Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

If you know anything about Robert Mitchum's vast filmography, then you probably know that the Old Hollywood star had a ...

Take the two highest-rated noir films on Rotten Tomatoes ... at the time called the director a "master of suspense drama," applauding the film's ending as a "glorious piece of cynicism." ...

Set against the gritty backdrop of 1970s New York City, 'Alphabet City' tells the story of a cabbie, played by Anthony Mackie, who finds himself caught in a perilous situation. When a wounded gangster ...