What the corpus says about L.A. Confidential (1997)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished L.A. Confidential (1997) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about L.A. Confidential (1997) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:31:24 · unknown (0.40)] L.A. Confidential ↔ The Nice Guys · programming · CR month ends with To Live and Die in L.A., Nice Guys, and L.A. Confidential, the first four-person Rewatchable. · "Our 1st 4 person we watchable."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:44:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ L.A. Confidential · theme · L.A. Confidential is the other prominent L.A. dirty-cop movie that the speakers had left out. · "LA Confidential?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:56:14 · unknown (0.30)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · theme · The vanishing Avery is likened to the Kevin Spacey character in L.A. Confidential. · "Like, like the Kevin Spacey character."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:44:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Internal Affairs · craft · Both open with a dirty cop who executes a man and plants a gun on him with no consequences. · "So like even in like confidential when Russell Crowe just walks in and executes that guy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:49:11 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · craft · The script reminds Leslye of L.A. Confidential: methodical, restarts mid-film, scenes handing off to the next. · "It's absolutely, like, the script reminds me so much of LA confidential."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:55:58 · Leslye Headland (0.50)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · trio of leads · The film passes the baton among three men, which is why it is like L.A. Confidential. · "This is why it's like LA Confidential, though."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:15:58 · unknown (0.50)] Kim Basinger ↔ L.A. Confidential · career · The Natural got Basinger's career going; L.A. Confidential was the tail end, so not her apex. · "This got her career really moving the next level."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 2:03:19 · Leslye Headland (0.40)] John Mahon ↔ L.A. Confidential · people · The old cop in Zodiac is also in L.A. Confidential. · "I think he's also in LA confidential"
[pairs] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] L.A. Confidential ↔ Internal Affairs · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:20:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Zodiac ↔ Almost Famous · programming · AI cut-your-own-runtime fantasy: trim Zodiac to 97 minutes; instead Bill watched the bootleg Almost Famous with 35 extra minutes. · "we watch the bootleg cut the 2nd time, which has like 35 minutes of additional scenes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · programming · Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies. · "I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:17:32 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Nice Guys · lineage · The jazzy 70s-cop-show end credits are described as Black's future movie vibe. · "His future movie sort of vibe."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Robert Graysmith ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · The Salerno script, which Vanderbilt took over, adapted Graysmith's nonfiction book (with a speculative sequel bolted on). · "So it's sort of like an adaptation of Graysmith's nonfiction book and a speculative sequence."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · lineage · The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs. · "I mean, departed in training day?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Shining · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Cop Land · lineage · A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta. · "For me, Coplands in there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ Back to the Future · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them. · "Yeah, connection."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Apartment · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Seven-Ups · lineage · The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture. · "The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 2:07:42 · Leslye Headland (0.50)] Alfred Hitchcock ↔ Zodiac · theme · Leslye says Fincher uses full Hitchcock in the Fleischer basement scene, which is wholly subjective. · "No, Fincher is using full Hitchcock to do a scene that is entirely subjective."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run. · "Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:18:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Seven ↔ Zodiac · craft · Both have a patient first hour of procedural foreplay where you pick up new details on each rewatch. · "isn't isn't that why we all like zodiac for the, like a lot of that 1st hour is the same thing where it's all foreplay"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Live and Die in L.A. · lineage · Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie. · "it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:58:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Seven ↔ Zodiac · craft · Zodiac similarly does not show most of its murders. · "It's very similar to zodiac in that way, too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
[speaker] Leslye Headland · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · Loves Zodiac as part of a Mount Rushmore (Zodiac, The Shining, Back to the Future, The Apartment) and watched it daily at a low point in her life. Adores blocking and staging as the true mark of the greats, loves Fincher's digital photography, and sees Fight Club as an evergreen Strangelove-style satire. Also a fan of L.A. Confidential as a nook-and-cranny movie. · stances: Zodiac is a masterpiece and a movie to live inside; Fincher's real genius is blocking and staging, not flash; Fight Club is a durable satire; Digital can look gorgeous
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with L.A. Confidential (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend L.A. Confidential (1997) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.