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Anyone wanna recommend some good film noir movies? I watched The Maltese Falcon last night, and enjoyed it quite a bit. I bought this set today. I will post back here after I have watched some of them.
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Film noir is a stylistic approach to genre films forged in depression-era detective and gangster movies and hard-boiled detective stories which were a staple of pulp fiction
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The Killing
The Third Man
Rififi (Not really a noir film, but you'll like it)
The Big Sleep
Double Indemnity
Touch of Evil
Sunset Boulevard
Strangers on a Train
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Clubber wrote:
what's a "noir"?
Noir is French for "dark." Like the other guy said, it's basically all the black and white detective films with the distinctive dark tone and shadows and such.
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M The Killing The Third Man Rififi (Not really a noir film, but you'll like it) The Big Sleep Double Indemnity Touch of Evil Sunset Boulevard Strangers on a Train
Very good list. You might also want to check out L.A. COnfidential, which is considered to be a "modern film noir."
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mowbs wrote:
#42 wrote:
M The Killing The Third Man Rififi (Not really a noir film, but you'll like it) The Big Sleep Double Indemnity Touch of Evil Sunset Boulevard Strangers on a Train
Very good list. You might also want to check out L.A. COnfidential, which is considered to be a "modern film noir."
I only mentioned movies that qualify not only by theme and visual style, but also by period. Most critics say the film-noir era is starts and ends with Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) and Touch of Evil (1958) respectively.
If we include modern noir as well, then Chinatown can't be omitted. And neither can Dark City.
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Big Pink wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
How the fuck has no one mentioned Laura yet?! For shame!
Wus that
Only one of the absolute best film noirs ever made! From 1944, starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, and Vincent Price. About a detective investigating the murder of a woman, but aren't they all? Directed by Otto Preminger. It's #01 in the Fox Film Noir series, and I highly recommend it.
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