Beginning with a remarkable bank robbery on a deserted beach front and also featuring a helicopter heist shot in real time, UN FLIC is perhaps Jean-Pierre Melville's most perfect synthesis of style and suspense. A wonderfully fatalistic study of loss and deception, and a distillation of Melville's interest in the codes of loyalty and honor, the film marks a fitting epitaph to one of the finest careers in contemporary cinema. *"A fitting final act...

With its singular focus on the very best portrait photography of the 1940s and 1950s Hollywood film noir era, every page of this coffee-table volume is rich in brooding atmosphere. The portraits gathered here, of actors such as Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Gene Tierney, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Jack Palance, Joan Crawford and Richard Widmark, were taken by premier studio...

A neo-noir homage to 1970's American Crime Cinema, THE MIDNIGHTERS tells the story of an aging ex-con recently released from prison is asked to put his life on the line to save his son from a deadly debt. Winner of Best Screenplay at the **Phoenix Film Festival**.

Roy Earle (Bogart) barely has a chance to savor his freedom before learning that his release from prison has been arranged in exchange for his help in a high-stakes jewelry heist. Earle knows the caper will most likely end badly for him--and for the brash young thugs in on the job--but he has no choice. Even though Earle finds love with a hardened woman (Ida Lupino) living on the criminal fringe and uses his share of the loot to help a needy young...

William Petersen and Willem Dafoe face off in a deadly game of cat and mouse in director William Friedkin's gritty and raw story of corruption and revenge. Federal agent Richard Chance (Petersen) has a score to settle as he vows to take down a murderous counterfeiter (Dafoe) by any means necessary, leading to one of the most harrowing car chases ever filmed and a shockingly explosive finale.

Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel (The Fairy, Lost in Paris) delight audiences with their blend of slapstick and burlesque. Their latest "crime movie" transmutes the codes of film noir through their characteristically colorful palette and clownish plot twists. Abel plays Boris, a former activist hiding from his dark past, keeping in the shadows as a barkeeper, until a one-armed vigilante finally hunts him down. The fortuitous appearance of a double-the...

Who delivers ten times out of ten? Samuel L. Jackson is SHAFT, the man and the movie. John Singleton ("Boys 'n' the Hood") directs this gritty action-packed thriller. With his uncle John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, reprising his original role) as his mentor, it's no surprise that today's Shaft is the coolest dude and the hottest action around. To stop a racist killer (Christian Bale), Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness (Toni Collette) that...

Screen legend Jeanne Moreau stars in this twisty, mood-drenched film noir from acclaimed crime writer Frédéric Dard. When wealthy industrialist Jacques Decrey discovers that his wife (Moreau) is having an affair with a young actor, he decides to exact revenge by blackmailing her under an assumed identity.

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.

Possibly the best crime drama ever filmed, this taut, gritty caper from legendary director John Huston begins with a meticulously planned robbery executed with clockwork precision. But bit by bit, unanticipated events and the criminals' character flaws begin to unravel a seemingly perfect heist.