Film noir thrived throughout the 20th century, delivering riveting, bleak crime stories that became outright classics like ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: It’s not often that a mere movie critic can somehow create a genuine holiday, but that’s exactly what happened when writer Marya E. Gates coined “Noirvember” over a ...

During the 1940s and 1950s, the classic film noir genre reached its peak of popularity with timeless films such as Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, and Sunset Boulevard, making it one of the most ...

During the 1940s and 1950s, the film noir genre dominated the box office with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and Sunset Boulevard, making it one of the most ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...