The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

Film noir, which translates to “black movies,” explores the shades of gray in the lives of cops, criminals, and everyone in ...

From Prizzi's Honor to older, timeless film noir classics such as In a Lonely Place, these are the best romantic crime movies of all time. This witty black comedy by John Huston (in one of his ...

Pale Flower is a classic film noir, with doomed, melodramatic romance, violence, moral ambiguity, femme fatales, and stark black-and-white photography. Shinoda takes an approach that is lighter on ...