I can't list enough that I liked a lot without including film noir, so Shutter Island and Zodiac
I'm allowing noir in this thread. some people debate whether it's a genre or a style.
The term
film noir, French for "black film",
[1] first applied to Hollywood films by French critic
Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.
[2] Cinema historians and critics defined the category retrospectively. Before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic
films noirs[a] were referred to as
melodramas.
Whether film noir qualifies as a distinct genre is a matter of ongoing debate among scholars.
"Film noir is not a genre (as Raymond Durgnat has helpfully pointed out over the objections of Higham and Greenberg’s Hollywood in the Forties). It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood"
http://i.mtime.com/Noir/blog/1433838/
I guess we see which side of the debate you're on breh
