Subgenre Sampler
Film Noir: 238 Films to Buy & Rent
- Missing Person, The (2009)
- Dir. Noah Buschel
Feat. Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Frank Wood
- A strange hybrid of neo–noir gestures and the contemporary human condition, with dough–faced Michael Shannon (perfect as a Bogart stand…
- Square, The (2008)
- Dir. Nash Edgerton
Feat. David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton
- Hard–and–fast noir with an Aussie twang, hatched from a plot to make off with a mobster’s stash of cash, and the luckless turn of…
- Tender Hook, The (2008)
- Dir. Jonathan Ogilvie
Feat. Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving, Matthew Le Nevez…
- Noted for its production design and cinematography, this film captures the visual mood of 1920s Sydney to enfold a melodrama of corruption,…
- Man from London, The (2007)
- Dir. Bela Tarr
Feat. Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton
- Bela Tarr's dense, mesmeric imagery is married to the traditions of film noir in this strikingly opaque detective story, set on the weathered…
- 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…
- Renaissance (2006)
- Dir. Christian Volckman
Feat. Daniel Craig, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm…
- Painting a typically bleak, oppressive view of the not–to–distant future, this French animation conception realises its dystopian malaise…