The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NOIR
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More clues leading to the result NOIR
- Lack of infrared type of film
- Dubliners unlikely to feature in such films?
- Film genre‘s most important rule
- 9 in French film genre
- Rather bleak form of iron
- An expression of disbelief at extremely inferior type of film
- Concerning lack in French director’s cinematic style
- In Toulouse, black iron is tempered
- Roulette bet in or out of order
- Type of film only showing in visible and ultraviolet light?
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What does NOIR mean?
NOIR noun- Film noir.
- A production in the style of film noir.
- Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre