The Black Dahlia

The Black Dahlia (2006) is Brian De Palma's noir thriller you can watch online on iFILM. In late-1940s Los Angeles, the body of an aspiring actress is found in a vacant lot, sliced in two.

Two cops take the case, both former boxers who once fought each other in the ring. Now Bucky and Lee share a desk, a woman, and an investigation that slowly poisons them. The deeper they dig, the more powerful names turn up around the dead girl. Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart and Scarlett Johansson form an unstable triangle, while Hilary Swank plays a wealthy heiress whose face is unsettlingly close to the victim's.

Josh Friedman's screenplay adapts James Ellroy's novel, which wove the real, never-solved 1947 killing of Elizabeth Short into its fiction. De Palma shoots Hollywood like a disease: gorgeous, airless, rotting under the makeup. Stream The Black Dahlia (2006) online on iFILM.