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Meanings of film noir in English

Russian
чёрный фильм
Portuguese
film noir
Spanish
film noir
Catalan
film noir
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Film style usually deployed in mystery and police procedural detective crime films.

Related terms
чёрный фильм
Usage of film noir in English
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I didn't want people to think that it was a film noir.
The Guardian
2
Best of all, dig out Otto Preminger's peerless film noir Angel Face.
The Irish Times
3
No one else at court knows what the hell film noir means.
A kiss of shadows
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Remember that film noir had a bit to do with expressionism.
The Irish Times
5
Here that style is part film noir and part Gary Numan.
The Guardian
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I mean this is a cross between film noir imagery and Aztec mythology.
Wired
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This is a film noir without any crime or evildoing.
The Guardian
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His first feature was Brick, a film noir high school mystery starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
News.com.au
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The haze of diesel smoke and light gave the scene a film noir quality.
Wired
10
And yes, it was named after Rita Hayworth's character in the 1946 film noir classic.
Wired
11
The next film version was a 1949 film noir, starring Alan Ladd and Betty Field.
The Guardian
12
The Third Man, Carol Reed's 1949 British film noir, casts Vienna as shady and terrifying.
The Guardian
13
And I -polite yet firm, like a woman in film noir -smacked him.
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
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As usual they blended in easily with the wintry city, like extras in a film noir.
The Irish Times
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Nolan's sophomore cinematic triumph also helped move forward film noir's tropes and traps for a new millennium.
Wired
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Like in some film noir science-fiction flick.
Kafka on the Shore