Gritty film noir just may be embraced by contemporary audiences more than any other genre from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

There is something mesmerizing — almost addictive — about the classic film noirs of the 1940s and ‘50s, with their darkened, rain-drenched streets and narrow alleys inhabited by anti-heroes ...

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

A great thriller, The Third Mancapped off the noir boom of the 1940s with a stellar cast, intense storyline and resonant themes.

French film critics coined the term film noir to denote the similarities between Hollywood's 1940s wave of brutal crime films and the pulp fiction that had appeared in France under the rubric, "Serie ...

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics Jan 07, 2021 Web Exclusive By Matthew Roe Film noir is a term which can set film historians and critics’ mouths to frothing ...

The curator of a Northwest Film Center crime film series talks about the hardboiled Hollywood movies he loves.

Noir City, the annual festival of film noir at the Castro Theatre and a heavyweight of the local rep scene, picks up on Jan. 25 where last year’s edition left off—the 1950s. Beginning with Trapped and ...

A film noir festival at the Hollywood Legion Theater this weekend will offer classics like "Mildred Pierce" along with restored rarities.

Film noir remains one of the most enduringly popular genres, and many of those from the classic Hollywood era are rightly regarded as classics. It’s easy to see why this would be the case, as ...

Hit the dark alleys of film noir with the usual suspects from the Midday Movies gang to find some femme fatales who made the genre iconic.