Film noir was one of the most popular movie genres in the 1940s and 1950s, and some of the most important films in this genre remain known as masterpieces to this day. The genre drew on German ...

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 ...

In this 1952 film noir thriller, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright seduced by a murderous Jack Palance. “It’s a masterpiece of suspense,” says Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Now released on streaming platforms, D.O.A. is remake of a 1950s classic movie, featuring the iconic landmarks of the nation’s oldest city, St. Augustine. Director Kurt St.

Eddie Muller likes his coffee the same way he likes his movies: unsweetened and dark. Muller, 64, the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies, is taking a wake-up sip of morning joe in his ...

For several decades, the film noir genre has withstood the hands of time and was initially popularized by classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Out of the Past, and Double Indemnity. By the 1960s, the ...

REUTERS - Husky-voiced blonde Lizabeth Scott, who played the femme fatale in numerous film noir movies of the 1940s and 1950s alongside leading men including Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster and ...

At first glance, film noir may appear as little more than simple crime thrillers best suited for numbing distraction on a rainy day, further challenged by those turned off by the heavy themes they ...

Stephanie Weber is a writer and comedian who has bylines in Reductress, The AV Club, Mental Floss, Slate, Mr. Skin, and more. She has an MFA in dramatic writing from SCAD. She wrote and directed the ...

Even though the cinematic days of black and white mysteries with shady characters may be long gone, the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival continues to keep that legacy alive in Palm Springs. So much so ...

Welcome to the dark side of the American dream. The best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth not always spoken out loud: It can be really hard to live in America, and ...