Noir

Huston directed his first film and defined film noir in one move. Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, Mary Astor lying beautifully, Sydn...

Barbara Stanwyck anklet launches the definitive noir: an insurance salesman, a bored wife, a perfect murder policy. Raymond Chandl...

Postwar Vienna, divided zones, a zither score, and Orson Welles delivering the cuckoo clock speech from a ferris wheel. Joseph Cot...

A dead narrator floats face down in a pool and narrates. Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a silent star rotting in a mansion with ...

Laughton directed once and made a German expressionist nightmare in the American South. Robert Mitchum, with LOVE and HATE tattooe...

Jack Nicholson with a nose bandage and a water scandal based on Los Angeles history. Robert Towne script, famous for its last line...

Bogart and Bacall trade innuendo at machine gun pace in the noir where even the novelists could not explain who killed the chauffe...

Three incompatible cops, the sadist, the smooth one, and the true believer, converge on a massacre that unravels the whole city. C...