Classic noir movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant classic noir movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out classic noir, neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films and TV shows about / with murder, deadly, violence, criminal, dishonesty, gangster, investigation, death, killer and hitman plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as classic noir: Convicts 4 (1962), Experiment in Terror (1962), 13 West Street (1962), Le Samurai (1967), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Chinatown (1974), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), Night Moves (1975), The American Friend (1977), Cutter's Way (1981).

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 6.4
 539
Convicts 4 (1962)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This movie is about the progression of John Resko's (Ben Gazzara) character as he is commuted from the death sentence for killing a man to life in prison. Not only is he transferred to a new facility, but his guard (Stuart Whitman), who ...
Style: black and white, independent film, semi serious, realistic, psychotronic ...
Plot: prison, death row, prisoner, transformation, journalism, prison life, murder, biopic, redemption, confined, hopes, going straight ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1930s
Place: new york, new york state
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Experiment in Terror (1962)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Kelly Sherwood is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works. He threatens to kill her teenage sister Toby, if she tells the police. However she manages to contact F.B.I. agent ...
Style: psychological thriller, noir, retro, scary, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: home invasion, danger, fbi agent, extortion, phone terror, psychopath, bank teller, mannequin, police surveillance, woman with a gun, heist, special agent ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco, california, usa
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 6.3
 820
13 West Street (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Walt Sherill (Alan Ladd) is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, juvenile, slang, classic noir
Plot: juvenile delinquent, hooligan, thug, bare chested male, man hits a woman, car chase, private investigator, assault, suicide by hanging, arrest, husband wife relationship, detective sergeant ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
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 8.0
 56K
Le Samurai (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: loner, hitman, gangster, assassination, police investigation, loneliness, assassin, betrayal, chase, anti hero, organized crime, character study ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank ...
Style: neo noir, cynical, noir, retro, crime thriller ...
Audience: manly
Plot: gangster, criminal, betrayal, bartender, heist, hustler, robbery, mafia, organized crime, gang, city, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 8.1
 347K
Chinatown (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style: neo noir, detective, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, corruption, investigation, femme fatale, rape, police, murder, conspiracy, domestic violence, father daughter incest, incest, investigator ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1974, year 1937
Place: los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, america ...
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
Style: neo noir, detective, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: femme fatale, private detective, missing person, uncover truth, suspicion of murder, who done it, dishonesty, life is a bitch, danger, murder, private investigator, planned murder ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1941
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 7.1
 18K
Night Moves (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, detective ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, missing person, espionage, infidelity, female nudity, manipulation, loneliness, complex characters, crime gone awry, uncover truth ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: florida, usa, los angeles, key west florida
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
Style: neo noir, noir, art house, independent film, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly
Plot: nightclub, gambling, murder, mafia, gambling debt, great ending, female nudity, hitman, strip club, crime gone awry, gangster, mobster ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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The American Friend (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, talky, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: murder, gangster, assassination, friendship, hitman, betrayal, art, good versus evil, loneliness, police investigation, race against time, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, year 1977, 70s, year 1976
Place: paris france, germany, new york, hamburg germany, west germany
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 6.8
 8K
Cutter's Way (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
Style: noir, neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: manly
Plot: murder, murder mystery, revenge, investigation, existentialism, conspiracy, false accusation, veteran, vietnam war, dishonesty, alcohol abuse, twists and turns ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: california, vietnam, los angeles, asia, southern california ...
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style: neo noir, tense, noir, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, police corruption, murder, murder mystery, police, police detective, organized crime, fighting the system, call girl, dangerous attraction, police brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, arizona
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A History of Violence (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style: neo noir, harsh, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Audience: date night, manly
Plot: gangster, self defense, revenge, sex scene, violent, small town, mobster, mafia, attempted robbery, organized crime, redemption, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: indiana, philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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 7.1
 15K
The Aura (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In neo-noir fashion El Aura narrates in the first person the hallucinating voyage of Espinoza, a quiet, cynical taxidermist, who suffers epilepsy attacks, and is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.
Style: neo noir, contemplative, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: epilepsy, murder, betrayal, robbery, hunting, taxidermy, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, weekend, heist, accidental killing, casino ...
Place: argentina, latin america, patagonia
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 6.8
 62K
Inland Empire (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
Style: surreal, psychological, mindfuck, experimental, psychedelic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, macabre, filmmaking, danger, alternate reality, insanity, curse, murder, nightmare, actress, abusive husband, mysticism ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: poland, los angeles, usa, california, europe ...
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 8.5
 107
Scammerhead (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Global Film Noir with dark comic elements about Silas Breece, a legendarily unorthodox business hustler who travels the world seeking capitol from bizarre investors, mobsters and government officials for a series of increasingly elaborate projects.
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, classic noir
Plot: howard hughes, napoleon bonaparte, al capone, beer, hallucination, investor, lobbyist, gunslinger, hitman, cigar, casino, arrogance ...
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 6.7
 4K
Too Late (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he's hired to help find.
Style: neo noir, captivating, psychological, tense, enigmatic ...
Plot: private investigator, murder, private detective, stripper, strip club, uncover truth, danger, violence, couples, war, mission, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.8
 600K
Nightcrawler (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Style: neo noir, psychological, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: character study, journalism, sociopath, obsession, journalist, cynicism, psychopath, morality, violence, manipulation, capitalism, employer employee relationship ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, america ...
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Blast of Silence (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.
Style: neo noir, noir, christmas horror, crime drama, christmas classics ...
Plot: hitman, christmas, killer, organized crime, loner, big city, loneliness, assassin, politics, criminal, bad father, professional ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: new york, usa, harlem, grand central station manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
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Five Minutes to Live (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A gang of bank robbers terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: home invasion, hostage, bank, robbery, extramarital affair, killer, flashback, twins, underground, crime gone awry, gangster, kidnapping ...
Time: 60s
Place: las vegas
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, neo noir, postmodern, talky ...
Plot: robbery, love triangle, gunfight, alienation, caper, crime gone awry, danger, louvre, teenage girl, modernism, isolation, time travel ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 7.0
 9K
The Killers (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
Style: neo noir, noir, suspenseful, stylized, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, heist, betrayal, assassin, killer, corruption, racing, femme fatale, murder, crime gone awry, gangster, death ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, miami
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The Naked Kiss (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former prostitute discovers that her philanthropic fiance is involved in perversion.
Style: neo noir, controversial, grindhouse, dark, surreal ...
Plot: prostitute, small town, social commentary, hospital, pedophile, prostitution, pedophilia, nurse, abortion, marriage proposal, child molester, hooker ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1961, year 1964
Place: america, switzerland, venice, usa
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 29K
In Cold Blood (1967)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their ...
Style: black and white, disturbing, suspense, neo noir, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, true crime, killer, execution, death row, death penalty, courtroom drama, lawyer, investigation, justice, jazz ...
Time: 50s, year 1967, year 1965, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: kansas, america, usa, missouri, texas ...
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The Hot Month of August (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young man, Jason, is on his way home and meets two beautiful women, Hope and Alexis. He falls for Hope, but has sex with Alexis. He doesn't know that Alexis' husband has hired a private detective to trail her, and the man reports back to ...
Style: independent film, suspense
Plot: private detective, greek island, love affair, lovers, cruiser, athenian, insurance, plan, passenger, rich woman, summer, sun ...
Time: 60s
Place: hellas, greece, athens greece
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