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Neo-noir

These films add modern sensibility to the style and themes of classic film noir of the 40s and 50s.

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  • A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
    DVD, 2016[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2016] — DVD BLOOD S
  • Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens, a police officer who goes undercover as 'John Hull,' the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (Jeff Goldblum), in order to bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA.
    DVD, 2021[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021] — DVD DEEP CO
  • Decision to Leave

    헤어질결심

    A man falls from a mountain peak to his death. The detective in charge of the investigation, Hae-Joon, comes to meet the dead man's wife Seo-Rae. When she becomes a suspect, Hae-Joon finds himself slowly developing an interest in her.
    DVD, 2022[London] : Mubi, [2022] — DVD DECISIO
  • Corky, a tough ex-con, and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal $2 million of mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend.
    DVD, 2012[Saint Charles, Ill.] : Olive Films ; [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Paramount, [2012] — DVD BOUND
  • Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor,…
    DVD, 2012Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2012. — DVD DRIVE
  • When John Murdoch wakes with no memory at the scene of a grisly murder, he soon finds himself hunted by the police, a woman claiming to be his wife, and a mysterious group of pale men.
    DVD, 2008[United States] : New Line Home Entertainment, [2008] — DVD DARK CI
  • A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.
    DVD, 2006Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006] — DVD BODY HE
  • From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society.
    DVD, 2022[Los Angeles, CA] : 20th Century Studios, [2022] — DVD NIGHTMA
  • This 1950s crime thriller brings together dirty cops, gangsters, politicians, and tabloid blackmailers.
    DVD, 2015Los Angeles, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2015] — DVD L A CON
  • The secret in their eyes

    El secreto de sus ojos

    A crime-thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina, told through flashbacks.
    DVD, 2010Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2010] — DVD SECRET
  • A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife.
    DVD, 2005Universal City, CA : Focus Features : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2005] — DVD BIG LEB
  • Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.'
    DVD, 2010Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2010] — DVD BLADE R
  • While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition and does so well he gets sent to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and gets caught up in a twisted murder mystery.
    DVD, 2006Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006] — DVD KISS KI
  • The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
    DVD, 2002Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video, [2002?] — DVD DICK TR
  • Welcome to Sin City, the town that beckons to the tough, the corrupt, and the brokenhearted. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still try to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
    DVD, 2011Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2011] — DVD SIN CIT
  • Small-town detective John Klute (Sutherland) comes to New York to investigate the disappearance of a friend. The trail leads to Bree Daniels (Fonda), a call girl, with whom Klute falls in love. She is being stalked by a psychotic murderer.
    DVD, 2002Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2002] — DVD KLU27
  • A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
    DVD, 2005Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [2005] — DVD FARGO
  • A seemingly routine matrimonial snooping job mushrooms into a murderous scandal in pre-World War II Los Angeles.
    DVD, 2017Hollywood, California : Paramount, [2017] — DVD CHINATO
  • Leonard Shelby is searching for the man who raped and murdered his wife. He survived, but developed a mind block due to the attack. He can remember everything from before, but memories of anything that followed come and go every few minutes.
    DVD, 2018[Los Angeles, California] : Samuel Goldwyn Films, [2018] — DVD MEMENTO
  • The twists and turns of one night in the life of a New York yuppie and the interesting people he comes in contact with from a sexy woman to a crazy ice cream dealer.
    DVD, 2004Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004] — DVD AFTER H