Detective's office scene. |
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| Film Noir Index / int_a0afc60 | featureApplicability |
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Film Noir Index / int_a0afc60 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
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8mm (1999) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| 8mm | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
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Night Moves (1975) | |
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1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a5750484 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Night Moves | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_a5750484 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a73dab0d | type |
Film Noir Index | |
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Body Double (1984) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a73dab0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a73dab0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Body Double | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_a73dab0d | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a8f58e7c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a8f58e7c | comment |
Lady Audley's Secret | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a8f58e7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_a8f58e7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lady Audley's Secret | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_a8f58e7c | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aa0908ec | comment |
Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions (1995) combines noir elements with Lovecraftian body horror. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aa0908ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aa0908ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lord of Illusions | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_aa0908ec | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aa824e07 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aa824e07 | comment |
The Last Seduction (1994) is a Deconstruction of the Femme Fatale plot. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aa824e07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aa824e07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Last Seduction | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_aa824e07 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ac0dc876 | comment |
Nightcrawler (2014) | |
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1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ac0dc876 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nightcrawler | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_ac0dc876 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ad1ac198 | comment |
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932). A random man is caught up in a robbery and the legal system never ceases to hunt him down. An anti-establishment film with a famous finale. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ad1ac198 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ad1ac198 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Film Noir Index / int_ad1ac198 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_add22323 | comment |
Elevator to the Gallows (1958) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_add22323 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_add22323 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Elevator to the Gallows | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_add22323 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aecab | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aecab | comment |
Gattaca (1997) is, in many ways, a noir-style Spiritual Successor to Brave New World, incorporating noir motifs into a society of Designer Babies. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aecab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_aecab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gattaca | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_aecab | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_af88df81 | comment |
Kiss Me Deadly (1955). Adaptation of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novel, with a heavily rewritten narrative involving nuclear secrets. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_af88df81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_af88df81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kiss Me Deadly | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_af88df81 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b07637b7 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b07637b7 | comment |
Sweet Smell of Success (1957). Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in a tale of sleazy sycophancy and borderline megalomania. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b07637b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b07637b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sweet Smell of Success | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b07637b7 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b36b5c6a | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b36b5c6a | comment |
Heat (1995) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b36b5c6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b36b5c6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Heat | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b36b5c6a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b3f99b81 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b3f99b81 | comment |
Woman on the Run (1950). Ann Sheridan stars as a woman desperately looking for her husband who witnessed a murder. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b3f99b81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b3f99b81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Woman on the Run | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b3f99b81 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b4afdc3c | comment |
Crossfire (1947). A detective investigates the murder of a Jewish man, which involves a group of soldiers from the local Army base. One of the first Hollywood films to deal with anti-Semitism as a theme. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b4afdc3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b4afdc3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Crossfire | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b4afdc3c | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b4f26a2e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b4f26a2e | comment |
High Sierra (1941). Considered as a transition film between the 1930s gangster films and the 1940s films noir. First leading role and Star-Making Role for Humphrey Bogart, who had already made a career of playing gangsters in crime films. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b4f26a2e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b4f26a2e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| High Sierra | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b4f26a2e | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b6f64f23 | comment |
The Bravados (1958). Possibly the purest example of the western noir. Gregory Peck plays a man chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town's jail, but they escape to Mexico. He pursues them; hunting them down one by one. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b6f64f23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b6f64f23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Bravados | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b6f64f23 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b8ca59c5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b8ca59c5 | comment |
On the Job (2013), a Filipino take on the genre, set in grim, polluted, overcrowded, and constantly flood-prone metropolitan Manila. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b8ca59c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b8ca59c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| On the Job | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b8ca59c5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9b1a907 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9b1a907 | comment |
