10 Neo-Noir Movies Everyone Should See at Least Once

Before talking about neo-noir movies, you do have to define what film noir was, as a genre, and highlight the difference between noir of the film variety and noir of the neo kind. Film noir movies were all made in the 1940s and 1950s, and had shady characters, dramatic lighting, crime or mystery-focused storylines, voiceover (at least most of the time), black-and-white visuals (also most of the time), and a pervading sense of pessimism throughout, usually.