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film noir, n.
more info a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
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film noir

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"film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"
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film, movie, motion picture, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick