1. A movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
   "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"
   - film noir

1. (of film or fiction) featuring bleak settings and cynical characters

Derived forms: noirs

Type of: film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show

Encyclopedia: Noir

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