Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil are all among the absolute greatest film noir movies that are pretty ...

In this 1952 film noir thriller, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright seduced by a murderous Jack Palance. “It’s a masterpiece of suspense,” says Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the ...

Who doesn't love a good mystery? Following World War II in the 1940s, an onslaught of crime movies came out of Hollywood as moody stories were on the minds of filmmakers and audiences, popularizing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds sitting together in Singin' in the Rain Image via Loew's Inc. The 1950s were a pivotal decade for classic movies, marked by the release of iconic titles such as The ...

Idiosyncratic indie icon Jim Jarmusch ("Dead Man"; "Paterson") brings his trademark offbeat quality and simplicity to "Father ...

REUTERS - Husky-voiced blonde Lizabeth Scott, who played the femme fatale in numerous film noir movies of the 1940s and 1950s alongside leading men including Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster and ...

Film studies don't show old movies just because they're famous. These films teach specific lessons about how cinema works. You learn to spot techniques ...