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

The absolute greatest performances in neo-noir movies include turns from Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dan Hedaya.

Crime is about as fluid a category as you can get, which makes identifying the best crime movies even harder. There are crime dramas, crime thrillers and crime comedies. There’s crime on film that ...

Charlie Shackleton explains how he would have made a film had he won the rights to a book on a murderer. The result is a fascinating look at a whole genre. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If you’re in the mood for something thrilling, and you can handle a terrifying real-life crime ...

Let’s start with a few seminal noirs, the basics you’ll want to hit to understand the genre and its conventions. More than a decade after making Citizen Kane, Orson Welles further secured his status ...

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 ...

HBO Max is a wonderful repository of movies that span almost the entire history of cinema. While the collection is far from exhaustive, it’s deeper than most streaming services. When you’re looking ...

Nete Schmidt explores why Scandinavian crime stories have become best sellers worldwide. Nete Schmidt, faculty associate emerita in German, Nordic and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ...

Iceland-set drama The Darkness, described as a "gritty Nordic crime noir", is now available to watch on Channel 4. Based on the Ragnar Jónasson novel of the same name, the 6-episode show follows ...