Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

"Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything..."

2014 1h 42m EN

😐

6.4

MID

★6.4TMDB · 4,285

ActionCrimeThriller

Synopsis

Spoiler shield

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

“Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything...”

WhatsApp X Facebook Telegram

Where to watch · US

Amazon Prime VideoSubscription

fuboTVSubscription

Paramount Plus PremiumSubscription

Paramount+ Amazon ChannelSubscription

Amazon Prime Video with AdsSubscription

Shout! Factory Amazon ChannelSubscription

Amazon VideoRent

Apple TV StoreRent

Google Play MoviesRent

Google Play MoviesBuy

YouTubeBuy

Fandango At HomeBuy

Cast

Jessica Alba
Nancy
Bruce Willis
Hartigan
Mickey Rourke
Marv
Josh Brolin
Dwight
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Johnny
Eva Green
Ava
Rosario Dawson
Gail
Powers Boothe
Senator Roark

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Frank Miller
Writers: Frank Miller
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.

Did you know?

Fun facts 🍿

1 / 8

MONEY

Did you know

Mid-budget at $65M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

MoodPlayr · trivia#01

2 / 8

MONEY

Did you know

Earned back only 61% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

MoodPlayr · trivia#02

3 / 8

ERA

Did you know

Released 12 years ago.

MoodPlayr · trivia#03

4 / 8

CINEMA

Did you know

Part of the "Sin City Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

MoodPlayr · trivia#04

5 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Directed by Frank Miller, shot by Robert Rodriguez. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

MoodPlayr · trivia#05

6 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Original score by Carl Thiel. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

MoodPlayr · trivia#06

7 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Editor Robert Rodriguez shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

MoodPlayr · trivia#07

8 / 8

CAST

Did you know

Jessica Alba and Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke carry the top of the cast.

MoodPlayr · trivia#08

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Frank Miller directs. Robert Rodriguez behind the camera. Carl Thiel scores. Robert Rodriguez cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $65M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Earned back only 61% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 12 years ago.
4Part of the "Sin City Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Frank Miller, shot by Robert Rodriguez. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Carl Thiel. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Robert Rodriguez shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Jessica Alba and Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything...".
10IMDB entry: tt0458481 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 8 themes, including "detective", "dystopia", "dominatrix", "sequel".
12Released under 18 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Robert Rodriguez
Original score: Carl Thiel
Editing: Robert Rodriguez
Production design: Steve Joyner
Costume design: Nina Proctor
Makeup / hair: Joe Rivera
VFX supervisor: Stefen Fangmeier
Sound: Angelo Palazzo
Stunt coordinator: Jeff Dashnaw
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $65,000,000
Box office: $39,407,616
Return: 61% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

Part of

Sin City Collection

The Sin City film series are neo-noir crime thriller films based on Frank Miller's graphic novel series of the same name.

Also by

Frank Miller

Stills · wallpapers

Selected frames

Full-resolution frames — open one to save it as a wallpaper.

Wallpaper

Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

Community reviews

What people are saying

Dark Jedi2018-05-08
★ 8/10
This is a movie that you have to really watch. You cannot sit and divide your time between the movie and reading a book or glancing at your tablet. Doing that would be like watching half a painting. This movie is all about the graphical presentation. Its use of live actors yet with a cartoonish black and white (emphasize on black) look with some occasional splatter of colors is absolutely marvelous. Look down and you miss something. The background voice a’la old fashioned detective story only serves to reinforce the feeling of being dumped into an old cartoon. The story, or rather stories, are cartoon class material as well and not really much to write home about by themselves. They serve well enough to drive this particular movie though. The main actors where fitting right in and making a very enjoyable performance as far as I am concerned. Well, with the possible exception of Bruce Willis who mostly just stood around looking sad but then his role was a rather unrewarding one in the first place. I definitely liked Mickey Rourke as the rather exaggerated tuff guy Marv. This is a violent movie. Like Kill Bill violent if you know what I mean. If this movie would have been made as an ordinary live action movie without the cartoonish elements and the timely switch to silhouette images it would be grossly violent. Again, the cartoonish setting of the movie makes it simply work. Still, the movie is not for the squemish but then, this is the second Sin City movie, it is based on an existing cartoon and Robert Rodriguez had his hand in it so if you are surprised you either went into the wrong show room or should start to do a bit more research before deciding to watch something. I did find the fact that the movie actually revolved around two different stories a bit distracting though. A minor complaint but I was really expecting them to somehow get intertwined all through the movie and was a tad disappointed when the second story finished and so did the movie. Bottom line is that I quite enjoyed this movie. It is really a movie that stands out from the crowd in its use of black and white imagery and cartoon characters. It is black, grim and funny at the same time and for a photography interested person like me the imagery is really beautiful.
furious_iz2021-09-18
★ 6/10
It's just not as good as the first. They over use colour, instead of tiny splashes here and there it's everywhere and it doesn't work Eva Green is absolutely perfect as Ava, I just wish her story was in the first film