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 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...

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

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 critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious st...
Short documentary on the film noir, Tension.
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.

When a new murderer in town travels through the phone, Detective Rick finds that all signs point to ...
Jump into the world of Film Noir and look at how the technology and economic factors gave birth to a...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

An oniric trip into the mind of a detective, in which we witness a story fabricated to cover up a he...

The love story between two teenagers, children of incomprehensible parents.

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th...

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...