film noir/gangster classics.

Check out that new collection, I think it's actually called something like film noir classics volume 1, you get a few movies, all classics.

 

even though its not from that time. but fits the genre u want perfectly.
SIN CITY

 

The Third Man. Really, really good movie.

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=pd_sxp_f/104-0041119-7305500?v=glance&s=dvd

Asphalt jungle, The (1950) = CLA1
Borderline (1950) = FN10 Note: at best marginally film noir!
Call it murder (aka Midnight) (1934) = FN10 Note: a 1934 film, not film noir!
Detour (1945) = CLA9 FN10 KIL5 MY10 Note: right-hand-drive vehicles in first scene a goof of film, not a reissue mistake!
D.O.A. (1950) = CLA9 FN10 KIL5
Gun crazy (aka Deadly is the female) (1949) = CLA1
He walked by night (1948) = FN10 MY10
Hitch-hiker, The (1953) = CLA9
Hollow triumph (aka The scar--UK) (1948) = CLA9
Impact (1949) = MY10
Kansas City confidential (1952) = FN10 MY10
Man who cheated himself, The (1950) = CLA9
Murder, my sweet (aka Farewell my lovely) (1944) = CLA1
Out of the past (1947) = CLA1
Quicksand (1950) = CLA9 MY10
Red house, The (1947) = FN10 Note: rural film noir!
Scarlet Street (1945) = FN10 KIL5 MY10
Second woman, The (1951) = FN10 MY10
Set-up, The (1949) = CLA1
Strange love of Martha Ivers, The (1946) = CLA9
Stranger, The (1946) = CLA9 FN10 KIL5 MY10 Note: The separate Roan Group issue (with Cause for alarm, 1951) is superior.
Suddenly (1954) = MY10
Too late for tears (aka Killer bait) (1949) = CLA9 KIL5 MY10


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=pd_sxp_f/104-0041119-7305500?v=glance&s=dvd

BORN TO KILL
CLASH BY NIGHT
CROSSFIRE
DILLINGER
THE NARROW MARGIN

 

Bonnie and Clyde

 

devil in a blue dress

 

The Third Man

M

Touch of Evil

The Asphalt Jungle

Stray Dog

High and Low

The Stranger

D.O.A.

Detour

White Heat

Little Caesar

Angles with Dirty Faces

Night in the City

The Street with No Name

The Maltese Falcon

The Lady from Shang Hai

Shadow of a Doubt

Laura

The Killers

Johnny Apollo

 

The poster for Too Late for Tears is hilarious:


"That's just to remind you...you're in a tough racket now!"

 

Thats like post neo-noir...

The Maltese Falcon is considered to be the original film noir...even though noirs origins are rooted in german expressionist style films.

 

Bonnie and Clyde is not film noir at all.

 

my favorite is Double Indemnity its awesome!

 

also try Touch of Evil, White Heat, The Big Sleep, and this AWESOME boxing noir (that i just recently purchased off of Overstock.com for only 11 bucks (s & h included)) called Body and Heat. Its SUCH a great movie. Right up there as one of my favorites

 

Weird, cause Fury (which is pretty good) was made at least four years before the maltese falcon, and Fury is DEFINITELY film noir

 

I'm just telling you what i read

It could have been wrong... :0

 

While Sin City was made long after the depression era films such as Maltese Falcon, it has all of the characteristics of true film noir.

 

i agree. Sin City is film noir with splashes of color. Its not neo-noir or post neo-noir. It is indeed film noir, just like "The Man Who Wasn't There" was film noir because it had all of the characteristics of film noir. People are often to anxious to slap the title of neo-noir or post neo-noir onto any contemporary film noir, simply because its new.

 

Blade Runner

 

blade runner was awesome futuristic noir. It was just really interesting to see them combine noir and sci-fi in that way. Then see a ton of other movies emulate it

 

Yeah, some of these have been said and I agree...

The Third Man
Touch of Evil
Key Largo

and here is one a bit obscure but excellent, with Sydney Greenstreet ("The Big Man") and Peter Lorre:

The Mask of Dimitrios

 

"The Mask of Dimitrios"

Never heard of it... will keep an eye out for it

 

Touch of Evil is such an incredible movie. Just remembering it gives me the shivers.

 

I dont know if its what he is looking for but thats a really good movie.