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....
Twin Peaks: Season 2 - Part 1 (1990)
8.8/10
Director: Caleb Deschanel, David Lynch, Duwayne Dunham, Lesli Linka Glatter, Tim Hunter, Tina Rathborne, Todd Holland
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Joan Chen, Piper Laurie, Madchen Amick, Dana A...
The long-awaited Second Season DVDs are here! In Part One Agent Cooper is shot by a mysterious assailant, and receives some bizarre clues from a gian... Read more
Twin Peaks: Season 2 - Part 2 (1991)
8.8/10
Director: Caleb Deschanel, David Lynch, Duwayne Dunham, Lesli Linka Glatter, Mark Frost, Tim Hunter
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Joan Chen, Piper Laurie, Madchen Amick, Dana A...
Agent Cooper finds himself under investigation by his bosses as the search for Laura's killer heats up and things just get weirder and weirder. Creat... Read more
Underneath (1994)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner, Adam Trese, Joe Don Baker, Pa...
Aka "The Underneath". A drifter returns home to attend his mother's wedding, and foolishly tries to pick up pieces of his life before he left town. So... Read more
Union City (1980)
6.5/10
Director: Marcus Reichert
Starring: Deborah Harry, Dennis Lipscomb, Everett McGill, Irina Maleeva, Sam McMurray, Pat...
Echoing the film noirs of the 1950s, Marcus Reichert's powerful production is the epitome of understated, yet deeply affecting film making. A represse... Read more
Veronica Mars: Season 1 (2004)
8.4/10
Starring: Kristen Bell, Percy Daggs III, Teddy Dunn, Jason Dohring, Francis Capra, Enrico...
A little bit Buffy. A little bit Bogart. A dash of Nancy Drew. Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) is an outcast in a trendy SoCal beach town. Once she ran w... Read more
Veronica Mars: Season 2 (2005)
8.4/10
Starring: Kristen Bell, Percy Daggs III, Teddy Dunn, Jason Dohring, Francis Capra, Ryan Ha...
Season 2 of this cult favourite begins when Veronica misses the bus - a school bus that minutes later plunges off a cliff into the Pacific. It may be... Read more
Veronica Mars: Season 3 (2006)
6.7/10
Starring: Francis Capra, Tina Majorino, Enrico Colantoni, Kristen Bell, Percy Daggs III, J...
Hearst College, jewel of the Pacific. A citadel of higher education set amid rolling lawns and swaying palms. But since Hearst is in Neptune, Californ... 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