The Lincoln Lawyer

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The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

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52 Pick-Up

52 Pick-Up

1986 ★ 6.0

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.

Angel

Angel

1984 ★ 6.0

Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.

Vice Squad

Vice Squad

1982 ★ 6.2

An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

Harper

Harper

1966 ★ 6.7

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

American Gigolo

American Gigolo

1980 ★ 6.2

Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.

The Dead Girl

The Dead Girl

2006 ★ 6.0

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.

Tony Rome

Tony Rome

1967 ★ 6.3

Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.

The Nines

The Nines

2007 ★ 6.0

A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

Klute

Klute

1971 ★ 6.8

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Cop

Cop

1988 ★ 6.3

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

Street Smart

Street Smart

1987 ★ 6.0

A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion

1984 ★ 6.3

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

Cape Fear

Cape Fear

1991 ★ 7.3

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Primal Fear

Primal Fear

1996 ★ 7.7

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect.

Cutter's Way

Cutter's Way

1981 ★ 6.5

Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.

True Confessions

True Confessions

1981 ★ 6.1

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Wonderland

Wonderland

2003 ★ 6.1

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.

Body Double

Body Double

1984 ★ 6.8

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

Tightrope

Tightrope

1984 ★ 6.2

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Mulholland Falls

Mulholland Falls

1996 ★ 6.0

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

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