Chinatown, Badlands, Klute, Taxi Driver, and more make up our list of film noir masterpieces that defined the 1970s.

Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait. The ...

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During the 1940s and 1950s, the classic film noir genre reached its peak of popularity with timeless films such as Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, and Sunset Boulevard, making it one of the most ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The film noir genre cuts to the core of the cynical detectives, the criminal underworld, and dangerous femme fatales, making it one of the most intriguing film genres of all time. Originating from ...