Noir films from 1960s

 

Representative 1960s Noir & Neo-Noir Films

Here’s a curated cross-section of important titles:

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• The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) – Indian melodrama with noir despair.

• The Naked Island (1960) – Japanese minimalist noir.

• Blast of Silence (1961) – Stark American hitman noir.

• Underworld U.S.A. (1961) – Samuel Fuller’s revenge noir.

• The Hustler (1961) – Paul Newman in a gritty pool-hall noir.

• Le Doulos (1962) – Jean-Pierre Melville’s French noir masterpiece.

• The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – Political thriller with noir paranoia.

• Experiment in Terror (1962) – Blake Edwards’ suspense noir.

• The Trial (1962) – Orson Welles’ Kafkaesque noir.

• The Servant (1963) – British psychological noir.

• Shock Corridor (1963) – Samuel Fuller’s asylum noir.

• Charade (1963) – Hitchcockian noir-romance.

• The Killers (1964) – Reagan’s last film, a violent noir remake.

• Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) – British psychological noir.

• The Naked Kiss (1964) – Fuller’s searing noir melodrama.

• Alphaville (1965) – Godard’s sci-fi noir.

• Mirage (1965) – Gregory Peck in a corporate noir.

• Harper (1966) – Paul Newman as a modern Marlowe.

• Tokyo Drifter (1966) – Seijun Suzuki’s pop-art noir.

• Branded to Kill (1967) – Suzuki’s surreal hitman noir.

• Point Blank (1967) – Lee Marvin in a brutal neo-noir.

• Bonnie and Clyde (1967) – Landmark crime-noir hybrid.

• Wait Until Dark (1967) – Audrey Hepburn in a suspense noir.

• Bullitt (1968) – Steve McQueen’s cop noir with iconic car chase.

• The Boston Strangler (1968) – True-crime noir.

• The Detective (1968) – Frank Sinatra in a gritty police noir.

• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Noir-western hybrid.

• The Big Silence (1968) – Spaghetti western with noir fatalism.

• Topaz (1969) – Hitchcock’s Cold War noir.

• The Italian Job (1969) – Heist noir with a stylish edge.

• The Lost Man (1969) – Sidney Poitier in a political noir.

• The Honeymoon Killers (1969) – Stark indie noir based on true crime.