Movies like Hollywoodland (2006)
The best movies like Hollywoodland (2006) are Mulholland Falls (1996), Brick (2006) and The Cat's Meow (2002). If Hollywoodland hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Usual Suspects (1995)8.2/10 from 11,955 votes
- NewestThe Critic (2024)Released 2024
Mulholland Falls (1996)
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrick (2006)
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cat's Meow (2002)
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisWild Things 2 (2004)
Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargained for an escalating whirlpool of blackmail and sexual games with a sleazy insurance investigator who has his own plans for the money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisL.A. Confidential (1997)
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Heart of Justice (1992)
David Leader investigates a seemingly senseless murder, and in the course of it is drawn into the labyrinth of a sinisterly unique wealthy family...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & crime
Zero Effect (1998)
Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not working; he has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBugsy (1991)
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInherent Vice (2014)
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChain of Fools (2001)
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisManhattan Night (2016)
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInfamous (2006)
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Player (1992)
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Critic (2024)
Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, entangling them and the boss in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWild Things: Diamonds in the Rough (2005)
Two young women will stop at nothing for one to gain a $4 million inheritance of two priceless diamonds, while two detectives try to thwart their plans, but find complications abound.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisConfidence (2003)
What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of his crew. It becomes clear that Lionel wasn't just any mark, he was an accountant for eccentric crime boss Winston King. Jake and his crew will have to stay one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops to finally settle their debt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Black Dahlia (2006)
In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDrowning Mona (2000)
A Sheriff investigating the murder of an upstate New York woman learns that her extremely hateful ways gave the whole town a motive to be rid of her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Grifters (1990)
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScoop (2006)
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoodbye Lover (1999)
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisChinatown (1974)
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Usual Suspects (1995)
The lone survivor of an explosive heist gone wrong recounts for interrogators the events that began with five disparate criminals assembled for a police lineup - with alleged criminal mastermind Keyser Soze at the center of it all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCity by the Sea (2002)
Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBubble (2006)
Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCa$h (2010)
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisSunset (1988)
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ruby in the Smoke (2006)
Sally Lockhart has struck a man dead with just three words, sent to her in a message from her father just before he drowned in the South China Seas. But unfortunately, Sally has no idea what the words The Seven Blessings mean. Before long, she is drawn into a mystery filled with opium, secrets from her own past and, at the heart of it all, the Ruby of Agrapur.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hollywoodland?
The closest matches to Hollywoodland are Mulholland Falls (1996), Brick (2006) and The Cat's Meow (2002). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hollywoodland?
People who watched Hollywoodland most often go on to Mulholland Falls (1996), Brick (2006) and The Cat's Meow (2002).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hollywoodland?
The Usual Suspects (1995), rated 8.2/10 by 11,955 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hollywoodland?
The Critic (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Hollywoodland?
Yes: Mulholland Falls (1996), Brick (2006) and The Cat's Meow (2002).
How are movies similar to Hollywoodland chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hollywoodland, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.