Noir on the Streets

Klute
L.A Confidential
Killer inside Me
Lost Weekend
Taxi Driver
Elevator to the Gallows
The Missing Person
In Cold Blood
Pickup on South Street
Naked Kiss
Mona Lisa
Under Suspicion
The Quiet American
Night and Day
Thieves Highway

True Confessions
Hammett
Miami Blues
Last Seduction
8mm
Bob Le Flambeur
Eastern Promises
Blow out
Lost Son
Bad Lieutenant
Bound
Seven
Memento
Le Samourai
The Good German
Hustle
Cat Chaser
Casino

Lee Marvin

Point Blank

Point Blank
Big Heat
Bad Day at Black Rock
Prime Cut
The Killers
Gorky Park
Shack out on 101
The Wild One
Emperor of the North
The Raid

Bad Day at Black Rock

Big Heat

Build my Gallows High

'I'm not a mind reader' Red said sleepily. 'How do i know the poem you're thinking?'.

'It goes 'When i am dead and over me bright April shakes her rain drenched hair'.

Build my Gallows High

Geoffrey Homes

1946

More Marlowe Noir

She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.

The Lady in the Lake

Raymond Chandler

1943

All Time Top Ten Heist Noirs

 1/  Asphalt Jungle

2/ Friends of Eddie Coyle

3/ Reservoir Dogs

                                                                 4/ Rififi

5/ Heat

                                                     6/ Le Cercle Rouge

7/ The Killing

8/ Sexy Beast

9/ The Taking of Pelham 123

10/ The Getaway

Close call- Odds Against Tommorow, Un Flic, Le Doulos, Blue Collar, Straight Time

Femme Fatale #5

If you don't give a damn men look at you.

Jeanne Moreau

The Last Payday

                               The shallow pocket changer
                               Who always took advantage of strangers
                               Tried to make a five-grand grab
                               With a split second getaway
                               But he forgot that a bag of money
                               Ain't worth much on a slab
                               When it's your last payday

                               That line about luck just can't be bought
                               You're always lucky till you get caught
                               Trouble will find you, No need to look
                               And luck won't help when they close the book


Last Payday
(Harry Connick Jr/ Mclean)
Harry Connick
1991

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Burt Glinn  42nd Street 
New York 1964

Kertesz

Reservoir Dogs

                                       

       Tarantino's 1992 debut movie and still his best to date is a bloody reworking of the Heist/Caper storyline that has provided so many of Noir's masterpieces over the years. He uses a number of brilliant low budget ideas and a disjointed timeline to make the eight-man jewellery robbery unpredictable.

Pre Noir Fragments

             

                                                           Sunrise

                                                                You Only Live Once

                                                           They Drive by Night

McGinnis Cover Noir

Recognised as one of the greatest cover artists for Noir paperback originals Robert McGinnis has a love for the Femme Noir.