Brick (2005), which is interestingly set in a High School. It also uses 1930s slang so thick you might need a translator. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9b1a907 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9b1a907 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Brick | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b9b1a907 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9da104e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9da104e | comment |
Enemy | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9da104e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9da104e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Enemy | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b9da104e | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9f4128d | comment |
Gilda (1946). A film set in the decadent atmosphere of post-war Buenos Aires. At its heart is a love-hate relationship between the male lead (and narrator) Johnny Farrell and female lead Gilda. A relationship with what critics call "dark and disturbing sadomasochistic sexual currents" which takes over the plot. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9f4128d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_b9f4128d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gilda | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_b9f4128d | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba2df16b | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba2df16b | comment |
Klute (1971) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba2df16b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba2df16b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Klute | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_ba2df16b | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba9a9454 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba9a9454 | comment |
Se7en (1995) | |
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1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba9a9454 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Se7en | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_ba9a9454 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba9cc368 | comment |
Shock (1946): A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba9cc368 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ba9cc368 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shock | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_ba9cc368 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_baa13f90 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_baa13f90 | comment |
Fallen Angels (1995) is a noir set in Hong Kong, made by Wong Kar-wai of Chungking Express fame. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_baa13f90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_baa13f90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fallen Angels | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_baa13f90 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_baaff358 | comment |
U Turn (1997) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_baaff358 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_baaff358 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| U Turn | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_baaff358 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bac75234 | comment |
Vicki (1953): The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bac75234 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bac75234 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vicki | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_bac75234 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bbdae55c | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bbdae55c | comment |
The Nice Guys (2016) A very troperiffic drama wherein a veteran thug and newbie PI try to find a missing girl, finding ties to a seemingly irrelevant pornstar's death in the process. It's another Shane Black detective movie, so it's naturally a love letter to noir through Black Comedy and Lampshade Hanging. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bbdae55c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bbdae55c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nice Guys | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_bbdae55c | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bc23c3e5 | comment |
The Asphalt Jungle (1950). One of the quintessential heist films, with a nice Retroactive Recognition role for Marilyn Monroe. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bc23c3e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bc23c3e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Asphalt Jungle | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_bc23c3e5 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bd38d766 | comment |
Angel Heart (1987) combines Noir with horror to stunning effect. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bd38d766 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bd38d766 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Angel Heart (1987) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_bd38d766 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bdcb382 | comment |
A Simple Plan (1998) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bdcb382 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_bdcb382 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Simple Plan | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_bdcb382 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_be2b796f | comment |
The Suppressor (2011), a British film about a Crusading Widower whose vigilante activities are funded by a mysterious benefactor, who might have an agenda of his own. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_be2b796f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_be2b796f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Suppressor | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_be2b796f | |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_c0107963 | comment |
Murder, My Sweet (1944). The first film adaptation of a Philip Marlowe novel and one of the highly-regarded depictions of the Hardboiled Detective in cinema. The so-called "standard private eye formula" (of seeking a missing person and ending up personally involved in a bizarre case) tends to follow the lead of this film. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_c0107963 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_c0107963 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Murder, My Sweet | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_c0107963 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
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The Lady from Shanghai (1947). Another Orson Welles entry in the genre. While in Central Park, seaman Michael O'Hara chances on a beautiful woman being assaulted. He rescues Elsa Bannister and is then offered a job on the yacht of her husband. Then a partner of said husband offers Michael a substantial sum of money, in exchange for helping him to fake his death. By taking this deal, Michael is caught in a trap. Just about every character seems to have his own agenda, in a film noted for its complex narrative, multiple agendas, and groundbreaking cinematography. | |
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Blade Runner (1982). One of the most influential examples of Cyberpunk showing its Noir pedigree. | |
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The Blue Dahlia (1946). A Navy officer returns from war service to discover that his son is dead (due to a traffic accident) and his wife unfaithful. When said wife is found murdered, the widower becomes one of several suspects in this murder case. The film is noted for its jaded view of what awaits the returning veterans of World War II, broken homes and nothing to return to. The protagonist himself has violent tendencies which are not particularly helping him adjust to civilian life even before the mystery begins. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_c1a7fe2a | featureApplicability |
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Film Noir Index | |
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The Enforcer (1951): The movie (told mainly through flashback) features the investigation of an organization based on the original Murder, Inc., as the police struggle to find a witness who can convict the Big Bad. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_c23cabeb | featureApplicability |
