Classic movies like Double Indemnity, Rebecca, and Citizen Kane are all among the most entertaining films of the 1940s.

We rank the most underrated noir movies from the golden decade of the 1940s, from John Brahm's The Locket to Robert Siodmak's The Dark Mirror.

Mystery films have been a popular subgenre of crime cinema since the medium's inception. In the 1940s, mystery films grew out of the noir genre, thanks in part to the popularity of crime fiction ...