You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't, warns
water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-private eye J.J. Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to ...
When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa (Bruce Willis, in an uncharacteristically un-smirking performance) visits Los
Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into (literally) Rosa ...
The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with
the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Jeanne Moreau, ...
In his directorial debut, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet creates a stylish cinematic puzzle of
games within games, as con men are joined by a psychologist in creating the perfect caper. Dr. Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse), the writer of psychological ...
Director Christopher Nolan follows up his breakthrough sophomore film Memento with this remake of a
stylish Norwegian thriller. Al Pacino stars as Detective Will Dormer, a Los Angeles Police Department legend who temporarily escapes an internal affairs investigation that may ...
In his film debut, novice director John Dahl (who would later make The Last Seduction),
weaves a quirky tale of love, murder and deception. Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer), a seedy private detective is hired by Fay Forrester (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), to ...
This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer
Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the film was ultimately credited to director Otto Preminger and cameraman Joseph ...
A woman's greed wreaks havoc on those in her life in this made-for-cable movie. Madchen
Amick stars as Lauren Harrington, the seemingly perfect and beautiful wife of Paul (John Lithgow). What Paul doesn't know is that Lauren set up a ...