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   film noir

   /ˌfilm ˈnwär/

   noun

   • 1. a style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace. The term was originally applied (by a group of French critics) to American thriller or detective films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work of directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wilder.
   • ▪ a film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace.

   Word Origin French, literally ‘black film’.

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