Chinatown, Mulholland Drive, and Blue Velvet are all among the absolute greatest neo-noir movies that are arguably entirely ...

When you think of film noir movies, you may assume they’re predominantly American. While this isn’t true, it’s a fact that many American film noir movies have become cult classics, with some becoming ...

In the peak American film noir years from 1940 to 1960, an astonishing number of these movies took place in the scenic west coast city of San Francisco. Fandor’s new video, “Shadows In The Fog: ...

At their center, noirs deal with the blurred line between heroes and villains, showing how fast a good person can slip into the dark depths. No movie illustrates that tension better than The Big Heat, ...

'Body and Soul,' 'Shadow of a Doubt' and 'Dead Reckoning' are among a dozen classic or obscure films programmed over a four-day weekend at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. Like the Hollywood-based ...

Ready to dive into the dark, twisted world of film noir? Check out the 20 best films, plus where to grab the sharpest Blu-ray, 4K, and box sets. Let’s talk about film noir—the genre that slinks out of ...

In the 1960s, the neo-noir genre arrived as an extension of the classic film noir but with its own additional qualities, such as excessive violence, sexuality, and psychological elements, which ...

The moral universe of film noir. As the discussion of the essence or nature of film noir in the books from Conard and Irwin indicates, critics seeking a unifying definition of noir as a genre have ...

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), Vol. 30, No. 1 (2024), pp. 203-226 (24 pages) This essay looks at some of the American film noir that focus on traumatized veterans in the ...