From Mildred Pierce to Touch of Evil, these film noir masterpieces are still highly regarded because they come extremely close to utter perfection.

Noir film exists in all shapes and forms, but we must face the truth—black and white noir movies are the best. The genre "began" in the 1940s, when the French film critic Nino Frank coined the term in ...

"You think I'm responsible for her death?" "My father thinks so." Sony Pictures Classics revealed an official US trailer for a playful French noir comedy titled A Private Life, the latest from the ...

It would seem to defy the laws of probability that there could still be undiscovered gems in the vaults of Film Noir, or that the insatiable audience appetite for the dark shadowy genre remains abated ...

Some movies you see because you want to. Others you see because you have to. For anyone who is interested in film noir, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le Flambeur (1955) is one of the latter. Just as John ...

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 ...

Along with the haunting presence of Hitchcock, there's a whiff of Patricia Highsmith's misanthropic tales and a twist of mysticism. The preternaturally stoic Dr Steiner is baffled when tears keep ...

The neo-noir genre is an extension of the classic film noir genre and ideally remains true to the tropes and qualities of the genre, but with a modernized twist consisting of psychological elements ...