DVDBeavers LOVE Neo-Noir. Gregory and I have compiled a listing of the OUR  FAVORITE Neo-Noirs... available on Blu-ray and 4K UHD. First, we independently created a list of 100 each. We found that 70 of those were duplicated on both our separate lists. Now we are choosing more to fill this catalogue. There are purchase, review and comparisons links, as well as a Ten Recommended Neo-Noirs presently on DVD list, Neo-Noir TV series, and Recommended Neo-Noir Reading.

Our Neo-Noir selection is, obviously, far more mainstream, and broad, than our Essential Noir on Blu-ray choices. In the context of this webpage, 'Neo-noir' (English: New-black; from the Greek neo, 'new', and the French noir, interpreted as 'black') is a cinematic form of modern movies that prominently utilize elements and plot devices found in the cycle of films recognized as film noir. Some of these include career criminals and/or recent ex-convict characters (Reindeer Games, The Crossing Guard), flash-back (remembered) narratives (Memento), seductive femme fatale (Basic Instinct) lovers and mistresses (Fatal Attraction, Body Heat), unrequited love interests defused by money, desire or power (Against All Odds, Bound), there can be guilt (The Conversation, The Machinist, Insomnia), pathos (Gone Baby, Gone), and complete or partial redemption (A History of Violence) - as a foci of the plots. The Neo-noir will have updated themes, content, period and visual elements that were absent in the film noir style of the 1940s and 1950s. These narratives can even include science-fiction (Blade Runner, Dark City), humor (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), the occult (Angel Heart), western (Blood Simple, No Country for Old Men), super-hero (the Nolan Batman films) or other genres that often contain sympathetic or amoral protagonists involved in criminal activity (Heat, Thief), or forced, coerced or seduced by circumstance into illegal behavior (Death Wish, The Lookout, Prisoners, Shallow Grave). Their, and our, often ambiguous, moral response (Nightcrawler) becomes the impactful underlying device evoking noirs that were made over a 1/2 century ago.

NOTE: These are the OUR FAVORITE Neo-noirs on Blu-ray listed in Alphabetical order! This page will be maintained and updated as necessary.

-Gary Tooze