Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
Casts Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear, Lydia Lei, Elisha Cook Jr., David Patrick Kelly, R.G. Armstrong, Richard Bradford, Jack Nance
MOVIE COMMENTS
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The Spirit
Gorky Park
Howards End
Holes
Chigurida Kanasu
Süss, the Jew
Summer Things
Devil in a Blue Dress
In Bruges
The Cavern Crimes
Blindness
Šťastie zberateľov
Lower City
Bugsy Malone
The Song of the Scarlet Flower
The Irishman
The Presence of Snowgood
Shooter
Earth
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Spirit
IMDB 4.8 | Dec , 2008
A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus, who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face, has other plans; he is going to wipe out the entire city.Gorky Park
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 1983
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.Howards End
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1992
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.Holes
IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 2003
After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where inmates are forced to dig holes all day in the hot desert sun as a form of character building. But Stanley and the other boys start to unravel a mystery, linked with the camps tough-as-nails warden —and possibly Stanley’s family itself.Chigurida Kanasu
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2003
Shankar, a city lad, pays a visit to his ancestral village. When he decides to settle there for good, he faces opposition from his own family and from a village bigwig.Süss, the Jew
IMDB 4.3 | Sep , 1940
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.Summer Things
IMDB 5.8 | Mar , 2002
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...Devil in a Blue Dress
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 1995
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.In Bruges
IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 2008
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.The Cavern Crimes
IMDB 5.7 | Apr , 2025
An intense suspense thriller with an attractive blend of crime and mystery set in the unique historical backdrop of the Atapuerca paleontological site, home of the oldest human remains outside of Africa.Blindness
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2008
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.Šťastie zberateľov
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1972
Lower City
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 2005
Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.Bugsy Malone
IMDB 6.6 | Jul , 1976
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.The Song of the Scarlet Flower
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 1938
Olavi, a farmer's son, leaves his home after a dispute with his father and leads a life of a womanizing logger.The Irishman
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1978
Paddy Doolan refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.The Presence of Snowgood
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2025
A private investigator takes on an audacious local community where they seem to worship an ancient fabled crown and yet are not aware of the deadly horror and consequences that guard its true existence.Shooter
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 2007
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.Earth
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 1998
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.