In the 1940s and 1950s, film noir became arguably Hollywood's most popular film genre, with crime dramas and thrillers adding darkness to the already popular gangster genre. While gangster movies were ...

A film noir movie had one of the best speeches ever delivered in a movie, and it remains one of the best in movie history 76 ...

Who doesn't love a good mystery? Following World War II in the 1940s, an onslaught of crime movies came out of Hollywood as moody stories were on the minds of filmmakers and audiences, popularizing ...

Film noir experienced a high in the '90s, thanks to stylish comic book adaptations like Dick Tracy and Oscar-winning triumphs ...

Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) and Vivian (Lauren Bacall) chat over drinks in 'Key Largo' Image via Warner Bros. When it comes to classic cinema, the film noir genre ranks as one of the most fascinating ...

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 ...

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Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait. The ...

Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart in a scene from the movie: "The Philadelphia Story." By the 1940s, Hollywood was solidly in its Golden Age. And the 1940s weren’t just a boon for ...

Sometimes the best cinematic experiences are when a mystery grips you right away, and by the end, you don't see any of the twists coming. Taking pointers from the classic film noir genre, which had ...