Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Film Noir: 17 Films to Rent on VHS
- Four Days (2001)
- Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers…
- This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
- Unforgettable (1997)
- Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino
- A modern noir with a conceit lifted straight out of a sci–fi B–movie, cop Ray Liotta's obsession to learn the truth about his wife's…
- This World, Then the Fireworks (1996)
- Dir. Michael Oblowitz
Feat. Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Chet Baker…
- Billy Zane and Gina Gershon play bad seed twins seemingly bonded by irrational behaviour and an incestuous streak in 50s California. Stylised noir…
- Underneath, The (1995)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner
- A worldweary return to his home–town finds Peter Gallagher tempted all–too–easily into a dangerous criminal enterprise.
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- 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…
- Killer (1994)
- Dir. Mark Malone
Feat. Anthony LaPaglia, Mimi Rogers
- Ace hitman Anthony LaPaglia is hired to bump off glamour informant Mimi Rogers, whom he discovers is suicidal. Pacey and atmospheric, with an…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…