Posts Tagged ‘neo-noir’

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Weaving, Hugo | Rea, Stephen | Fry, Stephen | Hurt, John | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Graves, Rupert | Allam, Roger | Miles, Ben | Cusack, Sinéad | Wightman, Natasha | Standing, John | Marsan, Eddie | Ashborn, Clive | Field-Rayner, Emma
Directors: McTeigue, James
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Hard Rain (1998)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | France | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Slater, Christian | Quaid, Randy | Asner, Edward | Goorjian, Michael A. | Florek, Dann | Harris, Ricky | Rolston, Mark | Murnik, Peter | Duvall, Wayne | Dysart, Richard | Baker, Ray | Patterson, Jay | Monks, Michael | Bryce, Mackenzie
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Heavy Rainfall causes a Indiana river to swell and flood the town. All inhabitants are forced by public services to leave instantly. Tom and his uncle Charlie work for a money transport firm and their assignment is to evacuate all cash from the banks along the flooding river. So, their truck is loaded with about three million Dollars. Hank tries to prevent further flooding, as he’s the guy responsible for the dam up the river, but he has to open one gate in order to save the old dam from breaking. Only the police under the Sheriff’s leadership stay in town to prevent looting. As the water level rises, Tom and Charlie’s Truck gets stuck in the flooded road. This is the moment, Jim, an elderly thief, and his gang have been waiting for. In an attempt to get the money from the truck, Charlie gets shot and Tom swims off to save the cash bags. While trying to hide, he meets Karen, who resisted to leave the old church she has been restoring for eight months. She thinks he is a looter, and calls the cops to bring him in. But as the Sheriff finds out about that much cash in a situation like this, he radios his old pal Hank, up at the dam…

Sudden Impact (1983)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hingle, Pat | Dillman, Bradford | Drake, Paul | Thibeau, Jack | Currie, Michael | Popwell, Albert | Keyloun, Mark | Howard, Kevyn Major | Bellan, Joe | Wellman, Wendell | McCubbin, Russ | Sutton, Robert | Argenziano, Carmen | Reddick, Bill
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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer’s own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer.

Long Kiss Goodnight, The (1996)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Bierko, Craig | Tom Amandes | Cox, Brian | Malahide, Patrick | Morse, David | McKenna, Joseph | Warry-Smith, Dan | Linn, Rex | North, Alan | Hodge, Edwin | MacDonald, Bill | Moore, Frank | Spradlin, G.D. | McPherson, Graham
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Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing.

Sydney aka Hard Eight (1996)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hall, Philip Baker | Reilly, John C. | Jackson, Samuel L. | Parker, F. William | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Cooper, Nathanael | Ridgely, Robert | Rowe, Michael J. | D'Allesandro, Peter | Blane, Steve | Breen, Andy | Pinizza, Mark | Gross, Richard | Keeley, Cliff | Robbins, Truman
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John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney’s fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.

Tightrope (1984)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hedaya, Dan | St. John, Marco | Paul, Graham | Holliday, Bill | Wilmot, John | Houck Jr., Joy N. | Baker-Bergen, Stuart | Barber, Donald | Harvey, Robert | Gural, Ron | Martens, Layton | Boyle, Richard Charles | Sachar, Jonathan | Ferbos, Lionel
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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop.

Badge, The (2002)

Monday, June 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thornton, Billy Bob | Devane, William | Brown, Marcus Lyle | McKinnon, Ray | Bower, Tom | McConnell, John | Flagge, Ron | Alexander, Huey | Krasnoff, Mark | Leggio, Jerry | Dial, Rick | Arata, Michael | Dahlgren, David | Cahill, Michael | St. John, Marco
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A sheriff (Thornton) begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised.

Street Kings (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Whitaker, Forest | Common | Cedric the Entertainer | Evans, Chris | Gugliemi, Noel | Choi, Kenneth | Laurie, Hugh | Sloan, Cle Shaheed | Nolasco, Amaury | Corbett, John | Crews, Terry | Game, The | Benton, Kevin | Gates, Daryl
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Machinist, The (2004)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Spain
Actors: Bale, Christian | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Sánchez-Gijón, Aitana | Sharian, John | Ironside, Michael | Gilliard Jr., Larry | Cathey, Reg E. | Massey, Anna | Romero Moore, Matthew | Long, Robert | Stinton, Colin | Stevenson, Craig | Lahoz, Ferran | Xidu, Jeremy | Bell, Norman
Directors: Anderson, Brad
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“The Machinist” is a film about a man who hasn’t slept in a year, and he starts thinking that he’s losing his mind, when he starts seeing hallucinations, and his perception of reality becomes twisted. He’s haunted by a co-worker that no one else can see, and keeps finding post-it notes with secret messages on his fridge…

New Jack City (1991)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Ice-T | Payne, Allen | Rock, Chris | Michele, Michael | Nunn, Bill | Wong, Russell | Cobbs, Bill | Williams, Christopher | Nelson, Judd | Williams, Vanessa | Johns, Tracy Camilla | DeSando, Anthony | Ashford, Nick
Directors: Van Peebles, Mario
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In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie’s mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well.