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How to pronounce film noir in English?

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Type of film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show


film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s.

Examples of film noir

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The books are alternately dark and flippant, with tinges of film noir dry humor.
From the sacbee.com
I think it stands up today, out of its period, as a film noir of English cinema.
From the newsobserver.com
Guo shows off an impressive assimilation of film-noir moodiness and jazzy swing.
From the nytimes.com
But the film noir-style detective game was ambitious, and told a heck of a yarn.
From the odt.co.nz
The Malloch Building was featured in the 1947 film noir work titled Dark Passage.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Triage resonates with the kind of frustrated compassion that underlies film noir.
From the time.com
Today, at 56, I like playing Grand Theft Auto and my favourite genre is film noir.
From the independent.co.uk
Film noir, vaudeville, Shakespeare, pirates and more, plus four actors and a plot.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The videos themselves sometimes create a mood that has been compared to film noir.
From the en.wikipedia.org