https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbm4HpSnC9E1sovy9Ikx2H_gVRcrpdSFe
Classic film noir movies from the 1940s and 50s that are freely available on YouTube. Many film noir playlists on YouTube include movies that are actually no

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
Film noir (/ n w ɑːr /; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir.

https://www.britannica.com/art/film-noir
Film noir is a style of filmmaking with cynical heroes, stark lighting, flashbacks, and existentialist philosophy. Learn about the origins, characteristics, and examples of film noir from the post-World War II era.

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-film-noirs/
Whether film noir is a genre, an era, a tone, or a movement is hotly debated. My favorite definition comes from the czar of Noir himself, Eddie Muller (host of TCM's weekly program Noir Alley, and the Film Noir Foundation president) who refers to noir as "suffering with style." In these films, characters go through the ringer.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls021120904/
My 25 personal favorite film noir movies of all time. Honorable Mentions: The Killing (1956) - Stanley Kubrick Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - Robert Aldrich Night and the City (1950) - Jules Dassin Gun Crazy (1950) - Joseph H. Lewis Drunken Angel (1948) - Akira Kurosawa The Big Sleep (1946) - Howard Hawks Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) - Alfred Hitchcock The Letter (1940) - William Wyler The Roaring

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A list of the best film noirs according to Slant Magazine, featuring classics like The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, and Touch of Evil. Browse the titles, ratings, summaries, and cast of each movie and watch the trailers.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls024931873/
These greatest film noir' movies were chosen for their direction, acting, storyline, cinematography and popularity. These films were chosen for how they rate in the subject of Film Noir movies. Elements include night-time city streets; morally weak private eye, detective, or other protagonist; femme fatale; crime of passion or money; high-contrast lighting and distorted shadows; paranoia

https://collider.com/british-film-noir-movies-best-ranked/
A British film adaptation of Arthur La Bern's novel of the same name, the slice-of-life film noir It Always Rains on Sunday is a movie directed by Robert Hamer.The story revolves around an escaped

https://parade.com/movies/what-is-film-noir
Film noir, he says, is like watching characters grab pieces of forbidden fruit; true-crime is more like gobbling from an all-you-can-eat buffet. Here are some common traits of a noir film: Anitheroes

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-film-noir/
Film noir is a stylized genre of film marked by pessimism, fatalism, and cynicism. The term was originally used in France after WWII, to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s and 50s. Though, Hollywood's film noir stretches back to the 1920s. Film noir literally translates to "black cinema" and French critics used it

https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/the-best-film-noir-movies-and-how-to-watch-them
Brick (2005) A vengeful loner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt in one of his best Rian Johnson movie roles) infiltrates a teen criminal underworld in order to solve his girlfriend's death. Why it is one of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_noir_titles
Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.

https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming%20Article/021846/noir-alley/
Whether you're a hardboiled noir addict or newly seasoned to the genre, Noir Alley is the place for all things noir. Because you need noir, now more than ever. 6/15 - Call Northside 777 (1948) 6/22 - The Locket (1946) 6/29 - No Questions Asked (1951) 7/6 - Armored Car Robbery (1950) 7/13 - The Woman on Pier 13 (1950) 7/20 - Red Light (1949)

https://screenrant.com/film-noir-genre-explained-best-movies/
Among the most notable examples of classic film noir are Double Indemnity, Laura, Vertigo, and This Gun for Hire.One of the earliest -- and most famous -- is The Maltese Falcon.Directed by John Huston, the 1942 film starred Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, a private eye who gets dragged into a mystery that revolves around the whereabouts of a priceless artifact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMNltwCjRo8
Support H8URS on Patreon: https://bit.ly/2kqae0MFilm Historian Foster Hirsch sits down with H8URS to answer the question: What is Film Noir?#FilmHistory #Fil

http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/index.html
The Film Noir Foundation is a registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit public benefit corporation created as an educational resource regarding the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of film noir as an international cinematic movement. It is our mission to find and preserve films in danger of being lost or irreparably damaged, and to

https://mashable.com/article/maxxxine-review
But this time West's influences lean into the film-noir classics set in L.A., like Roman Polanski's iconic 1974 hit, Chinatown. The result is a film that starts off familiar but strong, tapping

https://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html
Notable film noir gangster films, such as They Drive By Night (1940), Key Largo (1948) and White Heat (1949) each featured noir elements within the traditional gangster framework. Many sources have claimed that director Boris Ingster's and RKO's B-film Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) was the first full-featured film noir.

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The main synopsis of The Killing is minimalist—almost too thin for a feature film.The thieves aren't the only ones devising tricks, as Kubrick tells the story in a nonlinear structure. We see

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17561310.2023.2308177
He points to the kinship between film noir and Warhol's silk screen prints, such as Electric Chair (1965), seen by Groot as "the final weapon in the struggle of the classes used by the ruling class against the liberal social activities of the repressed.

https://www.polygon.com/24183308/mars-express-director-jeremie-perin-interview
Mars Express' fascinating vision of a robotic future was inspired by film noir and Big Tech. Director Jérémie Périn talks his favorite conspiracy thrillers, anime inspirations, and planned

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/other/this-classic-noir-gangster-film-set-the-stage-for-generations-of-heist-movies/ar-BB1p9oBf
Any film that tackles multiple genres is bound to become a jumbled mess, but Raoul Walsh not only converged the gangster, film noir, and heist genres into one story, but each element

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/06/neo-noir-thriller-to-film-in-ann-arbor-by-university-of-michigan-filmmaker.html
ANN ARBOR, MI - Ann Arbor may not seem like an obvious choice for the setting of a crime thriller. Filmmaker and University of Michigan graduate Kai Brown sees the potential in her upcoming film

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/28/style/but-im-a-cheerleader-movie-visuals/index.html
Originally an outlier amid a glut of '90s teen romcoms, one indie film with a femme lesbian lead, set in a hyper-artificial gay-conversion camp, has since become one of the era's most beloved

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/06/27/film-changed-the-way-people-saw-sexuality-now-social-media-does/
A screenshot from the cover of the documentary Word Is Out. The 1977 film, screened on public access television, is often seen as the beginning of the movement that "tried to present an image of gays as 'respectable' and 'normal,'" says UC Berkeley Professor Damon Young, author of Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies. June 27, 2024

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This is a complete list of all the titles listed in the book "Film Noir Guide - 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959" by Michael F. Keaney. This book is by far one of the most useful and well thought out book in the subject of Film Noir ever published. I Haven't come across another encyclopedic type of film book, which would offer such a wide and extremely useful way of categorizing Film

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/06/27/david-corenswets-superman-looks-fantastic-in-new-images-and-the-suit-is-great/
I really disliked the first image James Gunn shared of David Corenswet as Superman in the upcoming Superman reboot from DC and Warner Bros. It had weird colors, an oddly rumpled fit and the whole

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/a24-eternity-cast-john-early-olga-merediz-1236038069/
John Early and Olga Merediz have joined the cast of A24's "Eternity.". The romantic comedy, in which people must decide who they want to spend eternity with, also stars Miles Teller ("Top

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Donna Anna and Don Ottavio's 1st act duet from the University of Tennessee's 'film noir' themed April 2009 production of Don Giovanni by Mozart. Conductor: James Fellenbaum Director: Carroll Freeman Donna Anna: Rachel Anne Moore Don Ottavio: Jonathan Murphy Video courtesy of Phillip Marlowe of Marlo