James Ellroy

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.

Resume la historia de este popular género cinematográfico centrándose en la influencia que tuvo en su desarrollo la literatura policíaca.

Historia de un escándalo real de corrupción policial en el que participaron miembros de la división Rampart de la policía de Los Ángeles: desaparición de droga incautada, creación de pruebas falsas, malos tratos a los detenidos, escuchas ilegales y toda clase de corruptelas constituían la vida cotidiana de los policías de Rampart. (FILMAFFINITY)

The documentary covers the origins, history and curious stories behind the production along with a perceptive reading of the film.

Curtis Hanson and his behind-the-scenes collaborators reveal the secrets of bringing 1950s Los Angeles to life in unforgettable style.

Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the arduous but rewarding process of creating a modern classic.

Tom Ludlow es un veterano policía de Los Ángeles que está pasando el peor momento de su vida tras la muerte de su mujer. Cuando unas pruebas le implican en la ejecución de un compañero, Tom se verá forzado a ir contra todo lo que ha conocido en el cuerpo hasta ahora, cuestionándose la lealtad de todos y cada uno de los que le rodean...

Riffing on the topics covered in his brilliant "best selling, award winning" 1996 book My Dark Places, Ellroy takes us on a tour of his hometown both past and present in this short, entertaining film.

Una joven es encontrada brutalmente torturada y asesinada. Se abrirá una tortuosa investigación para dirimir la responsabilidad de tan horrible crímen.

A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the making of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity."

Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing intimate peeks at its tough, scheming dames, mischievous misfits and flawed men - all caught in the wicked web of a twisted fate.

In 1988, Chris Bryson was found running down a Kansas City street naked, beaten, and bloody wearing nothing but a dog collar and a leash. He told police about Bob Berdella, a local business man and how Berdella had caputed him, held him hostage, raped him, tortured him and photographed him over several days. Police later arrested Berdella and searched his home where they found several hundred polaroid photographs, a detailed torture log, envelopes of human teeth and a human skull. It was soon discovered that Berdella had murdered 6 young men in his home after drugging them and performing his sick acts of sexual torture. Some lived the horrors for only a few days, one for 6 weeks. After death Berdella would cut up the bodies with an electric chain saw and a bone knife, place the body parts in empty dog food bags for trash collection on Monday. Although he denied this, it is believed that Berdella used organs of the victims as in food dishes he would serve at his shop.

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

It's another night in L.A. County 187 for policeman Walter Drazin and his team, but when they find the corpses of an Asian family in a burned down club, arson and murder come to the fore. As Drazin investigates the guests of the club, the sordid truth about the city's underworld activities rears its ugly head.

En 1992, días antes de conocerse el veredicto del caso Rodney King -contra 4 agentes de policía blancos- y los posteriores disturbios en Los Ángeles, dos oficiales de policía son asignados a la investigación de un caso de cuádruple homicidio con componentes raciales. Los agentes son el detective veterano Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell) y el novato Bobby Keough (Scott Speedman). Navegando por las vecindades tumultuosas de la ciudad, Perry y Keough deben detectar a asesinos de sangre fría y afrontar a sus propios demonios, que demuestran ser más despiadados que los criminales que ellos persiguen.

Hungarian home movies are examined by the likes of James Ellroy and Stan Brakhage for evidence of family problems.

A killer plays a risky game of cat and mouse with the investigating detectives. Short black and white film based on James Ellroy's serial killer novel "Killer on the Road".

A killer plays a risky game of cat and mouse with the investigating detectives. Short black and white film based on James Ellroy's serial killer novel "Killer on the Road".

A documentary about James Ellroy and his fascination with unsolved murder cases, especially those of his mother, and the similar, infamous, Black Dahlia murder.

Grady Tripp, un profesor de literatura de la Universidad de Carnegie Mellon, sufre una crisis que le impide escribir: su tercera esposa lo acaba de abandonar, y su agente literario lo presiona para que termine su segunda novela. Siete años antes, cuando era un joven prodigio, su primera novela tuvo una enorme repercusión. Durante el fin de semana en que se celebra el "Festival de las Palabras", James Leer, uno de sus alumnos, despierta su vena paternal, y ambos se lanzan a la búsqueda de una extraña prenda que perteneció a Marilyn Monroe.

Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detective agency. When a filthy caddie named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker wanders into Fritz's office one day, flashing a wad of cash, Fritz is hired to follow Fat Dog's kid sister Jane, who is holed up with a Beverly Hills sugar daddy named Sol Kupferman. Kupferman is a 70 year-old bag man for the mob, and Fat Dog claims that "Solly K" is up to something evil that may harm Jane. The trail leads Fritz to an encounter with his dark past in the person of Haywood Cathcart, current head of LAPD internal affairs and the person who kicked Fritz off the police force.

Los Ángeles, años 50. El departamento de policía vive tiempos agitados en una ciudad revuelta y sacudida continuamente por escándalos que destapa la prensa sensacionalista, y donde todo el mundo busca la fama, drogas, alcohol, sexo o dinero. Dos agentes de caracteres opuestos, en cambio, guian sus acciones por nobles sentimientos: Bud White (Russell Crowe) se mete en todo tipo de líos pero no soporta que maltraten a una mujer. Mientras, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) es un novato que quiere "limpiar" el cuerpo de policía de la corrupción imparable que invade todo el escalafón policial, aunque le cueste el desprecio de sus compañeros. Cada uno tiene sus tareas y sus problemas, hasta que una noche aparecen muertos varios agentes en un local nocturno.

Before "L.A. Confidential", there was "Shotgun Freeway" -- the groundbreaking 1995 documentary about Los Angeles coming to grips with it's own history. Against a backdrop of never-before-seen archival footage, Shotgun Freeway presents a diverse group of "Angelinos" who guide the film through their own past as well as the city's. We get crime scribe James Ellroy reliving his youth as a burglar, Actor/writer Buck Henry's tour of Hollywood fakery, Jazzman Buddy Collette's trip down Central Avenue, Historian Mike Davis' tour of LA's eventual Armageddon, and writer Joan Didion's take on LA's own ephemerality. From the Beaches to the Valley, "Shotgun Freeway" will show you a Los Angeles you never knew existed.

Welcome to Los Angeless, hipsters, baddest of the bad cities, home of James Ellory, pre-eminent crime novelist of our generation. "All LA crime lives in me," says Ellroy, in this guided tour of the city that feeds his nightmares.

Lloyd Hopkins (Woods), un detective solitario, sospecha que una última ola de crímenes se debe a una misma persona, un asesino en serie. Decide darle caza a cualquier precio, y eso que su vida familiar se desmorona y que sus compañeros de trabajo comienzan a darle la espalda...