has come a long way since it first emerged in the early 1940s with hard-boiled detective stories such as , morphed into the darker neo-noirs of the '70s such as , and seeped its way into a variety of other genres to create . In this series, we showca...

"The stuff that dreams are made of." So ends The Maltese Falcon and begins Film Noir. The term brings to mind flawed detectives, back-room criminals, shadowy street thugs, crooked cops, and sensual femme fatales. Some of the truly great films are cat...

Film Noir Classics II: Human Desire (1954): Burn the Letter directed by Fritz Lang Engineer is a 1950's Film Noir Classic Drama. Jeff, returning from Japan, falls in Love with his co-worker Carl's wife Vicky, who both committed a murder. Naturally ...

Often I'm asked to cite my "Top Ten" from the classic film noir era, so I figured it was about time to post something "definitive."

Classic monsters are being revamped into a dark detective flick where Dracula is a crime lord, Frankenstein's monster is a detective and we can only assume the hairless bride of Frankenstein you see here is his sexy undead secretary. This concept ar...

Let me give you some thoughts about this collection "Noir Frames". Mostly inspired by the so called "Film Noir Photography"..In the early 1940s, a style of movie making developed called "Film Noir," a French phrase literally meaning "black film." The...

Movie titles and typography from of film noir films and their trailers, from Stranger on the third floor (1940) to Touch of evil (1958)

The classic resorts to murder to free herself from an unbearable relationship with a man who would try to possess and control her, as if she were a piece of property or a pet. According to Sylvia Harvey, the women of are "[p]resented as prizes, des...