Le Samouraï (1967)
Melville's 1967 French crime film. Alain Delon as the hitman in trench coat and fedora.
1960sMelville's 1967 French crime film. Alain Delon as the hitman in trench coat and fedora.
2000s
2000sKim Jee-woon's 2005 Korean crime drama. Lee Byung-hun as a hotel enforcer one mistake from death.
1990s
1980sJohn Woo's 1989 Hong Kong heroic bloodshed film. Chow Yun-fat as a hitman trying to retire.
2000sLau and Mak's 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller. Two moles on opposite sides.
2000sBong Joon-ho's 2003 procedural. Based on the real Hwaseong murders.
1960s
1970sPolanski's 1974 Los Angeles neo-noir. The water-rights conspiracy that defined New Hollywood pessimism.
1950sWilder's 1959 cross-dressing comedy. Lemmon and Curtis on the run, Monroe in her last great performance.
1940sChandler 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.
1940sHuston's 1941 directorial debut. The film that established American film noir as a coherent style.
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