Genre: Crime
A Short Film About Killing
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s epic miniseries The Decalogue—contemporary stories based on the Ten Commandments played out in a Warsaw apartment block—was a …
Atlantic City
Directed by Louis Malle
“As if his 1940s noir hoodlum had lived to see the 1980s, Lancaster’s Lou Pasco catches only faint echoes of …
Band of Outsiders
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
“After the first eight minutes of Band of Outsiders, the narrator (Godard) dryly offers a recap: ‘A pile of money. …
Beyond Murder
Directed by Zachary T. Smith
This chilling true crime mystery reenacts the modus operandi of the oldest couple in American history to be sentenced to …
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Directed by Diao Yinan
Haunted by a botched police investigation five years earlier, former policeman Zhang has retired to a distant mining town in …
Bottle Rocket
Directed by Wes Anderson
An expansion of his short film made at the University of Texas, Anderson’s first feature signaled a unique fusion of …
Bound
Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
The Wachowski’s debut feature foreshadows their interest in the aesthetics and tropes of film noir (which will be a recurrent …
Branded to Kill
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
This fractured film noir is the final provocation that got Suzuki fired from Nikkatsu Studios, simultaneously making him a counterculture …
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Chasing after a bounty on the head of an already dead man, an alcoholic pianist (Warren Oates) forges a violent …
Brute Force
Directed by Jules Dassin
“Soon-to-be-blacklisted director Jules Dassin’s excoriating and angry prison drama uses the ‘big cage’ as a metaphor for the lost innocence …
Confidential Report AKA Mr. Aradkin
Directed by Orson Welles
Bearing key similarities to The Third Man, Welles’ noir concerns small-time smuggler Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden), who overhears a …
Criss Cross
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Arguably the prototypical Los Angeles noir and featuring extensive location photography in the Bunker Hill neighborhood shortly before it was …