Danluck has great style as a filmmaker that harkens back to
the best noir thrillers of yesteryear; she just needs to write a script with the substance to match.
Not exact matches
Film
Noir selections in all their gangster glory as
well as murder mysteries,
thrillers and classic action features curated from the massive FilmOn content library.
And so, our choice for the
best movie of 2011 is Nicolas Winding Refn's stylish «neon
noir»
thriller Drive, an adaptation of James Sallis» 2005 novel starring Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt - man and in - demand getaway driver who finds himself having to deal with the fall - out from a heist gone wrong.
Sophie Cookson,
best known as Roxy in Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman films, who will join Adam Gillen, Steffan Rhodri and Neve McIntosh - along with the already cast Orlando Bloom - in Tracy Letts's
noir comic
thriller Killer Joe, which Simon Evans will direct at Trafalgar Studios from May 18.
Claire Denis goes all - out
noir in Bastards, a brooding, nocturnal
thriller where innocents get punished and
good men die.
In this scary little
noir quadrangle
thriller, Dick Powell, who was one of the
better Philip Marlowes, is a sort of lower echelon Walter Neff — an insurance man leading an apparently happy (if slightly dull) life who gets involved with a criminal's sultry girlfriend (Lizabeth Scott).
This likable heist
thriller from the director of «Requiem for a Heavyweight» failed in its bid to make French
noir star Alain Delon an American star as
well, despite valuable help from Ann - Margret, Jack Palance and Van Heflin.
The
noir thriller couldn't be more different than her first producing gig «I, Tonya,» which ended up winning an Oscar for Allison Janney and earning Robbie her first
Best Actress nomination.
Noir expert Richard Fleischer specialized in true - crime movies («Compulsion,» «The Boston Strangler») and this is one of his
best: a chilling realistic
thriller modeled on the famous case of British serial killer Dr. John Christie (brilliantly underplayed by Richard Attenborough), and the hapless man he frames for one of his murders, (a brilliant job by John Hurt).
Ford delivers a masterful
thriller adapting Austin Wright's «Tony & Susan» into not just one of the
best films of the year, but an infectious presentation of art and
noir.
- Publishers Weekly «The
best - selling success of Furst and Kerr has shown there is an audience for 1930s
noir novels, and Rabb's
well - written historical
thriller will not disappoint.»
Described as a toxic shock of a
thriller, this bijou slice of American
noir, delivers a real punch to the reader, and I was mightily impressed how much
well defined characterisation, and breadth of action, Ames crams into such a minimal page count.
Dawson then branched out into the highly successful Beatrix Rose
thrillers (beginning with In Cold Blood), as
well as a series of «
noir» period titles and several stand - alone tales.
Anybody that loves police procedurals written tautly, with grit and a healthy dose of
noir, will love this one... her Georgia Davis series may just be one of the
best crime
thriller series being written today.