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.
Film critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious st...
Short documentary on the film noir, Tension.
Documentary on the film noir Side Street with director Oliver Stone and critic Richard Schickel.
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into ...
Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cin...
Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.
When a new murderer in town travels through the phone, Detective Rick finds that all signs point to ...
A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.
After emerging victorious from the horrors of World War II, the U.S. eagerly pushed into a new era o...
Journalistic chronicle made by Ocelote from the Colima zoo “Ecoparc” that reconstructs the mysteriou...
Documentary on the film noir Decoy, with Dick Cavett and Molly Haskell.
Jump into the world of Film Noir and look at how the technology and economic factors gave birth to a...
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly ...
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...
A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford Un...
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...