Film noir is defined by its dark themes, but the endings of these 10 classics of the genre were shockingly bleak even by the ...

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

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 ...

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.

When the San Francisco Film Noir Festival began in 2003 with a lineup of San Francisco-shot films, one movie generated bigger buzz than all others. “The Maltese Falcon” and “Out of the Past ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

We spoke to the Czar of Noir himself, Eddie Muller, about his revised and expanded book Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. The post Eddie Muller on the Changing Landscape of Film Noir ...

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 1942 thriller This Gun for Hire, which opened five months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was closely adapted from Graham Greene’s 1936 novel A Gun for Sale by Albert Maltz and W.R.

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.