

Angel Heart
It will scare you to your very soul.
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
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7.1/10
1,827 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $17M
- Box office
- $17.2M
- Language
- French
- new york city
- amnesia
- heart
- southern usa
- voodoo
- detective
- drug addiction
- new orleans, louisiana
- investigation
- neurosis
- sanatorium
- surrealism
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United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR6 Mar 1987
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical182 Oct 1987
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalR 18+14 May 1987
CanadaCA
- Physical18ADVD18 Jun 2002
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical1813 Aug 1987
AustriaAT
- Theatrical24 Sept 1987
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical(Gent)16 Apr 1987
BrazilBR
- Theatrical183 Sept 1987
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical5 Aug 1987
CzechiaCZ
- PhysicalDVD24 May 2005
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical156 Nov 1987
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1817 Apr 1987
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Angel Heart was released on 6 March 1987.
Audience reviews
2- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/5/2023
"Harry Angel" (Mickey O'Rourke) lives a pretty hand-to-mouth existence as a New York PI when he is hired to track down a musician named "Johnny Favorite". Now this fella really doesn't want to be found, and after a while our street-smart investigator begins to contemplate that maybe this search isn't really all that his employer "Louis Cyphre" (a Rasputin-esque Robert De Niro) has in mind. As the search becomes more …
- F7/10
FolknHell
8/25/2026
*Angel Heart* spends most of its running time pretending to be a detective story in which Harry Angel is following a trail into somebody else’s darkness. Its best trick is that the trail is his. Alan Parker shoots that investigation like a noir already half swallowed by something older. Rooms are all long shadows and backlight; New Orleans sometimes looks almost monochrome, until a little blue exhaust smoke gives …
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