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

Film noir is a type of highly stylized Hollywood crime drama that was extremely popular in the 1940s and 1950s. ... “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Courtesy Sony Releasing Pictures.

10. The Killers (1946) Image via Universal Pictures. Oscar-winner Burt Lancaster made his film debut in 1946’s The Killers opposite Ava Gardner. Intercutting between the past and present, the ...

Lucky number 13. Talk about a stroke of film noir fate! The 2023 edition of Noir City Chicago, the annual celebration of mean streets and what the French call “malchance,” gathers a week’s ...

Here are all the movies referenced in the order they appear in each episode. The first seven episodes are now streaming on Apple TV+, with the finale set to air on Friday, May 17. “Sugar ...

Film noir, which loosely translates to “dark film,” grew out of German expressionism to take over U.S. movie screens in the 1940s and ’50s.

Film Noir meaning “black film” in french coined by the critic Nino Frank in 1946, defined an era of stylish visually moody black-and-white crime mysteries.

While Hollywood’s film noir golden age peaked in a postwar America that welcomed cynical detectives and wise-guy crooks, today’s hard-boiled crime stories continue to find an audience.