At first glance, film noir may appear as little more than simple crime thrillers best suited for numbing distraction on a rainy day, further challenged by those turned off by the heavy themes they ...

Noir film exists in all shapes and forms, but we must face the truth—black and white noir movies are the best. The genre "began" in the 1940s, when the French film critic Nino Frank coined the term in ...

Vertigo is a 1958 psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D'entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Boileau-Narcejac, with a ...

The director wasted no time cementing his style with his debut feature film, They Live by Night, a gritty and punishing noir ...

At least twice, Germany has had among the most influential and important mainstream film industries in the world. First, ...

The past few Academy Awards have made huge strides in genre representation, honoring films that wouldn't have had a chance of ever appearing even ten years ago. Films like The Substance, Get Out, and ...

War movies have been around for almost as long as the art of cinema itself. But few films actually convey what it's really like to wage war. Warfare proved to be a rare exception when it debuted in ...