r/filmnoir
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A subreddit dedicated to film noir and neo noir films, and hard-boiled crime fiction. Film Noir is itself, broadly, the cinematic genre of crime dramas and thrillers produced during the 1940s and 50s. It's revival of the 70s and 80s are neo-noirs and everything else beyond that until today uses the scaffolding built by the 'classic period' of the genre.
Members
36,050
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 28, 2026
Posts (30 days)
100+
Created
2011
June 13, 2011
Total posts
7.0K
archived
Total comments
58.7K
archived
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