By Moodie7 movies · 2 · 0 · 0
By Moodie7 Film Noir Classics
If you’ve always meant to get into film noir but didn’t know where to start, start here. Seven classics with sharp dialogue, bad decisions, shadows everywhere and stories that still work today.
About these picks
- Double Indemnity
- An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
- The Third Man
- In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died.
- Sunset Boulevard
- A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
- Out of the Past
- The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
- The Maltese Falcon
- A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
- Laura
- A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
- The Big Sleep
- Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen.