Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Sin City (2005)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Feat. Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen… - A sensational slab of stylized and ultra–violent pulp fiction, adapted from Frank Miller's own notorious 'crime noir' comicbooks, and…
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…
Deep End, The (2001)- Dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Feat. Tilda Swinton - Immaculate remake of Max Ophuls’ ‘The Reckless Moment’ follows the original closely but scores bonus points from Tilda Swinton’s taut…
Man Who Wasn't There, The (2001)- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini… - The Coen Brothers chalk up another film in love with film, an attractive but slender paean to 1950s pulp melodramas, with its nostalgia–soaked…
Croupier (2000)- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Clive Owen, Alex Kingston - Leaving for dead most of the so–called ‘Brit–Crime’ genre, this return–to–notice gem from the director of GET CARTER…
Metropolis (2000)- Dir. Rinataro
- Visually splendid ‘future–noir’ set in a teeming, multi–leveled city, inhabited by several storylines: a detective quest, the…
Limey, The (1999)- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman… - A muscular revenge picture steered by a gifted director not afraid to experiment, Terrence Stamp plays an aging Cockney career criminal who, fresh…
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