Film noir is a word for 'black film' in French. It is style of movies associated with low-key black & white style. It's also a term used to describe Hollywood crime dramas. This style started in the early 1940s till late 1950s.
It first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, and it was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the classic era.
Film noir focuses on the darker side of human nature, it's permanent state of melancholy that comes from the dark settings and lack of color portray it's gritty realistic dramas, and thrilling crimes, using suspense and tension to entertain and blunt realism to shock the audience A sharp contrast to the joyous song filled magical adventures of the technicolor films.
Although film noir is not only for film buffs and academics. The film-makers of the 40′s and 50′s were not making “film noir” movies, they were making pictures for a wide audience which are still immensely entertaining.
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