Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
American Gigolo
TITLE DETAILS

American Gigolo

1980-02-01 · 117 min · ★ 6.2

Crime · Drama · Mystery

Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Paul Schrader
Production companies
Paramount Pictures, Freddie Fields Productions
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released
Budget
USD 5,000,000
Revenue
USD 52,700,000

Top Cast

Richard GereRichard GereJulian Kaye
Lauren HuttonLauren HuttonMichelle Stratton
Héctor ElizondoHéctor ElizondoDetective Sunday
Nina van PallandtNina van PallandtAnne
Bill DukeBill DukeLeon James
Brian DaviesBrian DaviesCharles Stratton
K CallanK CallanLisa Williams
Tom StewartMr. Rheiman
Patricia CarrJudy Rheiman
David CryerLt. Curtis
Carole CookCarole CookMrs. Dobrun
Carol BruceCarol BruceMrs. Sloan
Frances BergenFrances BergenMrs. Laudner
Macdonald CareyMacdonald CareyHollywood Actor
William DozierWilliam DozierMichelle's Lawyer
Peter TurgeonJulian's Lawyer
Robert WightmanFloyd Wicker
Richard DerrRichard DerrMr. Williams
Jessica PotterJill
Gordon HaightBlond Boy

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Rental

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Purchase

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Free

Kanopy, Hoopla

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

Farewell, My Lovely
★ 6.7
Farewell, My Lovely1975Crime · Drama · Mystery

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.

Mulholland Falls
★ 6.0
Mulholland Falls1996Crime · Drama · Mystery

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

Cruising
★ 6.6
Cruising1980Crime · Mystery

When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the gay S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

Too Late
★ 6.8
Too Late2016Crime · Drama · Mystery

Private investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.

Marlowe
★ 6.2
Marlowe1969Crime · Drama · Mystery

Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars, and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.

Tightrope
★ 6.2
Tightrope1984Crime · Mystery

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Kiss the Girls
★ 6.5
Kiss the Girls1997Crime · Mystery

Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

Wonderland
★ 6.1
Wonderland2003Crime · Drama · Mystery

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.

Blindfire
★ 6.8
Blindfire2020Crime · Drama

A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the person responsible while examining his own accountability and the ingrained racism which brought him to this point.

Cop
★ 6.4
Cop1988Crime · Drama · Mystery

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

8MM
★ 6.5
8MM1999Crime · Mystery

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

The Salton Sea
★ 6.6
The Salton Sea2002Crime · Drama · Mystery

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

The Rookie
★ 5.9
The Rookie1990Crime · Drama

Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.

Kiss Me Deadly
★ 7.2
Kiss Me Deadly1955Crime · Mystery

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

Walking Tall: Lone Justice
★ 5.8
Walking Tall: Lone Justice2007Crime · Drama

In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, Kate is only wounded, and her boyfriend Nick believes there is a traitor in the agency and takes her to his ranch to protect her life.

The Substitute 2: School's Out
★ 6.5
The Substitute 2: School's Out1998Crime · Mystery

When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary, Karl signs on as a new substitute teacher in order to investigate Randall's murder.

Homicide
★ 6.3
Homicide1991Crime · Drama · Mystery

While investigating the ruthless murder of an elderly woman, a Jewish police detective unravels a bizarre conspiracy involving a Zionist organization.

Death Wish
★ 6.2
Death Wish2018Crime · Drama

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

Lucky Number Slevin
★ 7.5
Lucky Number Slevin2006Crime · Drama · Mystery

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

Convict
★ 6.5
Convict2014Crime · Drama

Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.

Similar titles

The Broken Melody
★ 7.0
The Broken Melody1934Drama

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

A Second Chance
★ 6.3
A Second Chance1976Drama

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.

Swain
★ 6.8
Swain1950Drama

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape.

Knock Knock
★ 5.4
Knock Knock2015Crime

When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

The Illiac Passion
★ 4.3
The Illiac Passion1967Drama

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

3 Playboy Galau
★ 4.8
3 Playboy Galau2013Drama

The story of three young men, Doni, Juan and Alex, who is married but can not eliminate their playboy nature. They have always plays with the Sexy girls.

Andha Naal
★ 6.5
Andha Naal1954Crime · Mystery

Rajan, a radio engineer, is found murdered in Madras during the tense World War II era, amid fears of a Japanese air raid on the city. CID officer Sivanandham investigates the case as each suspect—Rajan's wife, lover, relatives, and neighbors—narrates a different version of events, revealing hidden motives and secrets that lead to the truth.

Glass Chin
★ 5.0
Glass Chin2014Drama

After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.

The Third One
★ 6.7
The Third One2014Drama

After meeting in a chat room, Fede arrives at a down- town building to have an intimate encounter with a gay couple older than him. As the night unfolds, Fede has an intense and telling experience. The next morning finds him different, as if suddenly he had found a new possible way to love.

48 Hours to Acapulco
★ 5.6
48 Hours to Acapulco1967Crime

A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.

Skeletons
★ 4.2
Skeletons1997Drama

A heart attack moves a Pulitzer-winning journalist to leave New York for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with a shovel blade.

Nero Wolfe
★ 8.2
Nero Wolfe1979Mystery

Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only to find himself enmeshed in a puzzling murder-mystery. TV movie based on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series.

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
★ 4.4
Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force1978Drama

The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his homosexuality and fought to remain in service.

Darkness at Noon
★ 6.9
Darkness at Noon1956Crime · Drama

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

Boy Meets Girl
★ 6.6
Boy Meets Girl2014Drama

In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.

Ladies of the Jury
★ 6.8
Ladies of the Jury1932Crime · Mystery

Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.

The Murder Game
★ 10.0
The Murder Game1965Crime

A woman abandons her husband, changes her name, and remarries again. Complications ensue.

The Pleasure Principle
★ 4.7
The Pleasure Principle1979Drama

In a financially troubled farm in the 1930's, its depraved owners become attracted to their new handsome and young handyman.

Boys in Brazil
★ 6.1
Boys in Brazil2014Drama

Two teenagers decide to attend attend São Paulo's annual Gay Pride Parade, encouraged by one of their uncles, a successful - although closeted - business executive. After witnessing an incident of shocking violence at the parade, the group makes a pact - they all have one year to come out of the closet.

Flow
★ 7.7
Flow1996Drama

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.