Classic movies like Double Indemnity, Rebecca, and Citizen Kane are all among the most entertaining films of the 1940s.

Mystery films have been a popular subgenre of crime cinema since the medium's inception. In the 1940s, mystery films grew out of the noir genre, thanks in part to the popularity of crime fiction ...

Breathing strange new life into an old genre, “Sugar” makes connections to the detective movies of the 1940s and ‘50s, casting Colin Farrell as a modern private eye.