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Curated by — Elias Thorne

Modern Noir

Crime as moral weather

Hitmen, getaway drivers, small-town cops and chemistry teachers. Genre stories that use violence to ask what a person will trade for control.

No Country for Old Men

2007 · Joel Coen

8.2

Drive

2011 · Nicolas Winding Refn

7.8

Breaking Bad

2008 · Vince Gilligan

9.5

Fargo

2014 · Noah Hawley

8.9

The Place Beyond the Pines

2012 · Derek Cianfrance

7.3

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2003 · Quentin Tarantino

8.2

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

2004 · Quentin Tarantino

8.0

The Little Things

2021 · John Lee Hancock

6.3

Sugar

2024 · Mark Protosevich

7.6

Split

2016 · M. Night Shyamalan

7.3