best neo-noir movies?

[Chefguy]

The Man Who Wasn’t There, a Coen Brothers shot at noir, starring Billy Bob Thornton.

[journeyman_southpaw]

A couple that I enjoyed but haven’t seen mentioned on this thread (or in the lists linked in post #2) are The Late Show (1977) and Trouble in Mind (1985).

[Dewey_Finn]

Edward Norton was in a movie last year called Motherless Brooklyn, from a 1999 novel of the same name. It was pretty good.

[drad_dog]

All the movies I’ve seen herein listed are great.

Zift - A weird eastern european movie that I would call scatological noir.

[LLCoolL]

The Last Seduction (1994), directed by John Dahl. Linda Fiorentino’s performance as Bridget Gregory - the femme fatale to end all femme fatales - briefly made her the Next Big Thing in Hollywood. (Alas, she subsequently starred in two turkeys in a row - **Jade **and Unforgettable - which killed her career momentum.)

See this movie, it’s amazing!

The Last Seduction

[LLCoolL]

@Mike_Mabes

B/W film noir is my favorite genre and I think I have seen all the great ones.

Neo-noir, well there is Body Heat, a favorite. Watching it now for about the 10th time. I’ve seen the one by Dennis Hopper, can’t remember the title now, and one with Madeline Stowe and Ed Harris, China Moon, pretty good.

The Dennis Hopper film you’re thinking of may be Red Rock West. That’s another excellent John Dahl film. Might also be The Hot Spot - directed by Hopper.

[Wendell_Wagner]

It’s not easy to figure out what happened to Linda Fiorentino’s career. I’ve just done some online searching on her name and found a lot of inconsistent statements about her. It appears to me that she appeared in a mixture of good and bad films from 1985 to 2002. After that, she was in one film in 2009. There’s nothing I could find online about what she’s done since then.

[Sparky812]

Some great choices here…

Surprised no one has mentionedMemento (2000)

[don_t_ask]

I think Memento is the most memorable noir thriller of the recent past, if I may be forgiven the joke.

[Isamu]

@Wendell_Wagner

It’s not easy to figure out what happened to Linda Fiorentino’s career. I’ve just done some online searching on her name and found a lot of inconsistent statements about her. It appears to me that she appeared in a mixture of good and bad films from 1985 to 2002. After that, she was in one film in 2009. There’s nothing I could find online about what she’s done since then.

Possibly a Wienstein encounter meant she was for everafter “difficult” to work with?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@don_t_ask

I think Memento is the most memorable noir thriller of the recent past, if I may be forgiven the joke.

I’m gonna forget you posted that. But yes, great film.

[Tinker_Grey]

Dark City

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Tinker_Grey

Dark City

Yes! See post 12.

[msmith537]

A couple I liked:

The Nice Guys (Ryan Gosling and Russel Crowe directed by Shane Black)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer, also directed by Shane Black)
Sin City
Road to Perdition
Drive
Basic Instinct

[Johnny_Ecks]

What about the Wachowskis Bound? Is that noir, or just noir adjacent?

[mbh]

@Johnny_Ecks

What about the Wachowskis Bound? Is that noir, or just noir adjacent?

Ethically questionable protagonists versus violent mafiosi. That’s as noir as it gets.

[fedman]

@mbh

Ethically questionable protagonists versus violent mafiosi. That’s as noir as it gets.

sorry, I couldn’t get past the lame dialogue (how many times saying "I knew you were going to say that’?)

[dorvann]

@Isamu

Possibly a Wienstein encounter meant she was for everafter “difficult” to work with?

“Difficult to work with” was how she(Linda Fiorentino) was described when she worked on Men on Black in 1997. As well as Dogma. I am not sure if it is true though. Or as you implied something else.

[Tinker_Grey]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Yes! See post 12.

Ah. I missed it. Nice to be in agreement.

[outlierrn]

@mbh

Ethically questionable protagonists versus violent mafiosi. That’s as noir as it gets.

I dunno, pretty happy ending for a true noir, IMHO.