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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
A sun-dazed Los Angeles investigation becomes a shaggy maze of vanishing people, coded clues, and suspicious counterculture figures, with the same comic-paranoid drift and intentionally elusive momentum.
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Why this pick
Its sleepy, out-of-step detective wanders through a cynical, sunlit Los Angeles whose casual surfaces conceal increasingly strange connections—an important tonal ancestor to Sam’s aimless noir odyssey.
03
Why this pick
A missing-person case pulls two gloriously ill-equipped investigators into 1970s LA’s sleazy entertainment world; it shares the noir scaffolding, absurd detours, and darkly playful city portrait.
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Why this pick
This densely fractured Southern California fever dream combines celebrity culture, apocalyptic conspiracy, pop-media overload, and an intentionally destabilizing sense that every stray detail might be a signal.
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Why this pick
A once-famous child sleuth, now an adrift adult, takes a serious missing-person case. Its dry humor and melancholy make the detective quest feel as much about arrested adulthood as clues.
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01 / THE STORY
Sam is an affable but aimless young man with an interest in Conspiracy theory and finding hidden messages in everyday popular culture, who lives a lazy, jobless life in Los Angeles. One day he meets and develops a crush on his new neighbour Sarah. She tells him to come back the next day, but when he does, she and her roommates all seemingly moved out during the night. Meanwhile, he becomes fascinated with a zine titled ''Under the Silver Lake'', which features story elements reminiscent of recent real-life events such as a serial dog killer. After following a woman he spotted going through Sarah's apartment, Sam starts following a chain of individuals and events in the hopes of finding information about Sarah, and starts believing he is being followed. However, he later identifies Sarah as one of the three women who died in a Vehicle fire alongside billionaire mogul Jefferson Sevence, recognizing one of the victims' hat to be hers. After a conspiracy theorist friend of Sam, the author of the graphic novel, and obsessed with the back cover of an old cereal box is found dead from an apparent suicide, Sam learns from reviewing his friend's security tapes that he was killed by the Owl's Kiss, a womanly creature from ''Under the Silver Lake''; he concludes that his friend's death is related to the ongoing conspiracy.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Sam
Sarah
Man at Bar
Millicent Sevence
Final Man
Songwriter
The Actress
Troy
