film noir is a noun meaning "a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for film noir come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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