Melville is quite simply France's master of crime dramas (no disrespect to Chabrol or Clouzot, who tended a bit more toward the mystery / thriller aspect anyway), and this film
combines elements of crime drama, police procedural, and heist film together perfectly into an intricate slow burn building to its inevitable climax.
The film
combines elements of crime drama, prison drama, and courtroom drama, without any one of them overwhelming the others.
Not exact matches
It feels a bit familiar,
combining elements from several other films — particularly
Crimes and Misdemeanors — but it's also incredibly assured and one
of the most exquisitely shot entries in his oeuvre.
The film
combines the austere, snail's - pace tone
of Cronenberg's two experimental student - era films (Stereo and
Crimes of the Future, both
of which featured Ron Mlodzik, an androgynous ringer for Jones), with
elements of the viral conspiracy, flesh - invading thrillers stretching from Rabid to Dead Ringers.
Steampunk is its own form
of genre - blending,
combining fantasy with historical fiction (typically set in the Victorian era), but when you add a thriller or hard - boiled
crime element into the mix, you definitely kick it up a notch.