Film Noir

Thrills in black & white.

Dream of setting foot inside your own crime drama? Film noir is a cinematic term used to describe the Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s.

A lot of the time, the plot follows a detective or private investigator as they head out on the streets to solve a crime. There is many a dark alley and mysterious street steam to set the scene. As a collective, when we think of film noir, we envision a long trench coat, a fedora hat, and a gun ready to be fired at a moment's notice.

Don't forget that there is usually a passionate romance between the beautiful and mysterious damsel in distress and the hero. And while this might sound kind of cheesy, the aesthetic and plot lines of film noir have carried over into popular films of the present day.

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