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Out of the Past (1947). In a small town in California, retired Private Detective Jeff Bailey romances local girl Ann Miller. When a figure from his past arrives and invites him to a meeting, Jeff accepts and takes Ann with him. He narrates to her a convoluted tale from his Dark and Troubled Past, including his former infatuation with Femme Fatale Kathie Moffat, and involvement with various shady characters. In the present, Kathie and several of these characters are also in California. The plots and schemes from his tale are still ongoing, and he still has a role to play in them. A film notorious for its complex script and ambiguity concerning the motivations and thought processes of every character, Jeff included. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_c2cbcf18 | featureApplicability |
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| Out of the Past | hasFeature |
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Body Heat (1981). A loose remake of Double Indemnity, with all the limits of the Code removed. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_c3719c2c | featureApplicability |
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| Body Heat | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_c4185e41 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_c4185e41 | comment |
Road to Perdition (2002) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Road to Perdition | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
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The Thin Man (1934). A Mystery Fiction film based on a Dashiell Hammett novel. While more light-hearted than proper noirs, it is still considered one of the best adaptations of the hard-boiled literary genre. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_c6399d4a | featureApplicability |
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Film Noir Index | |
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Stray Dog (1949), directed by Akira Kurosawa and set amidst the ruins of postwar Tokyo. | |
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| Stray Dog | hasFeature |
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Fatal Attraction (1987) has a famous spin on the Femme Fatale archetype. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_caef7cd1 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| Fatal Attraction | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_cb2a2391 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
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The Grifters (1990), based on another novel by Jim Thompson. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_cb2a2391 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Grifters | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_cc019e34 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933). A sequel to an earlier film and a story in which the eponymous Diabolical Mastermind seems to control an entire gang while incarcerated. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_cc019e34 | featureApplicability |
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| The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_cc8e3adc | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_cc8e3adc | comment |
Blue Velvet (1986) is a Suburban Gothic Noir by David Lynch. Has the trademark Lynch weirdness, but it's surprisingly downplayed and the plot is one of his most comprehensible. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_cc8e3adc | featureApplicability |
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| Blue Velvet | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_cce45c25 | comment |
The Bloody Olive (1997) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_cce45c25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_cce45c25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Bloody Olive | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_cea53bba | type |
Film Noir Index | |
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Kansas City Confidential (1952) A ex-con tries to clear his name and find out who commited the robbery he was accused of. | |
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| Kansas City Confidential | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d093557f | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| Devil in a Blue Dress | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_d16ec0d2 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d16ec0d2 | comment |
Judgment Night (1993) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d16ec0d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d16ec0d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Judgment Night | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_d16ec0d2 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d1c8b416 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d1c8b416 | comment |
Charley Varrick (1973) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d1c8b416 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Charley Varrick | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_d1dd2388 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d1dd2388 | comment |
Le Samouraï (1967). Along with really anything directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d1dd2388 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d1dd2388 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Le Samouraï | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_d221a5cd | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d221a5cd | comment |
Little Caesar (1931), a crime drama depicting the rise and fall of an organized crime leader. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d221a5cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d221a5cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Caesar | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_d221a5cd | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d319bcd9 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d319bcd9 | comment |
The Night of the Hunter (1955). Charles Laughton only directed one picture; he made it a memorable one, a cross between noir and horror highlighted by Robert Mitchum as a fake, and psychotic, Sinister Minister. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d319bcd9 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| The Night of the Hunter | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_d3634dbb | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d3634dbb | comment |
Casablanca (1943). Wartime drama which has been listed as another major influence on the genre. The lighting and visuals were similar but darker to those of The Maltese Falcon. The setting in a shady and exotic bar of Morocco, the cynical and world-weary protagonist, the adulterous undertones of the main Love Triangle, a narrative populated by gangsters, black marketeers, con-artists, corrupt cops, and fleeing refugees willing to make deals to save their skins all add to the general mood of melancholy and pessimism. Casablanca as depicted here is a City Noir. Or in the words of Sheri Chinen Biesen, "a cramped, crowded, where an underworld climate and abundant dubious nocturnal activity proliferate". | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d3634dbb | featureApplicability |
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| Casablanca | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d4222dba | comment |
The Batman (2022) is heavily influenced by classic noir films, even more so than The Dark Knight Trilogy, playing up Batman's detective side and featuring noir trademarks such as a grimy Wretched Hive city as the main setting, a mysterious and deadly Serial Killer, a morally ambiguous (albeit sympathetic) Femme Fatale, and layers of political corruption beneath the surface. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d4222dba | featureApplicability |
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| The Batman (2022) | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_d45f8aa3 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d45f8aa3 | comment |
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_d4eb8b20 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d4eb8b20 | comment |
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d4eb8b20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d4eb8b20 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_d4eb8b20 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d6a2059f | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d6a2059f | comment |
