film noir

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noun

a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
- film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s
• Hypernyms:
movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show,
motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick