Film noir

1949 film directed by Carol Reed

1950 film by Billy Wilder

film genre/style usually deployed in mystery and police procedural detective crime films

1941 film by John Huston

1945 film by Billy Wilder

1949 film by Robert Rossen

1946 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1945 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock

1944 US film by Billy Wilder

1951 film by George Stevens

1957 American film directed by Billy Wilder

1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1944 film by George Cukor

1950 film by John Huston

1946 film by Howard Hawks

1956 film by Stanley Kubrick

1946 film by Charles Vidor

1953 film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

1951 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1945 film by Michael Curtiz

thumb|upright=1.1|Lobby card for David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986), an example of neo-noir. Neo-noir is a film genre from the 1970s, in the era of New Hollywood, which is primarily associated with the subversion and visual style of classic film noir tropes, adapting the themes of 1940s and 1950s American film noir for contemporary audiences, often with vibrant colors and high-contrast, more graphic depictions of violence or sexuality, thematic motifs, and nonlinear narrative or editing.

1958 film by Orson Welles

1944 film directed by Otto Preminger

1953 film by Fritz Lang

1949 film by Akira Kurosawa

1948 film by John Huston

1944 film by Frank Capra

1949 film by Raoul Walsh

1947 film by Orson Welles

1951 film directed by Billy Wilder

1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1947 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock

1950 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1957 film by Alexander Mackendrick

1953 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1958 French film by Louis Malle

'''' (; "Obsession") is a 1943 Italian crime drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, in his directorial debut. It is an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation of the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice'' by American author James M. Cain, and stars Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, and Juan de Landa in the leading roles. It is often considered to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate.

1946 film by Robert Siodmak

1947 film by Delmer Daves

1955 film by Stanley Kubrick

1946 film by Tay Garnett

1947 film directed by Edward Dmytryk

1946 film by Robert Siodmak

1936 film by Archie Mayo

1941 film by Raoul Walsh

1946 film by Orson Welles

comic books series by Frank Miller

1945 film by Fritz Lang

1950 film by Nicholas Ray

1947 film by Jacques Tourneur

1927 film by Josef von Sternberg

1944 film by Fritz Lang

1950 film by Rudolph Maté

1948 film by Anatole Litvak

1951 film by William Wyler

1948 film by Jules Dassin

1955 film by Robert Aldrich

1958 film by Robert Wise

1946 film by Edmund Goulding

1950 film by Elia Kazan