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...

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.

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...
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.
Short documentary on the film noir, Tension.

Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cin...
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...
Jump into the world of Film Noir and look at how the technology and economic factors gave birth to a...

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,...

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...

This is the Award Winning short noir film (student film) written and directed by Richard Corso. It i...

Dr. Adams cultivates pig-human hybrids for organ transplants. One of the products, "Eve", was create...

Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-...