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.
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:32 (six years ago) link
PitfallMurder, My Sweet
― omar little, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― cwkiii, Monday, 12 March 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
oh man, Laughing Policeman is so good. Gotta find a way to rewatch that soon.
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link
Liked the Outfit too -- one of the better Parker adaptations.
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link
gonna watch night moves again now i guess.
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
man, i gotta watch cutter's way again soon too.
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
probably a bunch of repeats here, sorry:Snake EyesThe FugitiveDas BootPaper MoonThe Hunt For Red OctoberShaft (1971)The French ConnectionPort of ShadowsDead CalmBatman ReturnsA Fish Called WandaThe In-LawsClueThe Third ManDial M For MurderThe Poseidon AdventureSubwayThe Wages of FearJohnny Dangerously
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 March 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
A couple of helpful Letterboxd lists:
Classic NoirNeo-Noir
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Monday, 12 March 2018 04:18 (six years ago) link
dead mans shoesred riding 1980
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 08:44 (six years ago) link
The Two Jakes
can i get a ruling on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:03 (six years ago) link
crime noir mystery def
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:03 (six years ago) link
Violent CopBoiling PointSonatineHana-bi
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:07 (six years ago) link
The Offence
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
Hell is a CityThe CriminalRobbery
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:13 (six years ago) link
Pickpocket
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:19 (six years ago) link
dark city
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:23 (six years ago) link
The Grissom GangDirty Harry
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:26 (six years ago) link
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyThe HandmaidenThe Naked CityBad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
― devvvine, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
The General (1998 John Boorman with Brendan Gleeson)Paddington 2
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
Insomnia (the Skarsgard one)Rear WindowAccident (Cheang, 1992)
― devvvine, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:33 (six years ago) link
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.)
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
so everything but 'romcoms' qualifies apparently
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
no.......?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
xp we've saved your usual seat for the results thread, but you might have to be Waldorf and Statler, is that cool?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link
because i've never had any desire to watch Hollywood butcher Insomnia i've only just realised it's Nolan who butchered it
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
"The Handmaiden"
this is a good call xxxps, I fancy watching that again.
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
Zodiac
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 12 March 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
Nightcrawler
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 March 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
every James Cagney film that isn't a musical
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
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 JoeIl DivoInfernal Affairs IIOld BoyCity On FireBlue VelvetInto The NightLa BalanceEmergency SquadRevolverBig Guns/Tony ArzentaThe Outside Man/Un Homme Est MortThe Italian ConnectionMilano Calibro 9Two Lane BlacktopZA Colt Is My PassportThe Small World Of Sammy LeeSalvatore GiulianoPigs & BattleshipsThe Man UpstairsTouch Of EvilThe Ship That Died Of ShameThe Big ComboThe Hitch HikerOn Dangerous GroundPool Of LondonPetrified ForestThe LodgerFantomas
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
The Godfather Part III
― jmm, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
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!
― omar little, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
Serie NoireThe Line-UpCrime Wave (1985; The John Paizs film, not the Raimi film)Side StreetPeeping TomLe BoucherLa Ceremonie Purple Moon
― Chris L, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
here i am with some post-millennium flicks. is there some sort of "no supernatural elements" rule?
Animal KingdomMementoOldboyGone Baby GoneGone GirlEnd of WatchNon-Stop
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Monday, 12 March 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
Force of EvilBrute ForceThe Killers (1964)
― Chris L, Monday, 12 March 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
For organizing polls to fit more options --run several polls, concurrently or in a series, dividing fils by decade?
― ian, Monday, 12 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
Updated ballot (my comments on some of these are upthread)Nightmare AlleyBlade RunnerNo Country For Old MenGet CarterChinatownClash By NightThe Postman Always Rings Twice (all three versions prob, although been a while since I've seen the Italian)DetourAct of ViolenceIn A Lonely PlaceVertigoTaxi DriverSalesmanThe 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/
― dow, Monday, 12 March 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
Bitter MoonHell or High WaterGood Time12 Angry MenOn the WaterfrontSexy BeastThe Vanishing (1988)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 07:22 (six years ago) link
Hell Or High Water will def be high on my list. So good.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 07:23 (six years ago) link
wind river on that note
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 08:57 (six years ago) link
I nominated that one already
― scotti pruitti (wins), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
nods
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:14 (six years ago) link
Touchez pas au GrisbiClasses Tous RisquesThe League of GentlemanThe Silent PartnerThe Anderson TapesInvestigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionMilan Caliber 9Cash on Demand
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link