Here are the ten best film noir movies of the last 25 years, ranked.

Ironically, Pearces breakout role was actually inL.A.

Confidential, another modern classic that is deeply inspired by the Old Hollywood noir genre.

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Gone Baby Gone is a crime drama centering on a detective investigating the disappearance a little girl.

But soon after he begins digging for the truth, he is victim to a personal and professional crisis.

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Leonard Shelby sits starkly shadowed in crisp black and white in Memento.

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A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife’s murderer.

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Captain Jack Doyle looking intently at someone off-camera in Gone Baby Gone.

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Gone Baby Gone is a crime drama centering on a detective investigating the disappearance a little girl. But soon after he begins digging for the truth, he is victim to a personal and professional crisis.

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‘Drive’ (2011) 3

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A mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor’s husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.

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Holland and Jackson talking at a bar in The Nice Guys

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In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.

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From left to right: Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo), Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) and Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) are portrayed above a foggy city skyline with a suspension bridge

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Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

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Minority Report Tom Cruise Samantha Morton hugging

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Barry Pepper, Edward Norton and Philip Seymour Hoffman clinking glasses in 25th Hour

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Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) standing in a desert near an officer in ‘No Country for Old Men’

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Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

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Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello in the middle of a conversation in The Departed (2006)

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An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

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Rita and Betty in Mulholland Drive sit next to each other in a theater and look shocked.

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After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

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