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.

Why would you want to watch the antisocial protagonists, victims, and antiheroes of film noir? “Despite an audience’s sense of right and wrong,” Spacey told me, “they find themselves ...