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 ...

The Locket, The Unsuspected, and Lured are lesser-known, underrated classic film noir movies that deserve to be called ...

Chinatown, Badlands, Klute, Taxi Driver, and more make up our list of film noir masterpieces that defined the 1970s.

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade talking to another man in the final scene of The Maltese Falcon (1941). Image via Warner Bros. The detective noir serves as the heart and soul of the classic film noir ...

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 ...

The film was nominated for seven Oscars and is widely seen as one of the defining works of film noir.