What are your favorite crime movies?
Mine would be Goodfellas, Casino, Scarface, The Usual Suspects, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver, to name a few.
I like caper movies quite a bit.
One that recently came out was "Flawless," with Michael Caine and Demi Moore. Lodon. 60's. Just this side of noir. Otherwise:
Payback
The Third Man
A Touch Of Evil
Sunset Boulevard
Memento
Eastern Promises
- Ashland
All great suggestions so far! Here's 10 more I like:
- Lady in the Lake (dir by and starring Robert Montgomery)
- Thief (dir by Michael Mann, w/James Caan & Tuesday Weld)
- Body Heat (dir by Lawrence Kasden, w/Wm Hurt & Kathleen Turner)
- Heat (dir by Michael Mann, w/Pacino & De Niro)
- Chinatown (dir by Roman Polanski, w/Jack Nickelson)
- Out of the Past (Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas), and the almost as good remake, Against All Odds (Jeff Bridges)
- Double Indemnity (Fred McMurray, Barbara Stanwick)
- Pickup on South Street (Richard Widmark)
- The Killers (both the original w/Burt Landcaster and the archtypical 60's remake w/Ronald Reagan who knocks off sweet Angie Dickinson, the bastard!)
- The Killing (dir by Stanley Kubrick w/Sterling Hayden)
The Godfather.
And the sequel imaginatively titled Godfather 2.
Lets not mention Godfather 3...
Brick.
Loved all the movies mentioned. But check out Brick if you haven't seen it yet, you will not be dissapointed.
Blast of Silence is a scrape-the-bone-raw noir made for a few bucks in the early '60s. Not slick but will knock you back a step. Uncompromising as hell.
Also a couple of under-the-rader Harvey Keitel films: Bad Lieutenant and a sleeper, City of Industry.
And a couple of out-of-print films: Ride the Pink Horse (1947, when more good movies were made than any other year, with Robert Montgomery) and Underworld USA (by the great Sam Fuller). Check 'em out if you get a chance.
Stanley Kubrick, filmed in a semi-documentary style. It doesn't come much better than this.
Fargo, Basic Instinct, A Simple Plan, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Dolores Claiborne, Sunset Boulevard, American Beauty, Jindabyne.
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I totally love the ones you just mentioned and maybe I have a wonky definition of Crime Noir but here goes:
Suicide Kings, Sin City, Freeway, The Last Supper, Jackie Brown, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Carlitos Way, L.A. Confidiential, New Jack City, 187, Ricochet, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, and The Warriors (campy but fun).
There are a bunch of others I can't think of right now :-)