"Noir" is a French word which defines as the meaning of "Black" in English.

 

Film noir is a cinematic film term used mainly to describe crime dramas.

It started generally from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.

 

Film noir in this era used the style of low-key black-and-white visual style.

Nino Frank is the first film critic that applied this visual style to the Hollywood films.

 

Film noir is a movie which misleads you into thinking there is going to be a happy ending.

It's locations are mainly at reek of the night, of wet asphalt, of, smoke, of shadows, of alleys, of the back doors of fancy places, of deserted streets, of dark tenements, of apartment buildings with a high turnover rate, of taxi drivers and bartenders who have seen it all.

 

Film noir is so filled with doom, fate, fear and betrayal.

Relationships in which love is only the final flop card in the poker game of death.

 

Film noir's characters are always smoking.

The best smoking movie of all time is "Out of the Past," in which Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas smoke furiously at each other.