Neo-Noir
Neo-noir is a term given to movies or tv shows that share characteristics and/or borrow major influences from classic Film noirs. It refers to settings in an dark, urban, gritty environment usually following a hardboiled, troubled or psychologically damaged detective or criminal investigating or furthering a criminal/political conspiracy.
Tropes and motifs of the setting include presentation of social injustice, corruption, blurring of moral lines and often unsympathetic and troubled protagonists in an urban environment.
Tropes and motifs of the setting include presentation of social injustice, corruption, blurring of moral lines and often unsympathetic and troubled protagonists in an urban environment.
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- CreatorBruno HellerStarsBen McKenzieJada Pinkett SmithDonal LogueThe story behind Detective James Gordon's rise to prominence in Gotham City in the years before Batman's arrival.
- CreatorMelissa RosenbergStarsKrysten RitterRachael TaylorEka DarvilleFollowing the tragic end of her brief superhero career, Jessica Jones tries to rebuild her life as a private investigator, dealing with cases involving people with remarkable abilities in New York City.
- CreatorDavid GreenwaltJoss WhedonStarsDavid BoreanazCharisma CarpenterAlexis DenisofThe vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption.
- CreatorHenk HandloegtenTom TykwerAchim von BorriesStarsVolker BruchLiv Lisa FriesLars EidingerColognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
- CreatorRon FitzgeraldRolin JonesStarsMatthew RhysJuliet RylanceChris ChalkIn booming 1932 Los Angeles, a down-and-out defense attorney takes on the case of a lifetime.
- CreatorBruno HellerStarsJack BannonRyan FletcherDorothy AtkinsonThe origin story of Alfred Pennyworth, a former special-forces soldier living in London and how he came to work for Bruce Wayne's father.
- CreatorMike KelleyStarsJane LevyBlake JennerKeith PowersAn anthology series which tackles a different morality tale, and the ripple effect of a single decision that changes the trajectory of an entire life.
- CreatorDragan BjelogrlicStarsAndrija KuzmanovicMarija BergamDragan BjelogrlicA historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1920s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.
- CreatorFrank DarabontStarsJon BernthalMilo VentimigliaNeal McDonough1947, Los Angeles. Cop Joe Teague walks the line between the LAPD, led by William Parker, and the mob, led by Bugsy Siegel.
- CreatorSara Isabella Jønsson VeddeNicolas Winding RefnStarsAngela BundalovicAndreas LykkeLi Ii ZhangA young heroine, Miu, who travels through Copenhagen's criminal netherworld.
- CreatorJoshua LongStarsRobert WieckiewiczMaciej MusialMichalina OlszanskaDecades after a 1983 terrorist attack, a law student and a cop uncover a conspiracy that's kept Poland as a police state and the Iron Curtain standing.
- CreatorAndy GreenwaldStarsRosario DawsonJay R. FergusonEdi GathegiA senator's aide unravels a complex web of lies, crimes and conspiracies when she returns to her corrupt hometown -- San Bonifacio, Texas, near the Mexican border--to investigate the death of her sister, a local cop killed by a car bomb.
- StarsDavid MorrisseyLara PulverMandeep DhillonInspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad in the European city-state of Beszel, investigates the murder of a student from Beszel's twin-city of Ul Qoman - which occupies the same space but is perceived differently.
- CreatorPhilip K. DickArt MonterastelliStarsMichael EastonKarl PrunerCynthia PrestonA detective for a police agency is teamed with a naive new officer, who is secretly an android, and often conflicts with the Assessor's Office and the security forces of "the Consortium", a small number of extremely powerful companies.
- CreatorFabien NuryStarsJérémie LaheurteEvelyne BrochuThibaut EvrardParis, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.
- CreatorChris RolandRobert WertheimerStarsJeffrey PierceMichael FilipowichMichele BurgersA missing persons detective finds himself caught between three parallel universes.
- StarsAleksandra PisulaMikolaj KubackiPawel Wolak1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who dreams of taking over Buddy's top spot as King of Warsaw.
- DirectorWilliam ShatnerStarsGreg EviganEugene ClarkTorri HigginsonJake Cardigan awakens from cryogenic punishment and wants justice for the cops killed by unknown conspirators, which led to his imprisonment. He and his ex-partner Sid Gomez search for a missing scientist.
- CreatorPaul D. BarronStarsDon HanyJoan ChenMaeve DermodySerangoon Road is a detective noir series set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1960s Singapore.
- CreatorGiampiero RigosiCarlo LucarelliStarsGabriella PessionLino GuancialeValentina RomaniLeonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wife, Anna, who's in danger.
- CreatorWilliam HorbergStarsMiguel FerrerLynette WaldenDan HedayaFallen Angels is an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran in 1993 and 1995 on Showtime, and was produced by Propaganda Films. No first-run episodes were shown in 1994.
- StarsJung Kyung-hoJung Ji-soonNam Gyu-riRevolves around several different characters in a world of drugs and murder..
- StarsHannah GrossEvan GambleTracy PerezA mind-bending neo-noir set in the obsessive world of vinyl collecting. Etta Pryce, a vinyl tracker, is hired by a rich collector to hunt a legendary rare record that has driven its owners mad and killed anyone that has dared to play it.
- CreatorFabien NuryStarsJérémie LaheurteEvelyne BrochuThibaut EvrardWhen the Paris police's vice squad - on the orders of Police Chief Lépine - begin to clean prostitutes off the city's streets, a man's body is found in the Bois de Boulogne. Inspector Antoine Jouin is entrusted with the investigation.
- StarsYuri KolokolnikovVilma KutaviciuteAndrey NazimovSaint Petersburg, 1912: The progress of the new century arrives, but human nature does not change with it.