Emerging in the latter years of World War II, film noir was a creative response to the weariness and pessimism that was ...

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.

there was perhaps no wave more intriguing than film noir. What started with French "dark films" that depicted post-war disillusionment and shady characters became common in American cinema as well.

THERE’S SOMETHING TRULY enthralling about film noir — and perhaps no contemporary actor better embodies the sensual, enigmatic and elegant intrigue of the film genre than Eva Green.