Chinatown

1974 · 2h 10m · 7.9

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

Roman Polanski

Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Roman Polanski, Diane Ladd, Richard Bakalyan

dying and death, sea, pedophilia, rape, mistake in person, river, chinatown, barrage, femme fatale, conspiracy, whodunit, los angeles, california, private detective, neo-noir, suspenseful, frustrated