Genre: intertextuality

After Hours (Martin Scorsese)

1985

In a Manhattan cafe,
word processor Paul
Hackett (Griffin Dunne)
meets and talks literature
with Marcy (Rosanna
Arquette). Later that
night, Paul takes a cab to
Marcy's downtown
apartment. His $20 bill
flying out the window
during the ride portends
the unexpected night he
has. He cannot pay for
the ride and finds himself
in a series of awkward,
surreal and lifethreatening situations
with a colorful cast of
characters. He spends the
rest of the night trying to
return uptown.

Genre: intertextuality

The Trial (Orson Welles)

1962

When police officers

arrive at his home to tell
him that he's under "open
arrest," unassuming
bureaucrat Josef K.
(Anthony Perkins) can't
imagine what kind of
crime he might have
committed. He consults
first his neighbor (Jeanne
Moreau) about the
incident, then the courts,
then a pompous law
advocate (Orson Welles),
all to no avail. Ironically,
Joseph is able to learn of
his sentence -- he is to be
put to death -- but the
nature of the charge
against him remains
elusive.

Genre: intertextuality

The Tenant (Roman Polanski)

1976

In Paris, isolated Eastern

European migr
Trelkovsky (Roman
Polanski) rents an
apartment in a spooky old
building whose
inhabitants regard him
with suspicion and even
outright hostility. When
he learns that the
apartment's previous
tenant, a beautiful
woman, tried to commit
suicide by jumping out the
window, Trelkovsky begins
to identify with her in
increasingly disturbing
ways. Then, to make
matters even worse, he
reaches the conclusion
that his new neighbors
are plotting to kill him.

Genre: intertextuality
Le Samourai (JeanPierre Melville)
1967

Hit man Jef Costello (Alain

Delon) goes through an
elaborate set of rituals
before carrying out a hit
on a nightclub owner.
Always thorough and cool
in his job, Costello is
disconcerted to discover a
witness to the killing, the
club's female piano
player. But before he can
act, the police arrest
him in a sweep of
suspects. Released when
the main witness does not
come forward, Costello
goes from being the
hunter to the hunted,
trailed by the determined
police as well as his crime
bosses.

Genre: intertextuality

The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)

1956

Musician Manny
Balestrero (Henry Fonda)
needs money to pay for
his wife Rose's (Vera
Miles) dental procedure.
When he tries to borrow
money from their
insurance policy, someone
at the office mistakes him
for a man who had
robbed them twice at
gunpoint. After Manny is
arrested, his defence
attorney, Frank O'Connor
(Anthony Quayle), works
to demonstrate that
Manny has an alibi for the
crimes. The stress of the
case, however, threatens
to destroy Manny's family
before his name can be
cleared.

Genre: intertextuality

Brazil (Terry Gilliam)

1985

Low-level bureaucrat Sam

Lowry (Jonathan Pryce)
escapes the monotony of
his day-to-day life through
a recurring daydream of
himself as a virtuous hero
saving a beautiful damsel.
Investigating a case that
led to the wrongful arrest
and eventual death of an
innocent man instead of
wanted terrorist Harry
Tuttle (Robert De Niro), he
meets the woman from
his daydream (Kim
Greist), and in trying to
help her gets caught in a
web of mistaken
identities, mindless
bureaucracy and lies.

Genre: intertextuality

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)

2000

In 1962, journalist Chow

Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu
Wai) and his wife move
into a Hong Kong
apartment, but Chow's
spouse is often away on
business. Before long, the
lonely Chow makes the
acquaintance of the
alluring Su Li-zhen
(Maggie Cheung Manyuk), whose own
significant other also
seems preoccupied with
work. As the two friends
realize their respective
partners are cheating on
them, they begin to fall
for one another; however,
neither wants to stoop to
the level of the unfaithful
spouses.

Genre: intertextuality

Genre
classifications
from IMDB:

In the Mood for Love Drama, Romance

Brazil Sci-Fi
The Wrong Man Crime, Drama, Film Noir
Le Samourai Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Tenant Thriller
The Trial Crime, Drama, Fantasy
After Hours Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Ayoades stated influences hint at something more than Sci-Fi as a

genre. There are clear cinematic influences from crime, thriller and
drama texts, and Ayoades inclusion of Hannah adds an element of
romance. Is this, then, a hybrid genre?

IMDB: Comedy, thriller, drama with neo noir listed under

plot