Film studies don't show old movies just because they're famous. These films teach specific lessons about how cinema works. You learn to spot techniques ...

Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil are all among the absolute greatest film noir movies that are pretty ...

Film historians have long been divided on whether or not the 1942 classic Casablanca technically counts as a film noir.

Welcome to the dark side of the American dream. The best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth not always spoken out loud: It can be really hard to live in America, and ...

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 ...

During the 1940s, the film noir genre reigned superior and gave audiences memorable classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Gaslight, and Out of the Past. By the 1960s, the genre had been revitalized ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, film noir became arguably Hollywood's most popular film genre, with crime dramas and thrillers adding darkness to the already popular gangster genre. While gangster movies were ...