Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die…

The term “FILM NOIR” was coined in the early 1940s by a group of European critics to describe an emerging movement of mainly black and white Hollywood films with dark, pessimistic themes and signature motifs such as alienated antiheroes, rain slicked streets, and seductive femmes fatales.

The classic noir era is considered to span from the early 1940s to the end of the 1950s and its parameters were infinite. At Cat Bros Entertainment we’ve curated a list of some of the most stunning film noir titles of all times; Woman on the run (Norman Foster, 1950) with the remarkable Ann Sheridan and Dennis O’Keefe; The Big Combo (Joseph H Lewis, 1955), a cult item that flaunted the Hollywood production code; Detour (Edgar G Ulmer, 1945), a bona fide low-budget cult classic; Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945) with the starring role of the unmatchable Edward G. Robinson or The Stranger (Orson Welles, 1946) just to name a few, are just some of the quintessential cult classics that any film student, cinema lover or cinema fan can’t miss.

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