10 Greatest Film Noirs of the Last 80 Years

10 Greatest Film Noirs of the Last 80 Years




Beginning with the birth of the 1940s, noir cinema represented something of a turn towards cynicism in Old Hollywood, a pivot away from glitz and glamour in favor of morally questionable characters, bleak fatalism, and coarse stories that supplant happily-ever-afters with gritty realism. Even as the genre has evolved over the decades, its sinister overtones have endured, be it in the form of the more socially-minded neo-noir movies of the 1970s or the hard-edged brutality that defines the genre in the modern day.


Beginning with the birth of the 1940s, noir cinema represented something of a turn towards cynicism in Old Hollywood, a pivot away from glitz and glamour in favor of morally questionable characters, bleak fatalism, and coarse stories that supplant happily-ever-afters with gritty realism. Even as the genre has evolved over the decades, its sinister overtones have endured, be it in the form of the more socially-minded neo-noir movies of the 1970s or the hard-edged brutality that defines the genre in the modern day.

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