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  1. L.A. Confidential: Directed by Curtis Hanson. With Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell. As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

  2. Apr 12, 2024 · L.A. Confidential's is a noir masterpiece but also a very complex story that can be hard to make sense of, including the famous Rollo Tomassi twist explained. Directed by the late Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential is an adaptation of James Ellroy's novel of the same name following three separate detectives in 1950s Los Angeles who operate in very different ways.

  3. Dec 20, 2017 · Curtis Hanson’s film L.A. Confidential, covering maybe 13% of the book (and roughly four of the novel’s 14 fully developed plotlines), is now 20 years old, and people can’t stop talking about it. By contrast, James Ellroy’s far more cinematic novel turned 20 in June, 2010, and no one, save for Ellroy himself, and maybe the Demon Dog’s ...

  4. Los Angeles, 1953. Just beneath the glamorous veneer of Hollywood gossip and movie stars lies a crime-ridden city corrupt to its core. Now, while investigating a brutal murder, three very different police detectives will rediscover a common bond of integrity in the blockbuster film noir thriller L.A. Confidential. Rating. Crime.

  5. May 14, 1997 · L.A. Confidential offers a cynical descent into the stylist Los Angeles underworld, as it follows three detectives uncovering corruption and scandal in the city in the 1950s. Confidently adapted from James Ellroy's novel by director Curtis Hanson, the movie stands as an exemplary neo-noir masterpiece of its era.

  6. Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

  7. L.A. Confidential (1997) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.