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Classic film noir movies from the 1940s and 50s that are freely available on YouTube. Many film noir playlists on YouTube include movies that are actually not considered film...
D.O.A. — Free — Rudolph Maté’s classic noir film. Called “one of the most accomplished, innovative, and downright twisted entrants to the film noir genre.” You can also watch the movie here. (1950) Fear in the Night — Free — Low budget noir film directed by Maxwell Shane & starring Paul Kelly and DeForest ...
Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night (1997) While many critics refer to film noir as a genre itself, others argue that it can be no such thing. Foster Hirsch defines a genre as determined by "conventions of narrative structure, characterization, theme, and visual design." Hirsch, as one who has taken the position that film noir is a genre, argues that these elements are present "in ...
- United States
- early 1920s – late 1950s
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The best of available Film Noir and Classic Movies on YouTube. Most HD videos are in 1080p and only a few in 720p.
If you want get into that film noir mood, Open Culture has 50, count ‘em, 50 film noir movies that you can watch right now for free. They include: Detour Free – Edgar Ulmer’s cult classic noir film shot in 6 days. (1945) D.O.A. — Free — Rudolph Maté’s classic noir film.
Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.
Some of the best Film Noir movies from the 1940's 1950's and 1960's, Robert Mitchum, Joan Crawford, stanley Kubrick, Rod Serling, bette davis, etc. in wonder...
