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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.
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During and immediately following World War II, movie audiences responded to this fresh, vivid, adult-oriented type of film as did many writers, directors, cameramen and actors eager to bring a more mature world-view to Hollywood product. Largely fueled by the financial and artistic success of Billy Wilders adaptation of James M. Cains novella Doub...
In 1946 a Paris retrospective of American films embargoed during the war clearly revealed this trend toward visibly darker, more cynical crime melodramas. It was noted by several Gallic critics who christened this new type of Hollywood product film noir, or black film, in literal translation.
Few, if any of the artists in Hollywood who made these films called them noir at the time. But the vivid co-mingling of lost innocence, doomed romanticism, hard-edged cynicism, desperate desire, and shadowy sexuality that was unleashed in those immediate post-war years proved hugely influential, both among industry peers in the original era, and to...
Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-290-4. Grant, John (15 October 2013). A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Definitive Reference Guide. Limelight. ISBN 978-1-55783-831-5. Hanson, Helen (15 December 2007). Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film. I.B.Tauris.
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Film-Noir. A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal. Director: John Farrow | Stars: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready.
19. Beware, My Lovely (1952) Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. A mentally disturbed handyman on the run, for reasons even he doesn't understand, takes a job at the house of a lonely war widow in 1918. Director: Harry Horner | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting. Votes: 2,332.
