Thriller, Crime, Mystery
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Apology for Murder
Tony
Backfire
Pretty Poison
Deadly Blessing
The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
Frenzy
Children of the Night
Loving Pablo
Swarna Kaduva
House of Temptation
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
The Road to Shame
Dishonored Lady
And Soon the Darkness
Stockholm Marathon
Fun
Blue Ridge
The Two Jakes
A Jazzman's Blues
SIMILAR MOVIES
Apology for Murder
IMDB 4.8 | Sep , 1945
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.Tony
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 2010
Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…Backfire
IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 1950
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.Pretty Poison
IMDB 6.8 | Jul , 1968
Dennis is a delusional arsonist out on parole. Sue Ann is the seemingly guileless girl-next-door drum majorette he draws into his paranoid scheme to destroy a chemical factory.Deadly Blessing
IMDB 5.5 | Aug , 1981
When a former member of a religious cult dies in a mysterious accident, Martha, who now lives alone and close to the cult's church, begins to fear for her life and the lives of her visiting friends.The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
IMDB 9.5 | Mar , 1998
Keith Allen plays William Palmer in this true story of a Victorian-era English surgeon who uses poison to settle scores and ward off debt. William lacks a sense of regret, even after killing his wife, brother and three of his own children.Frenzy
IMDB 10 | Jan , 1971
A woman murders her disabled husband and informs his brother (with whom she is having an affair), but she realizes she has misdialed and accidentally confessed her crime to a stranger. The caller attempts to blackmail her, but when he tries to rape her she kills him in the struggle. Worse still, her doctor and lover inform her to say nothing because her husband has been dead for eight months and everything that has happened she has imagined.Children of the Night
IMDB 5.5 | Nov , 2016
17 years-old Giulio is sent by his mother to a boarding school for difficult offspring of rich families. The institution is sort of a “golden prison”, isolated in the Alps, to which inadequate parents delegate the task of educating the ruling class of the future. In this cold and ghastly place the boys are cut off from everything. Adhering to the strict rules of the boarding school is hard, but Giulio finds a good friend in Edoardo, who is maybe a little crazy, but who seems the smartest of all. They find out that security becomes more relaxed at night and they start running away to a nightclub in the middle of the woods. There they meet Elena, a young prostitute whose destiny will be unforgettably linked to theirs. The night is a space of freedom, of new and perturbing experiences for Giulio and Edoardo. But what they don’t know is that their transgressions are part of the educational program of the school.Loving Pablo
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2017
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.Swarna Kaduva
IMDB 5.2 | Nov , 2016
Riny (Biju Menon) is the right hand man of jeweller Lolappan (Innocent). He is extremely selfish and doesn't worry about the consequences of his actions as long as it contributes to his growth. He becomes estranged even with his family, but despite this, his rise up through the ranks continue.House of Temptation
IMDB 5 | Sep , 2014
A teenage boy struggles to keep his father's faith in God, when his family falls victim to the plot of the Devil.The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1967
The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.The Road to Shame
IMDB 6 | Apr , 1959
Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy BellingerDishonored Lady
IMDB 5.7 | May , 1947
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.And Soon the Darkness
IMDB 5.2 | Feb , 2010
When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.Stockholm Marathon
IMDB 4.9 | Jul , 1994
A gardener decides to exact revenge on the men he believes to be responsible for the death of his mentally disturbed wife.Fun
IMDB 5.7 | Oct , 1994
Hillary and Bonnie meet one morning by the side of the road. They become fast friends, share their secrets, and, on a rising wave of frenzy, later that afternoon, murder an old woman. They did it, they say later, for fun.Blue Ridge
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2020
A murder in a sleepy town at the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains shocks the community and refuels a longtime feud between two families. It’s up to the new sheriff, Justin Wise, to solve the case before the town takes the law into its own hands.The Two Jakes
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1990
Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.A Jazzman's Blues
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 2022
A tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South.