Understanding Film Noir

Below is a link to a page that gives a great description of Film Noir. The writer gives a great description of common settings and scenes for film noirs to take place in. As it also gives a well said history on it.

One new thing that I learned from here is that "noir" actually means "black" in French. So really, film noir stands for "black film."

For a list of film examples that fall into the film noir genre, this page is also a great resource to look at..