Sign up
Search
Advanced search settings

Search only in certain items:

Search results
All (491)
Content
People
Apps
Books
Orbs
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Shows
Tabletop Games
Tech
TV
Video Games
YouTube Channels
Videos
    Witnesses - Season 1

    Witnesses - Season 1

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    TV Season

    Set in a small coastal village in France, this is a quiet thriller of crime and dark secrets. The...

    Witnesses - Season 2

    Witnesses - Season 2

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    TV Season

    Set in a small coastal village in France, this is a quiet thriller of crime and dark secrets. The...

40x40

Andy K (10823 KP) rated L.A. Confidential (1997) in Movies

Mar 3, 2019  
L.A. Confidential (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
1997 | Drama, Mystery
9
8.8 (10 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Modern film noir at its finest!
Los Angeles in the 1950s is the setting for this amazing film which probably should've won Best Picture in 1997 (although I love Titanic also).

When new cop Ed Exley comes comes to the force, he is immediately greeted with corruption and some hard choices which test his loyalty and willingness to stand to his principles. A murder investigation quickly ensues which potentially pit cop against cop and uncovers the seedy underbelly of Hollywood during that time and everyone looking out for themselves.

Another brazen cop, sticks up for battered women while another enjoys being the technical adviser for everyone's favorite television program at the time.



The 3 men have various run in with each other as their investigation seems to conclude with a resolution, but one or more of them are not convinced the solution is correct and that the real perpetrators are still at large.

The depth of this film as well as the smart, complex characters are really what makes this film work. The acting is all exceptional as is the screenplay.

Any aspiring screenwriter should watch this film as a class as to what to do and how to write.

Very highly recommended.
  
40x40

Karina Longworth recommended Where Danger Lives (1950) in Movies (curated)

 
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
1950 | Classics, Drama, Mystery
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"This is a film noir that was produced by RKO Studios while Howard Hughes was the controlling owner of it. It stars Robert Mitchum and a woman named Faith Domergue, who was Hughes’ discovery and girlfriend who he basically became involved with when she was a teenager, really, and kept promising that he was going to make her a big star – and didn’t. But this movie is the finest showcase she ever got for her unique talents, which – I don’t know that she was a great actress – but she’s really good in this film as a femme fatale who you would initially think is sort of a vulnerable victim. Then, slowly, over the course of the movie, she reveals that she’s actually running the whole show and is incredibly devious."

Source
  
40x40

Kim Newman recommended Seconds (1966) in Movies (curated)

 
Seconds (1966)
Seconds (1966)
1966 | Classics, Drama, Horror
8.5 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"What’s the most chilling last line in the cinema? How about “cranial drill”? Followed by an unforgettable sound effect. John Frankenheimer’s nightmarish adaptation of David Ely’s be-careful-what-you-wish-for novel has a weary, middle-aged businessman (John Randolph) buy out of his old life and be transformed into Rock Hudson, only to find that renewed youth isn’t satisfying. A unique, affecting, paranoid science-fiction film noir, with a perfectly cast Hudson doing his best-ever screen acting and the too-seldom-used Salome Jens an extraordinary presence as the girl on the beach."

Source