Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 60 noirish 58 pulpy 57 formulaic 57 psychological thrillers 56 melodramatic 56 uninvolving 56 convoluted plot 55 gothic horror 55 noir 55 cinematic 55 gorier 54 noir ish 54 gritty realism 54 mildly entertaining 54 filmic 54 Le Carré 54 Hitchcockian 54 snappy dialogue 54 cliché ridden 53 morally ambiguous 53 antiheroes 53 samey 53 clichéd 53 Pelecanos 53 narrative 53 Gothic horror 53 blackly comic 52 engrossing 52 Ellroy 52 narratively 52 neo noir 52 picaresque 52 show offy 52 escapist 52 vérité 52 Palahniuk 52 absurdism 52 cliche ridden 52 taut thriller 51 futuristic sci fi 51 draggy 51 seriocomic 51 omniscient narrator 51 linear narrative 51 wham bam 51 unreliable narrator 50 scripter 50 gruesomeness 50 hardboiled 50 verite 50 talky 50 technobabble 50 novelistic 50 Shoot Em Up 50 le Carre 50 verisimilitude 50 cheeseball 50 riveting 50 soap operatic 50 zombie genre 50 angsty 50 popcorn flick 50 overlong 50 Simenon 50 cliched 50 pulp fiction 50 eminently watchable 50 cyberpunk 50 suspenseful 50 watchable 49 Brian Helgeland 49 film noir 49 flashback sequences 49 expository 49 thrillers 49 potboiler 49 slam bang 49 Breillat 49 cinematically 49 parodic 49 self reflexive 49 emotional heft 49 triteness 49 sci-fi/fantasy 49 spoofy 49 shaky cam 49 preachiness 49 coherent narrative 49 logline 49 campiness 49 campy 49 pastiche 49 fanservice 49 believable 49 nihilistic 49 groan inducing 49 fantastical 49 stilted dialogue 48 plot twists 48 grittier 48 docudramas