James Ellroy

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.

Writers of crime fiction and nonfiction discuss influential movies about police officers and the criminal element.

Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.

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.

正義のためなら手段を選ばない刑事のラドロー。かつてのパートナーを殺された事件をきっかけに、自分が巨悪に操られていたことを知り猛攻に出る。キアヌ・リーヴスが孤独と葛藤を抱えたキャラクターを演じるクライム・アクション。

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.

実在の事件をもとにした、ジョシュ・ハートネット主演でおくるクライム・サスペンス。舞台は1947年のロサンゼルス。身体を腰から切断された女の惨殺死体が、ダウンタウンの空き地で発見された。若き2人の刑事は事件の捜査に乗り出すが……。

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.

Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.

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.

スランプの作家、クビ寸前の編集者、作家志望の学生などの面々が揃った、可笑しくてちょっと切ない大人の物語。“ワンダー・ボーイ”とは人生の早いうちに大きな成功を手にした人のことなのだが……。

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.

　縄張り争いが激化する'50年代のロス。街のコーヒーショップで元刑事を含む6人の男女が惨殺される事件が発生した。殺された刑事の相棒だった バドが捜査を開始。殺された女と一緒にいたブロンド美人リンに接近する。彼女はスターに似た女を集めた高級娼婦組織の一員。同じ頃、その組織をベテラン刑事のジャックが追っていた。野心家の若手刑事エドも事件を追い、容疑者を射殺。事件は解決したかに見えたが……。

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.

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.