Watch The Big Sleep

An insurance salesman and a bored wife plan the perfect murder; Wilder and Chandler write the noir rulebook.

A 1947 detective reads faces captured with MotionScan; Team Bondi's noir.

A dead screenwriter narrates from a pool; Gloria Swanson is ready for her close-up.

Watch the classic film Killer's Kiss directed by Stanley Kubrick

Bogart as Sam Spade and 'the stuff that dreams are made of'; the first film noir.

Robert Mitchum cannot escape a woman or a past; the noir with the best cigarette lighting.

The three-minute opening crane shot across the Mexican border and Welles as a corrupt cop.

Jack Nicholson with a slit nose, the water wars of Los Angeles and "forget it, Jake".