Foreign Noirs, a list by Slander2328

8.4

/25018/

81

/540/

82

/500/

4.5

/59770/

100

/33/

93

/343/

4.0

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

89

8.4

/69684/

84

/1467/

83

/1059/

4.6

/185667/

97

/70/

95

/556/

90

/17/

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

88

8.1

/198055/

82

/7794/

81

/4144/

4.4

/706360/

96

/226/

91

/449/

85

/40/

4.0

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.

88

8.5

/23015/

82

/594/

82

/538/

4.5

/47250/

95

/19/

96

/114/

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system – yet their escape is anything but assured.

86

7.9

/31277/

76

/775/

76

/697/

4.2

/60151/

96

/67/

92

/419/

92

/19/

4.0

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

87

8.1

/258853/

80

/7508/

80

/4349/

4.4

/850953/

95

/80/

92

/1038/

82

/18/

4.0

age 16+

During the late 1980s, two detectives in rural South Korea attempt to solve a series of gruesome rape-and-murders of young women that leave the community terrified using limited resources and outdated methods. But when the murderer strikes several more times with the same pattern, the detectives realize that they are chasing the country's first documented serial killer. They then attempt to piece together the clues in this thriller based on true events.

86

8.3

/705928/

83

/17643/

82

/9448/

4.4

/1338604/

82

/160/

94

/11753/

78

/33/

4.0

age 17+

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

86

8.0

/64765/

78

/1616/

78

/1201/

4.2

/188240/

92

/51/

93

/1101/

90

/21/

4.0

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

85

8.1

/221431/

82

/5040/

80

/4394/

4.5

/906491/

96

/73/

95

/2372/

3.0

age 16+

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

84

8.2

/114308/

79

/1884/

76

/589/

3.9

/46572/

100

/15/

90

/111/

A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.

84

7.7

/5130/

76

/116/

73

/110/

4.0

/14904/

92

/12/

92

/45/

4.0

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

84

7.9

/31140/

78

/633/

75

/668/

4.1

/65847/

93

/60/

91

/448/

94

/16/

3.5

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

83

7.5

/7577/

72

/151/

72

/169/

3.8

/5035/

100

/18/

86

/73/

4.0

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.

83

7.7

/54407/

77

/1219/

76

/862/

4.1

/59665/

95

/43/

92

/1489/

82

/19/

Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.

83

7.7

/79285/

76

/2254/

77

/1631/

4.2

/178140/

96

/121/

89

/974/

79

/31/

3.5

age 15+

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

83

7.7

/79671/

78

/3056/

77

/1425/

3.9

/55467/

100

/8/

90

/854/

An ex-special agent is involved in a convoluted drug ring drama. He has to save a drug smuggler's innocent daughter from being the victim of her parents' fight.

82

8.0

/117199/

82

/6058/

83

/3020/

4.4

/1040062/

84

/57/

89

/1220/

67

/17/

8.5

/426577/

age 16+

Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

82

7.7

/13037/

75

/234/

73

/294/

3.9

/18095/

96

/27/

90

/150/

3.5

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

82

7.6

/28626/

73

/477/

75

/594/

3.9

/61385/

94

/51/

91

/746/

93

/22/

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.

82

7.3

/21752/

71

/713/

68

/461/

4.0

/46653/

98

/131/

78

/275/

89

/30/

4.0

German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelganger.

82

7.7

/58044/

76

/1555/

75

/887/

4.2

/102273/

92

/71/

92

/3019/

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

82

7.6

/59460/

72

/1380/

73

/920/

4.0

/51217/

97

/146/

80

/323/

92

/34/

3.5

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

82

7.9

/108631/

79

/3123/

79

/2086/

4.3

/675212/

89

/71/

93

/2267/

78

/18/

3.0

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

82

8.0

/137105/

79

/2728/

78

/1790/

4.0

/100495/

94

/68/

95

/4494/

75

/19/

3.0

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

82

8.0

/222997/

81

/10739/

79

/4598/

4.3

/743812/

91

/55/

90

/8614/

68

/22/

8.1

/554418/

age 16+

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

81

7.8

/27966/

77

/620/

75

/436/

3.9

/36938/

100

/5/

83

/88/

Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in hiding after asking for too much money to assassinate a Chechen mob boss. To avoid exposure, Victor convinces Danila to kill the boss instead.

