From Mildred Pierce to Touch of Evil, these film noir masterpieces are still highly regarded because they come extremely close to utter perfection.

As the '50s came to a close, so too did the classic period of noir. The indefinable genre that was born out of hardboiled detective stories and the arch visuals of German expressionism provided dozens ...

Critics, film historians, and film scholars have never quite come to a definitive conclusion on whether film noir is a genre, a style, or a film movement. Regardless, these movies about morally grey ...

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 ...