Movies Better Than Sex

“But what I know about is Texas, and down here...  you’re on your own…”  "Blood Simple" is  an extremely enjoyable and good quality movie . It is the first film of Coen brothers and it is included in the category of Neo Noir films. The film's title  derives from the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest (1929) , in which the term "blood simple" describes the addled, fearful mind-set of people after prolonged immersion in violent situations. Μany argue that the film is included in the category of horror films. But even if it has one of the most disturbing nightmare scenes I have ever watched,  the film is far from this category. Julian Marty is the owner (Dan Hedaya) of a seedy small-town Texas bar who discovers that one of his employees, Ray ( John Getz ), is having an affair with his wife Abby (Frances McDormand). Everything is determined by the thirst for revenge and money.  The demonic detective ( Michael Emmet Walsh ) who undertakes ...

Criss Cross by Robert Siodmak is considered one of the best film noirs to come out of Hollywood in the post-war years and is set in Los Angeles.   This film stands as one of the most bleakly romantic and fatalistic films noir of the classical era. Director Robert Siodmak again teamed with his leading man from The Killers , Burt Lancaster, a couple of years after making that Oscar-nominated hit for Universal creating one of the most important post-war noir films. Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo).  He reconnects with his friend Detective Pete Ramirez (Stephen McNally), secures a job as an armoured car driver, and reunites with Anna at their favourite hangout, the Round-Up club. Steve and Anna start dating again and discuss getting remarried, despite his mother's vehement disapproval. Suddenly, Anna abandons Steve and marries mobster Slim Dundee (Dan ...

Blue Dahlia is an American film noir, released in 1946 and directed by George Marshall. It was one of  Raymond Chandler's movies written for the screen ( Double Indemnity  , is another one ). Starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling This film fascinates us by having a captivating and mysterious atmosphere. Dangerously beautiful women like Johnny Morrison's (Alan Ladd) unfaithful wife (Doris Dowling), a few undercover detectives as well as extortionists, femmes fatales and mysterious charming men frame this mystery film. Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) returns to his wife, Helen (Doris Dowling), in Hollywood after fighting in the South Pacific, and with him are two military friends, George (Hugh Beaumont) and shell-shocked Buzz (William Bendix). Johnny is stunned to discover Helen's unfaithfulness with a local nightclub owner named Eddie (Howard Da Silva), who then breaks it off with her. When Helen is found murdered, everyone...

Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell in Fallen Angel (1945),  a film noir directed by Otto Preminger.  Starring Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, and Linda Darnell.  An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn’t interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle. Similar Posts :  Key Largo , 1948 The Asphalt Jungle, 1950  In the Lonely Place, 1950  Gene Tierney - Leading Lady Witness for the Prosecution, 1957  The Big Sleep , 1946 Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1950  The Big Heat, 1953 To Have and Have Not, 1944 Double Indemnity , 1944  The Night of the Hunter, 1955   The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955 Era...

Phantom Lady is a 1944 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak. The film was Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and was based on the novel of the same name written by Cornell Woolrich but published under the pseudonym William Irish. Starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, and Alan Curtis. A devoted secretary ( Ella Raines ) risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss ( Alan Curtis) didn't murder his selfish wife .  Phantom Lady features an incapacitated male, leaving a strong female lead to take a determining role in the action of the story — fairly unusual for 1944. Ella Raines turns vamp, and has her femininity and internal strength quoshed, as she plays dangerous on the streets, the concert hall, on bars and the shadows of the " psychopathic" killer who is revealed by his weaknesses and mistakes. One of the most characteristic moments of the film is the involvement of the protagonist with Elisha Cooke Jnr, who plays a ver...

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)  directed by Dick Richards is a film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1940 crime novel by the same name. Raymond Chandler wrote many crime novels that were adapted into film noir and neo-noir films, including  The Big Sleep (1946.) Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer. Then he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard. Marlowe embroiling the hard-boiled gumshoe in a plot which involves blackmail, murder, drugs and double cross. The femme fatale of this story is Helen Grayle, the wife of a wealthy judge. Grayle, played by white actress Charlotte Rampling, is not the main character of this film but seems to be the key drivin...