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Released on Netflix in April 2024, Ripley is a neo-noir miniseries that sets a glacial mystery in a warm, black and white south Italy.

Created by Rob Thomas and aired in 2004, Veronica Mars assimilates teen drama structures to shape an engaging neo-noir mystery.

In the Spider-Man Noir comics, Peter Parker must face social corruption to figure out who is behind the murder of his uncle Ben.

The comics Wolverine Noir turns Logan into a tormented noir detective, struggling with his inner dichotomy between instinct and rationality.

One of the best-known exponents of the New Hollywood movement, it grasped 1970s America's disillusionment with institutions and revived existentialism in cinema - the quote "Hell is other people" from Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit fits the movie better than any tagline.

In the world of Fargo, the characters are transformed by rediscovering their animal instincts, in a perennial struggle between Good and Evil, between Chance and Inevitability.

Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 invites the viewer to ponder the future of humankind and its place in the universe.

To drag the viewer into the depths of the psyche, David Lynch deconstructs the noir genre and twists its separate components: mystery, horror, humor, and – most importantly – romance. A maze to get lost within, Mulholland Drive prompts the viewers to give up logic and enjoy the dreamlike ride.

The return of Body Horror auteur David Cronenberg to American Cinema, A History of Violence fits perfectly into the filmmaker's corpus, into his “his central project: a sustained autopsy into the nature of existence”. (J. G. Ballard)

In A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, billed as “the first Iranian vampire spaghetti western,” director Ana Lily Amirpour delights in subverting expectations.

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was released in 1950. The movie is about a former silent film actress who lives in regret of the past.

Inspired by Hollywood movies and spaghetti Westerns, A Dangerous Toy (1979) examines the dire effects of a gun on a humble accountant.

In Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, readers learn about the origins of the superhero, but, above all, about the duality that lives within him.

In Brubaker's Catwoman, Gotham City's most famous burglar will have a change of heart, becoming a champion of the poorest of the metropolis.

The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller explores every aspect and conflict of Batman, making him face four different nemeses.

In When in Rome by Loeb and Sale, Catwoman flies to Italy to try to find her lost parents, helped by The Riddler and the local mafia.

It is this self-awareness, this mix of the comic and the sincere, that gives The Law of Desire its unique, contradictory personality: at once trashy and high art, playful, enjoyable entertainment as well as auteur cinema.

Few movies deserve the title of "visionary" as much as Blade Runner. Directed by Ridley Scott, the movie depicts a dystopian future of rare vividness. And its implications, both timeless and contemporary, over the years made it a must-see classic.