IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Chinatown (1974)
Chinatown runs on investigation spiral, rain-soaked noir, and grainy 70s grit. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
The Two Jakes
1990
Murder, My Sweet
1944
Blow Out
1981
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
Cutter's Way
1981
Night Moves
1975
The Parallax View
1974
Farewell, My Lovely
1975
The Long Good Friday
1980
L.A. Confidential
1997
Hickey & Boggs
1972
Illustrious Corpses
1976
Pitfall
1948
Under Suspicion
1991
The Drowning Pool
1975
The Body of My Enemy
1976
The Girl by the Lake
2007
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
The Assassin
1961
The File on Thelma Jordon
1949
Mr. Arkadin
1955
El crack
1981
The Bloodstained Butterfly
1971
We Still Kill the Old Way
1967