HyperDic: film_noir

English > 1 sense of the expression film noir:
NOUNcommunicationfilm noira movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
English > film noir: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningA movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters.
Example"film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"
Broadermovie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flickA form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

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