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 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 ...

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 ...

Between the 1940s and 1950s, the film noir genre reigned as one of the most popular genres among audiences and was initially established with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and ...

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 ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...