Categories: Updates

60 Free Film Noir Movies to Get You Through 2024

Dur­ing the 1940s and 50s, Hol­ly­wood entered a “noir” peri­od, pro­duc­ing riv­et­ing films based on hard-boiled fic­tion. These films were set in dark loca­tions and shot in a black & white aes­thet­ic that fit like a glove. Hard­ened men wore fedo­ras and for­ev­er smoked cig­a­rettes. Women played the femme fatale role bril­liant­ly. Love was the surest way to death. All of these ele­ments fig­ured into what Roger Ebert calls “the most Amer­i­can film genre” in his short Guide to Film Noir.

If you head over to this list of Noir Films, you can find 60 films from the noir genre, includ­ing some clas­sics by John Hus­ton, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang and Ida Lupino. The list also fea­tures some cin­e­mat­ic leg­ends like Humphrey Bog­a­rt, Peter Lorre, Bar­bara Stan­wyck, Edward G. Robin­son, and even Frank Sina­tra. Hope the col­lec­tion helps you put some noir enter­tain­ment into 2024!

If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. Or fol­low our posts on Threads, Face­book, BlueSky or Mastodon.

If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers every­where. You can con­tribute through Pay­Pal, Patre­on, and Ven­mo (@openculture). Thanks!

Relat­ed Con­tent 

The 5 Essen­tial Rules of Film Noir

The Essen­tial Ele­ments of Film Noir Explained in One Grand Info­graph­ic

Roger Ebert Lists the 10 Essen­tial Char­ac­ter­is­tics of Noir Films

 

 

// Additional initialization code here };

// Load the SDK Asynchronously (function(d){ var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk', ref = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js"; ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref); }(document));
source

TATANKA

Musician turned web developer turned teacher turned web developer turned musician.

Recent Posts

“Always Okay” by Hollings is the Healing Anthem We All Needed

A hauntingly beautiful ambient prayer for our times, Hollings delivers a sonic balm for the…

16 hours ago

Crown of Sovereignty: A Fierce Descent Into Pleasure, Power, and Rebirth

Crown of Sovereignty - Full Album (56:49) Download (FREE) MP3 (320 kbps) https://youtu.be/HKZcsoe0uEY Twelve Tracks…

2 days ago

submersion

https://youtu.be/89LlnkRbtx4 a sense of being enveloped emotionally or spiritually, often used metaphorically in art and…

3 days ago

TATANKA’s “Project 2025” Countercoup: A 12-Phase Blueprint for Digital Disobedience

Prerequisite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNETranscript (PDF) “When we connect with our ancestors and put their wisdom into…

3 days ago

Braids and Bloodlines: The Healing Fire of a Woman Reborn (AI Gen)

Braids and Bloodlines (AI Gen) Full Album (44:15) Download (FREE) MP3 (320 kbps) https://youtu.be/PprI6XgVgDM From…

5 days ago

TATANKA: A Sanctuary Against Rising Authoritarianism

We Are the Fire They Cannot Extinguish TATANKA is not merely a refuge; it is…

6 days ago