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.
Journalistic chronicle made by Ocelote from the Colima zoo “Ecoparc” that reconstructs the mysteriou...
Film critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious st...
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 ...
Documentary on the film noir Side Street with director Oliver Stone and critic Richard Schickel.
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.
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...
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound ge...
Jump into the world of Film Noir and look at how the technology and economic factors gave birth to a...
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told i...
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City poli...
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they inv...
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll...
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a stree...
A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for h...