Collider has published a ranked list of the ten best film noir movies from the 1980s, arguing that the decade reinvented a genre first defined in Hollywood's golden age of the 1940s and '50s. The list highlights how filmmakers blended noir's classic crime-and-shadow sensibility with '80s blockbuster style, sci-fi and rock-and-roll aesthetics to produce a distinctive run of neo-noir cinema.

Among the films ranked are Walter Hill's cult favourite "Streets of Fire" (1984), a stylised action-noir hybrid starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane and Willem Dafoe; Peter Weir's "Witness" (1985), featuring Harrison Ford's only Oscar-nominated performance as a detective hiding out in an Amish community; and Brian De Palma's erotic thriller "Body Double" (1984), a Hitchcock-influenced tale of voyeurism and murder. The full list ranks ten films in total, celebrating the decade's mix of style, tension and genre-blending storytelling.