Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Film Noir: 207 Films to Rent on DVD
- Wild Side (1995)
- Dir. Donald Cammell
Feat. Anne Heche, Christopher Walken, Joan Chen…
- Bank exec Anne Heche moonlights as a hooker to service a debt and initiates a twisted game of role–playing with miscreants Christopher Walken…
- China Moon (1994)
- Dir. John Bailey
Feat. Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe
- Contemporary film noir, replete with lust–struck fall–guy (Ed Harris), shadowy femme fatale (Madeleine Stowe), a murdered husband, and…
- Equinox (1993)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Marisa Tomei…
- Matthew Modine plays good and evil identical twins whose parallel lives intersect. The eclectic mix of styles may strike one's fancy in the right…
- Last Seduction, The (1993)
- Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, J.T. Walsh…
- Magnificent modern noir in which Linda Fiorentino offers the most brazen female performance in years, power–driving her way through a script…
- Red Rock West (1993)
- Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle
- Throw a hapless hero, a femme fatale and a greedy bastard into a desert town seething with infidelity, guns, stolen loot, and set it to a bluesy…
- Light Sleeper (1992)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany…
- Writer of TAXI DRIVER delivers a complex, understated character study of an ex–junkie drug–courier (Willem Dafoe) unable to escape the…
- Night and the City (1992)
- Dir. Irwin Winkler
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange
- Robert De Niro stars with Jessica Lange as a two–bit lawyer who struggles to fulfil his aspirations as a boxing promoter. Gritty, realistic Big…
- Public Eye, The (1992)
- Dir. Howard Franklin
Feat. Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle
- Fascinating 40s film noir homage with Joe Pesci in a taylor–made role as a tabloid photographer whose seedy contacts enable him to be first on…
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi…
- Partners–in–crime Keitel, Roth, Buscemi, Madsen and others reel from a botched jewel heist in an abandoned warehouse. Tarantino's…
- White Sands (1992)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke…
- When Deputy Willem Dafoe discovers a dead man and half a million bucks, we know something is mighty queer. Enter Mickey Rourke and all is explained.