Posts Tagged ‘neo-noir’

Desert Saints (2000)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brent Roam | Shawn Woods | Christopher Bersh | Kiefer Sutherland | Rachel Ticotin | Beth Grant | Zach Chapman | Jamey Sheridan | Leslie Stefanson | Melora Walters | Buddy Quaid | Keith Diamond | Bill Sage | Aliza Waksal | Alan Gelfant
Directors: Richard Greenberg
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Miami Vice (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Colin Farrell | Jamie Foxx | Li Gong | Naomie Harris | Ciarán Hinds | Justin Theroux | Barry Shabaka Henley | Luis Tosar | John Ortiz | Elizabeth Rodriguez | Domenick Lombardozzi | Eddie Marsan | Isaach De Bankolé | John Hawkes | Tom Towles
Directors: Michael Mann
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Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lucy Liu | Josh Hartnett | Bruce Willis | Morgan Freeman | Ben Kingsley | Mykelti Williamson
Directors: Paul McGuigan
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After landing in the wrong place at the wrong time, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) must kill The Rabbi’s (Ben Kingsley) to scratch a $96,000 debt to The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and pay off $33,000 to The Rabbi. He can’t go to the police and he can’t leave the city. On top of all this, behind the scene’s Mr. Smith aka Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) is secretly plotting to kill Slevin.

Absolute Power (1997)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Hackman | Ed Harris | Laura Linney | Scott Glenn | Dennis Haysbert | Judy Davis | E.G. Marshall | Melora Hardin | Kenneth Welsh | Penny Johnson | Richard Jenkins | Mark Margolis | Elaine Kagan | Alison Eastwood
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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Luther Whitney is a professional thief, who only works occasionally. He is planning what is suppose to be his last job, and everything is going smoothly until some come in before he can leave. He hides in a secret room and from behind a one-way mirror sees that it’s the wife of the owner of the house he is robbing and another man. They are fooling around when the guy decides to liven things up by striking her, she get away but he corners her, she then grabs a letter opener and is about to stab him when he cries out for help when two men come in and shoot her dead. It seems that the man is Alan Richmond, the President of the United States and the two men are the secret service agents assigned to him. Later, a woman, Gloria Russell, who is his Chief of Staff enters and upon learning of what has happened, decides to cover it up and make it appear that she was killed by a burglar. After sanitizing the room, they are about to leave but they forget the letter opener, Whitney comes out of the room and takes it and makes his getaway but when they returned for the letter opener they discover Whitney and chase him but he gets away. The police investigate the murder and there are so many inconsistencies, which makes the investigator, Seth Frank suspect that something is going on. Frank then discovers that Whitney is a possible suspect but the only thing is that he doesn’t believe that Whitney is a killer. Whitney tries to leave town but when he learns just how corrupt and amoral Richmond is he decides to play mind games with him and the others. Richmond, at the same time, tells them that Whitney must be silenced permanently.

The Salton Sea (2002)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Val Kilmer | Vincent D'Onofrio | Adam Goldberg | Luis Guzmán | Doug Hutchison | Anthony LaPaglia | Glenn Plummer | Peter Sarsgaard | Deborah Kara Unger | Chandra West | B.D. Wong | R. Lee Ermey | Shalom Harlow | Shirley Knight | Meat Loaf
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker (Val Kilmer) is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Fin (Peter Sarsgaard) and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette (Debra Kara Unger) from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents (Anthony Lapaglia and Doug Hutchison) and sadistic dealer Pooh Bear (Vincent D’Onfronio).

Jagged Edge (1985)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Glenn Close | Maria Mayenzet | Jeff Bridges | Peter Coyote | Dave Austin | Richard Partlow | Lance Henriksen | William Allen Young | Ben Hammer | James Karen | Sanford Jensen | Woody Eney | Al Ruscio | Sharon Hanian | Sarah Cunningham
Directors: Richard Marquand
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San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasn’t handled a criminal case for many years. There’s a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Sean Penn | Penelope Ann Miller | John Leguizamo | Ingrid Rogers | Luis Guzmán | James Rebhorn | Joseph Siravo | Viggo Mortensen | Richard Foronjy | Jorge Porcel | Frank Minucci | Adrian Pasdar | John Ortiz | Ángel Salazar
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

Dark City (1998)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Rufus Sewell | William Hurt | Kiefer Sutherland | Jennifer Connelly | Richard O'Brien | Ian Richardson | Bruce Spence | Colin Friels | John Bluthal | Mitchell Butel | Melissa George | Frank Gallacher | Ritchie Singer | Justin Monjo | Nicholas Bell
Directors: Alex Proyas
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

Breathless (1983)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Art Metrano | John P. Ryan | William Tepper | Robert Dunn | Garry Goodrow | Lisa Jane Persky | James Hong | Waldemar Kalinowski | Jack Leustig | Eugène Lourié | Georg Olden | Miguel Pinero | Henry G. Sanders
Directors: Jim McBride
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Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, and the crimes escalate.

Redbelt (2008)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeffrey Addiss | Joseph Alfieri | Tim Allen | Douglas Barcellos | Craig Collington Bator | Matt Cable | Ryan Everett Canfield | Jose Pablo Cantillo | Randy Couture | Steve DeCastro | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Justin Fair | Scott Farrell | Hugh Fitzgerald | Mike Goldberg
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A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.