Film noir is a genre predecessor to modern crime stories, a basis for every kind of thriller we know and love today. No one ...

Film historians are divided on whether or not the 1942 classic Casablanca technically counts as a film noir. Does it fit into ...

Henri-Georges Clouzot's 'Les Diaboliques' remains one of the greatest examples of the erotic thriller genre, even though it predates it by three decades.

Let’s saddle up and ride down the definition and characteristics of the neo-Western genre, then trot through some of its most iconic examples. What is the neo-Western film genre? Neo-Westerns ...

Uses over 30 film clips and interviews about the tough guys and the femme fatales to illustrate the aspects of the film noir genre Jeffrey Wells discusses Big Sleep The 1946 Ο άρχων του ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Film noir is the perfect movie genre for this time of year. So long as there’s a chill in the air and the ...