Hi,

I'm looking for some recommendations of film noirs to put on my website. Public domain or not! If it is public domain I always restore it to top quality :)

 Classic+ adding more everyday :) Soon on google play also

Up until today I considered “Detour” the bleakest noir I had seen. Not anymore. This starts off as just a sadistic noir and goes in a direction I truly didn’t expect. There is a good chance this might be the best, classic noir I’ve seen. I have to sit on it.

Hey! I’m looking for film noir (and some neo-noir) recommendations for Noirvember, but with a few specific things in mind. I’m after films that are thrillers with mystery and romance — they need to be exhilarating, enthralling, and suspenseful. I’d like a woman to be at the heart of the story, whether that’s a classic femme fatale or a good-natured love interest.

Some of my favorite noirs are Laura, Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, In a Lonely Place, Leave Her to Heaven, Niagara, and Where the Sidewalk Ends. The ones I didn’t enjoy as much are the overly complex, convoluted ones with too much going on, like The Third Man, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, and The Killers.

I also really love '80s and '90s erotic thrillers like Body Heat, Basic Instinct, Body Double, Wild Things, and The Last Seduction. Plus, I’m a massive fan of Brian De Palma, David Fincher, Michael Mann, and Alfred Hitchcock.

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

UPDATE just saw In the palm of your hand, again by Roberto Gavaldon Its fantastic, brilliant mexican noir from 1951 about a fake fortune teller called Jaime Karin, who wants to blackmail a widow that just inherited the fortune of the rich husband (who she murdered!)

It shares some vibes to Nightmare alley, the remake version of Guillermo del Toro (the main difference maybe the spooky/fantasy tone that Guillermo loves)

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?