Sunset Boulevard, Laura, and Key Largo are all among the very best classic film noir movies that took home Academy Awards.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Columbia Pictures. At their center, noirs deal with the blurred line between heroes and villains, showing how fast a ...

The Locket, The Unsuspected, and Lured are lesser-known, underrated classic film noir movies that deserve to be called masterpieces.

Experts say the genre was all about suspense, and what better way to convey that to audiences than an obsession with time? By David Belcher The race against the clock — to solve a crime, to outwit a ...

Film noir is among the most instantly recognizable genres in cinematic history. Defined as a heavily stylized take on a classic crime story, film noir is characterized by its striking black-and-white ...

Film noir is the shadowed soul of classic cinema and a genre where great performances matter just as much as style, sometimes even more. Compared to other genres, the performances in film noir movies ...

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 ...