Sea of Love

Sea of Love (1989) is Harold Becker's crime romance starring Al Pacino, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Someone is killing lonely men who answer rhyming personal ads in the New York papers. Detective Frank Keller catches the case and walks straight into his own trap.

Twenty years on the force, a marriage gone, and a bottle closer than any partner. To draw the killer out, Frank and detective Sherman (John Goodman) plant their own ad and start dating the suspects. Then Helen (Ellen Barkin) shows up, and the whole investigation buckles. Frank falls for a woman he is supposed to be clearing of murder, and every night with her becomes the same question: is she the one pulling the trigger?

Pacino plays Keller tired, jealous and fully human, with none of the hero gloss, while Barkin keeps you guessing right to the last scene. Richard Price's script bends the procedural into a story about trust being scarier than any gun. One of the sharpest erotic thrillers of its era. Stream Sea of Love (1989) online on iFILM.