The film noir genre is an undoubtedly unique one, as itâ s perhaps the only genre that has a specific period during which it existed: from the early 1940s until the end of the 1950s. There were ...

Double Indemnity, Night of the Hunter, and Out of the Past are all among the absolute best film noir movies that were shot in ...

In fact, classic noir movies, from the 1940s and ‘50s, were almost always filmed in black and white, providing stark visual contrasts—and unmistakable metaphors for right (light) and wrong (dark).

We rank the most underrated noir movies from the golden decade of the 1940s, from John Brahm's The Locket to Robert Siodmak's The Dark Mirror.

The Dark Galleries deals with American (and some British) films of the 1940s and 1950s, in which a painted portrait plays an important part in the plot or the mise-en-scène.

SUNSET BOULEVARD, 1950 Dir. Billy Wilder starring Erich von Stroheim, Gloria Swanson and William Holden.

Even more famous than her acting was Veronica Lake’s hair - the “peekaboo” style she popularized, with lush blonde locks partially covering one eye.