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3 days ago · Film noir ( / nwɑːr /; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir.
- Italian Neorealism
Italian neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo), also known as the...
- German Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry...
- Robert Siodmak
Early life. Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of...
- Stranger on The Third Floor
Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 American film noir...
- The Set-Up
The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama...
- The Big Combo
The Big Combo is a 1955 American film noir crime film...
- Italian Neorealism
5 days ago · Taking a turn away from the horror genre, Glass makes her comeback with the Kristen Stewart led neo-noir film, Love Lies Bleeding. Stewart plays Lou, a chain-smoking gym manager with a shady past. The film is also led by Katy O’Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, and Jena Malone.
5 days ago · Laura. Passed. Drama. Mystery. Romance. A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating. Release Date. October 11, 1944. Director. Otto Preminger , Rouben...
5 days ago · Notorious Noir. Lists about that dark, stylish, dramatic, hard-to-define but know-it-when-you-see-it genre that boomed in the 1940s and '50s and still influences moody films and TV series of today. Over 300 filmgoers have voted on the 60+ films on Very Best New Noir Movies.
5 days ago · 1. Blade Runner. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young. 405 votes. In Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a seasoned blade runner, undertakes an assignment that plunges him into the dystopian underbelly of future Los Angeles. His mission?
6 days ago · A quick definition for historical films. History film (historical film) A fiction film showing past events or set within a historical period. This extensive genre shares territory with the biopic, costume drama, heritage film, and epic film. In the 1910s the trade press contained adverts for ‘historicals’: large‐scale melodramatic feature ...
2 days ago · Vertigo is a 1958 American 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. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor.
