Romance, Thriller
A playwright with a dark past risks his life in returning to his home city to find out if a woman with whom he once had a passionate and illicit affair ever truly loved him, only to learn that it was only ever the unknowing and distance that kept their desire alive.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Hammett
Picture Claire
The Right Thing
Valley of Bones
Memento
Blade Runner
The Dark Knight
Jackie Brown
Sin City
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Young Adam
The Batman
Motel
The Long Good Friday
The Hot Spot
WΔZ
Scatterbrain
Case: Osterberg
China Moon
Brooklyn's Finest
SIMILAR MOVIES
Hammett
IMDB 6.1 | Jun , 1982
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.Picture Claire
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 2001
Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to visit him in Toronto. She shows up on his doorstep after an arson attack leaves her homeless, but soon finds herself caught up in a case of murder and mistaken identity.The Right Thing
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2023
Thula, a detective fleeing police corruption, owes a colleague a favor. A new mission leads him into music, drugs, and politics. To save his family, he must confront past and hidden crimes.Valley of Bones
IMDB 4.8 | Sep , 2017
A paleontologist gets a tip from an oil worker in the Badlands that may set her career back on track.Memento
IMDB 8.2 | Oct , 2000
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.Blade Runner
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 1982
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.The Dark Knight
IMDB 8.5 | Jul , 2008
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.Jackie Brown
IMDB 7.4 | Dec , 1997
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.Sin City
IMDB 7.5 | Apr , 2005
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 2014
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.Young Adam
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 2003
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.The Batman
IMDB 7.7 | Mar , 2022
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.Motel
IMDB 4.9 | Mar , 1984
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.The Long Good Friday
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1980
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.The Hot Spot
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1990
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.WΔZ
IMDB 5.5 | May , 2007
There is something horribly wrong with the bodies found in the dark city streets. Some are mutilated while others have the Price equation (wΔz = Cov (w,z) = βwzVz) carved into their flesh. Detective Eddie Argo and his new partner Helen Westcott unearth the meaning of the odd equation and realise each victim is being offered a gruesome choice: kill your loved ones, or be killed. Before long it becomes clear that the perpetrator has suffered a similar fate and is now coping by seeking a way to solve this philosophical dilemma.Scatterbrain
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2025
A killer questions a detective's faith.Case: Osterberg
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2015
After being away for four years, Rok Osterberg returns to his home town to investigate the murder of his younger brother Maks. As Maks was involved in illegal business, nobody seems to care about his death. The only person willing to help is a family friend, Inspector Kramer. Back home, Osterberg must face people from his past.China Moon
IMDB 6 | Mar , 1994
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but Kyle's partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.Brooklyn's Finest
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 2010
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.