i haven't watched nearly enough noir movies (or 40's movies for that matter) i'm already downloading scorsese's documentary about italy cinema to get into neorealism but i also want to watch noir
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I think you would like this movie...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119033/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
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Well, since i don't know how many noirs you have watched, i just list films i like
Sunset Blvd
In a lonely place
Fury (1936)
Scarlet Street
Sweet Smell of Success
Out of the past
Rebecca
To Have and Have not
Double Indemnity
Night and the city
The Big Heat
Ace in the hole
Gaslight
Laura
Notorious
The Big Sleep
Spellbound
The Maltese Falcon
The Third Man
I am a fugitive from a chain gang
Beyond a reasonable doubt
White Heat
The Lost Weekend
The Postman always ring twice (1946)
A Place in a sun
The Lady from Shanghai
The Fallen Idol
Gilda
Leave her to heaven
The Dock of New York (1928) : It's not a noir IMO but Imdb classified it as noir
The Strange love of Martha Ivers
Ivy (1948)
The Fallen Idol
You only live once
Dark Passage.
They Live by night
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Woman in the window (1944)
No Man of Her Own
The Fallen Idol
The reckless moment
Shadow of a Doubt
Other films i didn't really like but you might find interesting:
Mildred Pierce
Little Caesar
Key Largo
A Night of the hunter
Scarface
I didn't watch most of them just like Rancid said but i know i will like them.
thanks! i'll watch a few of them.
i assume you haven't heard of brief encounter? please watch it, it's a masterpiece and it inspired wilder to write the apartment
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Watch these directors noirs first, if you haven't already.
Fritz Lang's While the City Sleeps; You Only Live Once
Jules Dassin's Night and the City; The Naked City
Nicolas Ray's They Live by Night; Knock on Any door
Anatole Litvak's The Log Night; Sorry, Wrong Number
Dmytryk's Murder My Sweet; Obsession
Malle's Elevator to the Gallows
Anything by Don Siegel
More recent:
Mamet's House of Games and Michael Mann's Thief
I thought you only want me to recommend some noirs. I watched Brief Encounter. Indeed beautiful love story with inspiring cinematography. And it inspired Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood for love too.
Some of my favorites:
Pick up on South Street
The Narrow Margin
Kiss of Death
Kiss Me Deadly
The Big Heat
Detour
Touch of Evil
Nightmare Alley
Out of the Past
Born to Kill
Ace in the Hole