Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long available only in substandard public domain prints, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration.

The Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld by night. A loner by nature, he finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbour, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, he takes it upon himself to keep Irene and her son alive.

Doris Wishman's iconic, gutter-noir crime epic—follows the story of Meg (Gigi Darlene), a housewife who becomes embroiled with a string of violent and sexual encounters while trying to shake the police. Filled with dreamlike visions, gorgeous DIY photography, and pulpy exploitation, the 1965 film is newly restored in 2K from its original 35mm camera negative.

When down-on-his-luck Pereira is hired by a sultry client (Lina Romay) for a fast job, he finds himself caught in a web of seduction, murder, blackmail, polyamorous mayhem, and a Sadomasochistic centerpiece that is jaw-droppingly extreme—even by Franco standards—in this postmodern neo-noir, now fully uncut and restored from the original negative.

Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, Fallen Angels is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs. Featuring an incredible, spaghetti-western-style soundtrack and brimming with formal experimentation, this is Nikkatsu at its finest.

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology—maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece Le Samouraï defines cool.

"We've met before, haven't we?”