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Best Neo-Noir Movies on MUBI

Every neo-noir movie streaming on MUBI in the US right now — 9 films ranked by rating, checked against MUBI’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MUBI US

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The Man from Nowhere (2010)

IMDb 7.7 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 59m

Directed by Lee Jeong-beom

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRevenge trajectory stripped to visceral action: neo-noir abandoning complexity for primal masculine violence and moral justification.

A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.

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13 Tzameti (2006)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 33m

Directed by Gela Babluani

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHandheld realism and moral ambiguity transform a simple premise into existential dread—the neo-noir procedural stripped to its essence.

Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.

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Short Sharp Shock (1998)

IMDb 7.1 Letterboxd 3.6 1h 40m

Directed by Fatih Akin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGritty Hamburg underworld exposes the inescapable gravity of criminal codes; friendship becomes complicity in the post-prison moral wasteland.

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.

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Plainclothes (2025)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 37m

Directed by Carmen Emmi

✦ MovieMuse AI takeUndercover entrapment becomes intimate moral corruption—the genre's paranoia weaponized through compromised police identity and surveillance.

In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.

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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989)

IMDb 7.0 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 56m

Directed by Shintarō Katsu

✦ MovieMuse AI takeZatoichi's blind detective navigates corruption through violence and honor—a samurai noir where fate and honor collapse into one.

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

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Alphaville (1965)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 39m

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGodard's retrofuturistic femme fatale and robotic dystopia deconstruct noir conventions while inventing the sci-fi noir subgenre whole cloth.

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.”

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River of Grass (1995)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 95% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 16m

Directed by Kelly Reichardt

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe accidental crime spree and doomed couple dynamic strip noir to its most tragicomic: desperation masquerading as freedom.

Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gunshot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.

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The Blue Room (2014)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 16m

Directed by Mathieu Amalric

✦ MovieMuse AI takeConfined hotel setting and adultery plot recall classic noir claustrophobia; desire and deception unravel in real time, unstoppably.

In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?

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The Woman in the Fifth (2011)

IMDb 5.3 🍅 59% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 20m

Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe alienated expatriate protagonist descends through Parisian underworld via obsession and betrayal—neo-noir's rootless wanderer in its purest form.

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

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