Best Neo-Noir Movies on Hulu

Every neo-noir movie streaming on Hulu in the US right now — 12 films ranked by rating, checked against Hulu’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Hulu US

Memento (2000)

IMDb 8.4 🍅 93% 1h 53m

Directed by Christopher Nolan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeReverse chronology shatters noir's certainty; fragmented memory becomes the ultimate unreliable narrator.

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

Sicario (2015)

IMDb 7.7 🍅 91% Letterboxd 4.0 2h 2m

Directed by Denis Villeneuve

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMoral decay masquerades as patriotism—the femme fatale now wears government credentials and bureaucratic corruption.

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Strange Days (1995)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 71% Letterboxd 3.8 2h 25m

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVirtual memory recordings replace the femme fatale's deception; technology amplifies noir's paranoia and voyeurism.

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.

Mayhem! (2024)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 81% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 39m

Directed by Xavier Gens

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFugitive boxer embodies noir's trapped protagonist; the past always catches the man trying to escape.

Sam is a professional boxer about to get released from prison. While on parole, his past catches up with him and he has no choice but to flee. Five years later, he has rebuilt a simple life on an exotic island in Thailand with his wife and her daughter, but when he gets blackmailed by a dangerous local godfather, he must embark on a dangerous drug smuggling mission which results in a tragedy. Now he has only one purpose: to seek merciless vengeance.

Sweet Virginia (2017)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 79% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 34m

Directed by Jamie M. Dagg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeIsolated motel becomes the noir pressure cooker; quiet desperation explodes into inevitable violence.

A former rodeo star, now a motel manager, meets a young man who is responsible for the violence that suddenly has seized his small town.

Fast Charlie (2023)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 83% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 30m

Directed by Phillip Noyce

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAging hitman's loyalty becomes his fatal weakness—classic noir betrayal dressed in mob vernacular.

When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.

Americana (2025)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 62% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 47m

Directed by Tony Tost

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSacred object becomes MacGuffin; small-town noir erupts when outsiders collide over contraband and culture.

When a rare Lakota Ghost Shirt falls into the black market in a small town in South Dakota, the lives of local outsiders and outcasts violently intertwine.

Clean (2022)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 46% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 33m

Directed by Paul Solet

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGarbage man's redemption arc shattered by crime boss; noir's working-class hero cannot escape violence.

Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of a local crime boss, Clean is forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.

American Star (2024)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 78% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 47m

Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego

✦ MovieMuse AI takePoolman's naive optimism versus LA's corruption—noir's everyman discovers the city's deadly underbelly.

An assassin on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island, people and a ghostly shipwreck. Instead of following protocol he stays. But when the target returns, the world has shifted. Before everything was simple, now nothing is.

The Enforcer (2022)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 32% Letterboxd 2.4 1h 31m

Directed by Richard Hughes

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFemme fatale boss subverts expectations; enforcers and sex trafficking expose modern Miami's moral rot.

A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.

Blood for Dust (2024)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 78% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 38m

Directed by Rod Blackhurst

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTwo traveling men on collision course; capitalism's hustle becomes noir's inevitable confrontation.

Reckless Ricky makes serious money dealing illegal weapons throughout the tri-state area and loves to flaunt it. Traveling salesman Cliff, covers the same territory Ricky runs guns through. Desperate to find some financial relief for his struggling family, Cliff agrees to partner with Ricky, to commit cross-state drug and gun deliveries for a mid-level American cartel boss John. When a simple exchange turns into a bloodbath after Ricky kills everyone in a territory grab, the pair find themselves in a pressure cooker situation where unlikely drug dealer Cliff must fight as hard as he can to stay alive.

Poolman (2024)

IMDb 4.0 🍅 24% Letterboxd 2.2 1h 40m

Directed by Chris Pine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBarrenman's optimism against LA's corruption proves neo-noir's darkest insight: morality doesn't shield you from the system's decay.

Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live.

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