film noir - a style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace. The term was originally applied (by a group of French critics) to American thriller or detective films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work of directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wilder. Strictly speaking, film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style, point-of-view, or tone of a film. It is also helpful to realize that 'film noir' usually refers to a distinct historical period of film history - the decade of film-making after World War II, similar to the German Expressionism or the French New Wave periods “noir” film: Stranger on the Third Floor from 1940 I firstly noticed how different the screen play is in the videos and the photos from todays screen play. The videos and the photos are all in black and white. Double Indemnity Official Trailer #1 This is a trailer for a movie. By watc...