Chinatown
film / 12.55am / Film4
in one of the best films of the 1970s, Jack Nicholson’s detective investigates the adultery of the husband of a fragile woman (Faye Dunaway) and finds himself on another case entirely – the theft of water from drought-prone California. Endlessly copied, Roman Polanski’s tightly written, perfectly played whodunit is a classic from opening scene to shocking conclusion.