Film noir movie stills

Film Noir photos

A while back, we did a piece isolating some of the best, most biting dialogue from the world of film noir, that dark, often hidden underbelly of society portrayed in movies from the forties and fifties where no one can be trusted and everyone talks wise.

Scene from the 1947 Robert Mitchum classic 'Out of the Past'. [jamezorlando]

In an attempt to capture the visual brilliance of film noir in one place, The Nitrate Diva presents 50 beautiful shots from the best of the genre.

My attempt at film noir

In an attempt to capture the visual brilliance of film noir in one place, The Nitrate Diva presents 50 beautiful shots from the best of the genre.

crime noir enterence

My Film Noir shoot :)

We celebrate the wonderful world of film noir, where world weary private eyes solve crimes from within a fog of cigarette smoke despite the machinations of a fabulous femme fatale

Though initially describing the works of a particular movement of 1940’s and 50’s American crime films, ‘noir’ has come to represent a style derived

Double Indemnity (1944)

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P.s. I do miss smoking.

Eric Portman in A Canterbury Tale 1944