Every neo-noir movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFragmented timeline and ensemble cast of morally compromised criminals define '90s noir: style and dialogue matter more than narrative coherence.
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Directed by Jonathan Demme
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLecter's psychological manipulation of Starling inverts the detective procedural—the criminal becomes confessor, corrupting institutional authority from within.
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Directed by Martin Scorsese
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMirrored undercover identities create noir's ultimate betrayal: neither cop nor criminal knows which side they're truly on.
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
Directed by Joel Coen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChigurh's inexorable pursuit embodies contemporary noir's determinism: fate as a force of nature, indifferent to morality or luck.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHyperreal visual expressionism transforms noir into graphic novel—stylization becomes the truest representation of moral chaos.
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Directed by Sam Raimi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe cash bag fractures rural innocence instantaneously; neo-noir abandons the city to show corruption spreads anywhere greed takes root.
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.
Directed by Brian De Palma
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSound designer becomes unreliable witness to conspiracy; De Palma weaponizes cinema itself as the noir trap.
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
Directed by William Friedkin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFriedkin's kinetic excess—reverse heist structure, vehicular violence, moral collapse—redefines neo-noir as visceral corruption rather than shadow-bound restraint.
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.
Directed by David Mamet
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMamet's con-game structure reveals psychiatry itself as ultimate con; expertise becomes weaponized deception.
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Directed by Joe Carnahan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBrutal handheld realism and moral ambiguity between detective partners dissolves the line between cop and criminal.
Narcotics Sergeant Nick Tellis, on leave after a trauma, is called back to investigate the murder of fellow undercover operative Michael Calvess, joined by the victim's unpredictable and brutal ex-partner, Henry Oak. Working together in the back alleys of Detroit, Tellis and Oak delve into a dark investigation that leads them to uncover shocking secrets and question the corruption and morality within the department, encountering unorthodox methods and a brutal truth about Calvess's death.
Directed by Phil Joanou
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReturning hometown infiltrator caught between loyalty and survival—the classical noir identity fracture made visceral.
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
Directed by Roman Polanski
✦ MovieMuse AI takePolanski traps morality in a castle; power dynamics shift like shadows, exposing civilization's thin noir veneer.
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Directed by John McTiernan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCat-and-mouse seduction replaces gunplay; the con becomes pure style, neo-noir's intellectual corruption.
Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museum with an elaborate diversion. When Catherine Banning, the insurance company's investigator, takes an interest in Crown, he may have met his match, and a complicated back-and-forth game with seductive undertones begins between them.
Directed by Norman Jewison
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEarly heist template: boredom breeds crime; Crown's existential ennui predates modern noir's philosophical emptiness.
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
Directed by Michael Winner
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHit man as artist; Bronson's methodical professionalism elevates murder to grotesque craftsmanship—noir's coldest vision.
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.
Directed by Ivan Passer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVietnam wreckage embodied: one-eyed cynic investigates corruption, his disability mirroring moral blindness everywhere.
Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.
Directed by Sidney Lumet
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInterrogation room becomes confessional; detective's breakdown exposes institutional rot beneath law-and-order pretense.
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
Directed by John G. Avildsen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeClass warfare ignites when wealthy executive slums into criminal alliance; noir's class anxiety made apocalyptic.
After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a drunken bigot with a bloodlust who works at a local factory.
Directed by Michael Apted
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMoscow setting transplants American noir cynicism; bureaucratic obstruction replaces femme fatale as protagonist's true enemy.
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.
Directed by Lili Fini Zanuck
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUndercover lovers blur duty with desire; drug war's intimate betrayals corrode both their identities.
Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines. While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.
Directed by Karel Reisz
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVietnam trauma metastasizes into heroin smuggling; soldiers become contraband, their loyalty a commodity.
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
Directed by Steve Sekely
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIdentity theft as existential crisis; doppelgänger premise reveals how easily one self becomes another's corpse.
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Directed by John Herzfeld
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInterlocking narratives collapse morality into collateral damage; ensemble noir treats characters as chess pieces.
In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that puts the mundane lives of a dozen residents on a collision course. This clever tale tells the story of two hit men, a mistress, a nurse, a vindictive ex-wife, a wealthy art dealer and his lovelorn assistant, a suicidal writer and his dog, and a bitter cop and his partner.
Directed by Peter Medak
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCorrupt cop seduced by the assassin he's hired to kill—desire weaponizes noir's central corruption.
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
Directed by Jim Kouf
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDirty cops destroying evidence become noir's true protagonists; institutional evil wears a badge.
After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.
Directed by John Frankenheimer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlackmail invades suburban sanctuary; extortionists weaponize secrets, making privacy noir's final frontier.
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
Directed by John Flynn
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHitman ghost-writes his own mythology; noir becomes autobiography sold as fiction, blurring confession and confession.
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMorally compromised protagonist destroyed by his own fabrication—classic noir corruption via the written word, not violence.
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
Directed by Peter Hyams
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRogue cops abandon procedure for vengeance; institutional rebellion becomes the only moral response.
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
Directed by Paul Schrader
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGigolo as cipher; Julian's emotional void attracts murder; neo-noir's beautiful emptiness invites destruction.
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.
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