Martin Scorsese's sweeping crime drama sends the camera to 1920s Osage County, Oklahoma, where newfound oil wealth has made the Osage Nation among the richest people per capita in the country — and a target. Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro anchor the story, with Lily Gladstone delivering a performance widely singled out by critics as the film's emotional center.
What is Killers of the Flower Moon about?
Members of the Osage Nation are dying in a string of unexplained deaths across 1920s Oklahoma, at the exact moment oil money has made them among the wealthiest people in the country. As the pattern of deaths grows impossible to ignore, the case draws in the newly formed FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. Scorsese frames the investigation not as a puzzle to solve but as a slow reckoning with a community's complicity, following the intertwined lives of a local family drawn into the violence around them.
About the cast
Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro lead the ensemble, with Lily Gladstone earning some of the year's most widely praised reviews for her performance. Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, Scott Shepherd, Jason Isbell and William Belleau round out a cast drawn heavily from Indigenous and Osage talent, a casting approach that drew attention for centering the community the story is about.
Context & significance
The film draws on a real chapter of 1920s American history that had rarely been dramatized on screen before this adaptation. It was shot largely on location in Oklahoma, and its long runtime and slow-burn pacing mark it as one of Scorsese's most deliberately paced works, made in continued collaboration with two of his most frequent leading men.
Watching Killers of the Flower Moon on Ktime
Killers of the Flower Moon is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles both available for the film. K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to follow Scorsese's long, dialogue-heavy drama without losing texture in translation.