Noirvember is back at the Coolidge this year

Hard-boiled antiheroes and seductive femme fatales. Haunting shadows and rain-drenched streets. Stunning black & white cinematography. All of these are among the hallmarks of film noir, a term coined by French film critics in the mid-1940s to describe the burgeoning crop of films that took a hard-edged look at moral complexities and shattered dreams of postwar life in America.

In this series, we’ll take a look at some of the seminal films that emerged from this movement, as well as the visually stunning (and equally morally complex) reimaginings of the genre that took place in the waning years of the 20th century.

What's on

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Barbara Stanwyck Sticker

In honor of the series, we've got new vinyl stickers for sale featuring Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity! Stop by concessions to purchase your very own piece of Noirvember sticker, designed by Alex Kittle.

This Week

  • A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

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  • A hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.

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  • Winner of the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

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  • Winner, Best Documentary Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards.

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  • The new film from acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit). 

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  • In this five-week class, explore women's voices at the intersection of direction and cinematography.

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  • Céline Sciamma's Cannes-winning period love story is one of the best reviewed films of 2019.

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  • Writer Andrea Meyer will showcase how Bob Fosse’s groundbreaking, irreverent, explosive film is a masterpiece unlike any musical before or since. 

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  • The new film from Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario), starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.

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  • All that work. All that glitter. All that pain. All that love. All that crazy rhythm. All that jazz.

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  • An actress (Amanda Peet) falls for the anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) babysitting her kids in this smart, New York-set romantic comedy.

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  • David Lynch's startling debut feature is a lasting cult sensation influenced by the writings of Franz Kafka and Nikolai Gogol.

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  • Three films celebrating the best parts of Massachusetts, part of the 2026 Wicked Queer Film Festival. 

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  • Peter Jackson brings J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings from page to screen in this epic, Academy-Award winning trilogy.

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  • An exhilarating space adventure set in the near future.

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  • Federico Fellini's poetic fable of love and cruelty, the first-ever Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film.

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  • Mel Brooks's take on Hollywood Westerns starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.

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