Under the Silver Lake

About Under the Silver Lake

Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.

Under the Silver Lake is a 2018 crime mystery film directed by David Robert Mitchell. Andrew Garfield stars as Sam, Riley Keough as Sarah, Topher Grace as Bar Buddy, and Callie Hernandez as Millicent Sevence.

It runs 139 minutes and was released in August 2018. Written by David Robert Mitchell. It comes from Boo Pictures, Good Fear, and Michael De Luca Productions.

Shelv files it under mysterious, seduction, voyeur, and secret society. It scores 6.3 out of 10 from 1,686 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

The Thirteenth Floor, Pulp Fiction, and Trainspotting make useful companions to Under the Silver Lake, all filed under neo-noir and surrealism.