The film noir genre has produced some of the grittiest classics in movie history, and plenty of classic noir films are streaming for free.

The most important film noirs in the 1940s and 1950s had a heavy focus on the expressionistic style and often a hardboiled detective theme.

Double Indemnity, Night of the Hunter, and Out of the Past are all among the absolute best film noir movies that were shot in ...

From Laura to Double Indemnity, these are the best film noirs that defined the genre and turned it into one of the most defining of the '40s and '50s.