2021 Movies : Noir

With Cate Blanchett • Bradley Cooper • Guillermo del Toro • Willem Dafoe • Rooney Mara • David Strathairn • Toni Collette • Ron Perlman • Mary Steenburgen • Richard Jenkins • J. Miles Dale • Kim Morgan

In Nightmare Alley, an ambitious young carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is. The carnival cast includes carnival worker Molly (Rooney Mara), head barker Clem (Willem Dafoe), and Ron Perlman as Bruno the Strongman. Richard Jenkins is part of the high society crowd as wealthy industrialist Ezra Grindle.