The Last Boy Scout (1991) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d6a2059f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_d6a2059f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Last Boy Scout | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
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The Harder They Fall (1956). | |
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| Film Noir Index / int_d6d0751b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Harder They Fall (1956) | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
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Nightmare Alley (1947). Stanton Carlisle works at a Crappy Carnival but has ambitions to improve his life. He seduces an older woman, has-been Fortune Teller Mademoiselle Zeena, to learn the secrets that had once made her a star. Then abandons her to start a lucrative career as a Phony Psychic and Con Man. An alliance with amoral psychologist Lilith Ritter will help him prey on her wealthy patients. But then his greatest scheme backfires. His guild-ridden wife Molly exposes him to their latest victim, effectively ending his career. Lilith cheats him out of his share for their schemes and financially ruins him. A flop at the time of release, currently listed among the classics of the genre. | |
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Film Noir Index | |
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Nightmare Alley (2021) - a remake of Nightmare Alley (1947). A Villain Protagonist applies the tricks he learned at a circus mind-reading act to fleecing the ultra-rich. | |
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Film Noir Index | |
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White Sands (1992) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| White Sands | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
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American Gigolo (1980) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| American Gigolo | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_dc2911ac | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dc2911ac | comment |
Blast of Silence (1961) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blast of Silence | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_dc6148d5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dc6148d5 | comment |
Payback (1999) | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dc6148d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dc6148d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Payback | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_dc6148d5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dca2a470 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
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Touch of Evil (1958). Usually cited as the last of the greatest films of the "classic noir" era. Orson Welles and Charlton Heston star in a dark tale of police corruption and moral ambiguity on the Mexican-American border. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dca2a470 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Touch of Evil | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_dcf2b363 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dcf2b363 | comment |
Scarlet Street (1945). Directed by Fritz Lang. A mild-mannered bank clerk falls for a Femme Fatale, who teams with her sleazy boyfriend to bleed him for money. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dcf2b363 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Scarlet Street | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_dd51f005 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dd51f005 | comment |
Lust for Gold (1949). An odd Noir/Western hybrid, the story plays out in two time periods. In the present day, Barry Storm searches for his grandfather's legendary gold mine, only to find it is at the centre of a string of murders. A series of flashbacks show the bloody path that led to 'Dutch' Walz acquiring the mine, and subsequently losing it. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_dd51f005 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Lust for Gold | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_ddba3ce8 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ddba3ce8 | comment |
The John Wick film series tackles a gripping tale of vengeance in a neon-lit Wainscot Society of gangsters and assassins: The first John Wick (2014) follows a retired assassin, recently widowed and left a dog by his late wife. When the son of a criminal Kingpin breaks into his home to steal his car, killing the dog in the process, the hitman comes out of retirement on a bloody path of vengeance. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) |
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| Film Noir Index / int_ddba3ce8 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| John Wick (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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| Film Noir Index / int_ddf8bc61 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ddf8bc61 | comment |
American Hustle (2013) has quite a lot of Noir-ish content, with two Villain Protagonists who are forced to put their skills to work for an FBI agent (who isn't particularly straight-and-narrow himself) while struggling with their own consciences. Notable for the film's heroine (played by Amy Adams) being a Femme Fatale...but a highly sympathetic one. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_ddf8bc61 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| American Hustle | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_ddf8bc61 | |
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Film Noir Index | |
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Dark Passage (1947). A bleak adaptation of a David Goodis novel. A man wrongly convicted of murdering his own wife escapes prison. He hopes to Clear His Name but the goal remains out of reach for most of the film. The film was one of the earliest to extensively use subjective camera angles to hide the face of the protagonist. This obscuring technique is used for about 1/3 of its duration. It was also notable for defying Hays Code standards in its finale. The actual murderer commits suicide. The protagonist never clears his name and remains the main suspect of an additional murder. Instead of a stereotypical "justice prevails" ending, the man will remain a fugitive for life. The film originally received mixed reviews, but has since gained a pretty good reputation. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_de7cdb3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Dark Passage | hasFeature |
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Film Noir Index | |
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Lady on a Train (1945). n New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_df35ec4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_df35ec4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lady on a Train | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_df35ec4a | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e01d9467 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e01d9467 | comment |
The Turning Point (1952). A Crusading Lawyer goes up against a criminal syndicate in his city, and discovers his own father may be involved. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e01d9467 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e01d9467 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Turning Point (1952) | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_e01d9467 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e03e6433 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e03e6433 | comment |
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). A rich hypochondriac marries a working-class man, but her controlling ways leads to both their downfalls. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e03e6433 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e03e6433 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sorry, Wrong Number | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_e03e6433 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e0b37bfe | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e0b37bfe | comment |
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955). | |
