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.

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 ...