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....
Pulp Fiction ( Blu-ray ) (1994)
8.9/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Harvey Keitel, Jo...
An audacious crime thriller that won 'Best Picture' at the Cannes Film Festival and is one exhilarating ride from start to finish. John Travolta and S... Read more
Pulp Fiction (1994)
8.9/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, John Travolta, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Pl...
An audacious crime thriller that won 'Best Picture' at the Cannes Film Festival and is one exhilarating ride from start to finish. John Travolta and S... 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
Red Rock West (1993)
7/10
Director: John Dahl
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dennis Hopper
Nicolas Cage comes to town looking for work. He goes into the pub, where the barman mistakes him for a hired killer, and pays him to murder his wife.... Read more
The Last Seduction (1993)
7.1/10
Director: John Dahl
Starring: Peter Berg, Linda Fiorentino, J T Walsh, Bill Nunn, Bill Pullman
Scorching modern film noir starring Linda Fiorentino as sexy, manipulative Bridget Gregory, who persuades her physician husband to deal drugs. Bridget... Read more
Basic Instinct ( Blu-ray ) (1992)
6.9/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Controversial, sexually-charged suspenser stars Michael Douglas as a burned-out San Francisco police detective investigating a brutal ice-pick murder... Read more
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
7.2/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Kyle MacLachlan, Madchen Amick, Moira Kelly, Harry Dean St...
Prequel to the surreal TV series dealing with the last seven days of Laura Palmer's life; the homecoming queen with the plethora of secrets in her clo... Read more
Final Analysis (1992)
5.8/10
Director: Phil Joanou
Starring: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts
A stylish thriller about a psychiatrist who becomes involved with a patient's unhappily married sister - only to find himself enmeshed in an elaborate... Read more
Basic Instinct (1992)
6.9/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Michael Douglas, George Dzundza, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Controversial, sexually-charged suspenser stars Michael Douglas as a burned-out San Francisco police detective investigating a brutal ice-pick murder... Read more
Homicide (1991)
7.1/10
Director: David Mamet
Starring: Joe Mantegna, William H Macy, Natalija Nogulich
Award winning playwright David Mamet's third outing as director is a gritty crime drama about a cop taken off the biggest case of his life into a seem... Read more