Chinatown, Badlands, Klute, Taxi Driver, and more make up our list of film noir masterpieces that defined the 1970s.

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At first glance, film noir may appear as little more than simple crime thrillers best suited for numbing distraction on a rainy day, further challenged by those turned off by the heavy themes they ...

The film noir genre reached its peak of popularity during the 1940s with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity. Even though the 1940s are considered to be the height of the ...

From "Sunset Boulevard" to "The Reckless Moment" to "Leave Her to Heaven," the best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth, but one not always spoken out loud: It can be ...

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 ...

Film noir is a favorite genre of many, mostly the Turner Classic Movies ilk. It’s a genre of double-crosses, femme fatales, shadows, private eyes, and many a MacGuffin. Then, the neo-noir was born.