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Films Noirs Index
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An index for films noirs. | |
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Fight Club (1999) has many elements of noir pop up amid all the craziness.... | |
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The Third Man (1949). | |
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Point Blank (1967). | |
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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). | |
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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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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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Bullitt (1968). | |
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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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Blood Simple. (1985). | |
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Apocalypse Now (1979). Although not immediately obvious, this movie is actually a very sneaky case of Genre-Busting, following a typical Film Noir plot structure with Kurtz's crime being the mystery to be solved. | |
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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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Rebecca (1940). A mystery thriller with Gothic Horror elements. A number of film critics, such as Patrick Brion, regard it as "the first true film noir" and others term it a "gothic noir". | |
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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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Brainstorm (1965). | |
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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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Breathless (1960). | |
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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 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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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. | |
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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. | |
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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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Give 'Em Hell, Malone (2009) is a very knowing mild parody of the hard-boiled detective kind of storyline. | |
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I Wake Up Screaming (1941) | |
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) . | |
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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958). | |
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Blood and Wine (1996) | |
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | |
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Hard Eight (1996) | |
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The Spirit (2008). Oh man, The Spirit. | |
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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. Udo is a Psycho for Hire with a distinctive laugh (a "high-pitched falchetto), best used when disposing victims in sadistic ways. A character often compared to The Joker. | |
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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? | |
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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. | |
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M (1931), a German Expressionistic movie by Fritz Lang, starring Peter Lorre as a peculiarly sympathetic Serial Killer. Not quite noir, but getting there. | |
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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. | |
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Marlowe (1969). | |
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Basic Instinct (1992) | |
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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. | |
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Romeo Is Bleeding (1993) | |
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Sunset Boulevard (1950). Satire of Hollywood and the passing nature of fame, especially for silent-era stars. | |
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Sunset Boulevard | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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Hit Team (2001) | |
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While the City Sleeps (1956). A Fritz Lang noir with touches of comedy. | |
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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. | |
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The Element of Crime (1984) is simultaneously a Homage and a Deconstruction of the genre. | |
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The Element of Crime | hasFeature |
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Mulholland Dr. (2001) | |
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Mulholland Falls (1996) | |
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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. | |
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Night and the City (1950). | |
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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. | |
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Beyond the Forest | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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Odds Against Tomorrow | hasFeature |
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In a Lonely Place (1950). | |
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InALonelyPlace | hasFeature |
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The Spanish Prisoner (1997) | |
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The Spanish Prisoner | hasFeature |
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The Usual Suspects (1995), whose title comes from a famous line in Casablanca. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). The second adaptation of the novel is (as you might expect) more explicitly sexy than the 1946 version. | |
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The Wrong Man (1957). Alfred Hitchcock film starring Henry Fonda as a man falsely accused of murder because he happens to look like the real deal. | |
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The Wrong Man | hasFeature |
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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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AceInTheHole | hasFeature |
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The Reckless Moment (1949). Max Ophuls' last American film, and it stars Joan Bennett and James Mason. | |
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The Reckless Moment | hasFeature |
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Zero Focus (1961). A Japanese example of Film Noir. | |
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Zero Focus | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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Winter's Bone | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Laura | hasFeature |
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The Roaring Twenties (1939). Crime thriller covering the Prohibition era. | |
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The Roaring Twenties (1939) | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_5c9b7531 | type |
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Collateral (2004) | |
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Collateral | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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Force of Evil | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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Minority Report | hasFeature |
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The Salton Sea (2002) | |
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1.0 | |
The Salton Sea | hasFeature |
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Chinatown (1974). | |
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Chinatown | hasFeature |
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No Man of Her Own (1950). Directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Barbara Stanwyck. | |
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No Man of Her Own (1950) | hasFeature |
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Public Enemies (2009) | |
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1.0 | |
Public Enemies | hasFeature |
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The Hunters (1996) | |
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1.0 | |
The Hunters | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_62f94c6 | type |
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The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012) plays up the noirish aspects of Batman. | |
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The Dark Knight Trilogy | hasFeature |
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). A rare noir taking place in sunny, but still craptastic Mexico. | |
