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English noun: film noir

1. film noir (communication) a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters


SamplesFilm 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









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