Film noir thrived throughout the 20th century, delivering riveting, bleak crime stories that became outright classics like ...

During the 1940s and 1950s, the classic film noir genre reached its peak of popularity with timeless films such as Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, and Sunset Boulevard, making it one of the most ...

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 ...

The British film industry of the 1950s underwent intense financial pressure. Audiences were changing and diminishing, and ...

A classic noir film lauded by viewers as 'one of the best movies ever made' has landed on BBC iPlayer. Released in 1949, The ...

Film festivals are back, and the 2026 crop starts with a cool one: the 23rd Noir City celebration, which opens Friday and continues through Jan. 25 at the Grand Lake Theatre, in Oakland. Also this ...

A woman in sunglasses and a man in a hat hide behind a bar in Double Indemnity, 1944. Image via Paramount Pictures During the 1940s and 1950s, the classic film noir genre reached its peak of ...

Classic' film stars Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, and Alida Valli, and although the film is almost eight decades old, it's still been winning praise ...