# Chinatown (1974 Movie)/Recommendations

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**Created:** [August 28, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinatown-1974-movie-recommendations/794929 "2017-08-28T12:10:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinatown-1974-movie-recommendations/794929/41 "2017-08-30T03:43:39Z")

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If you’re looking for a great non-American film from that period, I highly recommend _Get Carter_ (1971). It’s a classic of the British gangster genre.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinatown-1974-movie-recommendations/794929/42 "2017-08-30T03:47:55Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> If you’re looking for a great non-American film from that period, I highly recommend _Get Carter_ (1971). It’s a classic of the British gangster genre.

I agree and would add Z…a political thriller suddenly made somewhat more relevant to our times.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinatown-1974-movie-recommendations/794929/43 "2017-08-30T07:25:53Z")

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This website recommends a bunch of movies as being similar to _Chinatown_:

[https://tastedive.com/like/Chinatown](https://tastedive.com/like/Chinatown)

It starts by recommending ten films. If you click on the square that says “MORE”, it recommends more of them. You can click on “MORE” four times before it runs out of movies to recommend. I’ve seen most of the movies it recommends, and they’re all reasonably good films. The question in the OP is, after all, pretty vague, and there’s no definitive answer to it.

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**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinatown-1974-movie-recommendations/794929/44 "2017-08-31T01:36:51Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> THE BIG SLEEP (1946)  
> THE THIRD MAN (1949)  
> THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1949)  
> KISS ME DEADLY (1955)  
> THE KILLING (1956)
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> All great and well-written crime/noir flicks. Don’t invite your friends – they’re all black and white, and they’ll think you are nutsy-coo coo.

Also Mildred Pierce, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Double Indemnity. All from the James M. Cain novels.

Ask The Dust is from the John Fante book of the same name.

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