Words similar to noir

Example sentences for: noir

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Mel Gibson plays a hard-boiled bad guy intent on recovering some stolen money in this adaptation of Richard Stark's novel The Hunter (which was also the basis for John Boorman's acclaimed modern noir Point Blank in 1967).
The three blades on the head look appealingly like a tiny Venetian blind--an image emblazoned on the package like a scene from a 1950s noir movie.
The lonely lamp-lit couples in his "Modern Romance" (1984-86), contrived with dolls and miniature props soon after his move to New York City in 1983, effectively evoke the nighttime diners and hotel bedrooms of Edward Hopper and film noir.
He and his cinematographer, Roger Pratt, have loaded the screen with shadows--not the hard-edged ones of film noir but a sort of existential (English) smudginess.
The seductive and corrupting film noir downtowns featured in so many admired cheap second features might as well all have been demolished, along with the long-gone Bijous and Palaces where these films first played.