10 Greatest Neo-Noir Movies of the Last 25 Years

Noir almost always conjures images of a bygone era of hard-boiled detectives, femme fatales, and corrupt cops. It's an era that only ever existed in movies and pulp novels, and in actuality only represents one portion of the noir genre. The classic noir period is generally set somewhere between 1940 and 1960. There were plenty of precursors throughout the '30s and lots of influences from films like those from German Expressionism before that, but the period is still generally accepted. If you need easy demarcation using major films, from The Maltese Falconto Touch of Evilshould give you a good idea. Everything after this classic period is considered neo-noir.