黑色电影通常用作指代一种特殊风格的犯罪电影,往往关注于性与道德的腐化。一般认为严格意义上的黑色电影应该是好莱坞出品的黑白电影,年代在1940年-1958年之间。也有人将少量欧洲电影或彩色片称为黑色电影。在二战结束后,大量德军占领时无法看到的美国电影涌入法国,于是法国批评家们在短时间内看到大量40年代早期的好莱坞黑帮/犯罪/侦探/惊悚影片,敏锐地意识到这些美国电影中体现出与战前电影不同的独特气质,他们借用“黑色系列小说(Série Noire)”的 Black movies are often used to refer to a special style of criminal film, often focusing on the corruption of sex and morality. Black film in the strict sense is generally believed to be a black-and-white movie produced by Hollywood from 1940 to 1958. Others call a small number of European films or color films black films. After the end of World War II, a large number of U.S. films that could not be seen during German occupation poured into France, and French critics were acutely aware of the large number of Hollywood gangster / crime / detective / horror films of the early 1940s The American film embodies the unique temperament different from the pre-war films, borrowing “Série Noire”