Film Noir Target Audience

The classic Film Noir genre would be aimed at an older audience simply because the original Film Noir was big in the 1950's. However nowadays, the main target audience is late teens/young adult due to content such as violence, language and sex and drug references. As result of this, most Film Noir genre films are given an 18 certificate as you can see in the example of the L.A Confidential film poster. In addition to this, the target audience is more likely to be male than female because of the amount of violence included in these genre films.