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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. | |
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The Prestige and Inception have elements of noir, but each is a Genre Buster of sorts. | |
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The Prestige | hasFeature |
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Shoot the Piano Player (1960). | |
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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. | |
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Man Bites Dog | hasFeature |
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Thunder on the Hill (1951). | |
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Angel Heart (1987) combines Noir with horror to stunning effect. | |
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AngelHeart | hasFeature |
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Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) | |
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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). | |
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Key Largo | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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Zootopia | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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Insomnia | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_7eebaad5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_7eebaad5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Niagara | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_7f3b2653 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_7f3b2653 | featureConfidence |
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Detour | hasFeature |
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Miller's Crossing (1990), loosely based off of the Dashiell Hammett novel The Glass Key. | |
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1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_819c32d2 | featureConfidence |
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Miller's Crossing | hasFeature |
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Lost Highway (1997) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_829cc68f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_829cc68f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Lost Highway | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_82ab051c | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index | |
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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. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Freaks | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_86774115 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_86774115 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
TheMalteseFalcon | hasFeature |
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Taxi Driver (1976). | |
Films Noirs Index / int_880276e0 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_880276e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Taxi Driver | hasFeature |
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Reservoir Dogs (1992) is Quentin Tarantino's non-linear spin on the "heist film" subgenre. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8a95e28c | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_8a95e28c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Reservoir Dogs | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_8a95e28c | |
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Films Noirs Index | |
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Some of the darker Arsène Lupin stories, particularly 813 | |
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Films Noirs Index / int_8bad4425 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Arsène Lupin | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_8c7e8130 | type |
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Films Noirs Index / int_8c7e8130 | comment |
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8c7e8130 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8c7e8130 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
TheManWhoWasntThere | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8d6c924b | comment |
Looper (2012), a Time Travel sci-fi noir. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8d6c924b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8d6c924b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Looper | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_8ddf0a16 | type |
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Films Noirs 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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8ddf0a16 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_8ddf0a16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Angels with Dirty Faces | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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Double Indemnity | hasFeature |
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Road House (1948). Robert Widmark falls for a singer, Ida Lupino, but she's in love with his best friend. | |
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Films Noirs Index / int_8e7b1952 | featureConfidence |
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Road House (1948) | hasFeature |
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On Dangerous Ground (1952). A brutal cop falls in love with the blind sister of a murderer. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8ec058 | featureApplicability |
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On Dangerous Ground | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs 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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8f046057 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_8f046057 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Following | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_8f99f9f4 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_8f99f9f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Double Life | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_90b916ba | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_90b916ba | comment |
Batman: The Animated Series (1992) and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_90b916ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_90b916ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_91395986 | type |
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The Woman in White | |
Films Noirs Index / int_91395986 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_91395986 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Woman in White | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9247bdfb | featureApplicability |
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Pickup on South Street | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_93281b94 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_93281b94 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hell Drivers | hasFeature |
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The Long Goodbye (1973). | |
Films Noirs Index / int_99fbdbbe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_99fbdbbe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Long Goodbye | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_9aabc91d | comment |
The Web (1947). A bodyguard who killed a man defending his client starts to suspect that there was something more to the incident. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9aabc91d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9aabc91d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Web | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_9ab0c422 | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9ab0c422 | comment |
The Good Thief (2002) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9ab0c422 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9ab0c422 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Good Thief | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_9ab0c422 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9ac053cb | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs 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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9ac053cb | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_9ac053cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Cat People | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_9c6379d7 | type |
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Films Noirs Index / int_9c6379d7 | comment |
Lady in the Lake (1947). | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9c6379d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9c6379d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Lady in the Lake | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_9cb9965c | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9cb9965c | comment |
La Bete 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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9cb9965c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9cb9965c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
La Bête Humaine | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_9cb9965c | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9f47f15a | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9f47f15a | comment |
