Similar Products - Film Noir

"A style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace. The term was originally applied to American thriller or detective films made in the period 1944–54"

Typical Film Noir Conventions:
Black and White Picture
American Characters
Variety of Music
Romance
Suits, Hats and Long Coats
Odd Camera Angles
Hero/Villain
Femme Fatale (Fatal Female)
Mystery
Low Lighting
Detectives
Journalists
Crime (Murder/Drugs)
Wealth
Corruption

Sunset Boulevard
"The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse."

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"Someone is murdering children in Berlin. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible."

Double Indemnity
"In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause."

The Third Man
"An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident."

The Maltese Falcon
"Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss Wanderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's changed. Miles is dead."

In all the Film Noir movies listed a death takes place of some sort whether it is murder or just a common accident. The relationship between males and females is clearly very important in Film Noir films with their romance being the reason towards many of the murders taking place. Not all the films are located in America which the usual setting of a Film Noir with some taking place in Europe. All the films associate with a job of some sort that needs to be done and are usually police, detective or financial based.