We proudly present a TSPTR homage to William Friedkin's ferociously stylish 1985 Los Angeles masterpiece To Live and Die in L.A. - a bold, erratic, neon-soaked fever dream of 1980s nihilism wrapped in the stylish trench coat of a cop thriller. It’s a movie that swerves away from formula at every turn presenting a harsh, non-traditional view of Los Angeles, moving away from tourist views to stark industrial spaces and neon-soaked grit. Its plot structure gleefully throws away conventions, killing off characters with ruthless efficiency and introducing moral ambiguity as the film’s only true compass.

The two leads both turn in stellar performances, Willem Dafoe (Eric 'Rick' Masters) as the irreverent artist and counterfeiter and William Peterson (Richard Chance) as the dirty cop obsessed with bringing him down. While Wang Chung's score delivers a synth-heavy masterpiece of mood. It doesn't just accompany the film; it defines it. Pulsing basslines, eerie electronic hums, and soaring arpeggios turn Los Angeles into a landscape of existential dread and strange beauty.

This isn’t just a crime movie. It’s a time capsule, a tone poem, a sonic hallucination of what it meant to chase shadows through the underbelly of Reagan-era America.

Ethically made in Portugal