When you think of film noir movies, you may assume theyre predominantly American.

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The morals need to be dark, but the genre doesnt require films to be void of color.

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The premise of the movie is simple.

Robert Mitchum plays a normal man who owns a local gas station in a small town.

Viewers find out hes involved in something big when someone from his past comes looking for him.

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The movie is significantly brutal in its depiction of violence, but the story is one of redemption.

This is why he kept committing crimes and ended up in prison for up to two decades.

How he reforms himself and helps bring other criminals to justice forms the crux of the story.

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The story opens with a general tasking a private detective to clear his daughter’s debts.

During this time, he starts a relationship with his alibi, and Bogart suspects her of betraying him.

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6The Wrong Man

When Everything Goes Wrong

The premise of The Wrong Man is intriguing.

There, he is mistaken for a criminal who had robbed the company twice before.

The police come, and he is jailed due to a series of unforeseeable events.

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5Thieves Highway

Revenge Or Justice

Thieves Highway is director Jules Dassin’s last Hollywood movie.

The movie has elements similar to other film noir movies, and the story focuses on apples.

The protagonists father was crippled and robbed by an apple sales agent.

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In the movie, Nick Garcos vows to avenge his father and partners up with a trucker.

Whether his partner will betray him or not is something that the viewers need to find out for themselves.

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The story also introduces additional characters, some of whom you may think are a little too suspicious.

The story is told through flashbacks, a common occurrence in film noir movies.

Joe Gillis is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who gets stuck in a mansion with a yesteryear-forgotten actress, Norma Desmond.

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The story focuses on what happens when one gets disillusioned by the fantasy theyve created in their mind.

It’s up to the viewer to unravel the mystery surrounding his death.

3The Third Man

Who Was It?

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The Third Man is one of the most engaging film noir movies.

The protagonist isnt the usual detective bang out with an antihero angle.

The story goes that when Martins reaches Vienna, hes told that Limes died in a road accident.

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He is then approached by two men who claim Limes told them to look out for Martins.

The characters are especially well written, and the story is one of the best in the genre.

The protagonist has a questionable moral compass, and the femme fatale executes her role to perfection.

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The movie begins with a wounded insurance sales agent recording a confession.

Whether the wife is successful and who shoots the protagonist unfolds in this roller coaster of a movie.

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