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

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

Film noir ruled Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, but the neo-noirs took form in the 1960s and onward, and there were some fantastic films in the genre released in the 2000s. While the genre was not ...

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 ...

Who doesn't love a good mystery? Following World War II in the 1940s, an onslaught of crime movies came out of Hollywood as moody stories were on the minds of filmmakers and audiences, popularizing ...

Key Largo, The Big Heat, and The Lost Weekend are all among the very best film noir movies that benefit from excellent ...

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 ...

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.

Thank heaven for the ecumenical definition of film noir used by the editors the fourth and fattest edition of The Film Noir Encyclopedia. The compendium is venerable—30 years and counting—but the ...