If you loved Chinatown, try The Long Goodbye

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. The Long Goodbye has roughly 5.6× fewer votes than Chinatown — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Chinatown

1974 · dir. Roman Polanski

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The Long Goodbye

1973 · dir. Robert Altman

What they share

Theyboth carry the paranoid mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to Chinatown, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Long Goodbye is

Rainy Los Angeles streets at dusk a lonely saxophone plays. A friend's desperate plea and a missing wife. Altman's 70s noir deconstructs genre conventions.

If you loved Chinatown, try The Long Goodbye

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The Long Goodbye

What they share

What The Long Goodbye is

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