space + film noir?

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Lexx's design sensibilities are more organic starship crossed with subporn crossed with gross-out comedy; Fifth Element's city and ship design seems somewhat Art Deco and I guess Korben Dallas and Leeloo could be forced to fit the cynical detective and femme fatale requirements even though they're a taxi driver and a supreme being respectively.

 

[Tenacity]

even though they're a taxi driver and a supreme being respectively

More a special forces soldier (briefly employed as a taxi driver) and a supreme being.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Not a detective though...

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

It's been a long time since I've seen it, I believe Outland with Sean Connery would fit into this category.

Indeed. VERY underrated film, with some critics dismissing it as "High Noon in space," but that was an unfair criticism.

 

[Zaku]

So, apparently, a 1940s/50s era seedy spaceship crewed by a tough, cynical detective wearing a fedora and a femme fatale smoking a cigarette in a holder, ideally filmed in b&w, is required.

This sounded familiar, so I searched in my library and...

From Wikipedia:

Sam Space is a fictional detective created by American writer William F. Nolan. He appears in the novels Space for Hire and Look Out For Space and in several short stories. The name Sam Space is a play on the name Sam Spade, famous fictional detective created by Dashiell Hammett.

The science fiction novels combine hardboiled fiction with science, creating Raymond Chandler-esque detective fiction in space.

Now someone has just to film it!

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

It's tricky to find a spacesuit helmet that will fit over a Fedora.