Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Film Noir: 146 Films to Rent
- 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…
- Golden Gate (1993)
- Dir. John Madden
Feat. Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Bruno Kirby
- Rookie FBI agent Matt Dillon is assigned to expose subversives in McCarthy–era San Fransisco, but years later becomes embroiled with the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Final Analysis (1991)
- Dir. Phil Joanou
Feat. Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman
- Modern attempt at an old–fashioned mystery is more ambitious than it is convincing. Fans of Richard Gere and Kim Basinger may think otherwise.
- Shattered (1991)
- Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi…
- Tom Berenger plays an amnesia victim perturbed with the fragments of his former life and the suspicious antics of his friends. An innocent victim or…
- Catchfire (1990)
- Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster
- An engaging oddity directed by Dennis Hopper under a pseudonym, after producers cut the film from its original 3hr length. Hopper himself plays a…