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House of Games
Why this pick
Like The Grifters, it treats the confidence game as a shifting psychological contest, with clipped dialogue, morally evasive characters, and a cool, tightly controlled neo-noir mood.
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MOVIE1990 1h 50m USA
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Why this pick
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The Hit
Why this pick
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Deep Cover
Why this pick
Its polished Los Angeles noir surface masks a tense study of identity and moral corrosion. The controlled visual style and increasingly compromised protagonist suit The Grifters’ hard-edged sophistication.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Lilly Dillon is a veteran con artist. She works for Bobo Justus, a American Mafia bookmaker, making large cash bets at race tracks to lower the odds of longshots. On her way to La Jolla for the horse races, she stops in Los Angeles to visit her son Roy, a small-time grifter whom she has not seen in eight years. She finds him in pain and bleeding internally after one of his victims caught him pulling a petty scam and hit him in the stomach with a bat. When medical assistance finally comes, Lilly confronts the doctor, threatening to have him killed if her son dies.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jan Munroe
Guy in bar
Richard Holden
Cop
Lou Hancock
Nurse
Gailard Sartain
Joe
Noelle Harling
Nurse Carol Flynn
Ivette Soler
Maid
Pat Hingle
Bobo Justus
Paul Adelstein
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