Topic: Neo-noir

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Song Kang-ho · Kim Sang-Kyung · Kim Roe-ha · Song Jae-ho

Plot South Korea in 1986 under the military dictatorship: Two rural cops and a special detective from the capital investigate a series of brutal rape murder. Their rude measures become more...

Direction Adolfo Aristarain

Cast Federico Luppi · Haydée Padilla · Julio De Grazia · Ulises Dumont

Plot A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the friend...

Direction Sam Mendes

Cast Tom Hanks · Paul Newman · Jude Law · Tyler Hoechlin

Plot The Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John Rooney (Paul Newman). The mobsters...

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · Robert Mitchum · Polly Bergen · Lori Martin

Plot Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Lino Ventura · Paul Meurisse · Raymond Pellegrin · Christine Fabréga

Plot Gustave Manda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends, and get involved in a gangland killing. Before...

Direction Michael Mann

Cast Robert De Niro · Al Pacino · Val Kilmer · Jon Voight

Plot Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are finally together on screen in this story about an intense rivalry between expert thief Neil McCauley (De Niro) and volatile cop Vincent Hanna...

Direction David Lynch

Cast Kyle MacLachlan · Isabella Rossellini · Dennis Hopper · Laura Dern

Plot Returning home to visit his father who is in intensive care at the hospital, Jeffrey Beaumont stumbles upon a human ear he finds in a field. With local police detective...

Direction David Lynch

Cast Bill Pullman · Balthazar Getty · Patricia Arquette · Robert Loggia

Plot Saxophonist Fred Madison and his wife Renee are troubled by a series of videotapes left at their door that show someone entering their house and filming them while they sleep....

Direction Paul McGuigan

Cast Josh Hartnett · Bruce Willis · Lucy Liu · Ben Kingsley

Plot In a classic case of mistaken identity, a man (Josh Hartnett) is confused with the friend whose apartment he is staying in, and forced by a gangland boss (Ben Kingsley)...

Direction Robert Rodriguez · Frank Miller · Quentin Tarantino

Cast Bruce Willis · Mickey Rourke · Clive Owen · Rosario Dawson

Plot A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv,...

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Steve McQueen · Ali MacGraw · Ben Johnson · Sally Struthers

Plot Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) has been granted parole. The catch is that Sheriff Beynon expects a small favor from McCoy for his generosity: robbing another bank! Beynon does not really...

Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Glen Powell · Adria Arjona · Austin Amelio · Retta

Plot Gary Johnson is the most sought-after professional killer in New Orleans. To his clients, he is like something out of a movie: the mysterious gun for hire. But if you...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Billy Bob Thornton · Frances McDormand · Tony Shalhoub · James Gandolfini

Plot In the summer of 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), the local barber in a small northern California town, is dissatisfied with his life. In the hopes of turning his...

Direction Adolfo Aristarain

Cast Federico Luppi · Julio De Grazia · Soledad Silveyra · Ulises Dumont

Plot A hitman tries to solve the mysterious connection between the wife of his last victim and the man who is his next target.

Direction Joel Coen

Cast John Getz · Frances McDormand · Dan Hedaya · Samm-Art Williams

Plot Abby is cheating on her saloonkeeper husband, Marty. The object of her affections is Ray, one of Marty's bartenders. Marty hires Visser, an unscrupulous detective, to kill them. But Visser...

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Kim Greist · Michael Palin · Katherine Helmond

Plot The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a...

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Burt Lancaster · Susan Sarandon · Hollis McLaren · Kate Reid

Plot Lou is a small time gangster, who thinks he used to be something big. He meets up with a younger girl, Sally, who is learning to be a croupier. Her...

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Robert De Niro · Jessica Lange · Nick Nolte · Juliette Lewis

Plot Max Cady is a psychopath just released from prison for rape. He is out seeking revenge from his lawyer Sam Bowden who he believes deliberately held back important information about...

Direction José Luis Garci

Cast Alfredo Landa · María Casanova · José Bódalo · Manuel Tejada

Direction Allen Baron

Cast Allen Baron · Molly McCarthy · Larry Tucker · Peter H. Clune

Plot Having been 'away' for some time professional killer Frankie Bono returns to New York to do another job: assassinate some mid-level mobster. Although intending to avoid unnecessary 'contact' while carefully...