The "Fabulous Fifties" weren't great, except perhaps for right-wing straight WASP men. Independent women, out LGBTs, racial, ethnic, religious minorities didn't thrive. "Red Scare" congressional witch ...

From Oscar-winning masterpieces like L.A. Confidential to acclaimed cult classics like Brick, these are the best neo-noir ...

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 ...

Film noir is a genre predecessor to modern crime stories, a basis for every kind of thriller we know and love today. No one is immune to a sleek and stylish detective and femme fatale story, giving ...

Welcome to the dark side of the American dream. The best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth not always spoken out loud: It can be really hard to live in America, 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 ...

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 ...

It's kind of unfair categorization to lump all the thrillers in with the noir films from the classical Hollywood era, especially when taking a closer look at a lot of these films and their specific ...