Out of the Past has all the elements of a classic film noir movie, from a gripping and intense story to a classic femme ...

10. The Killers (1946) Image via Universal Pictures. Oscar-winner Burt Lancaster made his film debut in 1946’s The Killers opposite Ava Gardner. Intercutting between the past and present, the ...

THERE'S NOTHING QUITE as classic as a detective in a film noir. Someone who takes on a job, commits to it, maybe gets a little too obsessed along the way, and looks damn good the whole time.

Women in these films, frequently stronger than the men they bewitch, are more often presented as temptress than as victim. Film noir chronicles the stunted lives of losers and grifters; ...

The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs will host Guillermo Del Toro showing an expanded B&W 'Nightmare Alley,' along with '40s classics.

The Redford Theatre’s 5 th annual Noir City Detroit festival, presented in partnership with the Film Noir Foundation, returns with eight films shown over three days Sept. 23-25.

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.