Double Indemnity, Night of the Hunter, and Out of the Past are all among the absolute best film noir movies that were shot in ...

Film noir is a classic genre in cinema that has produced a handful of the greatest movies ever made and these are the best of the best.

By the 1940s, Reed had established himself as one of the best film noir directors with Odd Man Out starring James Mason, making the director the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British ...

The Dark Galleries deals with American (and some British) films of the 1940s and 1950s, in which a painted portrait plays an important part in the plot or the mise-en-scène.

However, film noir too had a significant influence on the golden age of British cinema too, which stretched from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

The noir genre began with crime films in the 1940s and 1950s, featuring sharp shadows, pessimistic characters, smoke and rainy streets in black and white.

There was no fame in the 1940s quite like Hollywood fame, and Veronica Lake had it. Her career in film rose during that decade, starting in 1941 with William Holden in “I Wanted Wings” and ...

Norman Spencer, who has died aged 110, was a writer, producer and production manager who played a crucial role in David Lean’s breakthrough films, including In Which We Serve (1942), Great ...