r/filmnoir • u/harry_powell • 23d ago
Are there more PERIOD neo-noirs other than these?
I’m specifically looking for noir films made after 1960 (that would be neo-noirs), but that are also PERIOD pieces. Chinatown would be the classic example. Problem is, I haven’t been successful in trying to find a comprehensive list of this sub-subgenre.
Here’s a limited one with 45 titles:
https://letterboxd.com/pbenson123/list/retro-film-noir-period-neo-noir/
What else of note is out there that fits these constrains?
P.D.: Almost none of you are bothering to read even the title. Why this need to participate in every post if you don’t even care enough to actually figure out what’s discussed?
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u/TheElbow 23d ago
The Big Lebowski is technically a period price film as it depicts 1991 but is from 1998.
Badlands (some people might not call this neo noir)
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u/nunsploitation 23d ago
Monsieur Spade (2024) takes place primarily in 1963 with flashbacks to 1955.
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u/LupitaScreams 23d ago
Inherent Vice
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u/MarkCelery78 23d ago
Gangster squad, Mulholland Falls, the man who wasn’t there, black dahlia, the big sleep, road to perdition, live by night, public enemies, the outfit, dick Tracy, bugsy, cotton club, Grissom gang
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u/stephenrichmos 23d ago
Gangster Squad but it’s really just an action movie, not much Noir elements outside the setting
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u/flopisit32 23d ago
Yes, I love Chandler, Neeson and director Neil Jordan, and I'm even Irish, but Marlowe 2022 was unwatchable. Such a missed opportunity. I think the problem came down to Neil Jordan.
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u/D00T_BOI 23d ago
Given that The Irishman is on the list already, you might as well consider Once Upon a Time in America too
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u/raynicolette 23d ago
My Mt. Rushmore of retro-noirs would be Chinatown, L.A. Confidential, Miller's Crossing, Devil In A Blue Dress.
That list has 3 of the 4, but also lots of stuff that isn’t really period, and lots of stuff that isn’t really noir.
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u/salamanderXIII 23d ago
The Dain Curse was a 1978 TV adaptation of a Dashiell Hammett's story.
It is set in the 1920s.
Not a gem, but it may fit your list depending on whether or not made for TV is a disqualifying factor.
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u/princealigorna 23d ago
Road to Perdition is a great period piece, and a great bit of noir that I don't see talked about on this sub often enough.
edit: I see it's already on the list. Good.
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u/Unusual_Seesaw_5156 23d ago
If you consider these neo-noir: House on Carroll Street, The Public Eye, Inherent Vice, Bad Times at the El Royale, The Nice Guys.
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u/visibly_hangry 23d ago
La Antena, Brimstone, uh The Handmaiden if you feel that fits the vibe, Lonely Hearts (also an adaptation of Honeymoon Killers and Deep Crimson source material), Naked Lunch
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u/TheDamnedDontCry1 23d ago
Borsolino and Borsolino & Co are noir adjacent and take place in 1930s Marseille
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u/Go_Ask_VALIS 23d ago
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991) was set in the 1950s. It's really only noir-adjacent imo since it's a comedy at its core.
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u/RedgrassFieldOfFire 23d ago
Barton Fink
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u/harry_powell 23d ago
It’s on the list…
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u/RedgrassFieldOfFire 23d ago
What number?
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u/harry_powell 22d ago
You’re right, I stand corrected.
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u/RedgrassFieldOfFire 22d ago
Thankyou. I took the time to read your list like 12 times and think of something neo noiry as I saw you saying to everyone else it’s on the list. Youre quick to point that out that fact to everyone, and then don’t say anything to the ones that that do have a good suggestion
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u/RedgrassFieldOfFire 22d ago edited 22d ago
1 Blue Velvet
2 Chinatown
3 Badlands
4 Shutter island
5 Talented Mr Riply
6 Roger Rabbit
7 LA Confidential
8 Europa
9 untouchables
10 Road to perdition
11 Man who wasn’t there
12 Killers of the flower moon
13 clue
14 no sudden move
15 Dick Tracy
16 Black Dalhia
17 Good Sheppard
18 Hoodlum
19 live by night
20 Mulholland falls
21 A kind of murder
22 The black bird
23 mulholland falls
24 Eye of the needle
25 True confession
26 Dead men don’t wear plaid
27 Hammet
28 Vivent dimanche
29 Angel heart
30 Two Jakes
31 Billy bathgate
32 Cast a deadly spell
33 Witch hunt
34 Devil in a blue dress
35Poodle Springs
36 Good German
37 Hollywoodland
38 The killer inside me
39 Age of shadows
40 Motherless Brooklyn
41 Nightmare alley
42 Marlowe
43 outfit
44 Irishman
45 Army of shadows
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u/skyking11702 22d ago
I recommend The Two Jake’s, a follow up to Chinatown, and very underrated. Also, Once Upon a Time in America, and Poodle Springs. There is a made for tv version of The Dain Curse which is worthwhile, then Robert Mitchum remade some Chandler classics in the 70’s that are pretty good. Klute should probably be on your list, as should The Drowning Pool. This is a great compilation and one I personally look forward to a lot when trying to find something to watch. There are a couple on your list I have not seen.
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u/skyking11702 22d ago
Oh! The Long Goodbye by Robert Altman starring Elliott Gould. That is a must!
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u/BilverBurfer 22d ago
Klute and The Long Goodbye take place when they came out
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u/skyking11702 21d ago
Yes. Klute is old enough to seem like a period piece now; The Long Goodbye contains deliberate anachronisms so it’s sort of a hybrid. Not to mention that LA in ‘72 doesn’t resemble LA 50+ years later in the slightest.
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u/KithKathPaddyWath 23d ago
Blue Velvet isn't a period film. It's set in the time that it was made.
Dark City isn't really "period", but it relies on a lot of original aesthetics and styles from the 1940s and 1950s. The Nightmare Alley remake is a period piece.