Film noir is one of the most significant and influential genres in film history. It's characterized by morally corrupt characters, cynical storylines, tragic endings, and moody, atmospheric ...

Film noir is defined by its dark themes, but the endings of these 10 classics of the genre were shockingly bleak even by the genre's standards.

La Crosse author Charles Pappas's "It's a Bitter Little World" is a dark, cynical and sassy compilation of the "smartest, toughest, nastiest quotes from film noir." Exploring sixty years of film ...

Here are all the classic movies referenced in the new Apple TV+ series "Sugar," which stars Colin Farrell as a film nerd detective ...

Paste magazine this month has selected the 100 best film noir movies of all time. It’s a good list, except for one thing: it’s overwhelming. Most people will skip to the Top 10, which offers ...

Lucky number 13. Talk about a stroke of film noir fate! The 2023 edition of Noir City Chicago, the annual celebration of mean streets and what the French call “malchance,” gathers a week’s ...

Lingeman quotes French cinema scholars Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton, who declared that, “In every sense of the word, a noir film is a film of death.” ¤ ...

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in film noir classic 'Double Indemnity.' Eddie Muller likes his coffee the same way he likes his movies: unsweetened and dark. Muller, 64, the host of Noir ...

Film noir is a peculiar genre; the directors who worked in film noir didn’t use that term to describe their work.

Experts say the genre was all about suspense, and what better way to convey that to audiences than an obsession with time?

Film Noir’s Early Days: How Studios Resisted, Then Embraced, the Genre Guillermo del Toro's neo-noir 'Nightmare Alley' calls back to an age when the subversive "murder mellers," or off-kilter ...

The term “film noir” is thrown around a lot to describe a great many films. Neo-noirs, film soleil, and other such spin-offs and mutations are also used to describe recent endeavors in ...