With their lower budgets and gritty tone, noir westerns were a darker alternative to the slick Hollywood style that dominated ...

Film Noir is a universe based around mystery, the femme fatale, and the detective. Sex, lies and murder is the seductive tone that created the visually stimulating art form of cinema that began in the ...

Spearheading a mini-renaissance of TV noir inspired by the black-and-white crime thrillers of early Hollywood are Clive Owen in "Monsieur Spade," left, and Colin Farrell in "Sugar." (Illustration by ...

Film noir is among the most instantly recognizable genres in cinematic history. Defined as a heavily stylized take on a classic crime story, film noir is characterized by its striking black-and-white ...

Jack Nicholson stars as Detective J.J. Gittes in Chinatown (1974). Credit: Image via Paramount Pictures The film noir genre reached its peak of popularity during the 1940s with classics such as The ...

Film noir is one of the most recognizable and influential genres in the history of the medium. Noir is French for "black", and as such, it's a word that perfectly captures the style, ambiance, and ...

French critics coined the term “film noir” in 1946 after a series of brooding dramas from wartime Hollywood finally made their French debut. Yet, says Sheri Chinen Biesen, noir is often seen as a ...