100 Film Noirs

Film noir is ever popular with cinema audiences, film enthusiasts, and scholars of film, and has been so since post‐war French critics began noting a new trend in American film with the release of films such as Double Indemnity (1944) and Murder, My Sweet (1944). The real question is “What is film noir?” and that is a question that critics and others have argued about since the beginning. This British Film Institute (BFI) Screen Guide provides an authoritative source for those who may be called upon to answer that question, or are simply interested in film noir.

The authors, Jim...