A woman in sunglasses and a man in a hat hide behind a bar in Double Indemnity, 1944. Image via Paramount Pictures During the 1940s and 1950s, the classic film noir genre reached its peak of ...

Let’s start with a few seminal noirs, the basics you’ll want to hit to understand the genre and its conventions. More than a decade after making Citizen Kane, Orson Welles further secured his status ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...

King of New York has always lived in a weird spot: cult gangster films have their fans, but this one never got the recognition it deserved. Part of that might be because the movie has more personality ...