Film noir became more popular due to its stylistic differences from other films; it also gave rise to many iconic crime, ...

Following World War II in the 1940s, an onslaught of crime movies came out of Hollywood as moody stories were on the minds of filmmakers and audiences, popularizing the noir genre. Often in black ...

The moody, introspective atmosphere of these black-and-white films complements November ... “Laura,” like many other 1940s black-and-white noir, features characters with ambiguous morals ...