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

New York and Los Angeles are sometimes unrecognizable in films noir because A) it was often taken for granted that those movies simply needed a big city as a back-drop, and B) many of those films ...

Film noir had a renaissance in the 1990s, and the decade produced a slew of gritty crime flicks and neon-drenched neo-noir classics. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, noir pushed the boundaries of ...

Film noir is a genre and style of filmmaking that refers to 1940s and 1950s crime dramas such as The Third Man and White Heat. The genre emerged in the United States during the Great Depression and ...

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Between the 1940s and 1950s, the film noir genre reigned as one of the most popular genres among audiences and was initially established with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and ...

Whether it’s the hardboiled private eye down on his luck or the beautiful but badhearted femme fatale, neo-noir tropes revive the era of film noir. But what exactly is neo-noir, and how does it both ...

Experts say the genre was all about suspense, and what better way to convey that to audiences than an obsession with time? By David Belcher The race against the clock — to solve a crime, to outwit a ...

Ready to dive into the dark, twisted world of film noir? Check out the 20 best films, plus where to grab the sharpest Blu-ray, 4K, and box sets. Let’s talk about film noir—the genre that slinks out of ...

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 ...