Why I Love Film Noir

Now that Halloween is over, you could move onto Christmas movies, but I celebrate “Noirvember” (which is actually a thing). In this video, I discuss the film noir genre. Is it a genre? Is it a style? Or just an era? I’ll get into all of it, and sum up its appeal.

FILM LIST

CLASSIC
Little Caesar (1931)
M (1931)
Public Enemy (1931)
Scarface (1932)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Laura (1944)
Murder My Sweet (1944)
Detour (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Dark Passage (1947)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
The Flame (1947)
I Walk Alone (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Rope (1948)
The Third Man (1949)
Quicksand (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Enforcer (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
The City That Never Sleeps (1953)
Dial M For Murder (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Big Combo (1955)
The Killing (1956)
The Scarlet Hour (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Plunder Road (1957)
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho (1960)

MODERN
Chinatown (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1977)
Jaws 2 (1978)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
The Terminator (1984)
Star Trek TNG: The Big Goodbye (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
TMNT: The Maltese Hamster (1989)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Home Alone (1990)
Family Matters: Farewell my Laura (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
Batman Begins (2005)
Sin City (2005)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Janitor Always Mops Twice (2019)