Film Noir

The wikipedia definition of Film Noir is "a film genre sharing its setting with gangster film, police procedural, gothic romance, and social problem films, with the typical protagonist being either a victim, a suspect or a perpetrator, dealing with the legal, political or other system that is seen as corrupt"

The main features of film noir include:

• black and white
• detective and/or crime films
• urban night scenes
• murders
• protagonists usually driven by things from their past and/or human weaknesses
• shadows
• femme fatale - dangerous, sexy women
• cigarettes
• shots within a car

A femme fatale is a beautiful mysterious woman who seduces her lover and manipulates him into dangerous, and sometimes deadly, situations.