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.
Documentary on the film noir Decoy, with Dick Cavett and Molly Haskell.
Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.
Short documentary on the film noir, Tension.
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into ...
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound ge...
A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.
Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cin...
When a new murderer in town travels through the phone, Detective Rick finds that all signs point to ...
Documentary on the film noir Side Street with director Oliver Stone and critic Richard Schickel.
Film critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious st...
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...
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...
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of a...
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,...
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in...