Crooked cops, daring heists, infidelity, murder—these are the elements that ignite the combustible chemistry of a fine noir film. But not all noir involves foggy cityscapes, smoking detectives ...

W hen it comes to classic cinema, the film noir genre ranks as one of the most fascinating and reached its peak during the ...

When his style was adapted to crime stories in the late 1920s and '30s, most successfully for writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler, the seeds of noir were planted.

The 1942 classic noir, This Gun for Hire, is based on the 1936 novel A Gun for Sale written by Graham Greene and was the first film starring Ladd and Lake, who made seven films together for ...

An indie film noir whose grungy low-fi aesthetics complement its classic fatalism, Gazer (April 4, in theaters) tells a twisted tale stitched together from bits and pieces of Rear Window, Memento ...

The film noir is where that officer gets tempted into becoming a criminal, just like the guy he's pursuing, and it's usually for a woman, and then everything goes to hell and it all turns out ...

The character frequently references movies like “The Big Heat” — his handler Ruby (Kirby) gets him the gun Glenn Ford used in the 1950s noir — as well as several Humphrey Bogart films.

But “His Kind of Woman” should be a welcome surprise for Price aficionados, noir buffs, and anyone who, in the Marie Kondo meme sense, loves mess. —SS The Aftermath: Only Midnights Could ...