The Best Visual Stylistic Neo Noir-Film Soleil List 1960 onwards

Excellent low low budget "Spillane-Hammeresque" noir shot on a shoestring (for about $30,000) using actual NYC locations, they got Lionel Stander to do the narration for a $1000 uncredited, director Allen Baron was going to use Peter Falk as the lead but he got a better offer so Baron used himself, lol. Nice soundtrack also.

Cliff Robertson stars, Sam Fuller directed

A "Kitchen Sink" Noir starring Carol Baker, Ralph Meeker and New York City.

Robert Mitchum is positively frightening in this dark revenge thriller, with Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen and Telly Savalas.

A San Francisco police procedural that moves at a quick clip that never lets up. Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stephanie Powers, and Ross Martin.

Directed by Jerald Intrator, Starring Meg Myles (The Phenix City Story (1955)), Grayson Hall (Night of The Iguana (1964), (Dark Shadows TV), Del Tenney, Mike Keene, Robert Yuro, and Sabrina. Called a 1962 American "sexploitation film" it's actually curiously well enough done and very film noir-ish in spots especially the opening intro carnival sequence which will remind you of Nightmare Alley. You wish it would have stayed at the carnival.

A Great Cold War Neo Noir starring Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey, Janet Leigh and co-stars Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, and James Gregory.

Stark and realistic. It's full of great actors and real-life boxing champs including then Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Jack Dempsey, and Willie Pep, stars screen legends Jackie Gleason, Anthony Quinn, and Mickey Rooney. Beautifully shot black and white cinematography with a pretty good musical score.

A Sam Fuller film about a journalist who gets himself committed to a mental hospital in order to track an unsolved murder.

A shocking opening sequence that you wont forget.

Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez. The Jewish holocaust from the viewpoint of a survivor. Sol Nazerman operates a pawnshop in East Harlem, Nazerman is bitter and alienated, viewing the people around him as "rejects, scum." as he interacts cynically with the many desperate characters pawning their goods.

Director: William Conrad, Jeffry Hunter saves an attractive Anne Francis from a suicide attempt, then becomes romantically involved and plots to kill her husband Dana Andrews.

Crazy hyper-kinetic Ralph Nelson directed Noir

Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer P.I. brought to the screen. Stars Paul Newman with a neat performance accompanied by a great cast of supporting characters

Jazz Noir - Mister Buddwing is one of those lost films that are on the cusp between Film Noir and Neo Noir. Sort of a psychological noir rather than a “crime” noir. A melancholy film that plays with time, space and your mind as the various vignettes overlap it's eerie and noirishly suspenseful, but at times darkly comic. It requires multiple viewings to fully comprehend.

one of the all-time greatest movies about crime/criminals on the run

Forget about that is was produced at the height of the civil rights struggle becoming a benchmark film that has won accolades world over and look at it terms of a sort of Edward Hopper-esque, color Neo Noir. The compositions and muted colors render practically every scene a visual treat. If you've never seen it you will be pleasantly surprised, with a great Quincy Jones score to boot. 10/10 for me.

It’s all about cool, cool that aura of quiet intensity along that ever changing cutting edge balancing between conservative and excess, the spark between new and old, you know it when you see it.

William Powell had it, Noir icons Bogart, Dick Powell, Mitchum, Conte, Andrews, Ford, Holden, and Hayden had it. James Garner as Marlowe displays one of the last vestiges of classic, big city, private eye cool, surfing the counter culture tsunami of the 60s.

Inspired by the true story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the notorious "lonely hearts killers" of the 1940s.

Soul Noir - Shaft has been called the first blaxploitation flick, screw that and it's derogatory connotations (think Sergio Leone vs the majority of "Spaghetti" Westerns as a reference point), its actually not only a great PI film, directed by Gordon Parks (acclaimed photojournalist for Life magazine ) but also shot in a very noir-ish style by Urs Furrer. Between the eye of the director and the skill of the cinematographer the film looks beautiful. The shots of Manhattan, The Village, Harlem circa 1970 are gorgeous. It's sleazy Times Square/42nd Street at fin d'une époque, before Disneyfication eradicated it all.

Watch it with noir colored glasses, its very chiaroscuro in a lot of sequences, it's got the high and low angel camera angles, and dark satirical comedy by a classic era Noir director.

Directed by Barry Shear with Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa.A forgotten gritty NYC crime/semi-blaxploitation flick.

Jim Thompson novel brought to the screen.

A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral and to seek revenge.

Smog Noir - Directed by Robert Culp, Written by Walter Hill, Starring Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Rosalind Cash, Isabel Sanford, Sheila Sullivan, Carmencristina Moreno, Louis Moreno, Robert Mandan, Michael Moriarty, Bill Hickman, Vincent Gardenia, Ed Lauter, and James Woods.