After Dark: Neo-Noir Cinema - Collection 1

This six-disc collection brings together some of the best directors and actors in six crime-soaked tales of hard-boiled detectives, seductive women, mistaken identity, and suspense, in the best tradition of the shadowy world of Neo Noir Cinema! After Dark My Sweet (1990) An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital.

He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right. Directed by James Foley, After Dark My Sweet is generally considered one of the most underrated films of the 1990's.

Starring Jason Patric, Rachel Ward & Bruce Dern. "After Dark, My Sweet remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern films noir" - Roger Ebert Mortal Thoughts (1991) Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis and Harvey Keitel star in this riveting psychological thriller about two best friends caught in a complex web of violence and betrayal.

Told in a series of haunting flashbacks, the story unfolds as a determined police detective (Keitel) questions New Jersey housewife, Cynthia Kellogg (Moore), about the death of her best friend's abusive husband (brilliantly played by Willis).

The two desperate women are reluctantly pushed toward the shocking, violent climax. "Intricate, intellectually satisfying and emotionally involving murder mystery" - New York Magazine Rush (1991) What happens when two cops stop loving their job... and start living it?

This 'emotionally riveting, powerful and unsparing film (Variety) exposes the plight of two narcotics officers who cross the line...and become enmeshed in the dangerous but intoxicating underbelly of the drug world. "Head-swivelling directorial debut of Lili Fini Zanuck lays out a tough masculine scenario" - Variety One False Move (1992) They did it for money.

For power. And for fun. Two ruthless drug dealers commit a brut