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Just wondering if anyone knows of a good list or recommendation for off-beat film noir titles on DVD?

I've got most of the main stream ones covered List

So looking for titles not on the list...

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Angel Heart is alright, not positive if it would be considered noir.

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If you haven't seen The Third Man...then, yeah.

Also Brick is great. Film Noir set in a modern-day high school. Very cool.

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Blood Simple

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Night of the Hunter

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Touch of Evil
The Getaway (Peckinpah version)
The Grifters
Chinatown

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thief is film noir? if so, its thief, or house of games.

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I like Laura but it's on the wiki list

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Somewhat more serious noir: Red Rock West

Somewhat more funny noir: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

A classic, unbelievably not on the IMDb list: Chinatown

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Dark City- if you don't mind a mix of film noir and science fiction.

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how about Kiss Me Deadly?

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Blade Runner
Chinatown

honorable mention to Brick

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The Wiki page has like everything ever. For neo noir "The Last Seduction" was ok.

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One that hasn't been mentioned that I love, but didn't check the wiki:

Night and the City (original, not Deniro version)

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White Heat. James Cagney's best.

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One that hasn't been mentioned that I love, but didn't check the wiki:

Night and the City (original, not Deniro version)

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#22 on my list, I guess people did not realize it was a list. But thanks for the suggestions...

I joined netflix and decided to have my first 100 or so films just Noir....

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The Maltese Falcon
The Third Man
Sunset Blvd.

and yeah, Brick is great for a film-noir-like modern film.

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i know it's on the imdb list, but i wouldn't call "night of the hunter" film noir. i'd be interested to hear from people who think differently.

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Fav's pre-1950's....

I'm fond of Gun Crazy..

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so many good ones. one that came to mind is the man who wasn't there

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i know it's on the imdb list, but i wouldn't call "night of the hunter" film noir. i'd be interested to hear from people who think differently.

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That seems to be the rub with a lot of noir, there are some that everyone agrees as noir and MANY that folks don't see that way....
The absence of a femme fatale is one thing that always gets under my skin.....

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DOA (The original)
The Big Clock
Miller's Crossing
Out Of The Past

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Dark City

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

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The Man Who Wasn't There as well.

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The Killing. Stanley Kubricks noir. Awesome.

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no contest;

double indemnity

other very good ones;

sweet smell of success
postman always rings twice

rest you prolly have heard of like notorious and maltese falcon.

If Chinatown qualifies that should be on the list too.
Kurosawa has some good ones too in case your into Japanese movies.

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DOn't know if it counts, but Touch of Evil? I'm not sure if it is technically a film noir, but it seemed very noirish.

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i know it's on the imdb list, but i wouldn't call "night of the hunter" film noir. i'd be interested to hear from people who think differently.

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I think a lot of people think of film noir as being about detectives, etc... Here is a good definition I ran across:

"Film genre that offers dark or fatalistic interpretations of reality. The term is applied to U.S. films of the late 1940s and early '50s that often portrayed a seamy or criminal underworld and cynical characters. The films were noted for their use of stark, expressionistic lighting and stylized camera work, often employed in urban settings."

I think The Night of The Hunter fits. Regardless, it's an awesome movie that everyone should watch.

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there are no film noirs after the 50s, at least technically

however, there is the genre 'neo-noir'...go to imdb and do advanced search and put neo-noir as the keyword


it has any movie with film noir elements, so everything from blade runner to matrix to memento to sin city to pulp fiction to batman to the man who wasn't there

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Even thought it's on your list, "Touch of Evil" ranks as one of my favorite movies of all time. Whoever hasn't seen it needs to. I think it's Orson Welles best film.

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it has any movie with film noir elements, so everything from blade runner to matrix to memento to sin city to pulp fiction to batman to the man who wasn't there

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To be fair, I think several of those are film noir(are you implying blade runner doesn't fit, for example?), but it's a pretty silly discussion anyway.

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Blade Runner is my favorite all time movie, I love it more then I could ever love a woman.

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double indemnity

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i know it's on the imdb list, but i wouldn't call "night of the hunter" film noir. i'd be interested to hear from people who think differently.

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I would. Diebitter, pryor, and I had a talk about this on diebitter's review thread which you might like.

The terrifically bleak, knowing fatalism of the flick, and the themes, definitely make it fit well enough for me. Even though it's not really urban and doesn't involve private eyes. It still is dark and knowing about the worst parts of human nature, and emphasizes how out of our control our fates can be.

The only difference is, this film has the equivalent of divine intervention in the form of the old woman, whereas in the usual film noir, the hero either loses outright or gets a luckier shot or punch in. Either way, rescue is as capricious as doom. And in both this flick and typical film noirs, something is truly lost which the ending of the movie doesn't really give back.

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so many good ones. one that came to mind is the man who wasn't there

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This is one of those movies I had mixed feelings about. Parts of it were brilliant. I've seen it a couple of times and wouldn't at all mind seeing it again. I'm sure I'll see it many times more over the years.

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La Bete Humaine, by Renoir, remade as Human Desire by Fritz Lang. Both excellent in their ways; Glen Ford is chilling in his smooth-faced, unblinkingly casual submergence into evil in Lang's version. Both are really good.

Another favorite is Ossessione, the first film made of the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Gritty and brilliant, full of longing. Very good stuff.