The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

This article was originally published February 28, 2022. It has been updated with additional series, including Netflix’s new Nordic noir The Åre Murders. If you’re a fan of mysteries and are ...

Film noir of the 1940s and ‘50s cut right through these expectations, delivering cynicism by the boatloads; shadowy mysteries with complex, densely woven plotlines, cunning twists, and ...