Miami Neonoir

Miami Neonoir

8 Episodes

Few cities have fired the cinematic imagination like Miami, which exists in the collective pop-culture psyche as both a sun-splashed paradise and a zone of moral ambiguity, its pastel facades and glistening coastlines providing a seductive backdrop to crime, corruption, and existential drift. From the steamy suspense of BODY HEAT to the sleek digital atmosphere of MIAMI VICE, these hot and humid neonoirs trade shadow for harsh, hallucinatory light, reworking the genre’s fatalism against a simultaneously glamorous and gritty landscape of blurred borders and shifting identities.

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Miami Neonoir
  • Miami Neonoir Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Miami Vice

    Episode 2

    Directed by Michael Mann • 2006 • United States, Germany
    Starring Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li

    Packed with woozy poetry and visual pyrotechnics, Michael Mann’s big-screen adaptation of the 1980s television show that established his reputation is one of the most formally daring films releas...

  • Out of Sight

    Episode 3

    Directed by Steven Soderbergh • 1998 • United States Starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle

    The megawatt star power of George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez propels this sexy, sleekly entertaining ...

  • Miami Blues

    Episode 4

    Directed by George Armitage • 1990 • United States
    Starring Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fred Ward

    Based on the novel by crack crime writer Charles Willeford and produced by Jonathan Demme, this marvelously offbeat, black-comic caper features a totally unhinged performance from Alec Baldw...

  • Bully

    Episode 5

    Directed by Larry Clark • 2001 • United States, France
    Starring Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner

    Ever-controversial director Larry Clark (KIDS) returns to the world of aimless youth with this provocative and unflinching true-crime shocker. Inspired by the murder of Bobby Kent, BULLY cen...

  • China Moon

    Episode 6

    Directed by John Bailey • 1994 • United States
    Starring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Benicio Del Toro

    In this tantalizing and stylish neonoir, Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris) is a homicide detective, the best in the business. But even a cop as brilliant as Kyle can be led astray by love. What starts as a...

  • Body Heat

    Episode 7

    Directed by Lawrence Kasdan • 1981 • United States
    Starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna

    William Hurt and Kathleen Turner strike sparks in this taut, South Florida–set tale of lust, greed, and murder that echoes 1940s film noir but is charged with a steamy passion that could onl...

  • Wild Things

    Episode 8

    Directed by John McNaughton • 1998 • United States
    Starring Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell, Matt Dillon

    This swamp-steamy erotic thriller—another cult classic from HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER director John McNaughton—journeys from Miami’s upscale suburban beach communities and into the murky ...