First Example of a Contemporary Film Noir:

Sin City

Four tales of crime are thrown into this film and are originally adapted from "Frank Millers" popular comics, The first tale is focusing around a muscular brute who's looking for the person responsible for the death of his beloved Goldie, the second tale is a man fed up with Sin City's corrupt law enforcement, who takes the law into his own hands after a horrible mistake, the third tale is a cop who risks his life to protect a girl from a deformed paedophile, and last but not least the fourth tale is about a hit man looking to make a little cash from his job.
Sin City is one of the most successful contemporary noir films ever made, the whole film is mainly black & white but there are certain objects and characters that are in colour. It uses shadows and special lighting to indicate the characters motives and expressions. And also uses film noir genereal cinmatrography camera work, eg. the camera looks up on certain characters and then looks down upon characters to indicate where the power is.