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Films like After Hours

posted 17 years ago by Red_Dye2
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The feeling and atmosphere of the following films are similar to me, how would you describe the aesthetic and atmosphere of the films listed, and can anyone add to this list? (especially but not limited to nocturnal films set in 80s manhattan)

Liquid Sky

Escape from New York

Rock N Rule

After Hours

Blade Runner

Akira

Heavy Metal

[–] PeterMarkoff 15 years ago

Clerks is also similar film in "I wasn't supposed to be here at all" style. :-)

Peter Markoff
If you don't like my english, write it to me in my own language.

[–] bobarino 15 years ago

if you like the cast

[–] arlo_elam 15 years ago

It reminded me a little of 'Bringing out the dead' where Nicholas Cage plays an insomniac who works as a New York City ambulance driver. Same atmosphere - that weird feeling of impending doom.

It's as though carcasses hanging
splay-legged in mid-air had bucked
clean out of their skins

[–] digitalboy72 15 years ago

This thread wouldn't be complete without mentioning the criminally underrated The Night Before with a very pre-Neo Keanu Reeves and Lori Loughlin.

If you expect the unexpected doesn't the unexpected then become the expected?

[–] jamasian_man 15 years ago

Bringing Out the Dead

[–] powerfulupton 15 years ago

Trouble in mind

[–] susan-farmer1 15 years ago

Hangin with the homeboys more for the madness of it and not the tone or feel of it

Live Life Large

[–] psdhart 15 years ago

i not film but it reminds me of the first season of "24"

[–] Gadare 14 years ago

Into the Night

Quick Change

And cannot believe I'm the first to say: Neil Simon's The Out-of-Towners (with Jack Lemmon, not the pallid remake)... a true NYC nightmare

"Listen...strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."

[–] Doodlebuggy12 14 years ago

I'm watching a movie called 'Raising Cain' and the creepiness reminds me of this movie.

[–] stu-212 14 years ago

Trojan War, it had Jennifer Love Hewitt in

[–] YuleNeverLeave 14 years ago

Shadow Hours

This is a local shop for local people, there's nothing for you here!

[–] IceboxMovies 14 years ago

Welles' The Trial, P.T. Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love and- most recently- the Coens' A Serious Man.

What I don't understand is how we're going to stay alive this winter.

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[–] saucyswells 14 years ago

Quick Change, Adventures in Babysitting,

and more recently, and to a lesser extent... Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist

[–] voomzap 14 years ago

- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Edmond (2005)
- Into the Night (1985)