Red Rock West
Why this pick
John Dahl brings the same sun-baked neo-noir tension, cynical humour, and escalating deception, with ordinary people pulled into a dangerously unstable web of money and manipulation.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
John Dahl brings the same sun-baked neo-noir tension, cynical humour, and escalating deception, with ordinary people pulled into a dangerously unstable web of money and manipulation.
Why this pick
Its sharp, unsentimental con artists and constantly changing alliances offer the same pleasure in watching morally ruthless characters try to outplay one another.
Why this pick
For the sophisticated crime plotting, simmering sexual chemistry, and dry wit: this is a more playful neo-noir, but similarly driven by charismatic adversaries testing each other’s control.
Why this pick
A richly shadowed noir with a patient investigative pull, ambiguous motives, and mounting danger. It shares The Last Seduction’s adult tone and distrustful view of everyone’s agenda.
Why this pick
Its ordinary setting becomes a pressure cooker of greed, betrayal, and dreadful choices. The steadily tightening moral suspense should suit the brutal cause-and-effect of The Last Seduction.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
Our curator needs a little longer. Please come back shortly.
No confident matches yet. Try our personal film finder.
01 / THE STORY
Bridget Gregory works as a telemarketing manager in New York City. Her husband, Clay, is Residency (medicine) and is heavily in debt to a loan shark, thus arranges to sell stolen pharmaceutical cocaine to two drug dealers. The transaction becomes tense when the buyers pull a gun, but to Clay's surprise, they eventually pay him $700,000. Clay is left shaken, and on his return home he slaps Bridget after she insults him. She then flees their apartment with the cash while he is in the shower.
Showing saved details. Some information may be out of date.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Bridget Gregory

Clay Gregory

Mike Swale

Frank Griffith

Shep

Harlan
Stacy
Gas Station Attendant