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...
Documentary on the film noir Side Street with director Oliver Stone and critic Richard Schickel.

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.
Jump into the world of Film Noir and look at how the technology and economic factors gave birth to a...
Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.

Journalistic chronicle made by Ocelote from the Colima zoo “Ecoparc” that reconstructs the mysteriou...
Short documentary on the film noir, Tension.
Documentary on the film noir Decoy, with Dick Cavett and Molly Haskell.

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,...

Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after co...

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However...

After serving his prison sentence, Dylan wants to cut ties with his past. However, because of an out...

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police inves...

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that bel...