Film noir is a genre predecessor to modern crime stories, a basis for every kind of thriller we know and love today. No one ...
A 1940 suspense movie with Peter Lorre is the first true installment in the film noir genre, making it the beginning of a ...
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Although many things happen in film noir, the pleasure of the movies does not always involve the specifics of the plot. Case in point: The Big Sleep, directed by Howard ...
2. Double Indemnity Directed by Billy Wilder and co-written with famed novelist Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity (1944) is a quintessential film noir based on James M. Cain’s eponymous novella.