Neo-Noir Movies - Page 2

""Film noir" describes a genre of black-and-white American films that dealt with dark themes and deftly used shadows and nocturnal scenes to convey a sense of bleakness and desperation in a world that rarely has happy endings.Main characters in noir films were typically a hardboiled detective who usually narrates the proceedings, a manipulative femme fatale who attempts to seduce the detective, and a villain who seeks to subvert decent society. None of these characters is essentially good; rather, they are all fleeing the grim hand of fate.What follows is a list of influential neo-noir films from the early 1960s to the present."