Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments and speaks, among others, with directors such as Richard Fleischer and Robert Wise as well as with "femme fatale" actresses. Filmmakers of the following generations explain how the style and themes of noir continue to shape cinema today.
After emerging victorious from the horrors of World War II, the U.S. eagerly pushed into a new era o...

Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into ...

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.

Film critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious st...
Documentary on the film noir Side Street with director Oliver Stone and critic Richard Schickel.
Documentary on the film noir Decoy, with Dick Cavett and Molly Haskell.

When a new murderer in town travels through the phone, Detective Rick finds that all signs point to ...

Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cin...
Jump into the world of Film Noir and look at how the technology and economic factors gave birth to a...
Short documentary on the film noir, Tension.

Journalistic chronicle made by Ocelote from the Colima zoo “Ecoparc” that reconstructs the mysteriou...
Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman,...