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NOIR NEIGHBORS
Noir influences in genre films

 - The comments cover roughly from 1940 to 1998 -

FILMS LIST -PART 2






RECOMMENDATIONS -
The list gives you a selection among the best films in genres influenced by Noir/HB.
All are very good films, but we will emphasize the following:

black diamond BLACK DIAMOND- amongst the very bests (cinema masterpieces)

star UNDERRATED- or forgotten - way above past critics' opinion -- rediscover first class films

(*) BORDERLINE of the genre, by its plot

LIST - NOIR INFLUENCES
Continuation

As said any choice is subjective, but we concentrate here on films with a real value.







Still from film
Cross of Iron
Grim and Noir war movie
Steiner's travel through inferno




Still fom film
Farewell to the King
War in the jungle
Underrated film with Noir ingredients









Still from film
The Mercenaries
Action movie with HB characteristics



poster -Man who would be King















WAR FILMS


ATTACK -1956

BIG RED ONE (THE) -1980 star

CASTLE KEEP -1969 star

CROSS OF IRON -1977 (uk) star

FAREWELL TO THE KING -1989 star

FLESH AND BLOOD -1985 (*)

KANAL -1959 (Poland)

KING RAT -1965

LA 317eme SECTION -1964 (France) (*)

MEN IN WAR -1957

MERRIL'S MARAUDERS -1962

MIDNIGHT CLEAR (A)- 1991 (*)

PATHS OF GLORY -1957

PLAY DIRTY -1968 (uk)

WAR HUNT -1962 star


ACTION / ADVENTURE


MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (THE) -1975 star

MERCENARIES (THE) -1968 (uk)

VIKINGS (THE) -1958 star

RECOMMENDATIONS AND COMMENTS- HB/NOIR INFLUENCE (on other genre films)

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