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 ...

During the 1940s and 1950s, the film noir genre dominated the box office with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and Sunset Boulevard, making it one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...