Films Gris ?

                   

       There have always been some of my own favorite movies which can never be categorized as Noir in any way but are so favorite that they must have strong elements of our dark genre within them.

On the Waterfront
Godfather II
Save the Tiger
Cool Hand Luke
Last Detail
Fight Club
Twelve Angry Men
Streetcar Named Desire
The Hustler
Red Badge of Courage

Grapes of Wrath
Pickpocket
Hud
Paths of Glory
Last Picture Show
Quiller Memorandum
Brief Encounter
In the Mood for Love
Crash (Cronenberg)
Flight of the Phoenix

Things you Used to Own

                       Then the perfect bed, the drapes, the rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
1996

image William Ritasse
Chicago 1931
reblogged from Calumet412

Nihilist Noir

         Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.

Fight Club
Chuck Palahnuik
1996

On the Edges of Noir

     I would always look upon Treasure of Sierra Madre, Paths of Glory, etc as really Noirs in disguise but many other movies must have a strong element of Noirish theme/ influence for them to appeal in such a strong way. In some cases it may be down to dark style/appearance or subject matter involving trust and betrayal.

Last Detail

Drugstore Cowboy
Save the Tiger
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
Quiz Show
Pickpocket
Long Voyage Home
Freud
The Hustler

The Hustler

All the President's Men
The Hill
Streetcar Named Desire
The Changeling
Duel
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Fight Club
Color of Money
Red Badge of Courage
Last Detail
Enemy at the Gates

All the President's Men

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?

Save the Tiger