Posts Tagged ‘neo-noir’

Pacific Heights (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Melanie Griffith | Matthew Modine | Michael Keaton | Mako | Nobu McCarthy | Laurie Metcalf | Carl Lumbly | Dorian Harewood | Luca Bercovici | Tippi Hedren | Sheila McCarthy | Guy Boyd | Jerry Hardin | Dan Hedaya | James Staley
Directors: John Schlesinger
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A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords.

Juice (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Omar Epps | Tupac Shakur | Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins | Khalil Kain | Cindy Herron | Vincent Laresca | Samuel L. Jackson | George Gore II | Grace Garland | Queen Latifah | Bruklin Harris | Victor Campos | Eric Payne | Sharon Cook | Darien Berry
Directors: Ernest R. Dickerson
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4 Harlem teens, Q, Bishop, Raheem and Steel, are out skipping school one day when they find out an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar. After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, or juice. To get some, they rob a corner grocery store, but the lunatic Bishop intentionally shoots the clerk for no apparent reason. They run into an alley where Raheem tells Bishop to give him the gun, they fight, and Raheem gets shot. Only the other 3 know what happened, and Bishop wants to get rid of them too.

Murder in the First (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Christian Slater | Kevin Bacon | Gary Oldman | Embeth Davidtz | William H. Macy | Stephen Tobolowsky | Brad Dourif | R. Lee Ermey | Mia Kirshner | Ben Slack | Stefan Gierasch | Kyra Sedgwick | Alex Bookston | Richie Allan | Herb Ritts
Directors: Marc Rocco
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Henri Young (Kevin Bacon) was convicted for stealing 5$ from post office and sent to Alcatraz, the most secured jail for the most dangerous criminals. After a futile escape mission he was sent to dungeon and got out as a murderer after thousand days, though maximum 19 days in dungeon is the official punishment was allowed. He became scared and confused savage and killed one of the prisoners. It was a sure to lose case and so James Stamphill (Christian Slater), a fresh law graduate was appointed as his lawyer. But rest is history! Based on a true story, Murder in the first is a masterpiece by Marc Rocco shows how the dungeon of Alcatraz was shut down for ever!

Zero Effect (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Pullman | Ben Stiller | Ryan O'Neal | Kim Dickens | Angela Featherstone | Hugh Ross | Sarah DeVincentis | Matt O'Toole | Michele Mariana | Robert Katims | Tyrone Henry | Aleta Barthell | Tapp Watkins | Wendy Westerwelle | Lauren Hasson
Directors: Jake Kasdan
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Shifty timber tycoon Gregory Stark (’Ryan O’Neal’ (qv)) is being systematically blackmailed and the use of regular private detectives have proved ineffective. Stark decides to call upon the services of the renowned, reclusive Daryl Zero (’Bill Pullman (qv)), supposedly the world’s greatest detective. Stark is very surprised to find himself discussing the intimate details of the case with Zero’s amiable associate Steve Arlo (’Stiller, Ben’ (qv)) who explains Zero’s propensity for never meeting with clients. Zero, using his two ‘obs’ of objectivity and observation, quickly discovers the identity of the blackmailer but continues the case in order to discover exactly why the seemingly ordinary Gloria Sullivan (’Kim Dickens’ (qv)) is attacking Stark in this fashion. As Zero becomes more engrossed in the case and, even worse for him, becomes personally involved with Gloria he is forced to decide between the blackmailer and his client!

Murder at 1600 (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wesley Snipes | Diane Lane | Daniel Benzali | Dennis Miller | Alan Alda | Ronny Cox | Diane Baker | Tate Donovan | Harris Yulin | Tom Wright | Nicholas Pryor | Charles Rocket | Nigel Bennett | Tamara Gorski | Douglas O'Keeffe
Directors: Dwight H. Little
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When the murdered body of a young woman who works in the White House is found. Homicide detective Harlan Regis is called in. Upon arriving Senior Secret Service Agent Spikings objects to his presence, but he has the support of the National Security Adviser. Preliminary investigation suggests that it might be a sex crime. And Regis learns that the President’s son has a history of similar acts. He tries to get more info but Spikings’ impeding him but he is determined to find out what happened. Secret Service Agent Nina Chance tries to help him.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh | Daryl Hannah | William Sanderson | Brion James | Joe Turkel | Joanna Cassidy | James Hong | Morgan Paull | Kevin Thompson | John Edward Allen | Hy Pyke
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Four Brothers (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Tyrese Gibson | André Benjamin | Garrett Hedlund | Terrence Howard | Josh Charles | Sofía Vergara | Fionnula Flanagan | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Taraji P. Henson | Barry Shabaka Henley | Jernard Burks | Kenneth Welsh | Tony Nappo | Shawn Singleton
Directors: John Singleton
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.

The Lookout (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Jeff Daniels | Matthew Goode | Isla Fisher | Carla Gugino | Bruce McGill | Alberta Watson | Alex Borstein | Sergio Di Zio | David Huband | Laura Vandervoort | Greg Dunham | Morgan Kelly | Aaron Berg | Tinsel Korey
Directors: Scott Frank
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An admired high school hockey player (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend (Jeff Daniels) who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader (Matthew Goode) befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman (Isla Fisher) who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. Bruce McGill and Alberta Watson also co-star as the young man’s parents, who still search for the person that was there before the tragic crash.

The Good German (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Thompson | John Roeder | George Clooney | Tobey Maguire | Cate Blanchett | Dominic Comperatore | Dave Power | Tony Curran | Ravil Isyanov | J. Paul Boehmer | Igor Korosec | Boris Kievsky | Vladimir Kulikov | Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy | Aleksandr Sountsov
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain’s uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who’s now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he’s assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena’s keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.

Johnny Handsome (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Mickey Rourke | Ellen Barkin | Elizabeth McGovern | Morgan Freeman | Forest Whitaker | Lance Henriksen | Scott Wilson | David Schramm | Yvonne Bryceland | Peter Jason | J.W. Smith | Jeffrey Meek | Allan Graf | Ed Zang | John P. Fertitta
Directors: Walter Hill
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A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison.