L.A. CONFIDENTIAL

by Curtis Hanson (USA, 1997, 2h18)

starring Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, Danny de Vito

Los Angeles in the 1950s. The criminal police mobilises to a man over the "Nite Owl" case, a massacre in which a former cop has been killed. In the course of this investigation, three inspectors with radically different styles are obliged to cooperate in order to untangle the threads of a story that is more complicated than first appears.