Watch The Night of the Hunter

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

Harry Lime in the sewers of occupied Vienna, the zither theme and the Ferris wheel speech.

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

A travel agent for the dead in an Art Deco afterlife; Tim Schafer's noir.

Bullet time, a graphic-novel story and a New York winter; Remedy's noir shooter.

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

Bogart and Bacall in a Chandler plot so tangled even the author could not say who killed the chauffeur.

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