# The best neo-noir movies

Rain-slicked streets, femmes fatales and moral rot after the classic noir era: the best neo-noir films, ranked from Collider, Screen Rant and IMDb users.

- 25 votes · 14 items
- Jul 9, 2026 · Meghan L.
- https://even.best/en/l/4195/the-best-neo-noir-movies

## Top 10

1. **Chinatown (1974)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — J.J. Gittes and the Los Angeles water scandal, by Polanski.
2. **L.A. Confidential (1997)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Three LAPD cops and the corruption of the 1950s.
3. **Blade Runner (1982)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A replicant hunter in a rainy future Los Angeles.
4. **Body Heat (1981)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A lawyer seduced into a murder plot in a Florida heatwave.
5. **Miller's Crossing (1990)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Prohibition-era double-crosses, by the Coens.
6. **Blood Simple (1984)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A bar owner, his wife and a hired killer: the Coens' debut.
7. **Brick (2005)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A hardboiled mystery set in a California high school.
8. **Taxi Driver (1976)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Travis Bickle on the night shift in New York.
9. **The Long Goodbye (1973)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Elliott Gould's Philip Marlowe, by Robert Altman.
10. **Nightcrawler (2014)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A freelance crime cameraman with no limits.
11. **Se7en (1995)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Two detectives and a killer following the seven deadly sins.
12. **Fargo (1996)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — A car salesman's botched kidnapping plot, by the Coens.
13. **Drive (2011)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — A getaway driver in neon-lit Los Angeles.
14. **Mulholland Drive (2001)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lynch's nightmare of Hollywood.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.