film Noir Wordl Cinema incl. FREE STREAMS 

Originally, the film noir - or black series or films of the night - was inspired by cheap penny novels. Crime stories translated from the American and especially popular in France. Very important: at no point is a happy ending foreseeable. That's why these films are set at night, in dark, smelly alleys or crummy bars with back exits. To top it all off, there is ALWAYS smoking in film noir. As if life wasn't bad enough already. Sometimes the noir protagonists even smoke at each other in anger. Women in film noir are called femme fatales. You'd rather kill them than love them (and vice versa, because femme fatales like to be armed). The femme fatales wear a lot of makeup, hat, lipstick - and they always call the doormen of cheap hotels by their first names. The basic equipment also includes: high heels, red dresses. They are skilled at mixing drinks and they have a weakness for alcoholic private detectives. When they die, they lie dead, artfully arranged, on the floor. Every hair is in place. As for the men (=private detectives): they live in hotels, always wear suits and ties, love house bars and cars with running boards. Classic film noir is black and white, and the modern spin-offs at least feel that way. No other genre ever created a world so full of doom, doom and betrayal.