Film noir was one of the most popular movie genres in the 1940s and 1950s, and some of the most important films in this genre remain known as masterpieces to this day. The genre drew on German ...

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

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 ...

Everyone loves a good mystery, and some of the best ones can be found in film noir classics such as Laura, Out of the Past, and Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. Rooted in German Expressionism ...