Film noir was one of the most popular movie genres in the 1940s and 1950s, and some of the most important films in this genre remain known as masterpieces to this day. The genre drew on German ...

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

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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 ...

Film noir is a favorite genre of many, mostly the Turner Classic Movies ilk. It’s a genre of double-crosses, femme fatales, shadows, private eyes, and many a MacGuffin. Then, the neo-noir was born.