Lou Bloom, a young and ambitious man, is on a quest for a career. Embracing the motto "the end justifies the means," he starts capturing crime incidents on his camera with complete transparency. It doesn't take long for this ambitious man to land a job as a nightcrawler in one of the city's leading television channels. However, the path he has chosen in his career will inevitably come with a price... Nightcrawler, the first feature film by Dan Gilroy, who has worked on screenplays for films like The Fall and Real Steel, is a crime and thriller genre movie starring Oscar-winning actor Jake Gyllenhaal.