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.
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound ge...

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

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

Film critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious st...

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.
Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.
Documentary on the film noir Side Street with director Oliver Stone and critic Richard Schickel.
Short documentary on the film noir, Tension.
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...

Journalistic chronicle made by Ocelote from the Colima zoo “Ecoparc” that reconstructs the mysteriou...

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

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

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of a...

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...

In order to turn their lives around, three taxi drivers living at the bottom rung of society hatch a...

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. Th...

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big ...