The 3. 0 Best Neo- Noir Movies of All Time « Taste of Cinema. The classic 1. 94. Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1.

John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1. Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1. After that period passed, the grim heart of the great dark crime films of that era carried over into subsequent decades and continues to live on to this day. As is the case with the horror genre, arguments will always exist regarding what films should be labeled “neo- film noir”.

Suffice it to say that all the crime films considered for this piece contain the same dark core as pictures from the classic film noir era. This article combines some new material with reprinted and revised material from a number of previous articles I’ve had published on Taste of Cinema that you can check out here.

Please note that films set in a period setting were excluded from consideration for this article so you won’t see pictures like Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1. The Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing (1.

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Curtis Hanson’s L. A. Confidential (1. Any readers dismayed by the absence of their neo- noir favorites such as William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1. Peter Yates’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1. Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1.

Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects (1. Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (2. I’ve stated in many of my articles, film writing on all levels- from the casual to the academic- is driven by personal taste. That said, be sure to check out the afterword where I list a number of films that didn’t make the top 3. The films are listed in chronological order by release year.

Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1. Screenplay by Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink and Dean Riesner. An uncompromising police officer tries to stop a psychopath’s killing spree in one of the quintessential hard- edged crime films of the pivotal cinematic decade of the 1. Dirty Harry still holds up remarkably well to this day and one of the keys to the film’s success is the driven performance of Andrew Robinson as the killer Scorpio. Robinson appeared in director Siegel’s great neo- noir Charley Varrick in 1.

Garak on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1.

Screenplay by Hodges based on the Ted Lewis novel “Jack’s Return Home”Skip the horrendous 2. Michael Caine if you haven’t already. This story of a London gangster who travels to Newcastle to investigate his brother’s death is one of the greatest British crime films of all time and features one of Caine’s best early career performances. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1. Screenplay by Leigh Brackett based on the Raymond Chandler novelirector Altman’s quirky take on Raymond Chandler’s legendary detective character Philip Marlowe investigating accusations that his good friend murdered his wife is rightfully considered a classic by followers of neo- noir films. The Long Goodbye is highlighted by great performances from Elliott Gould as Marlowe and Sterling Hayden as an alcoholic novelist. Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1.

Screenplay by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler based on the Peter Maas book. Al Pacino turns in one of the finest performances of his early career in this fact- based account of an idealistic cop’s fight against rampant corruption in the New York City Police Department. The film also features Tony Roberts, a great character actor primarily known for his comic roles in a number of Woody Allen films. Director Lumet and Pacino would team up again in 1. Dog Day Afternoon.

Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1. Screenplay by Frank Pierson based on articles by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore. Director Lumet and star Al Pacino followed up on the success of Serpico with another fact- based crime film, this one the story of a bank robbery that turns into a hostage situation. Dog Day Afternoon generated multiple Oscar nominations including Best Actor for Pacino and Best Supporting Actor for Chris Sarandon.

The great character actor Lance Henriksen can be seen here in a brief but important role as an FBI agent. Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1.

Screenplay by Alan Sharp. Apartment Troubles (2015) Full Divx Movies there. Gene Hackman plays a private detective who becomes more lost the deeper he delves into a missing persons case. The grim tone of the film can be summed up by a brilliant exchange between the detective and his wife.

When she asks him who is winning the football game he’s watching on television he replies: “Nobody. One side is just losing slower than the other.”Screenwriter Sharp also wrote the script for Robert Aldrich’s superb 1. Western Ulzana’s Raid.

When people are asked what the late director Penn’s masterpiece is, too many answer with Bonnie & Clyde. The real answer is Night Moves. Assault on Precinct 1. John Carpenter, 1.

Screenplay by Carpenter. Armed with a great score and unnecessarily remade in 2. Also, the film was not a big financial or critical success and was overshadowed by Carpenter’s legendary mega- hit Halloween (1.

Part of Assault’s appeal is the great acting from Austin Stoker and the late Darwin Joston, two performers who deserved far better careers. Rolling Thunder (John Flynn, 1. Screenplay by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould. The formidable acting duo of William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones play a pair of Vietnam veterans out to avenge the mutilation of Devane’s character and the murder of his wife and son. Always an undervalued actor and coming off a great supporting performance in the previous year’s suspense thriller Marathon Man, Devane gives a powerful and subtle lead performance here. The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie, 1.

Screenplay by Barrie Keefe. Watch The Forger (2015) Free. The Long Good Friday is on a short list of the greatest British crime films along with such titles as Mike Hodges’ Get Carter (1. Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast (2. The superb screenplay is brought to life by an outstanding cast led by Bob Hoskins as a crime boss whose world is violently torn apart by unknown assailants. Hoskins’ acting here deserves to be at the very top of any list of the late actor’s notable performances. Nighthawks (Bruce Malmuth, 1.

Screenplay by David Shaber and Paul Sylbert. Along with Ted Kotcheff’s excellent First Blood (1. Nighthawks is one of the two best films Sylvester Stallone has ever been involved in. Stallone stars as a New York cop assigned to an anti- terrorist unit who ends up on a collision course with a ruthless villain played superbly by Rutger Hauer. Hauer, with highly accomplished performances in this film, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1. Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher (1.

Sideways (2. 00. 4) - IMDb. Edit. A week before his friend Jack is to be married, best man Miles and the prospective groom head off to wine country for a week of fun, relaxation and - of course - wine drinking. Miles is the oenophile and does his best to teach Jack a bit about the art of appreciating great wine. All Jack cares about is drinking and carousing, something he accomplishes when he meets the attractive Stephanie at one of the vineyards. Miles is something of a sad sack, a high school English teacher who is a failed writer at heart. He has yet to get over the fact that his wife has divorced him and that she has remarried and he now faces that nerve racking wait for word from a prospective publisher.

Miles has an opportunity to start anew when he meets Stephanie's friend Maya but when he let's slip that Jack is about to be married any hope of a relationship seems to be lost. In search of women. In search of themselves.