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.

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.

Double Indemnity (1944). Why it’s essential: Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity isn’t just a noir classic—it is the blueprint.Adapted from James M. Cain’s pulp novella and co-written by legendary crime ...

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 ...

There was no fame in the 1940s quite like Hollywood fame, and Veronica Lake had it. Her career in film rose during that decade, starting in 1941 with William Holden in “I Wanted Wings” and ...

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 ...

Decision to Leave (2022). South Korean director Park Chan-wook has been channeling Hitchcock for most of his career, and has made memorable contributions to neo-noir (Oldboy, The Handmaiden).But ...

THERE’S SOMETHING TRULY enthralling about film noir — and perhaps no contemporary actor better embodies the sensual, enigmatic and elegant intrigue of the film genre than Eva Green. The French ...