L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential

Everything is suspect... Everyone is for sale... And nothing is what it seems.

1997138 min7.8 / 10

A taut, stylish neo-noir thriller about institutional corruption and moral compromise, where three detectives with conflicting methods navigate a brutal 1950s L.A. underworld to solve a conspiracy.

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.

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