Arsène Lupin (2004) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9f47f15a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_9f47f15a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Arsène Lupin (2004) | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_9f47f15a | |
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Mirage (1965). | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a092fc4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a092fc4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mirage (1965) | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_a09b76a | comment |
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) is noir through and through, right down to the music and the dress styles. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a09b76a | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_a09b76a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Thirteenth Floor | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs 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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Films Noirs Index / int_a0afc60 | featureApplicability |
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The Vampire Countess | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_a328d9b5 | type |
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8mm (1999) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a328d9b5 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_a328d9b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
8mm | hasFeature |
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Night Moves (1975). | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a5750484 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a5750484 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Night Moves | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_a73dab0d | type |
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Body Double (1984). | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a73dab0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a73dab0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Body Double | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_a8f58e7c | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a8f58e7c | comment |
Lady Audley's Secret | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a8f58e7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_a8f58e7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Lady Audley's Secret | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_a8f58e7c | |
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Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions (1995) combines noir elements with Lovecraftian body horror. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_aa0908ec | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
Lord of Illusions | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_aa824e07 | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_aa824e07 | comment |
The Last Seduction (1994) is a Deconstruction of the Femme Fatale plot. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_aa824e07 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_aa824e07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Seduction | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_aa824e07 | |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_ab466b68 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_ab466b68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Public Enemy | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_ad1ac198 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_ad1ac198 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | hasFeature |
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Gattaca (1997) is, in many ways, a noir-style Spiritual Successor to Brave New World, incorporating noir motifs into a society of Designer Babies. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_aecab | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_aecab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gattaca | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_b07637b7 | type |
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957). | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b07637b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b07637b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sweet Smell of Success | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_b1170177 | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b1170177 | comment |
L.A. Confidential (1997) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b1170177 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b1170177 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
L.A. Confidential | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_b1b16811 | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b1b16811 | comment |
The Woman 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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b1b16811 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b1b16811 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
TheWomanInTheWindow | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_b1b16811 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b36b5c6a | type |
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Films Noirs Index / int_b36b5c6a | comment |
Heat (1995) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b36b5c6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b36b5c6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Heat | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_b36b5c6a | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b3f99b81 | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b3f99b81 | comment |
Woman on the Run (1950). Ann Sheridan stars as a woman desperately looking for her husband who witnessed a murder. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b3f99b81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b3f99b81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Woman on the Run | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_b3f99b81 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b4afdc3c | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b4afdc3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b4afdc3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Crossfire | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_b4afdc3c | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b4f26a2e | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs 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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b4f26a2e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b4f26a2e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
High Sierra | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_b4f26a2e | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b8ca59c5 | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
Films Noirs 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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b8ca59c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_b8ca59c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
On the Job | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_b8ca59c5 | |
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Brick (2005), which is interestingly set in a High School. It also uses 1930s slang so thick you might need a translator. | |
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Brick | hasFeature |
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Drive (2011) | |
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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. | |
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Klute (1971). | |
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Klute | hasFeature |
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Se7en (1995) | |
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Se7en | hasFeature |
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Fallen Angels (1995) is a noir set in Hong Kong, made by Wong Kar-wai of Chungking Express fame. | |
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Fallen Angels | hasFeature |
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Thief (1981). | |
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Thief | hasFeature |
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U Turn (1997) | |
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1.0 | |
U Turn | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950). One of the quintessential heist films, with a nice Retroactive Recognition role for Marilyn Monroe. | |
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The Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories helped popularize the detective genre, and the series is the Trope Namer for the Sherlock Scan. Not quite noir, but it certainly wouldn't be here without the series. | |
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A Simple Plan (1998) | |
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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. | |
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Murder, My Sweet | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_c04e7596 | featureApplicability |
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TheLadyFromShanghai | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_c1a7fe2a | 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. | |
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OutOfThePast | hasFeature |
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Body Heat (1981). A loose remake of Double Indemnity, with all the limits of the Code removed. | |
