film noir had a renaissance in the 1990s, and the angsty decade produced everything from gritty crime classics to ...

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 ...

From "Sunset Boulevard" to "The Reckless Moment" to "Leave Her to Heaven," the best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth, but one not always spoken out loud: It can be ...

The neo-noir genre is an extension of the classic film noir genre and ideally remains true to the tropes and qualities of the genre, but with a modernized twist consisting of psychological elements ...

From film noirs to rom-coms, femme fatales defined the Golden Age of Hollywood – what became of these legendary actresses ...

Nordic noir is easily one of the most popular emergent genres of the 21st century. While the streaming boom of the 2010s can largely be credited with popularizing Nordic noir as a concept, this ...