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Post by martink on Jul 14, 2019 9:55:12 GMT
What would be film noir or neo noir movies, set during a war?
(and the war should have a place in the fore, or back ground)
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Post by llanwydd on Jul 14, 2019 16:48:57 GMT
The Roaring Twenties is a film noir with some battle scenes. I can think of no others.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Jul 15, 2019 22:03:47 GMT
ACT OF VIOLENCE, CROSSFIRE, SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT and DEAD RECKONING all feature ex servicemen up to their heads in noir.
THE MAN BETWEEN stars the ruins of Berlin as much as James Mason or Claire Bloom
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Post by martink on Jul 20, 2019 14:33:19 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 27, 2019 20:55:52 GMT
MINISTRY OF FEAR (1944) with Ray Milland
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Post by marshamae on Oct 2, 2019 3:49:28 GMT
There’s a great sub genre I call Nazi Noir. Ministry of fear is one of Thebest.
Quiet Please :Murder - Stars George Sanders , Nazis looking for rare book
Hangmen also Die - about the murder Of Reinhard Heydrich by Czech partisans.
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Post by movielover on Oct 2, 2019 4:11:39 GMT
I second Hangmen Also Die! That's a great one.
To Have and Have Not and Journey Into Fear also spring to mind.
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 16, 2019 6:02:30 GMT
Counter-Attack / Zotan Korda (1945). Columbia Pictures. A taut thriller shot in noir style that has Paul Muni as a Russian military officer along with another fighter (Marguerite Chapman) trapped in the cellar of a bombed out building with several German soldiers. Muni has the firearm to keep the Germans at bay, but there is the need to stay awake and there is the uncertainty of who is trying to dig them out – the Russians or the Germans. In the hands of veteran director Korda and genius cinematographer James Wong Hong, the dark crowded underground space is never less than cinematic. I hadn’t known of this film before before I saw it on TCM.
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Post by OldAussie on Dec 16, 2019 8:00:28 GMT
The Good German - but takes place shortly after the war.
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 18, 2019 1:23:54 GMT
Man Hunt (’41)?
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Post by hi224 on Dec 18, 2019 22:27:40 GMT
The Third Man?.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 19, 2019 0:47:43 GMT
The Tall Target is a rare example of a Civil War themed thriller with elements of film noir.
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 19, 2019 19:46:32 GMT
Crossfire involves bigotry and murder in a GI setting right after WW2.
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Post by Power Ranger on Dec 24, 2019 11:44:50 GMT
The Exterminator (1980)
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 28, 2019 20:18:13 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Dec 29, 2019 1:47:42 GMT
Brick.
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Post by hi224 on Dec 29, 2019 1:48:06 GMT
Attack, directed by Robert Aldrich (1956). Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin i need to see that movie.
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Post by poelzig on Dec 31, 2019 4:35:26 GMT
I was going to say that but it's post war. I get the feeling the war had only been over a few months though.
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Post by movielover on Dec 31, 2019 4:39:33 GMT
Night Train to Munich is a good one. The third act is pretty suspenseful.
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Post by telegonus on Dec 31, 2019 11:26:05 GMT
Good one, though I'm questioning whether many films listed here are truly Noir. The 1939 The Roaring 20s has been mentioned by one poster and I can't see that as a noir; more like a gangster picture or, more broadly, a crime film, in which World War is a factor in its story and if the topic here was "Gangster Films With Wartime Settings And/Or Theme", I'd agree.
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