Hard Vice

An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

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.

After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

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