Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

“I’m rotten to the heart,” Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) confesses with breathless bitterness in Billy Wilder’s classic 1944 noir, “Double Indemnity.” Eighty years ago this ...

Billy Wilder's film-noir classic stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as an insurance salesman and a scheming wife who engage in a steamy affair before plotting to murder her husband and ...

From 'Chinatown' to 'Nightcrawler', these more modern takes on the classic formula embody everything about the neo-noir genre.

This drips with textbook noir, and echoes Double Indemnity in both story and style. Femme fatale prototype Lana Turner tempts John Garfield to off her husband, but their comeuppance is inevitable.

James M. Cain's tale of a money-hungry woman who manipulates an insurance salesman into becoming an accomplice in her husband's murder. Best Picture Oscar nominee!