My countdown through the Neo-Noir movies by decade takes us to the 2000s... Starring 3 Academy Award Best Leading Acting Nominees who also starred in neo noirs set in different times and places.
2000s
FILMS… Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
After the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down, little white lies rebuild it for all the best reasons... An East Berlin mother falls into a coma before the Berlin Wall comes down. Soon after, she wakes up to the life that she once knew, little realising the hidden truths.
FILMS… Moulin Rouge (2001)
The greatest film truth you'll ever learn... Love makes you want to sing, your song about love in a film about a show within a show.
FILMS… Burn After Reading (2008)
It's a kind of MacGuffin ... Two inept gym workers discover a computer disk containing what looks like government secrets. This leads to a chain of crazy events in this Coen brothers caper.
FILMS… Atonement (2007)
Through the eyes of a child... A jealous teenage girl misunderstands her sister's actions with her lover. This leads to events that will change their lives.
FILMS… Stardust (2007)
Anyone and everyone wants a heart... Tristan sets off to find a fallen star so he can marry the girl of his dreams, but he's not alone as there are princes and witches looking for it too.
TV… Canterbury Tales (2003), The Wife Of Bath, Ep2
A Sexed-up modern day adaptation of one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...
A 50 something soap opera actress starts a relationship with her co-star, who is thirty years younger after her husband leaves her.