Mulholland Falls (1996)

Directed by

Lee Tamahori

Genre

drama film, independent film, crime film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 328 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A team of elite LAPD detectives use brutal methods to keep order in 1950s Los Angeles. After one of them gets involved with a mysterious woman, her death sends them into a web of corruption and cover-ups.

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What happens

Mulholland Falls is a 1996 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori, written by Pete Dexter, and starring an ensemble cast featuring Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Melanie Griffith, Andrew McCarthy, Treat Williams, and John Malkovich. Nolte plays the head of an elite group of four Los Angeles Police Department detectives (based on the real life LAPD Gangster Squad) who are known for stopping at nothing, including outright murder, to maintain control of their jurisdiction, with the tacit approval of the police chief (Bruce Dern). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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