Rififi (1955)
Jules Dassin's 1955 French heist. Thirty-two-minute silent jewelry heist sequence.
Genre: Film Noir (Page 2)
CrimeWhite Heat (1949)
Raoul Walsh's 1949 noir gangster. Cagney as psychopathic mama's boy Cody Jarrett.
Film NoirThe Third Man (1949)
Carol Reed's 1949 post-war Vienna thriller. Joseph Cotten investigates Orson Welles.
CrimeDouble Indemnity (1944)
Chandler co-wrote with Wilder. Double Indemnity is the Billy Wilder-directed Paramount Pictures noir that became the canonical template for the genre's mature middle period.
DramaSunset Boulevard (1950)
Wilder's 1950 Hollywood gothic. Sunset Boulevard is the Billy Wilder film noir that became Hollywood's most lacerating film about itself.
CrimeThe Maltese Falcon (1941)
Huston's 1941 directorial debut. The film that established American film noir as a coherent style.
CrimeChinatown (1974)
Polanski's 1974 Los Angeles neo-noir. The water-rights conspiracy that defined New Hollywood pessimis.
CrimeWhere the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Otto Preminger's 1950 film noir with Dana Andrews. Detective accidentally kills suspect then frames innocent man.
CrimeL.A. Confidential (1997)
Curtis Hanson's 1997 neo-noir on 1950s LAPD corruption. The rare adult crime film that respects its audience.
ActionMemento (2000) Review
Christopher Nolan's directorial breakthrough. Guy Pearce's career-defining performance.
CrimeVice Noir Movies – Where the City Eats Its Own
The darkest streets of American cinema — twenty films that descend into urban vice, neon-lit corruption, and moral rot with the unflinching eye of a crime reporter and the visual grammar of noir. These are the movies that looked at…
DystopianDark City (1998) Review
Dark City is the most underrated film in the history of science fiction cinema. It arrived in 1998, one year before The Matrix, explored several of the same fundamental questions about manufactured reality and the nature of consciousness, and was…