Criterion Collection Themes - Noir and Neonoir
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Some call it a genre, others a movement, or even a fashion statement, but however one defines noir, with its signature femmes fatales, wisecracking tough guys, and dramatic, high-contrast cinematography, its appeal never seems to wane. Though its origins are in German expressionism and French crime films of the thirties, film noir has always been a distinctly American film movement, influenced and shaped as it was by American pulp fiction, wartime gender politics, and postwar nuclear anxieties. And since its forties and fifties heyday, the legacy of noir has spread everywhere—from Kurosawa (High and Low) to the French new wave (Alphaville) to the proliferation of “neonoirs” in the eighties (Coup de torchon) and nineties (Insomnia). Color may have seeped into noir’s rich gray palette over the years, but some things never change: anxiety, disillusionment, panic.
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56 new
The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
8 new
À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
16 new
Les diaboliques
1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check -
50 new
Le samouraï
1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check -
26 new
Tengoku to jigoku
1963 — a.k.a. High and Low, in 16 top lists Check -
34 new
The Killing
1956, in 15 top lists Check -
47 new
Du rififi chez les hommes
1955 — a.k.a. Rififi, in 18 top lists Check -
36 new
Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
59 new
Le trou
1960 — a.k.a. Le Trou, in 15 top lists Check -
4 new
L'armée des ombres
1969 — a.k.a. Army of Shadows, in 18 top lists Check -
2 new
Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
1965 — a.k.a. Alphaville, in 13 top lists Check -
32 new
The Killers
1946, in 15 top lists Check -
10 new
Le cercle rouge
1970 — a.k.a. The Red Circle, in 11 top lists Check -
20 new
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
1958 — a.k.a. Elevator to the Gallows, in 10 top lists Check -
51 new
Tirez sur le pianiste
1960 — a.k.a. Shoot the Piano Player, in 10 top lists Check -
46 new
Pickup on South Street
1953, in 14 top lists Check -
35 new
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1976, in 8 top lists Check -
24 new
The Game
1997, in 3 top lists Check -
44 new
Night and the City
1950, in 12 top lists Check -
52 new
Nora inu
1949 — a.k.a. Stray Dog, in 9 top lists Check -
7 new
Koroshi no rakuin
1967 — a.k.a. Branded to Kill, in 8 top lists Check -
38 new
The Long Good Friday
1980, in 12 top lists Check -
42 new
The Naked City
1948, in 9 top lists Check -
17 new
Le doulos
1962 — a.k.a. The Informer, in 10 top lists Check -
61 new
Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari
1979 — a.k.a. Vengeance Is Mine, in 10 top lists Check -
54 new
Thief
1981, in 5 top lists Check -
21 new
Europa
1991 — a.k.a. Zentropa, in 4 top lists Check -
58 new
Touchez pas au grisbi
1954 — a.k.a. Hands Off the Loot, in 5 top lists Check -
5 new
Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
1960 — a.k.a. The Bad Sleep Well, in 3 top lists Check -
15 new
Le deuxième souffle
1966 — a.k.a. Second Breath, in 5 top lists Check -
45 new
Kawaita hana
1964 — a.k.a. Pale Flower, in 7 top lists Check -
43 new
The Naked Kiss
1964, in 6 top lists Check -
9 new
Brute Force
1947, in 6 top lists Check -
18 new
Yoidore tenshi
1948 — a.k.a. Drunken Angel, in 7 top lists Check -
41 new
Mona Lisa
1986, in 5 top lists Check -
60 new
Underworld
1927, in 9 top lists Check -
13 new
Coup de torchon
1981 — a.k.a. Coup de Torchon, in 6 top lists Check -
22 new
Following
1998, in 2 top lists Check -
57 new
Tôkyô nagaremono
1966 — a.k.a. Tokyo Drifter, in 6 top lists Check -
55 new
Thieves' Highway
1949, in 5 top lists Check -
23 new
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973, in 4 top lists Check -
30 new
Insomnia
1997, in 2 top lists Check -
19 new
Forbrydelsens element
1984 — a.k.a. The Element of Crime, in 4 top lists Check -
40 new
Ministry of Fear
1944, in 3 top lists Check -
6 new
Blast of Silence
1961, in 2 top lists Check -
33 new
The Killers
1964, in 6 top lists Check -
27 new
The Hit
1984, in 5 top lists Check -
11 new
Classe tous risques
1960 — a.k.a. Classe Tous Risques, in 3 top lists Check -
12 new
Koruto wa ore no pasupooto
1967 — a.k.a. A Colt Is My Passport, in 3 top lists Check -
3 new
Der amerikanische Soldat
1970 — a.k.a. The American Soldier, in 1 top list Check
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