# Chinatown (1974)

**Genres:** Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

**Duration:** 130 min

**Age rating:** FSK 16

**IMDb:** [8.2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/)

**Letterboxd:** [4.3](https://letterboxd.com/film/chinatown/)

**Rotten Tomatoes:** [Tomatometer: 98%, Popcornmeter: 93%](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chinatown)

## Description

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

## Details

**Premiere:** 19 Dec 1974

**Director:** Roman Polanski

**Cast:** Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Roy Jenson, Roman Polanski, Richard Bakalyan, Joe Mantell, Bruce Glover

**Countries:** United States

**Languages:** English, Yue Chinese, Spanish

**Available versions:** OmU

**Open-air showtimes:** No

**Trailer:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T37QkBc4IGY)

## Showtimes in Frankfurt in original language (OV, OmU, OmeU)

### 2026-06-27 (Saturday)

- **[Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum (DFF)](/cinemas/374-kino-im-deutschen-filmmuseum-dff.md) (Sachsenhausen-Nord):** [2026-06-27 18:00](https://booking.cinetixx.de/frontend/#/show/2038440885/3529691389)  (OmU)