hey guys i just started getting into noir films. and old detective films. i just watch the maltes falcon. can you recomend me some other ones. while i like the mystery detective movies. are there any movies out there with the same flair but a little more... action a little more exciting?

Who knew? Pre-code, much more sexually suggestive (I think there's a nipple at one point). A pretty good take on it, interesting to see the performances. I thought that the lead, Ricardo Cortez, was a little too wisecracking and unconcerned.

The difference in sets, costumes, dialogue, etc., over a 10-year period is striking. (Maltese Falcon 1941)

Well worth your time.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022111/

Last night, instead of watching The Maltese Fahcon for the zillionth time, I watched a Glen Ford/Gloria Grahame double feature...Human Desire and The Big Heat. I'm so glad I did. Fritz Lang is great director and Ithought both these films shined. I had never seen Human Desire before and now kick myself. The Big Heat was rewatch. It had been so long since I'd seen it, I still felt gut punched.

I only recently developed an interest in the noir genre, mainly the fashions… the fedoras, spear-point collars, overcoats…. Anyway this is one I found on DVD this week.

Sometimes that distinction feels useless, arbitrary, even contradictory. For instance, looking at the films themselves, to me, Chinatown feels more like a traditional noir than Touch of Evil, which feels way more referential and self-aware. But because Chinatown was released after 1959, it is considered neo-noir.

What do you think?

Happy noirvember!!

I'm looking for recommendations of mexican noir movies... I've only seen "the night falls" by Gavaldón and "Another dawn" by julio bracho

thanks!

So I watched this noir a couple years ago while recovering from ankle surgery & it’s been hard to recall or find since. The part that I recall most vividly is towards the end. It involves a criminal who is a crossdresser. It’s old, easily 1950s. Black and white noir based out of LA (if I’m not mistaken). I hate that I can’t recall much of it. At the time I was heavily medicated with pain killers. UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who has offered suggestions and titles. It’s really bugging me that I can’t recall it.

So somehow I’ve never read any of the fiction upon which many film noirs are based off of. Of course I’ve heard of all the famous books. But I would still like to know according to you…which crime fiction books are the ones I absolutely must read?

If you don’t have it, might be worth seeing if Criterion has a free month or something because it’s Noirvember is STACKED with classics and lesser knowns.

https://www.criterionchannel.com/noirvember