Hard Boiled
An action-packed cyberpunk comic where the protagonist perceives a false reality as real.
Neo-noir
Dark City
“Can you come up with a single memory? You can’t, can you? You know something, I don’t think the sun even exists in this place. ‘Cause I’ve been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here.”
Blood Simple
Blood Simple requires a little bit of a stomach, but its rich and detailed plot along with high-level acting make it an excellent thriller.
House of Games
Like any good magician, Mamet entertains you, letting you think you understand what he’s doing before pulling another trick out of his hat.
Insomnia
On the surface we’re watching a cop thriller (with a hint of noir), but at its core Insomnia is a morality tale.
Sisters
De Palma heaps on the morbidity and gore, and the strange psychological oddities are pressed to the extreme.
Minority Report
“You created a world without murder. And all you had to do was kill someone to do it.”
Nocturnal Animals
predictably loaded with style, yet too often feels like a careful construction of cinematic elements rather than an organic creation, and ultimately has very little to say about its subject matter.
Alphaville
Alphaville posits that consciousness can be awakened from the brainwashed coma of societal control through poetry—that the answer to corrupt society is personal creativity and expression.