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1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e0b37bfe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cast a Dark Shadow | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_e0b37bfe | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e251c6c5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e251c6c5 | comment |
The Big Clock (1948). A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e251c6c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Big Clock | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_e251c6c5 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e2eb4ecf | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e2eb4ecf | comment |
The Big Night (1951): A teenager comes of age while seeking revenge on the man who beat up his father. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e2eb4ecf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e2eb4ecf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Big Night | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_e2eb4ecf | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e333198e | type |
Film Noir Index | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e333198e | comment |
The Big Sleep (1946). A Philip Marlowe film, particularly noted for its "labyrinthine" complexity and enigmatic ambiguity. | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e333198e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e333198e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Big Sleep | hasFeature |
Film Noir Index / int_e333198e | |
| Film Noir Index / int_e3f8e7b5 | type |
Film Noir Index | |
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The Bigamist (1953). A lonely travelling salesman marries Ida Lupino but he's already married to Joan Fontaine. | |
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Jagged Edge (1985) | |
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Disclosure (1994) | |
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Suddenly (1954). Intersects with Thriller; a hit man (Frank Sinatra) holds a family hostage in a small California town when he plans to assassinate the President from their living room window. | |
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Invisible Avenger (1957). Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader. Film Noir meets Proto-Superhero. | |
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Freeway (1996) which used noir elements combined with fairy tale references. | |
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99 River Street (1953). A cabbie and former boxer must team up with an actress friend after his wife's body gets dumped in the back of his taxi to frame him. Essentially a film homage to the more pulp-oriented writings of the era. | |
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A Kiss Before Dying (1956), adapted from the novel by Ira Levin. Remade in 1991. | |
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They Drive by Night (1940). Often cited as a noir, mostly for Ida Lupino's great Femme Fatale, Lana Carlsen. | |
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Renaissance (2006) (Black-and-white CG movie set in Paris, IN THE FUTURE) | |
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Deep Cover (1992) | |
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The Killer That Stalked New York (1950). A Dramatization Very Loosely Based on the smallpox outbreak in New York City in 1947. | |
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The Phenix City Story (1955). A Ripped from the Headlines story about the assassination of Albert Patterson in Phenix City, Alabama the previous year. | |
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The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959). Starring a pre-fame Steve Mc Queen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. | |
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Johnny Cool (1963) | |
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The Black Dahlia (2006). Brian De Palma-directed try at "the ultimate film noir". Known for its super-stylization and very complicated plot. | |
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The Killers (1946). A life insurance investigator takes a closer look at a murder case, and finds out that the victim is linked to a past robbery and $250,000 in cash. | |
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The Killing (1956). Stanley Kubrick heist film famous for its non-linear plot and for sort-of providing inspiration for Reservoir Dogs. | |
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This Gun for Hire (1942). Based on a Graham Greene novel, though with some material reworked for wartime-propaganda reasons. Professional Killer Philip Raven completes an assignment and is then double-crossed by his latest employer. He sets out to get revenge. Meanwhile, Nightclub Singer Ellen Graham is recruited by the federal authorities to spy on her current boss, who is suspected to be a fifth columnist. Raven and Graham are unknowingly Working the Same Case and their paths cross. A major hit for the film noir genre, and the film which turned Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake into "reliable box office draws". | |
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Hangmen Also Die! (1943). A Very Loosely Based on a True Story Dramatization of the aftermath of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. | |
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The Petrified Forest (1936). A hitchhiker and a wanted criminal get stuck in a tiny bistro in the middle of the Arizona Desert. The criminal is not much of a jerkass as he appears to be. | |
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The Departed (2006) | |
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The Machinist (2004) uses Film Noir atmosphere in a psychological drama. | |
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The Drowning Pool (1975) | |
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I Want to Live! (1958). | |
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Killer's Kiss (1955). | |
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Straight Time (1978) | |
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The Bourne Series (2002-2007) has a heavy neo-noir feel in many scenes. | |
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Citizen Kane (1941). While often excluded from lists, its visual style and "voice-over driven narrative structure" are widely cited as extremely influential to the genre. | |
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The Big Easy (1986): Corruption in New Orleans, with a great Cajun/Creole soundtrack. | |
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The Big Heat (1953). A cop takes on a powerful crime syndicate following the mysterious suicide of another cop. | |
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John Devil by the same author, while not as Noir like in general, does anticipate the classic Femme Fatale in the Detective's office scene. | |
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Blade Runner 2049, the 2017 sequel, will be an attempt to recapture said Noir pedigree, with 2010s cinematography. | |
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Whirlpool (1950). Another Otto Preminger outing with Gene Tierney. Here she's a kleptomaniac involved in a murder due to hypnoses. | |
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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) is essentially a neo-noir movie with martial arts action and homages to other movies such as Apocalypse Now. | |
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Drive (2011) (2011) | |
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945). A psychological thriller about romantic obsession featuring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde and Vincent Price, and an early example of full color noir. | |
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Red Rock West (1993) | |
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White Heat (1949). James Cagney stars in this complex, psychological take on his typical gangster persona. Famous for his final line. | |
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Gaslight (1944). In Victorian London, a Con Man (and a male version of the Femme Fatale) marries a young woman solely to get hold of her late aunt's fortune. He almost succeeds by dimming the gas lamps in the house and convincing his wife (when she notices) that she is going mad - �in fact, this is the Trope Namer for the Gaslighting method of psychological torment. | |
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