Sentence examples for noir about from inspiring English sources

Imagine a film noir about Hitler.

There's more than a little of the noir about Tana French's latest, The Trespasser.

The latest play by Derek Ahonen, the company's resident playwright, is a detective noir about two very different brothers.

His novel, "Le Docker Noir," about his days as a dockworker, was about commitment and its personal and social costs.

David Robert Mitchell follows acclaimed horror It Follows with a contemporary LA noir about the kidnapping of a billionaire's daughter.

VIENNA — There was nothing noir about the exchange of espionage agents in broad daylight on Friday at this city's international airport.

The world turns literally upside down in "Headshot," a dreamy, elliptical neo-noir about a cop turned killer turned something else altogether.

Described as a contemporary neo-noir about the dangers of sexual obsession and ambition among a group of young people in their 20s, it is being directed by Paul Schrader of American Gigolo and Affliction.

Jo Nesbø's Scandi-noir about a detective after a serial killer who leaves snowmen at murder scenes is getting a high tone adaptation: Michael Fassbender is playing Harry Hole, the detective on the case, and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation) his somewhat suspect partner.

There are new and interesting reasons to relish the imminent release of Paul Thomas Anderson's fascinating film Inherent Vice, based on Thomas Pynchon's novel of the same name: a quasi-noir about a bleary stoner private detective on the trail of his ex-girlfriend's kidnapped lover.

Even the filmmakers don't seem especially convinced on this count, since half of "Hollywoodland" involves a dead-end pseudo-noir about another hustler, a private eye named Louis Simo, whom Adrien Brody fails to shape into a character of interest despite much aggressive eyebrow raising.