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Subgenre Sampler

 
Four DaysFour Days (2001) Recommended
Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers
This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
UnforgettableUnforgettable (1997)
Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino
A modern noir with a conceit lifted straight out of a sci–fi B–movie, cop Ray Liotta's obsession to learn the truth about his wife's…
This World, Then the FireworksThis World, Then the Fireworks (1996)
Dir. Michael Oblowitz
Feat. Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Chet Baker
Billy Zane and Gina Gershon play bad seed twins seemingly bonded by irrational behaviour and an incestuous streak in 50s California. Stylised noir…
Underneath, TheUnderneath, The (1995) Recommended
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner
A worldweary return to his home–town finds Peter Gallagher tempted all–too–easily into a dangerous criminal enterprise. A…
Wild SideWild Side (1995) Recommended
Dir. Donald Cammell
Feat. Anne Heche, Christopher Walken, Joan Chen
Bank exec Anne Heche moonlights as a hooker to service a debt and initiates a twisted game of role–playing with miscreants Christopher Walken…
Killer (1994)
Dir. Mark Malone
Feat. Anthony LaPaglia, Mimi Rogers
Ace hitman Anthony LaPaglia is hired to bump off glamour informant Mimi Rogers, whom he discovers is suicidal. Pacey and atmospheric, with an…
Golden Gate (1993)
Dir. John Madden
Feat. Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Bruno Kirby
Rookie FBI agent Matt Dillon is assigned to expose subversives in McCarthy–era San Fransisco, but years later becomes embroiled with the…
Public Eye, ThePublic Eye, The (1992)
Dir. Howard Franklin
Feat. Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle
Fascinating 40s film noir homage with Joe Pesci in a taylor–made role as a tabloid photographer whose seedy contacts enable him to be first on…
Shattered (1991)
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi
Tom Berenger plays an amnesia victim perturbed with the fragments of his former life and the suspicious antics of his friends. An innocent victim or…
CatchfireCatchfire (1990)
Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster
An engaging oddity directed by Dennis Hopper under a pseudonym, after producers cut the film from its original 3hr length. Hopper himself plays a…

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