Directed by Steven Soderbergh • 1998 • United States Starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle

The megawatt star power of George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez propels this sexy, sleekly entertaining ...

Directed by Brian De Palma • 1976 • United States
Starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow

Nearly twenty years after his wife’s tragic death, a guilt-ridden man (Cliff Robertson) meets her exact look-alike (Gen...

Directed by Joel Coen • 2001 • United States, United Kingdom Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini

The Coen brothers put their inimitable, offbeat stamp on the noir genre with this moody tale of...

Directed by Curtis Hanson • 1997 • United States
Starring Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey

Perhaps the finest neonoir since CHINATOWN, Curtis Hanson’s masterful adaptation of the novel by James Ellroy brings the sleazy underbelly of 1950s Los Angeles to the screen with sizzle and punch. F...

Directed by Peter Yates • 1981 • United States
Starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer

When a young janitor (William Hurt) finds a dead body in his building, he convinces a local television reporter with whom he is infatuated (Sigourney Weaver) that he knows more about the k...

Directed by Brian De Palma • 1981 • United States
Starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow

In the enthralling BLOW OUT, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances, as a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a p...

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow • 1990 • United States
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown

Action auteur Kathryn Bigelow renders this sleek and stylish police thriller with almost painterly abstraction. Day one on the force, and rookie cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) faces suspe...

Directed by James B. Harris • 1988 • United States
Starring James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning

A magnetically psychotic James Woods takes the dirty-cop genre to new depths of shocking sleaze in this startlingly perverse thriller based on a James Ellroy novel and directed by Stanl...

Directed by Ken Russell • 1984 • United States
Starring Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, Bruce Davison

She is watched. She is worshiped. And she must remain a mystery. Fashion designer Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner, at the height of her powers) leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a...

Directed by John Dahl • 1994 • United States
Starring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman

Linda Fiorentino is a diabolical delight as one of the most unrepentantly wicked femmes fatales of the neonoir boom in this deliciously entertaining thriller. After roping her doctor husband (Bill Pu...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 2009 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer

Two of contemporary cinema’s most electrifying eccentrics, Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage, join forces for a thoroughly unhinged pulp fever dream. Not—despite the title—a remake of or sequel to the si...

Directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee • 2001 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker

Tilda Swinton delivers a tour-de-force performance as a mother driven to extremes in this stylish and psychologically rich reworking of Max Ophuls’s 1949 noir THE RECKLESS MO...

Directed by Sydney Pollack • 1981 • United States
Starring Sally Field, Paul Newman, Bob Balaban

In America, can a man be guilty until proven innocent? Suppose you picked up this morning’s newspaper and your life was a front-page headl...

Directed by Michael Winner • 1978 • United States
Starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone

Robert Mitchum steps into the gumshoes of detective Philip Marlowe in this bold 1970s reimagining of the Raymond Chandler classic set in England. When Marlowe takes on what appears to be a routi...

Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 1984 • United States

Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous though...

Directed by Arthur Penn • 1975 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns

Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is a run-of-the-mill, bottom-of-the-barrel private eye who spends his working hours staking out divorce disputants, chasing runaways, and tracing missing persons. That ...

Directed by Bob Rafelson • 1996 • United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez

Director Bob Rafelson and star Jack Nicholson reunite for this gripping, darkly acidic crime drama, the final installment in what the filmmaker has described as an unofficial trilogy about dysf...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1992 • United States
Starring Harvey Keitel, Peggy Gormley, Victor Argo

Abel Ferrara’s harrowing vision of sin, Catholic guilt, and the search for salvation in a grimy New York City underworld is one of the most controversial and indelible works of the art of the 1990s...