Words similar to noir

Example sentences for: noir

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Nancy (1968) could be a still from a '50s film noir: She looks as if she has just caught sight of a stalker on the stairs.
Mel Gibson plays a hard-boiled bad guy intent on recovering some stolen money in this adaptation of Richard Stark's novel The Hunter (which was also the basis for John Boorman's acclaimed modern noir Point Blank in 1967).
Nineteen-fifties noir diva Gloria Graham, an actress with a little-girl voice and bad-girl smarts, gave her quips an irresistible countercultural edge.
It looks peculiar--a Norman Rockwell painting with noir shadows.
Confidential conjures up those racy old Avon or Pocket Books pulp covers--film noir but with colors that are lurid and deep--and comments on them, too.