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3 days ago · Because the 1940s and 1950s are universally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir, films released prior to 1940 are listed under the caption "Precursors / early noir-like films". Films released after 1959 should generally only be listed in the list of neo-noir titles .
5 days ago · 2. Double Indemnity (1944) 1. Sunset Boulevard (1950) Show 5 more items. The genre enjoyed its height during the 1940s and ’50s. Since then, film noir has fallen out of fashion, and while modern ...
5 days ago · A Brief History of Film Noir. From 1944 through the late 1950s, movies like The Maltese Falcon (based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett), Laura (based on a novel by Vera Caspary), Murder, My Sweet (based on a novel by Raymond Chandler), and Double Indemnity (based on a novel by James M. Cain) were crime films that began to take the place of Westerns in Hollywood.
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3 days ago · Anna’s husband, Slim Dundee, is played by Dan Duryea at his villainous, snarling best. To hide his renewed affair with Anna, Thompson agrees to rob the armored-car company at which he works.
4 days ago · Since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, these films are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season. Many networks, studios, and production companies, such as Hallmark and Lifetime , produce and release new Christmas-themed films every year during or around December, all with different variations of similar plots ...
3 days ago · Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".The film takes place in the Washington metropolitan area in the year 2054, in which a specialized police department—Precrime—apprehends criminals by use of foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs".
4 days ago · Among the many exemplary performances, some of the most famed Foster movies include The Silence of the Lambs, where she brilliantly portrayed Clarice Starling, an FBI agent seeking the help of a notorious serial killer to catch another.
