{"title":"Best Neo-noir Movies","theme":"neo-noir","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/neo-noir","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":117,"listedFilms":92,"frames":7758,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"handgun","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.82,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00508,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00133,"observedInFrames":226},{"element":"neon sign","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.93,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00595,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00203,"observedInFrames":265},{"element":"fedora","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.78,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00611,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0022,"observedInFrames":272},{"element":"dress shirt","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.5,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00308,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00123,"observedInFrames":137},{"element":"trench coat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.37,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00389,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00164,"observedInFrames":173},{"element":"cigarette","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.28,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00353,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00154,"observedInFrames":157},{"element":"suit jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.27,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01368,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00604,"observedInFrames":609},{"element":"tie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.03,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00759,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00374,"observedInFrames":338}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"natural","shareOfThemeFrames":0.312,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.72},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5334,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":1.36},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"day","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3198,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4253,"ratio":0.75},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5574,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":1.32},{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8309,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.2}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.459,"ratio":1.01},{"hue":"red","share":0.18,"ratio":1.19},{"hue":"blue","share":0.165,"ratio":0.95},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.066,"ratio":0.87}],"meanSaturation":0.254,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.399,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"L.A. Confidential","year":1997,"director":"Curtis Hanson","cinematographer":"Dante Spinotti","exemplarScore":1.371,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/l-a-confidential-1997"},{"rank":2,"title":"Motherless Brooklyn","year":2019,"director":"Edward Norton","cinematographer":"Dick Pope","exemplarScore":1.339,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/motherless-brooklyn-2019"},{"rank":3,"title":"Miller’s Crossing","year":1990,"director":"Joel Coen","cinematographer":"Barry Sonnenfeld","exemplarScore":1.332,"framesIndexed":60,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/millers-crossing-1990"},{"rank":4,"title":"Se7en","year":1995,"director":"David Fincher","cinematographer":"Darius Khondji","exemplarScore":1.271,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/se7en-1995"},{"rank":5,"title":"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For","year":2014,"director":"Frank Miller","cinematographer":"Robert Rodriguez","exemplarScore":1.273,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-2014"},{"rank":6,"title":"Pulp Fiction","year":1994,"director":"Quentin Tarantino","cinematographer":"Andrzej Sekula","exemplarScore":1.212,"framesIndexed":73,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/pulp-fiction-1994"},{"rank":7,"title":"Basic Instinct","year":1992,"director":"Paul Verhoeven","cinematographer":"Jan de Bont","exemplarScore":1.24,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/basic-instinct-1992"},{"rank":8,"title":"The Black Dahlia","year":2006,"director":"Brian De Palma","cinematographer":"Vilmos Zsigmond","exemplarScore":1.259,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-black-dahlia-2006"},{"rank":9,"title":"Heat","year":1995,"director":"Michael Mann","cinematographer":"Dante Spinotti","exemplarScore":1.222,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/heat-1995"},{"rank":10,"title":"Bad Times at the El Royale","year":2018,"director":"Drew Goddard","cinematographer":"Seamus McGarvey","exemplarScore":1.227,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/bad-times-at-the-el-royale-2018"}],"outlier":{"title":"Out of the Furnace","year":2013,"exemplarScore":0.062,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}