Film historians are divided on whether or not the 1942 classic Casablanca technically counts as a film noir. Does it fit into ...

A 1940 suspense movie with Peter Lorre is the first true installment in the film noir genre, making it the beginning of a ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

This 1940s crime genre was all about sensual silhouettes, sleek numbers, sultry style accents, and femme fatales draped in dark, dramatic tones.

Henri-Georges Clouzot's 'Les Diaboliques' remains one of the greatest examples of the erotic thriller genre, even though it predates it by three decades.

Let’s saddle up and ride down the definition and characteristics of the neo-Western genre, then trot through some of its most iconic examples. What is the neo-Western film genre? Neo-Westerns ...

Uses over 30 film clips and interviews about the tough guys and the femme fatales to illustrate the aspects of the film noir genre Jeffrey Wells discusses Big Sleep The 1946 Ο άρχων του ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Film noir is the perfect movie genre for this time of year. So long as there’s a chill in the air and the ...