After emerging victorious from the horrors of World War II, the U.S. eagerly pushed into a new era of optimism, hope, and success. But the shadowy and cigarette-stained B-side to the bright, shiny America emerged: the film noir. Made for cheap, these dark tales scratched at a different society, filled with twisted psyches and sinister motives. Filmmaker Tom Thurman teams up with film critic and narrator David Thomson to weave together a hypnotic collage of a dark world that influences our national identity to this day.
When a new murderer in town travels through the phone, Detective Rick finds that all signs point to ...
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into ...
Short documentary on the film noir, Tension.
Documentary on the film noir Side Street with director Oliver Stone and critic Richard Schickel.
Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.
Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cin...
A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound ge...
Journalistic chronicle made by Ocelote from the Colima zoo “Ecoparc” that reconstructs the mysteriou...
Jump into the world of Film Noir and look at how the technology and economic factors gave birth to a...
Film critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious st...
Documentary on the film noir Decoy, with Dick Cavett and Molly Haskell.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that bel...
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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...