neo-noir movies

Indexed titles: 49

The Dark Knight

2008

Rating: 8.5

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantl...

The Batman

2022

Rating: 7.7

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer...

Knives Out

2019

Rating: 7.8

When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detectiv...

Pulp Fiction

1994

Rating: 8.5

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic ...

Shutter Island

2010

Rating: 8.2

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane...

Nightcrawler

2014

Rating: 7.7

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to b...

John Wick: Chapter 2

2017

Rating: 7.3

John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a...

Blade Runner

1982

Rating: 7.9

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants...

Se7en

1995

Rating: 8.4

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunt...

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

Rating: 7.7

With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick ...

Heat

1995

Rating: 7.9

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vince...

The Usual Suspects

1995

Rating: 8.2

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but wa...

No Country for Old Men

2007

Rating: 7.9

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looki...

Drive

2011

Rating: 7.6

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's bee...

Prisoners

2013

Rating: 8.1

Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and...

Deep Cover

1992

Rating: 6.8

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colo...

Polar

2019

Rating: 6.3

When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ru...

Uncut Gems

2019

Rating: 7.2

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the w...

Looper

2012

Rating: 6.9

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they wi...

The Big Lebowski

1998

Rating: 7.8

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski...

Repo Men

2010

Rating: 6.3

In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they defaul...

Gunshy

1998

Rating: 5.4

When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He...

Inherent Vice

2014

Rating: 6.5

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend....

The Embalmer

2002

Rating: 7.2

Peppino, a diminutive taxidermist with a reputation for sleaziness, meets Valerio, a handsome if artless much younger man fascinated by the ...

Memories of Murder

2003

Rating: 8.1

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three incr...

Honey Don't!

2025

Rating: 5.7

Honey O'Donahue, a small-town private investigator, delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church....

Insomnia

2002

Rating: 7.0

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a lo...

Fargo

1996

Rating: 7.8

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap...

Training Day

2001

Rating: 7.5

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears....

L.A. Confidential

1997

Rating: 7.8

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun s...

Sin City

2005

Rating: 7.5

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those wh...

Collateral

2004

Rating: 7.2

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an ...

The Nice Guys

2016

Rating: 7.1

A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy....

The Killers

1964

Rating: 6.9

A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away....

Nightmare Alley

2021

Rating: 7.0

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even...

Basic Instinct

1992

Rating: 6.9

Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had...

The Crow

1994

Rating: 7.5

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched...

Goldstone

2016

Rating: 5.9

Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation...

Body Double

1984

Rating: 6.8

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hi...

Chinatown

1974

Rating: 7.9

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful sociali...

In Bruges

2008

Rating: 7.5

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss t...

Blue Velvet

1986

Rating: 7.6

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub sin...