Noir · Shadow & Smoke

9 works in this gallery room
A Song Goes Round the World
Noir A Song Goes Round the World

Richard Oswald's 'Ein Lied geht um die Welt' (A Song Goes Round the World), released in the fateful year of 1933, occupies a position of…

YEAR 1952 RUNTIME 109m RATING 84/100
Play Dirty
Noir Play Dirty

The heist film has long served as cinema's most elegant metaphor for the seductive logic of transgression, and Play Dirty plunges headlong…

YEAR 1962 RUNTIME 103m RATING 74/100
Blood Legend
Noir Blood Legend

The witch film occupies a singular position within the horror genre, tapping into ancient anxieties about female power, forbidden…

YEAR 1994 RUNTIME 122m RATING 64/100
The Dragon Family
Noir The Dragon Family

Hong Kong cinema's golden age produced numerous iterations of the triad genre, yet this particular entry distinguishes itself through its…

YEAR 2008 RUNTIME 161m RATING 85/100
Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire
Noir Revelation Road 2: The Sea of Glass and Fire

Religious apocalyptic cinema occupies a unique niche within American independent film, functioning simultaneously as entertainment for…

YEAR 1990 RUNTIME 184m RATING 88/100
GoodFellas
Noir GoodFellas

Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterwork stands as one of the monumental achievements in American cinema, a kinetically charged chronicle of Mafia…

YEAR 1999 RUNTIME 138m RATING 64/100
The Godfather Part II
Noir The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola's monumental sequel to his genre-defining mafia epic stands as arguably the most ambitious second chapter in the…

YEAR 2014 RUNTIME 161m RATING 75/100
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Noir Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Rian Johnson's third outing with the drawling, sartorially impeccable detective Benoit Blanc plunges the franchise into ecclesiastical…

YEAR 2001 RUNTIME 198m RATING 97/100