Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Film Noir: 152 Films to Buy & Rent
- Noise (2007)
- Dir. Matthew Saville
Feat. Brendan Cowell, Maia Thomas
- An impressive Australian modern 'noir', refreshingly off–centred around a hearing–afflicted cop who is assigned the night shift at a…
- Black Dahlia, The (2006)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank…
- Seething with atmosphere, this noir crime–drama (based on James Ellroy's novel) presents a complicated case of the unsolved Hollywood murder of…
- Good German, The (2006)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh takes another extravagant artistic punt with this meticulous pastiche of 1940's war stories, shot not only in…
- Hollywoodland (2006)
- Dir. Allen Coulter
Feat. Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck…
- The intriguing, mysterious circumstances surrounding George ‘Superman’ Reeves’ suicide are exhumed by a private eye (Adrien Brody) in this…
- Lonely Hearts (2006)
- Dir. Todd Robinson
Feat. John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto…
- The true tale of 1940s “lonely hearts killers”, Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez who would lure war widows through personal ads and…
- 13 Tzameti (2005)
- Dir. Géla Babluani
Feat. Aurelien Recoing, Georges Babluani
- Coolly disturbing noir thriller tracks the fate of a struggling immigrant labourer who intercepts a package with instructions that lead him into a…
- A History of Violence (2005)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris…
- An incisive take on the noir thriller from celebrated horror auteur David Cronenberg (EXISTENZ et al), in which a smalltown family man (Mortensen) is…
- Brick (2005)
- Dir. Rian Johnson
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin…
- Precocious neo–noir set amid the student body of a Californian high school with a bespectacled lad (Gordon–Levitt) taking a 'Sam Spade'…
- Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005)
- Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Feat. Angela Baraldi
- Oscar–winning–director Gabriele Salvatore's haughty thriller depicting a desperate private investigator who decides to re–examine…
- Confidence (2002)
- Dir. James Foley
Feat. Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy Garcia…
- In order to extricate himself from his last botched con, grifter Ed Burns enacts a monster scam against a crooked banker for mobster Dustin…