Top 100 U.S. Neo-Noirs, 1967-2018
Posted by Solomon on 10/12/2019, 1:05 pm
Edited by Solomon on 10/27/2019, 4:41 am
Substitutions have, I hope, further strengthened this list. This list has been updated as of 10/25/2019. Bullitt (1968) added, Homicide (1991) dropped. 10/27/2019, "The Outfit" added, and "Red Dragon" dropped.
1967 Point Blank
1968 Bullitt
1971 The Anderson Tapes
1971 Dirty Harry (series)
1971 The French Connection
1971 Klute
1972 The Getaway
1972 Hickey & Boggs
1973 Badlands
1973 The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973 The Long Goodbye
1973 The Outfit
1973 Serpico
1974 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974 Chinatown
1974 The Conversation
1974 Death Wish (series)
1974 The Gambler
1974 The Parallax View
1975 Farewell, My Lovely
1975 Night Moves
1976 Taxi Driver
1976 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1978 The Driver
1978 Straight Time
1981 Blow Out
1981 Body Heat
1981 Cutter’s Way
1981 Prince of the City
1981 Thief
1981 True Confessions
1984 Blood Simple
1985 Runaway Train
1985 To Live and Die in L.A.
1986 Manhunter
1986 Round Midnight
1990 Goodfellas
1990 The Hot Spot
1990 Internal Affairs
1990 Miller's Crossing
1990 Q & A
1990 The Two Jakes
1991 Liebestraum
1992 Deep Cover
1992 One False Move
1993 A Perfect World
1993 Carlito’s Way
1993 Falling Down
1993 Red Rock West
1994 The Last Seduction
1994 Natural Born Killers
1995 Devil in a Blue Dress
1996 Mulholland Falls
1996 Normal Life
1997 City of Industry
1997 L.A. Confidential
1997 Lost Highway
1997 U-Turn
1998 Enemy of the State
1998 Ronin
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999 The Limey
1999 Simpatico
2000 American Psycho
2001 In the Bedroom
2001 The Man Who Wasn’t There
2001 Training Day
2002 Road to Perdition
2003 Monster
2003 Tough Luck
2004 The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004 Man on Fire
2005 A Little Trip to Heaven
2005 Lord of War
2006 Alone with Her
2006 Payback: Straight Up
2007 Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
2007 Mr. Brooks
2007 There Will Be Blood
2007 Trade
2007 Zodiac
2008 Frozen River
2008 Transsiberian
2008 The Wrestler
2009 Julia
2009 Wrong Turn at Tahoe
2010 Winter’s Bone
2014 A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 3 Days to Kill
2014 Cold in July
2014 The Drop
2014 Inherent Vice
2014 Joe
2014 The Two Faces of January
2016 Hell or High Water
2016 Transpecos
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 Wind River
2017 You Were Never Really Here
2018 Bad Times at the El Royale
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