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 ...

James Stewart looks through his camera in a scene form the film 'Rear Window', 1954. ( The 1950s were the last full decade of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood filmmakers weren’t the only ones ...

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 ...

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 ...

Austin is a list writer for Collider, focusing on television. Austin graduated from Florida International University with a degree in English Literature, where he assisted with teaching several film ...

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 ...

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 ...