Type: Neo-Noir, Mystery
Release Year: 1974
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway
Director: Roman Polanski
Duration: 2 hrs 11 mins
An iconic movie that can be considered the avant-garde in this genre, Polanski utilises great cinematic techniques that keep the audience in a lair till the very end. Evelyn Mulwray approaches Jake a private investigator as she fears that her husband is having an affair who is an engineer in the L.A. water department. As he digs deeper he finds out that the real Evelyn is someone else and Mr Mulwray is dead. Now the investigation has only just commenced.