Neo-Noir
Modern films incorporating film noir visual style and themes
Primary Examples(9)
Prisoners
Dark moral thriller
Blade Runner
Sci-fi noir visual and thematic style
Chinatown
Definitive neo-noir; updated classic noir
Se7en
Dark, rain-soaked procedural
Heat
Professional criminals; moral ambiguity
Fargo
Crime in mundane Midwest setting
Jackie Brown
Elmore Leonard crime adaptation
L.A. Confidential
Definitive 90s neo-noir
The Usual Suspects
Crime mystery; unreliable narrator
Secondary Influences(17)
Oldboy
Revenge and mystery
Once Upon a Time in America
Crime and memory
Pulp Fiction
Crime underworld stories
Reservoir Dogs
Heist gone wrong
Taxi Driver
Urban decay noir
The Departed
Undercover identity crisis
The Silence of the Lambs
FBI procedural with noir elements
The Terminator
Tech-noir aesthetic
Memories of Murder
Procedural frustration
Casino
Vegas corruption and downfall
Gone Girl
Media manipulation; femme fatale
Goodfellas
Rise and fall criminal narrative
Insomnia
Guilt and moral compromise
Léon: The Professional
Hitman with a heart
Memento
Noir revenge plot inverted
Baby Driver
Heist film with noir elements
No Country for Old Men
Crime in stark landscape