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

In the 1940s and 1950s, film noir became arguably Hollywood's most popular film genre, with crime dramas and thrillers adding darkness to the already popular gangster genre. While gangster movies were ...

One of the few film noir movies that has received 100% on Rotten Tomatoes is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 mystery thriller, Shadow ...

Noir is among cinema's best, most influential movements, and fans on Letterboxd have bestowed high scores on classics like ...

At their center, noirs deal with the blurred line between heroes and villains, showing how fast a good person can slip into the dark depths. No movie illustrates that tension better than The Big Heat, ...

Cinema history is crime-ridden. In 1901, a French short called Histoire d’un crime told the story of a burglar who commits murder and is sent to the guillotine. In 1903, the American short The Great ...

Jodie Foster goes full French in Rebecca Zlotowski’s ‘A Private Life,’ a psychoanalytic noir that premiered out of ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Jenny Kane/AP/Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP/Jon Elswick/AP When you watch ...

Indian filmmaker Devashish Makhija and actor-producer Anshuman Jha are joining forces for a crime noir thriller, marking ...