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Body Heat | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_c4185e41 | type |
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Road to Perdition (2002) | |
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1.0 | |
Road to Perdition | hasFeature |
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Dark City (1998) is a clever twist on City Noir and Always Night, along with an interesting foreshadow-by-a-year of The Matrix. | |
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Dark City | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_c6399d4a | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
The Thin Man | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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1.0 | |
Fatal Attraction | hasFeature |
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Blue Velvet (1986) is a Noir by David Lynch. Has the trademark Lynch weirdness, but it's surprisingly downplayed and the plot is one of his most comprehensible. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_cc8e3adc | featureApplicability |
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Blue Velvet | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_cce45c25 | type |
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The Bloody Olive (1997) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_cce45c25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_cce45c25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Bloody Olive | hasFeature |
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) | |
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1.0 | |
Devil in a Blue Dress | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_d1dd2388 | type |
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Le Samouraï (1967). Anything directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_d1dd2388 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_d1dd2388 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Le Samouraï | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_d221a5cd | type |
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Little Caesar (1931), a crime drama depicting the rise and fall of an organized crime leader. | |
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Films Noirs Index / int_d221a5cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Little Caesar | hasFeature |
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The Night of the Hunter (1955). | |
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The Night of the Hunter | hasFeature |
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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". | |
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Casablanca | hasFeature |
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) | |
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1.0 | |
AWalkAmongTheTombstones | hasFeature |
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The Last Boy Scout (1991) | |
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1.0 | |
The Last Boy Scout | hasFeature |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—both the Swedish trilogy (2005) and the David Fincher remake (2011). | |
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TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo | hasFeature |
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Blast of Silence (1961). | |
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1.0 | |
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Payback (1999) | |
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1.0 | |
Payback | hasFeature |
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Touch of Evil (1958). Usually cited as the last of the greatest film 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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_dca2a470 | featureApplicability |
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TouchOfEvil | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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Scarlet Street | hasFeature |
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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. | |
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American Hustle | hasFeature |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_de7cdb3e | featureApplicability |
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Dark Passage | hasFeature |
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The Big Sleep (1946). A Philip Marlowe film, particularly noted for its "labyrinthine" complexity and enigmatic ambiguity. | |
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The Big Sleep | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_e3f8e7b5 | type |
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The Bigamist (1953). A lonely travelling salesman marries Ida Lupino but he's already married to Joan Fontaine. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_e3f8e7b5 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_e3f8e7b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Bigamist | hasFeature |
Films Noirs Index / int_e3f8e7b5 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_e4dfb4e7 | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
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Disclosure (1994) | |
Films Noirs Index / int_e4dfb4e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_e4dfb4e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Disclosure | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_e74d3449 | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
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Freeway (1996) which used noir elements combined with fairy tale references. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_e74d3449 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_e74d3449 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Freeway | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_e77a4e2c | type |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_e77a4e2c | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_e77a4e2c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
99 River Street | hasFeature |
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A Kiss Before Dying (1956), adapted from the novel by Ira Levin. Remade in 1991. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_e8634d3c | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
A Kiss Before Dying | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_e8cbe2d9 | type |
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They Drive by Night (1940). Often cited as a noir, mostly for Ida Lupino's great Femme Fatale, Lana Carlsen. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_e8cbe2d9 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
They Drive by Night | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_e8e5606 | type |
Films Noirs Index | |
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Renaissance (2006) (Black-and-white CG movie set in Paris, IN THE FUTURE) | |
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1.0 | |
Renaissance | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_e9c807f1 | type |
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Deep Cover (1992) | |
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1.0 | |
Deep Cover | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index | |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_eb6ed4c1 | featureApplicability |
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Films Noirs Index / int_eb6ed4c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Black Dahlia | hasFeature |
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Films Noirs Index / int_ec001a91 | type |
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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. | |
Films Noirs Index / int_ec001a91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Films Noirs Index / int_ec001a91 | featureConfidence |
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The Killers | hasFeature |
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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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The Departed (2006) | |
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The Machinist (2004) uses Film Noir atmosphere in a psychological drama. | |
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I Want to Live! (1948). | |
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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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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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John Devil | hasFeature |
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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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Kiss Me Deadly (1955). Adaptation of Mickey Spillane's novel, with a heavily rewritten narrative involving nuclear secrets. | |
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Mike Hammer | hasFeature |
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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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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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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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