Raoul Walsh's 1949 gangster film White Heat, starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, and Edmond O'Brien, paved the way for the genre.

Made in 1938, Angels with Dirty Faces may look dated to some. But this crime noir may still be Warner Brother's greatest gangster film to date.

Noir icon Robert Mitchum gives an archetypal performance as the fatalistic private eye unable to escape his former life after slimy gangster Kirk Douglas hires him to find the squeeze (Jane Greer ...

Film noir, which translates to “black movies,” explores the shades of gray in the lives of cops, criminals, and everyone in between. These films find dignity in cruel gangsters and darkness in ...

Huston and Bogart were not trying to create a new film genre; more likely they were simply working to improve on the pulpy gangster films of the 1930s with which genuine film noir is sometimes ...

The Seattle film festival, now in its 15th year, will highlight film noir from 1948. The festival runs Feb. 10-16 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian.

An iconic 1990 gangster film from the Coen Brothers, which is currently available to stream from Amazon Prime, has been hailed as one of the best of its genre by critics ...

Humphrey Bogart delivers yet another complex and nuanced performance in High Sierra, one of his most underrated movies.