84

81

7.9

/15318/

78

/267/

76

/273/

4.1

/24778/

100

/19/

91

/266/

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

81

7.3

/89499/

71

/1628/

70

/1208/

4.1

/125531/

89

/133/

78

/2505/

87

/38/

4.0

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

81

7.8

/229436/

78

/6659/

75

/3134/

3.8

/78023/

85

/186/

87

/6163/

76

/36/

4.0

age 18+

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

81

7.9

/170828/

80

/9499/

79

/3723/

4.1

/383822/

95

/62/

89

/4413/

76

/14/

8.2

/354836/

3.0

age 15+

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

80

7.3

/28583/

74

/749/

71

/496/

4.0

/58577/

100

/11/

85

/246/

78

/8/

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

80

7.4

/65603/

73

/1132/

73

/1025/

4.0

/106424/

88

/147/

86

/2062/

81

/34/

3.5

age 18+

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

80

7.1

/10476/

69

/377/

69

/266/

4.0

/40397/

95

/91/

68

/33/

88

/23/

4.0

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.

80

7.7

/23517/

75

/465/

76

/573/

4.0

/64914/

92

/39/

92

/161/

3.0

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.

80

7.5

/35749/

76

/1647/

75

/711/

4.3

/299502/

94

/66/

85

/255/

70

/13/

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

80

8.0

/60436/

75

/519/

71

/243/

4.0

/21878/

88

/17/

86

/102/

age 16+

A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle - the man he suspects to have a role in his father's fate.

80

7.4

/28026/

74

/783/

74

/582/

3.9

/42092/

94

/16/

89

/805/

78

/7/

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

80

7.8

/36393/

78

/859/

77

/563/

3.9

/18378/

92

/146/

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

80

7.5

/60724/

74

/1608/

72

/1471/

3.7

/29826/

93

/118/

87

/3549/

82

/30/

3.5

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

80

7.8

/43997/

78

/1665/

77

/710/

3.8

/35007/

90

/21/

89

/2211/

7.6

/75932/

age 17+

Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways—and possibly his life.

80

7.8

/15968/

78

/1282/

74

/448/

3.6

/8070/

100

/8/

82

/65/

7.9

/40713/

age 16+

In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 counterpart. Among a numerous enhancements, for the film's 2.0 release, were a number of scenes were overhauled with 3D animation, visual improvements, and soundtrack rerecorded in 6.1 surround sound.

79

7.3

/66483/

73

/2907/

73

/1409/

4.0

/369460/

94

/246/

84

/125/

85

/44/

3.0

age 15+

From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

79

7.5

/4952/

72

/107/

70

/138/

3.8

/4763/

100

/28/

84

/43/

84

/9/

3.0

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.

79

7.0

/29788/

69

/676/

69

/591/

3.7

/63170/

92

/52/

81

/709/

92

/7/

3.5

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

79

7.5

/59169/

77

/1943/

76

/1225/

4.2

/619370/

95

/22/

86

/666/

71

/13/

3.0

An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.

79

7.8

/79209/

77

/2322/

77

/1448/

4.0

/78350/

82

/33/

89

/873/

64

/11/

3.5

Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

79

7.5

/110757/

75

/2842/

72

/1315/

3.7

/33814/

93

/97/

85

/1109/

72

/26/

3.5

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

79

7.6

/216443/

74

/4907/

72

/2469/

3.9

/231256/

93

/92/

90

/7075/

79

/31/