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Detective/Noir/Mystery etc. (Recommendations)

  • 16-02-2012 10:51pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭


    Hi all!

    Looking for films in the above genre(s), that sort of encapsulate them all.
    Something like Chinatown, LA Confidential, Hollywoodland etc.

    Any ideas?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    If you want modern, then Brick is awesome. If you want older, check out Rififi, amazing crime film. On the more noir side, The Killers, Sunset Blvd. and Fallen Angel are easy favourites.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    Maltese Falcon
    This Gun for Hire
    Who framed Roger Rabbit (seriously :D)
    Double Indemnity


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    Kiss kiss bang bang

    the prestige


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    Angel Heart, (before Mickey Rourke made his comeback)


  • Registered Users Posts: 308 ✭✭PunkFreud


    I'll recommend M. It's one of the originals of the Noir genre. While not a real Detective film, there are elements to it.

    Definitely one to see.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 jpk96


    mullholland drive is a good one. not exactly a mystery, not exactly noir. a bit of both. and very weird!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    The Late Show (1977)
    Farewell My Lovely (1975)
    Blade Runner (yes it is!) (1982)
    The Long Goodbye (1973)
    The Last Seduction (1994)
    Kill Me Again (1989)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭SlipperyPeople


    Cold Weather


    edit: actually mines not a noir film at all just a quirky indie detective(ish) flick


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    A Touch Of Evil with Orson Welles directing and starring is a must see!



  • Registered Users Posts: 84,330 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    I'd avoid The Black Dahlia


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    I'd avoid The Black Dahlia

    Or Mullholland Falls, similarly bad neo-noirs.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭paddyismaddy


    Sinfonia wrote: »
    Hi all!

    Looking for films in the above genre(s), that sort of encapsulate them all.
    Something like Chinatown, LA Confidential, Hollywoodland etc.

    Any ideas?

    two jakes is a sequel to chinatown


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭NotorietyH


    Zodiac is easily one of my favourite crime/detective films of the last few years. Not exactly a noir though. More of a procedural.

    Zero Effect is a quirky modern detective story, with Bill Pullman and Ben Stiller. Under-rated classic.

    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as mentioned above is great.

    The Big Lebowski or a lot of the Coen Brothers' other films are noir or neo-noir. Like The Man Who Wasn't There.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,270 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Would The Killer Inside Me qualify?

    actually Gone Baby Gone with Casy Affleck as well would be a Neo-Noir film


  • Registered Users Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    I absolutely adore film noir.

    These are some of my favourites and I'd highly recommend them:

    The Maltese Falcon
    Double Indemnity
    Detour

    On a more comedic level I'd recommend 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' with Steve Martin. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭Finneen


    Blue gardenia - woman accidentally kills a guy or thinks she does.


  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭OldeCinemaSoz


    Sinfonia wrote: »
    Something like Chinatown

    Sadly, you'll never encounter a film like that again.

    A one of a kind; a one of the '70s; a one that gets better
    with every viewing.

    I think you've seen THE best. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    Vertigo,
    tho I havent seen the 2nd half yet


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Check this out from a great sight called they shoot pictures and the list of 250 noir films should keep you occupied for a year or two (lots of other film related stuff like the 1000 best films of all time etc)


    http://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir.htm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    watched Brick again. It is a bit OTT in some places, that kind of high school life doesnt exist in reality, it put me off untill I accepted it in the 2nd half.

    its stylish, well shot, some nice dialogue, good acting, plot develops well(tho hard to keep track of the character names near the end and who did what,was with who etc)

    worth a watch



    returned to Zodiac, watched the last quarter. its not a spoiler to say the killer wasnt found, but thats not completely true. just like watching the Titanic you know the ending already, Zodiac is alot different tho. one thing that wasnt believable was the relationship between the comic writer and his wife.


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