The Locket, The Unsuspected, and Lured are lesser-known, underrated classic film noir movies that deserve to be called ...

Key Largo, The Big Heat, and The Lost Weekend are all among the very best film noir movies that benefit from excellent ...

Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Glass Key’ and ‘Red Harvest’ live on in the Coen Brothers’ noir mob movie ‘Miller’s Crossing’ ...

Film noir ranks as one of the most unique and defiant film genres in cinema, and today, it continues to rise in popularity among movie fans. The classic era of film noir hit an all-time high during ...

The film noir genre is a staple of classic cinema that reached its pinnacle point of popularity during the 1940s with iconic classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity. Rooted in ...

Growing up watching old gangster movies — particularly 1938’s “Angels with Dirty Faces,” starring Hollywood legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart and the 1948 Bogart vehicle “The Treasure of Sierra ...

The film was nominated for seven Oscars and is widely seen as one of the defining works of film noir.

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 ...