Robert Siodmak directs this crime drama of a desperate gangster and a driven cop, one of his darkest film noirs, seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis
Jules Dassin directs this film noir drama set in the cutthroat world of long haul trucking, independent drivers, and the San Francisco produce market run by a crime boss.
Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles star in Carol Reed’s continental film noir set in the rubble of post-war Vienna. It placed in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films ever made.
Fernando di Leo’s seventies Italian gangster thriller stars Luc Merenda as a hotshop young cop on the take and features some of the most impressive car chases of its era.
This 2014 action movie hit revived a kind of thriller that Hollywood had ignored in the age of superhero movies: simple, streamlined, driven by action scenes that rely on physical prowess rather than computer generated elements. It also turned Keanu Reeves into an unexpectedly terrific action star.