English noun: film noir | |||
1. | film noir (communication) a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters | ||
Samples | Film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show | ||