Topic: Neo-noir

Direction David Fincher

Cast Brad Pitt · Morgan Freeman · Gwyneth Paltrow · Kevin Spacey

Plot Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a retiring police detective, as he experiences his final week on the job, reluctantly working with assertive...

Direction Steven Knight · Colm McCarthy · Tim Mielants · Otto Bathurst

Cast Cillian Murphy · Sam Neill · Paul Anderson · Helen McCrory

Plot TV Series (2013-Present). 7 Seasons. A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, Peaky Blinders centres on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and...

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Harrison Ford · Rutger Hauer · Sean Young · Daryl Hannah

Plot Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a retired cop in Los Angeles in 2019. L.A. has become a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well as replicants,...

Direction Quentin Tarantino

Cast Tim Roth · Harvey Keitel · Chris Penn · Steve Buscemi

Plot They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought...

Direction Terence Winter · Timothy Van Patten · Allen Coulter · Jeremy Podeswa

Cast Steve Buscemi · Kelly MacDonald · Shea Whigham · Michael Shannon

Plot TV Series (2010-2014). 5 Seasons. From Terence Winter, the Emmy Award winning writer of 'The Sopranos' and Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese. Set in the Prohibition era of the...

Direction Bryan Singer

Cast Kevin Spacey · Gabriel Byrne · Chazz Palminteri · Benicio del Toro

Plot Director Bryan Singer's labyrinthine crime drama centers on five career criminals who meet after being rounded up for a standard police line-up. Upon their release, the men band together to...

Direction Shin'ichirō Watanabe

Plot TV Series (2001-2002). 1 season. 26 episodes. In the year 2071, the Solar System is linked by a network of hyperspace gateways. Police lose their grasp on crime and a...

Direction Christopher Nolan

Cast Guy Pearce · Carrie-Anne Moss · Joe Pantoliano · Mark Boone Junior

Plot Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder. His quality of life has been...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jack Nicholson · Faye Dunaway · John Huston · Perry Lopez

Plot It is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes...

Direction Guy Ritchie

Cast Nick Moran · Jason Flemyng · Jason Statham · Dexter Fletcher

Plot When streetwise charmer Eddy (Nick Moran), the son of steely bar owner JD (Sting), botches a gambling scheme with his dad’s nemesis, porn king Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty), he’s got...

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast Kevin Costner · Sean Connery · Robert De Niro · Andy García

Plot Kevin Costner is idealistic federal agent Eliot Ness, whose assignment to clean up Prohibition-era Chicago leads to violence and manly questions about upholding the law. Initially powerless to stop the...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Marcia Gay Harden · Albert Finney · Jon Polito

Plot The 20s. An Irish gangster (Albert Finney) and his trusted lieutenant (Gabriel Byrne) and counselor find their domination of the town threatened by an ambitious Italian underboss (Jon Polito). Just...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Frances McDormand · William H. Macy · Steve Buscemi · Peter Stormare

Plot Poor Jerry Lundegaard. He's deep in debt. His wealthy father-in-law has no respect for him. He cheats customers at the car dealership where he works. And now he's hired a...

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Steve Buscemi · Michael Pitt · Kelly MacDonald · Michael Shannon

Plot January 1920. On the eve of Prohibition, Atlantic City's Treasurer, Nucky Thompson, condemns alcohol at a Women's Temperance League meeting, where he is noticed by Margaret Schroeder, a pretty, pregnant...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takeshi Katô · Masayuki Mori · Takashi Shimura

Plot A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet...

Direction Curtis Hanson

Cast Guy Pearce · Russell Crowe · Kevin Spacey · Kim Basinger

Plot Take strong performances, an involved story and period atmosphere, then throw in sex, violence, corruption and politics to make one hell of a crime drama. It’s the early ‘50s. Hopefuls...

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Denzel Washington · Russell Crowe · Carla Gugino · Cuba Gooding Jr.

Plot Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas, the quiet driver for one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Nathalie Delon · Caty Rosier · François Périer

Plot Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Bourvil · Gian Maria Volonté · Yves Montand

Plot Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Serge Reggiani · Jean Desailly · Michel Piccoli

Plot Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend...