Contemporary Noir
While a film noir movies lists generally include films from the 1940s and 1950s, it is also possible to find examples of new film noir movies, as well as those made in the 1970, 1980, 1990s and 2000s. French for black film, noir movies routinely feature morally ambiguous characters committing crimes with greed or lust as a motivation. Hard-boiled private eyes and treacherous dames are also staples of the genre....
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
7.5/10
Director: Tom Ford
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Linney, Michael Shannon, Michael Sheen, Amy Adams, Isla F...
From the wholly unexpected opening credit sequence, in which overweight women dance joyously in a cloud of glitter, Tom Ford challenges expectations a... Read more
Nocturnal Animals ( Blu-ray ) (2016)
7.5/10
Director: Tom Ford
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Linney, Michael Shannon, Michael Sheen, Amy Adams, Isla F...
From the wholly unexpected opening credit sequence, in which overweight women dance joyously in a cloud of glitter, Tom Ford challenges expectations a... Read more
Inherent Vice (2014)
6.7/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoo...
Joaquin Phoenix is woozily perfect as stoned LA beach bum and private investigator Doc Sportello, lured by his ex into a missing person enquiry thats... Read more
Inherent Vice (Blu-ray) (2014)
6.7/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoo...
Joaquin Phoenix is woozily perfect as stoned LA beach bum and private investigator Doc Sportello, lured by his ex into a missing person enquiry thats... Read more
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
6.5/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Starring: Bruce Willis, Christopher Lloyd, Dennis Haysbert, Jeremy Piven, Joseph Gordon-Le...
This film is the sequel to 2005s 'Sin City' and is based on Frank Miller's popular, violent and sexy comic series. 'Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame... Read more
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Blu-ray/3D) (2014)
6.5/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Starring: Bruce Willis, Christopher Lloyd, Dennis Haysbert, Jeremy Piven, Joseph Gordon-Le...
This film is the sequel to 2005s 'Sin City' and is based on Frank Miller's popular, violent and sexy comic series. 'Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame... Read more
Zulu (2013)
6.7/10
Director: Jerome Salle
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Orlando Bloom
Ali Neuman survived the violence that rocked Apartheid era South Africa when he was a child to become head of the homicide branch of the Cape Town pol... Read more
The Double (2013)
6.5/10
Director: Richard Ayoade
Starring: Cathy Moriarty, James Fox, Noah Taylor, Wallace Shawn, Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasi...
Deadpan Richard Ayoade's follow-up to the terrifically spiky teen black comedy Submarine is a Dostoevsky-inspired tale of a nerdy office clerk, Simon... Read more
The Canyons (2013)
3.8/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Gus Van Sant, Amanda Brooks, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk, Tenil...
Notorious writer Bret Easton Ellis ("American Psycho") and acclaimed director Paul Schrader ("Auto Focus") join forces for this explicitly erotic thri... Read more
Hotel Noir (2012)
5.6/10
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
Starring: Carla Gugino, Danny DeVito, Robert Forster, Rufus Sewell, Rosario Dawson, Mandy...
Downtown Los Angeles, sometime in the 1950s. Nighttime. A detective checks into a hotel across from the train station and waits. He knows it's simply... Read more