This life's HARD man, but it's HARDER if you're stupid! aka CRIME/MYSTERY/THRILLER/NOIR movie POLL nominations thread

Homicide (the Mamet film from 1991)
Red Rock West
The American Friend
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
The Getaway (1972)

Has anybody else seen Hit Man, the Blaxploitation version of Get Carter released the next year w/Bernie Casey & Pam Grier?

https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/images/Hit_man_insert.jpg

Thieves' Highway

Casino
Across 110th Street
Straight Time
The Seven-Ups
Prime Cut
The Outfit
The Driver
Blue Collar
Klute
The Onion Field
The Laughing Policeman
The Yakuza

Wanna see Hit Man! What is Thieves' Highway about?? Good title.

Oh yeah and also for my ballot: Salesman, which seemingly totally makes sense as an Iranian situation today, but also so very true in so many places and times that ya don't think first (or maybe at all) of calling the cops, calling any Authoritah.

Pitfall
Murder, My Sweet

xp Thieves' Highway: guy comes home from the war to find that his father has been crippled by a shady underworld character, guy vows revenge. From about five minutes into the film it's just absolutely relentless tension.

I don't watch that many movies but it's one of my favorites fwiw.

oh man, Laughing Policeman is so good. Gotta find a way to rewatch that soon.

Liked the Outfit too -- one of the better Parker adaptations.

I love the story Jules Dassin shares on the Thieves Highway CC disc about how (supporting player) Jack Oakie had become deaf (during the war?), but nobody knew because as a result he became such an expert lip-reader.

gonna watch night moves again now i guess.

man, i gotta watch cutter's way again soon too.

probably a bunch of repeats here, sorry:

Snake Eyes
The Fugitive
Das Boot
Paper Moon
The Hunt For Red October
Shaft (1971)
The French Connection
Port of Shadows
Dead Calm
Batman Returns
A Fish Called Wanda
The In-Laws
Clue
The Third Man
Dial M For Murder
The Poseidon Adventure
Subway
The Wages of Fear
Johnny Dangerously

A couple of helpful Letterboxd lists:

Classic Noir
Neo-Noir

dead mans shoes
red riding 1980

The Two Jakes

can i get a ruling on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

crime noir mystery def

Violent Cop
Boiling Point
Sonatine
Hana-bi

The Offence

Hell is a City
The Criminal
Robbery

Pickpocket

dark city

The Grissom Gang
Dirty Harry

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Handmaiden
The Naked City
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

The General (1998 John Boorman with Brendan Gleeson)
Paddington 2

Insomnia (the Skarsgard one)
Rear Window
Accident (Cheang, 1992)

sorry 2009 not 1992*

I might end up splitting my ballot across the genres - Lock Stock is basically the perfect crime movie but doesn't have much of the Mystery or Thriller.

The Big Lebowski

(It probably would only make my ballot in a poll of comedies, but with Big Sleep and Long Goodbye present here, it felt missing.)

so everything but 'romcoms' qualifies apparently

no.......?

xp we've saved your usual seat for the results thread, but you might have to be Waldorf and Statler, is that cool?

because i've never had any desire to watch Hollywood butcher Insomnia i've only just realised it's Nolan who butchered it

"The Handmaiden"

this is a good call xxxps, I fancy watching that again.

Zodiac

Nightcrawler

every James Cagney film that isn't a musical

Not mentioned so far, afaic, from most recent to oldest, and with a focus on non-US stuff that if put on the spot I probably wouldn't call "greatest ever" but that's really satisfying and interesting and sorta the reason why I love crime films:

Killer Joe
Il Divo
Infernal Affairs II
Old Boy
City On Fire
Blue Velvet
Into The Night
La Balance
Emergency Squad
Revolver
Big Guns/Tony Arzenta
The Outside Man/Un Homme Est Mort
The Italian Connection
Milano Calibro 9
Two Lane Blacktop
Z
A Colt Is My Passport
The Small World Of Sammy Lee
Salvatore Giuliano
Pigs & Battleships
The Man Upstairs
Touch Of Evil
The Ship That Died Of Shame
The Big Combo
The Hitch Hiker
On Dangerous Ground
Pool Of London
Petrified Forest
The Lodger
Fantomas

I love a noms list that just doubles as a general curiosity list for the genre. We'll be able to do long ballots too I hope??? So many good flicks in the noms already.

The Godfather Part III

My aim would be a minimum of 25 flicks ideally and a maximum of 50. I think that's what I did for the action films?

Aiming for a reveal list of 75. Maybe 100. I dunno. We'll see!

Serie Noire
The Line-Up
Crime Wave (1985; The John Paizs film, not the Raimi film)
Side Street
Peeping Tom
Le Boucher
La Ceremonie
Purple Moon

here i am with some post-millennium flicks. is there some sort of "no supernatural elements" rule?

Animal Kingdom
Memento
Oldboy
Gone Baby Gone
Gone Girl
End of Watch
Non-Stop

Personally, I'm interpreting 'thrillers' in a somewhat restricted sense, in what seems to be the spirit of the poll (crime as the central genre). I wouldn't vote for supernatural thrillers.

Force of Evil
Brute Force
The Killers (1964)

How do we feel about gialli falling under these genres? I feel like a whole lot of Argento belongs on here: Deep Red, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Tenebrae, Trauma . . .

Maybe some Fulci, too, but I don't like any of his movies anywhere near as much.

For organizing polls to fit more options --
run several polls, concurrently or in a series, dividing fils by decade?

Updated ballot (my comments on some of these are upthread)
Nightmare Alley
Blade Runner
No Country For Old Men
Get Carter
Chinatown
Clash By Night
The Postman Always Rings Twice (all three versions prob, although been a while since I've seen the Italian)
Detour
Act of Violence
In A Lonely Place
Vertigo
Taxi Driver
Salesman
The Human Beast (good info here, and I gotta check some of those linked under People Who Liked This Also Liked...)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029957/

Bitter Moon
Hell or High Water
Good Time
12 Angry Men
On the Waterfront
Sexy Beast
The Vanishing (1988)

Hell Or High Water will def be high on my list. So good.