Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil are all among the absolute greatest film noir movies that are pretty ...

During the 1940s and 1950s, the film noir genre dominated the box office with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and Sunset Boulevard, making it one of the most ...

From Oscar-winning masterpieces like L.A. Confidential to acclaimed cult classics like Brick, these are the best neo-noir ...

Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart in a scene from the movie: "The Philadelphia Story." By the 1940s, Hollywood was solidly in its Golden Age. And the 1940s weren’t just a boon for ...

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 ...

Film studies don't show old movies just because they're famous. These films teach specific lessons about how cinema works. You learn to spot techniques ...

Growing up watching old gangster movies — particularly 1938’s “Angels with Dirty Faces,” starring Hollywood legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart and the 1948 Bogart vehicle “The Treasure of Sierra ...