Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Cut Off
Something Casual
Flight
Black Narcissus
Night Patrol
Mindhunters
A Scanner Darkly
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
The Emperor of Atlantis
The Thin Man
The Old Gun
Miserable
Mad Dog Killer
Rape and Death of a Housewife
Herrmann
Starry Eyes
Flags of Our Fathers
Things We Lost in the Fire
The Naked Island
The Bitch
SIMILAR MOVIES
Cut Off
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2018
A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.Something Casual
IMDB 10 | Jun , 2025
Alex, a first-generation latino artist, and Frankie, a professional dancer, navigate the soulless casual hookup culture of Los Angeles. Dating apps and casual sex reign, as they both deny their feelings and continue seeing other people while they fall in love. A series of misunderstandings leaves these two star-crossed lovers oscillating between confusion (ghosting and ignoring) and obsession (sex and pasta). But what happens when they finally meet someone different? Do they even know how to love anymore?Flight
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1996
A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces - city, motorway, forest, coast and sea - using pen and ink drawn interventions into a live action journey.Black Narcissus
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1947
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.Night Patrol
IMDB 5.1 | Jan , 2026
An L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger.Mindhunters
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2004
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.A Scanner Darkly
IMDB 6.8 | Jul , 2006
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
IMDB 5.5 | May , 2003
Will Graham is a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.The Emperor of Atlantis
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1977
Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz.The Thin Man
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1934
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.The Old Gun
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 1975
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decides to meet them for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.Miserable
IMDB 8 | Nov , 2023
When their friends arrive for dinner at a get-together party in a student-based environment, a naive college student must resolve issues with his obsessive girlfriend before she walks all over him.Mad Dog Killer
IMDB 5.5 | Oct , 1977
Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts and defiles frightened hapless lass Giuliana Caroli. Meanwhile, rugged police inspector Giulio Santini is determined to bag the despicable Vitali.Rape and Death of a Housewife
IMDB 6 | Jul , 1978
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.Herrmann
IMDB 1 | Jan , 2013
Herrmann is a leftist Thirty Something, who is still politically active, despite beginning to live the usual life of having a girlfriend and a child. On the way to his weekly political meeting he is kidnapped.Starry Eyes
IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 2014
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.Flags of Our Fathers
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 2006
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.Things We Lost in the Fire
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2007
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.The Naked Island
IMDB 8 | Nov , 1960
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.The Bitch
IMDB 4.9 | Sep , 1984
After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangster and his former girlfriend…the same woman who sent the cop to prison years before.