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Alfred Hitchcock – Blackmail (talkie version) (1929)
Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920’s London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Frank takes Alice out one...
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Bertrand Tavernier – L.627 (1992)
Quote: After recently watching Bertrand Tavernier’s “In the Electric Mist”, that film made me miss “L.627” all the more. While “In the Electric Mist” isn’t a complete failure, it’s mixture of Southern...
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James Foley – At Close Range (1986)
Synopsis One of the overlooked films of the 1980s, perhaps because it is such a downbeat tale of an amoral family. Sean Penn plays a kid whose small-time criminal impulses are stoked to a new level...
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Alvin Rakoff – Passport to Shame AKA Room 43 (1958)
Synopsis by Michael P. Rogers Before Eddie Constantine became a French pop icon as the slapdash “Lemmy Caution,” he played Johnny, a straightforward London taxi driver. When his new taxi is smashed...
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Carlo Lizzani – Banditi a Milano AKA The Violent Four (1968)
Description: As public outrage mounts against organized crime in modern-day Milan, four robbers meticulously plan a timed assault on several major banks within a period of 40 minutes. Led by the...
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Roman Polanski – Cul-de-sac [+extras] (1966)
Synopsis: A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the...
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Wim Wenders – Hammett (1982)
The plot Based in part on detective-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett’s early experiences as a Pinkerton detective, this moderately-noir film has Hammett (using his little-known first name, Sam)...
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Alberto Rodríguez – La isla mínima AKA Marshland (2014)
Quote: With Unit 7, Alberto Rodriguez paid homage to his native Seville whilst producing a fine urban thriller. Now he does the same for rural Spain, moving an hour south to the marshlands of...
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Edward Yang – Mahjong aka Couples (1996)
Review: Mahjong (1996) is in many ways Yang’s greatest Satire, but has, at the same time, the beating pulse of a real dramatic story. In plays on the perception of Taiwan by foreign entities, urban...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Liebe ist kälter als der Tod AKA Love Is Colder...
Quote: Love is Colder Than Death was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first feature-length film (he had directed two shorts three years earlier: The Little Tramp and The Little Chaos), the story of a...
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Koji Wakamatsu – Otoko goroshi onna goroshi: hadaka no zyudan (1969)
Description: Welcome in the underworld, on your left there’s some gangsters, on your right be careful there’s shootings, murders, betrayals… Enjoy the jazzy mood ! Three killers stole money and drugs...
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Serdar Akar – Barda (2007)
Quote: A group of teens are having a fun night out at a bar until a gang takes the entire clique hostage. They torture the boys and rape the girls. After that night, nothing is the same anymore and...
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Cédric Jimenez – La French AKA The Connection (2014)
Quote: A stylish, 70’s-period crime thriller inspired by true events, The Connection tells the story of real-life Marseilles magistrate Pierre Michel (Academy Award, Winner Jean Dujardin, The Artist,...
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Koreyoshi Kurahara – Aru kyôhaku AKA Intimidation (1960)
Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-sized noir concerns the intertwining fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed...
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Francis Girod – Le Trio Infernal aka The Infernal Trio (1974)
Storyline Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German...
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Leos Carax – Mauvais sang aka The Night Is Young (1986)
Synopsis: “This critically acclaimed French drama blends film noir and science fiction elements in a story about a strange and deadly plague. A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – I vinti AKA The Vanquished (1953)
IMDB quote 1: Three stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode a university...
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Jules Dassin – Du rififi chez les hommes AKA Rififi (1955)
Quote: The modern heist movie was invented in Paris in 1954 by Jules Dassin, with “Rififi,” and Jean-Pierre Melville, with “Bob le Flambeur.” Dassin built his film around a 28-minute safe-cracking...
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John Cromwell – Caged (1950)
Quote: Caged, considered the best woman’s prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and the more stylized world of film noir. Marie, (Eleanor Parker), is...
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John Ford – Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer....
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