film noir

Noun film noir has 1 sense

• film noir(n = noun.communication) Array - 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"
is a kind of film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show