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If you want a comprehensive list of the best noir films, Rotten Tomatoes has compiled the 100 best flicks in the genre based on the website’s critics score. For the cream of the crop, we’ve ...

For fans of Humphrey Bogart's To Have and Have Not, there's a lesser-known adaptation from six years later that stars a ...

The Coen Brothers would bring their noir-inspired style of storytelling to something a little more on the side of tradition with a film that has everything from blackmail, murder, a 1940s-setting ...

Why it is one of the best film noir movies: One of the best Coen Brothers movies, The Man Who Wasn’t There, has blackmail, murder, a 1940s setting, and grayscale cinematography, but with a few ...

The term “film noir” was coined by French critic Nino Frank. He used it to refer to movies characterized by cynical attitudes and stark lighting. The general pessimism in the films stemmed from the ...

The 30 best film noir movies of all time, from Double Indemnity to Sunset Blvd, center on an idea: It can be really hard to live in America.

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 ...

Let’s talk about film noir—the genre that slinks out of the shadows, drags you into a smoke-filled room, and makes you like it.Since Double Indemnity set the gold standard for bad decisions and worse ...

A blend of smooth jazz music and tobacco smoke fills the air as the silhouette of a trench coat and fedora-clad bystander trudges down a dark city corridor, accompanied only by his shadow. The ...